WORLD CAN'T WAIT http://sfbaycantwait.org/ THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA CHAPTER en Copyright 2010 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:51:00 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification support the organization that makes this blog possible The World Can't Wait organizes people living in this country to repudiate and stop the fascist way the Bush Regime set out to remake the U.S., including the murderous, unjust and illegitimate occupations of Iraq & Afghanistan, the global "war of terror" of torture, rendition and spying, and the culture of bigotry, intolerance and greed. This direction cannot and will not be reversed by presidents who tell us to seek common ground with fascists, religious fanatics, and empire, but only by the people building a community of resistance, an independent, mass movement of people acting in the interests of humanity to stop, and demand prosecution of, these crimes.

click here: Become a Sustainer of World Can't Wait
]]> http://sfbaycantwait.org/2010/03/#000630 http://sfbaycantwait.org/2010/03/#000630 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:51:00 -0800 TWO protests this week http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/photos/08-13-09/IMG_2055.jpg
Tuesday March 9: 
Everything Yoo knows about the Constitution is WRONG

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and Wednesday March 10: 
]]> http://sfbaycantwait.org/2010/03/#001513 http://sfbaycantwait.org/2010/03/#001513 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:41:49 -0800 SAVE THE DATE(S)!
*** Peace of the Action's "Camp OUT NOW" Comes to Washington, DC 
Civil Resistance to War and Empire Planned in Nation's Capitol 

Enough is enough! It's time we up the ante and demand that our voices be 
heard and heeded. It's time that the logical and rational voices of reason 
get a Peace of the Action. 

While the wars in Central Asia and the Middle East rage hotter and hotter, 
and while the suppression of our civil liberties here in the U.S. continue, 
Peace of the Action is demanding an immediate cessation to U.S. hostilities. 

Peace of the Action will be establishing Camp OUT NOW on the lawn of the 
Washington Monument (with or without governmental permission) on Saturday, 
March 13th, to be a base of operations from 
which we will organize and direct daily acts of Civil Resistance throughout 
the DC area and until our demands are officially recognized. 

For more information please visit www.peaceoftheaction.org. 


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***  The EMPIRE, POWER, AND PROPAGANDA LECTURE SERIES is a fund raiser in support of Flashpoints Radio, and the Media Freedom Foundation/Project Censored Investigative Reporting fund.

Sliding scale $5-$20 at the door, no one turned away for lack of funds. Benefit for Nora Barrows-Friedman's Palestine/Gaza Investigative Reports on Flashpoints KPFA. Introduction by Mickey Huff, director of Project Censored/Media Freedom Foundation.  Co-sponsors include the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, World Can't Wait, Middle East Children's Alliance.

•    March 18th, Focus on Indigenous Rights with Miguel Molina of Flashpoints and La Onda Bajita, others

•    March 25th, Focus on Obama's 9/11 Wars Hosted by Mickey Huff with panelists Larry Everest, Russ Baker, and Bill Hackwell

•    April 22nd, Focus on Censorship and Propaganda: Project Censored and the Media Freedom Foundation:  Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff, co-editors of "Censored 2010" will speak on media censorship, propaganda,  and the Truth Emergency in the US

All events are on Thursday evenings at the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1924 Cedar at Bonita, talks from 7-9, No one will be turned away for lack of funds.  Events are wheelchair accessible.
]]> http://sfbaycantwait.org/2010/02/#001453 http://sfbaycantwait.org/2010/02/#001453 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:13:38 -0800 Online Video: Haiti - Eyewitness to Disaster c/o Peninsula Peace and Justice Center

Haiti: Eyewitness to Disaster
February 2, 2010

Walter Riley
Chair, Haiti Emergency Relief Fund
Seth Donnelly
Haiti Action Network


Walter Riley, a human rights attorney based in Oakland, was in Haiti doing solidarity work when the devastating earthquake hit.  Walters's harrowing account of what he saw in the streets of Paor-au-Prince, will stay with you.

We also explore the political context -- historically, present day, and in the future, as Haiti struggles to recover from its natural disaster.  What are the root causes of the deep poverty in Haiti, which is a key factor in why so many died in the earthqauke? What has been the US economic policy toward Haiti over the past generation and what will it be in the future? And what has been happening during the United Nations occupation of the past many years?  Who can best rebuild Haiti: US Marines or Haitian grasroots groups? 

