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DESCRIPTION:YOUR GOVERNMENT, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and 
 utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sites.   
 YOUR GOVERNMENT is openly torturing people and justifying it.   YOUR 
 GOVERNMENT puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them 
 lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead 
 of night.   YOUR GOVERNMENT suppresses the science that doesn't fit its 
 religious, political and economic agenda, forcing present and future 
 generations to pay a terrible price.   YOUR GOVERNMENT is moving to deny 
 women here, and all over the world, the right to birth control and 
 abortion.   YOUR GOVERNMENT enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, 
 intolerance and ignorance.   People look at all this and think of Hitler -- 
 and they are right to do so. The Bush regime is setting out to radically 
 remake society very quickly, in a fascist way, and for generations to come. 
 We must act now; the future is in the balance.   Millions and millions are 
 deeply disturbed and outraged by this. They recognize the need for a 
 vehicle to express this outrage, yet they cannot find it; politics as usual 
 cannot meet the enormity of the challenge, and people sense this.   There 
 is not going to be some magical "pendulum swing." People who steal 
 elections and believe they're on a "mission from God" will not go without a 
 fight.   There is not going to be some savior from the Democratic Party. 
 This whole idea of putting our hopes and energies into "leaders" who tell 
 us to seek common ground with fascists and religious fanatics is proving 
 every day to be a disaster, and actually serves to demobilize people.   But 
 silence and paralysis are NOT acceptable. That which you will not resist 
 and mobilize to stop, you will learn -- or be forced -- to accept. There is 
 no escaping it: the whole disastrous course of this Bush regime must be 
 STOPPED. And we must take the responsibility to do it.   And there is a 
 way. We are talking about something on a scale that can really make a huge 
 change in this country and in the world. We need more than fighting Bush's 
 outrages one at a time, constantly losing ground to the whole onslaught. We 
 must, and can, aim to create a political situation where the Bush regime's 
 program is repudiated, where Bush himself is driven from office, and where 
 the whole direction he has been taking society is reversed. We, in our 
 millions, must and can take responsibility to change the course of history. 
   To that end, on November 2, the first anniversary of Bush's 
 "re-election", we will take the first major step in this by organizing a 
 truly massive day of resistance all over this country. People everywhere 
 will walk out of school, they will take off work, they will come to the 
 downtowns and town squares and set out from there, going through the 
 streets and calling on many more to JOIN US. They will repudiate this 
 criminal regime, making a powerful statement: "NO! THIS REGIME DOES NOT 
 REPRESENT US! AND WE WILL DRIVE IT OUT!" November 2 must be a massive and 
 public proclamation that WE REFUSE TO BE RULED IN THIS WAY. November 2 must 
 call out to the tens of millions more who are now agonizing and disgusted. 
 November 2 will be the beginning -- a giant first step in forcing the Bush 
 regime to step down, and a powerful announcement that we will not stop 
 until he does so -- and it will join with and give support and heart to 
 people all over the globe who so urgently need and want this regime to be 
 stopped.   This will not be easy. If we speak the truth, they will try to 
 silence us. If we act, they will try to stop us. But we speak for the 
 majority, here and around the world, and as we get this going we are going 
 to reach out to the people who have been so badly fooled by Bush and we are 
 NOT going to stop.   The point is this: history is full of examples where 
 people who had right on their side fought against tremendous odds and were 
 victorious. And it is also full of examples of people passively hoping to 
 wait it out, only to get swallowed up by a horror beyond what they ever 
 imagined. The future is unwritten. WHICH ONE WE GET IS UP TO US  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/10/24/79183.php
SUMMARY:The World Can't Wait Drive Out the Bush Regime
LOCATION:Convergence: 12 Noon Civic Center Plaza; rally from 12 to 1pm; march from 
 1:30pm, ending rally at 4:30pm Civic Center Plaza
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/10/24/79183.php
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