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DESCRIPTION:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -   PRESS RELEASE  from THE WORLD CAN’T WAIT! DRIVE 
 OUT THE BUSH REGIME!    Event: New Orleans Style Funeral Procession	Date: 
 Thursday Sept. 8 2005  Place: Powell & Market , San Francisco          
 	Time: 3:30 PM  	Contact:  	Ken: at (415) 354-6335, Ken17762003@yahoo.com   
  					or    		Stephanie Tang: (415) 290-8448, tangstp@yahoo.com	  Stop The 
 Mass Murder Through Negligence Now Going On  in New Orleans and the Gulf 
 Coast!    Rescue, Not Repression!  The World Can’t Wait! Drive Out the 
 Bush Regime!  A New Orleans style funeral procession will take place on 
 Sept. 8th to bring these demands to the Bay Area.  World Can’t Wait! is 
 issuing these demands because these are the needs of the people whose lives 
 have been devastated not only by the natural disaster of Katrina, but by 
 the horrific aftermath due to the criminal negligence of the Bush 
 administration and Congress.  The procession will begin at Powell and 
 Market with all the style of a New Orleans funeral procession (black 
 umbrellas, music, dancers, pictures of victims and banners and signs). The 
 following demands will be taken to the streets of San Francisco and the 
 world.  The World Can’t Wait! Demands:  1) All the people still in New 
 Orleans and the other devastated areas must be immediately and safely 
 rescued and evacuated before any more needless deaths occur due to 
 government criminal negligence. The massive resources of government--the 
 ships, helicopters, and transport planes--must be immediately put at the 
 disposal of the rescue effort.  2) The people should be housed in decent 
 places and their needs must be immediately met.   3) People who are 
 attempting to meet their basic needs must NOT be shot down or arrested! 
 Bush's zero tolerance orders must be withdrawn immediately. Government 
 should meet all expenses involved in getting food, water, medicine, and 
 other basic needs to people immediately.  4) The censorship of people in 
 New Orleans and other devastated areas must immediately cease, and people 
 must be allowed to tell what is actually going on.  5) The full truth of 
 what happened and how this came to be, including the deep responsibility of 
 the Bush administration, must be immediately made known, and those 
 responsible up to the very highest levels must be held accountable.  6) 
 Volunteer rescuers should be assisted and supported, and not repressed by 
 government agencies, police, and national guard.  
 **********************************  People are dying on the streets of New 
 Orleans. This is criminal! The natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina was 
 magnified by the culpability of the Bush administration and Congress for 
 cutting $71 million from the budget for levees and for other environmental 
 policies that contributed to the devastating floods that were predicted and 
 could have been prevented. Scientists agree that global warning has had a 
 direct impact on the severity of this hurricane. The Bush Regime has 
 refused repeatedly to sign the Kyoto Protocols to stop global warming.  
 Bush's callous refusal to end his vacation even as the hurricane was 
 killing people and the terrible devastation was happening is outrageous. 
 What is going on in New Orleans is in no small part a concentrated example 
 of how this administration views and treats Black people, thousands of whom 
 were left without the resources to evacuate, and were not immediately 
 rescued.  Bush’s mother summed up this attitude stating of the evacuees 
 who went to the Houston Astrodome, “And so many people in the arena here, 
 you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for 
 them.”  Billions of dollars and huge resources, including massive 
 transport and medical capabilities, are being devoted to slaughtering 
 people in Iraq, while people are dying in New Orleans for lack of these 
 same resources.  - 30 – 30 – 30 – 30 -  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/09/07/75113.php
SUMMARY:New Orleans Style Funeral Procession
LOCATION:Powell & Market, SF assemble
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/09/07/75113.php
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