]]> http://sfbaycantwait.org/2010/02/#001449 http://sfbaycantwait.org/2010/02/#001449 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:38:52 -0800 interrupting the torture program protesters confront John Yoo at every turn:


San Mateo, California

More than a dozen activists demonstrated outside a Rotary Club luncheon February 11, demanding that the war criminals of the Bush-Cheney Torture team be brought to justice. The call for this action read: "John Yoo, You Have no Business Here. We pledge to confront you at every stop of your book tour." For more see Protesters greet Yoo.
]]> http://sfbaycantwait.org/2010/02/#001443 http://sfbaycantwait.org/2010/02/#001443 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:09:45 -0800 March 20, 2010: the SEVENTH anniversary of the invasion of Iraq February 15, 2003.


WORLD CAN'T WAIT endorses the Bay Area March 20 Coalition and will participate in protests across the nation. Join us!
]]> http://sfbaycantwait.org/announcements/2010/02/#001364 http://sfbaycantwait.org/announcements/2010/02/#001364 Announcements Photos, Audio & Video Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:00:00 -0800 SF protests Christian Right Anti-Abortion Ad

Watch Video

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Chabot College reporter interviewed event organizers outside of CBS affiliate KPIX Feb 4 2010

photo by R. Robertson, c/o Indybay

Lots of people are outraged that CBS is allowing Focus on the Family to buy 30 seconds of airtime on the Super Bowl this Sunday to air an anti-abortion message.  It is outrageous that CBS, the mainstream network of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, who would likely have been horrified to see CBS selling religion, is taking the ad.  Is CBS becoming FOX?

more photos here

]]> http://sfbaycantwait.org/2010/02/#001428 http://sfbaycantwait.org/2010/02/#001428 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:41:00 -0800 Torture Tour stops in San Francisco
video here

Wednesday night, January 27, "Torture Memos" author John Yoo was confronted by about two dozen protesters at the San Francisco stop of his national book tour for "Crisis and Command". World Can't Wait members flyered outside the Commonwealth Club of California (sponsor of the event), while others interrupted Yoo's presentation inside, 7 times over the course of an hour, identifying the speaker as a War Criminal and denouncing the Torture State he continues to advocate, and challenging the event's moderator to take a stand. Yoo's argument for executive privilege (that the President can do anything he pleases) carefully avoided the real issue of what that power was used for.

The audience response was mixed at first, but more and more applauded the disruptions as protesters were led from the room. I noted about a third of the attendees reading our brochure [ http://tinyurl.com/yd2pbtw ], which exposes the lies hiding under the guise of  "war on terror" and properly identifies Yoo's work as a War OF Terror. We distributed about 200 brochures in total, and had some good discussions with people after the event, including in particular a Commonwealth Club member who expressed her outrage at Yoo's statements and promised to complain to the Club for giving him a platform.

The event was recorded by NPR for future airing, and should be available as a podcast on the Commonwealth Club website [ http://tinyurl.com/yamks9n ] soon.

John Yoo speaks for the criminals who set up a torture state. Who speaks for their victims - who speaks for the detainees at Guantanamo - at Bagram? Fire, disbar, and prosecute John Yoo, Bybee, Addington, and stop the secret renditions and torture NOW!

EVERY PERSON IN THIS COUNTRY HAS TO CHOOSE A SIDE: ARE YOU FOR TORTURE, OR AGAINST IT?



]]> http://sfbaycantwait.org/2010/01/#001392 http://sfbaycantwait.org/2010/01/#001392 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:00:00 -0800 Day of Action for Reproductive Justice

On January 23, World Can't Wait was part of a broad-based coalition of national and Bay Area feminist and community activists,  united in San Francisco's annual action to "Stop the War on Women - Day of Action for Reproductive Justice."  This rally and counter-protest led by the Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights (BACORR) was in response to the anti-choice "Walk for Life--West Coast" march where every year thousands of people are mobilized (mostly through the Catholic church) and bussed into San Francisco for this march, near the January 22 anniversary of Roe v Wade.

The rally began in spite of heavy rain, and the people's  energy and participation was welcome.  The most prominent of the speakers, Linci Comy of Women's Choice Clinic,  gave an important and clear analysis including the following comment.

"The simple truth is that when abortion is illegal women die. The World Health Organization (WHO) says 5 million women around the world are hospitalized each year from complications due to unsafe illegal abortion and 70,000 of these women die."

Additional speakers helped to charge and set the pace for the march.  Among them was B. E. Johnson of World Can't Wait, bringing into the mix a more comprehensive analysis of the broader political environment.  She stated: "There can be no common ground with maniacs.  Stop tying our dreams to what is politically expedient, start speaking the truth, and start acting like human beings with some passion and principles!" 


