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Whoever you are...
Wherever you are...
Walkout on March 20th
End the War Now
Drive out the Bush Regime
The U.S. war machine has Iran and its people in the cross hairs – and there is every reason to believe the threats on Iran are serious and U.S. military strikes would engulf the entire region in the flames of war and chaos.
If you had known about Hiroshima in advance, what would you have done to stop it? We face a cataclysmic moment on the horizon, as bodies continue to pile up on the streets of Baghdad.
March 20th marks the 4th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. 4 years of U.S. air strikes, massacres, economic standstill, military curfews and cities left in rubble. 4 years of a war that has created 4 million Iraqi refugees and a country that has been ravaged by a civil war initiated and perpetuated by the U.S. government. Whether or not Bush’s troop escalation “stabilizes” Iraq, this war has been unjust from the beginning and will only continue to be an illegal occupation.
At a time when your government is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity, your silence is complicity. The war in Iraq, the government’s use of torture, and domestic spying do in fact rise to the highest levels of criminality, and failure to indict the Bush administration for carrying out these crimes will have horrible repercussions for future generations.
The Bush regime’s drive for global empire has brought about a chilling “new normalcy” of immigrant roundups, spying, fear campaigns, and a restructuring of the law that makes it difficult to distinguish our current society from a police state. While students in the U.S. are making plans for their future, the Bush regime is cementing a fascistic agenda into place that will radically alter the world our generation will inherit. Any progress society makes will be overshadowed by the fact that the government is openly torturing people. The ability for youth to engage in critical thought is being dramatically undermined by a Christian fundamentalist assault on everything from gay rights to evolution to reproductive rights.
We face an unprecedented situation that calls for unprecedented resistance. We saw the sparks of that resistance catch and begin to spread on February 15th when students on twenty seven campuses gathered in protests and strikes against the war. On March 20th, this resistance must grow. On this day we must expand and escalate resistance on campuses that goes beyond symbolic protest into stopping business as usual. We refuse to allow “the acceptable political framework” to put limits on what is possible. We refuse to wait until 2008. We refuse to hide behind the hopes that those in the halls of power are going to fix things.
As the world reflects on 4 years of war with Iraq, resistance erupting from college campuses and high schools could signal a new phase of resistance and struggle that places its energies and hopes in the kind of independent, massive resistance that could bring an end to this war, prevent the launching of future wars and change the direction of society. As the U.S. military continues to sink into a deeper crisis, a generation of youth on mission to end the war and drive out the Bush regime from within the empire could have a profound impact on the outcome of the historic moment we face today. Resistance where we live and where we go to school, resistance that opens up space for soldiers to speak out, resistance that pulses with a culture of defiance, and resistance through finding the ways to bring these crimes to a halt.
This is what the people of the world need; this is what the rulers in the halls of power fear.
On March 20th, every student needs to ask: where do I stand and what will I do?
The whole world is watching!
Every generation has a mission- Ours is to drive out the Bush regime!
World Can’t Wait – Drive out the Bush Regime will be mobilizing students to take part in the March on the Pentagon March 17th and building of the momentum of the March on the Pentagon to mark the anniversary ( March 20th) with a day of national resistance- joining with walkouts called for by SDS ( Students for a Democratic Society) and other campus anti war coalitions.
Start planning at your school right away!
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These are the schools we know of that are participating in the March 20 student anti-war day of action. Leave a comment here or email
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1. UNC-Asheville Socialist Unity League of SDS: Walk-Out at 11:30, Rally, March Downtown
2. University of Alabama SDS: Rally at noon at the Denny Chimes (facebook)
3. University of Minnesota Anti-War Organizing League (AWOL): Rally in front of Coffman Union, 12:00 pm (facebook)
4. UIC Students for Social Justice (S4SJ-SDS) and CAN: Walkout, Rally, Feeder March
5. Rutgers R.A.W (Rutgers Against the War): Walk-Out and Rally at 1:30, Vietnam Memorial (facebook)
6. UNC-Chapel Hill SDS: Walkout, Rally at the Pit 12pm, March (facebook)
7. UNC-Charlotte SDS
8. George Mason University SDS: Die-In
9. Winthrop University Socialist Student Union (Winthrop, SC)
10. Elmhurst College SDS (Chicago)
11. Columbus, Ohio SDS
12. UCLA SDS: Speak-Outs on the 14-15th (Spring Break)
13. Western Illinois University MAAPJ:Rally 1pm Chandler Park (on the 24th)
14. Green Hope High School SDS (Cary, NC): Walk-Out and March
15. Mt. Hebron High School (Baltimore, MD): Assembly
16. Wildlake High School (Columbia, MD): Demonstrations before/after school
17. Animas SDS Fort Lewis College (Durango, CO)
18. Macalester College Peace and Justice Committee(St. Paul, MN): Walk-Out
19. Georgia State University SDS
20. Kennesaw State University Campus Greens (Kennesaw, GA)
21. American University Community Action + Social Justice Coalition (DC)
22. Auckland University Students for Justice in Palestine/SDS: Student Strike
23. Depaul DSAW/SDS
24. University of Chicago SDS
25. School of the Art Institute of Chicago SDS
26. Northeastern Illinois University CAN
27. Desales High School Amnesty (Columbus, OH): Tabling and armbands
28. Lancaster, PA SDS
29. NYU Campus Anti-War Network: Walk-Out and rally at Washington Square Park.
30. Temple Campus Anti-War Network
31. Berea High School Ohio Fighters for Freedom: Walk-Out and Rally
32. University of Florida in Gainesville SDS: Walkout/March
33. University of Florida SDS: Walk-Out and March
34. University of Greensboro WCW: Walk-Out
35. University of California Santa Barbara: Action TBA
36. Santa Barbara City College: Rally on West Campus (March 14th 12:00pm)
37. Cary High School (Cary, NC): Walk-Out
38. Enloe High School (Raleigh, NC): Walk-Out and creative demonstration
39. Lawrenceville Boarding School (NJ): Walk-Out and sit-in at center of campus
40. Moorestown Friends School SDS (NJ): Walk-Out
41. Brown University SDS (Providence, RI): Street Theater outside Textron (arms manufacturer) and a banner drop
42. University of Iowa CAN: Rally
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