UCSB needs to follow.
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Berkeley Students/Activists Disrupt John Yoo Class
reposted from youth and students - drive out the bush regime
This week, Berkeley's Daily Cal reported; "about 15 UC Berkeley students and activists protested next to Boalt Hall yesterday, blaming Boalt professor John Yoo for a controversial prison torture memo which critics have said paved the way for mistreatment of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib."
World Can't Wait Organizers at Berkeley called for this urgent protest action exposing and denouncing John C. Yoo for his illegal, immoral, and perverse legal opinions which have directly contributed to the torture being carried out by U.S. military personnel at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and other undisclosed locations.
Organizers burst into John Yoo's class with activists dressed in orange jumpsuits worn by Guantanamo Bay torture detainees and one activist was dressed as a U.S military soldier praising and thanking Yoo for allowing him to torture people. Yoo fled the scene and it caused a ruckus in the class. Many students gave cheers, while other complained that protesters were disrupting a class they were paying for and they owe them for ruining the last 5 minutes of their time.
A Berkeley organizer responded, "there's a lot of concern about the disruption of studies, but my own studies are being disrupted when I can't sleep because I dream about what the world is like". Student organizers around the country will continue to challenge people standing on the sidelines as the Bush Regime continues to commit unthinkable crimes against humanity and call on them to be on the forefront of launching a movement to drive this regime from Power starting Nov.2nd.
Check out the Daily Cal at this weblink:
http://www.dailycal.org/article.php?i
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Nov 2: World Can't Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime
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THE WORLD CAN'T WAIT! DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME! MOBILIZE FOR NOV. 2ND
Here we are in the final days before launching the movement that will mark the beginning of the end of the Bush Regime. All progressive people and organizations must be involved in building this movement. This Regime under the leadership of George Bush is putting in place a theocratic superstructure based on their literal translation of the bible. Those in the way have been silenced, forced from power, and even imprisoned without Due Process. Muslims, Gays, Blacks, and People with HIV/AIDS have been demonized by this regime, in some cases even exterminated as in Iraq, the victims of Katrina, and the replacement of AIDS education and condoms with prayer and abstinence only programs. Science and concerns for the environment have been replaced with lies and visions of rapture as predicted in the bible. Women, once again have may have to resort to back alley abortions and coat hangers, because Bush thinks an egg and sperm is more valuable than a woman's right to choose.
As we speak, events at the White House are unfolding - indictments, resignations, and accusations. We can't rest on our laurels expecting these events to bring down this Regime. People who steal elections and believe they're on a mission from God will not go without a fight. We can be certain that the replacements of any of those indicted will be representatives of the same agenda. This is a time to be even more determined in our demand, we must take advantage of any vulnerability that these events create within the ruling structures.
The actions on Nov. 2nd are planned in over 60 cities across the country including high schools and colleges in many of these cities. Our call is to leave work, leave school, and make history. In NYC the plan is to meet at Union Square at noon, rally with speakers and artists until 2pm, than march to Times Square. All along the way encouraging people from the sidelines to join in. Our voices will resonate through the nation as we in our thousands speak for and to the millions that hate this Regime and everything it represents.
Don't stand on the sidelines; don't stay in school. Join this movement, the stronger we are on the 2nd, the stronger the movement will be after the 2nd. Send this email to your friends, your elists, and everyone you know that wants to change the direction this country is being led. The future of the planet depends on our action now. Check out the web site at
www.worldcantwait.org.
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GORE VIDAL: "As the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 were stolen so, with 8 years to prepare, 2008 will perhaps be the last such election, ending the republic unless that 70 percent who are beginning to grasp just what is going on join together in a popular movement dedicated to ending pre-emptive wars and restoring the nation to its traditional tax base which repaired levees, educated the citizenry and at regular intervals repaired the wall that Thomas Jefferson wisely put in place to separate church from state. Join the demonstrations this Wednesday, November 2, to launch a movement to drive out the Bush regime. For the location nearest you, see www.worldcantwait.org."
CINDY SHEEHAN on November 2: "It makes a lot of difference. We cannot let them continue to make us believe that our voices don't make a difference. It's not just coming out once on November 2, but it's over and over and over again. It's really important for a lot of reasons: to show the media we mean business, to show our government we mean business, to show the world that not all Americans are robotic idiots. It's really important not to sit on your couch and think that I can't make a difference because one person can make a difference."
HOWARD ZINN: "I'd like to express my support for the plan to have nationwide protest by students on November 2nd, protest not just against the policies of the Bush administration, protest against the war, but against the general direction which our country has been moving in for some time, a direction which the Bush administration has moved faster on, more fanatically on than any previous administration. By that I mean that the country has been moving towards a militarized country, a country bent on expansion abroad and on the curtailment of civil liberties at home, the direction which the country has been going is a direction which is disastrous for the ordinary people of this country. Because what it means is that the enormous wealth that we have in this country is going to be expended on military adventures abroad, on expansionism, is going to be diverted into the pockets of the super-rich in this country and the rights of people to health, to housing, to education, to employment, those rights are more and more being diminished. And it seems to me that we are at a historic turning point in this country where we will need to turn the country in a different direction if we are not going to be headed towards collapse and disaster."
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