Just as "Walk For Life" began its march, a very diverse group of about 20 pro-choice women and men banded  together to disrupt it.   They were from different political groups and movements, and ranged in age from people in their early 20's to courageous lifelong resisters in their 80's.  Facing a group over 8,000 strong and lines of police primed to keep the anti-choice, anti-women message uninterrupted -- these brave women and men confronted the march, unfurling a 30' banner in the middle of the march and refusing to move.  (The initial intent was to have a "die in" but between the rain and the police in massive numbers stepping in,  they still seized the opportunity for immediate action.)  Our supporters were moving along the sidewalk giving encouragement and helping us stand our ground.

It lasted only a few minutes, with what looked like piles of police swarming down on the action to grab at the banner (they failed to confiscate it!) and roughly push and throw the counter-protesters over to the sidewalk.  But this action succeeded!  It disrupted the anti-choice march and even though metal barricades and lines of police prevented the entire pro-choice march from flowing over into the action itself, seeing this action energized the pro choice marchers on the sidewalk.   Together we made a statement: you anti-choice, anti-women's dignity and humanity marchers will not come to San Francisco unchallenged. 

Abortion was legalized in 1973 because it saves women's lives and benefits families; WHO research shows 220,000 children lose their mothers from abortion related deaths every year.  What a travesty for these abortion opponents to call themselves "pro-life"!.

Commemorating the 37th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion in the United States, today's event is a spirited reminder of the importance of legal accessible abortion. Pro-choice advocates -- joined by representatives from the immigrant, labor, lesbian/gay/bisexual/trans gender, disability, people of color and youth communities -- lined the march route of "Walk for Life" for the next few hours to denounce escalating assaults on reproductive freedom, civil liberties, and women's health by religious fundamentalists and governmental policies - including but not limited to the regressive, anti-abortion Stupak-Pitts and Nelson-Hatch amendments added the health care bills that passed in the House of Representatives and the one currently in conference between the Senate and the House.
]]> http://sfbaycantwait.org/2010/01/#001355 http://sfbaycantwait.org/2010/01/#001355 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:01:00 -0800 Call to Action: Shut Down Guantanamo! shutguantanamon-noelmarket2.jpg

]]> http://sfbaycantwait.org/2010/01/#001384 http://sfbaycantwait.org/2010/01/#001384 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:00:00 -0800 killing in the name of peace Obama collects peace prize ]]> http://sfbaycantwait.org/2009/12/#001307 http://sfbaycantwait.org/2009/12/#001307 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:17:03 -0800 You Don't End a War By Sending More Troops!

Peace Prize Protest

By STEPHEN FARRELL
Times Square protest
Stephen Farrell/The New York Times 
An antiwar demonstration in New York's Times Square, where leaflets were handed out calling for protests to coincide with the ceremony to award President Obama the Nobel prize.

It looks like President Obama is unlikely to get the Nobel Peace Prize without the occasion being marked by protests. At least one antiwar group is already calling for a midday march to the U.S. Armed Forces Recruiting Station in New York's Times Square to coincide with the award ceremony in Oslo City Hall on December 10, the date on which Alfred Nobel died.

Days before the event protesters were already handing out leaflets headlined: 'You Don't End a War By Sending More Troops! Stop the Occupation of Afghanistan."

 ]]> http://sfbaycantwait.org/2009/12/#001298 http://sfbaycantwait.org/2009/12/#001298 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:32:09 -0800 DIE-IN to protest Stupak Amendment On December 5, women and men protested the Stupak/Pitts amendment in San Francisco at the Ferry Building, staging multiple "die-ins" while marching thru and around the building.

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The amendment would result in a new restriction on women's access to abortion coverage in the private health insurance market, undermining the ability of women to purchase private health plans that cover abortion care, and creating a two-tiered system that would particularly punish women with low and modest incomes.

More photos, video here and here.

]]> http://sfbaycantwait.org/2009/12/#001293 http://sfbaycantwait.org/2009/12/#001293 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:16:00 -0800 SF responds to Afghanistan "surge" 640_afghan_protest_12_2_2009__15.jpg original image ( 1000x487)
photo c/o Z, more here
watch ABC coverage here
]]> http://sfbaycantwait.org/2009/12/#001289 http://sfbaycantwait.org/2009/12/#001289 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:35:05 -0800 VIDEO: West Point war protest... watch here]]> http://sfbaycantwait.org/2009/12/#001287 http://sfbaycantwait.org/2009/12/#001287 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:49:35 -0800