ALERT**ALERT**ALERT* CHANGE IN PLANS FOR WEEKEND OF SEPTEMBER 30 - OCTOBER 1

9/29/06


"We have now come to a defining moment."

This is how the statement on torture that is being circulated by World Can't Wait/Drive Out The Bush Regime starts.

Right now, many many people are in profound distress as they confront a moment on which history turns.

All the horrors in the pictures from Abu Ghraib are now legal.

The World Can't Wait/Drive Out the Bush Regime event Monday night, October 2, 7:00 PM the following speakers are confirmed:

*Craig Murray (British ex-ambassador to Uzbekistan who has given powerful testimony at the Bush Crimes Commission on torture),
*Bill Goodman (of Center for Constitutional Rights)
*Mark Ruffalo (movie and television actor, currently in "All the King's Men") will read a statement from Sean Penn.

The event has been moved to Cooper Union (7:00 PM) which holds 900 people – commensurate with the necessity in this moment and the ability of these voices to resonate and contribute in a major way to changing the discourse nationally overnight – as a major vault toward October 5th, bringing forward the critical mass.

Word should spread about this event like wildfire and in all directions! Call forward the hundreds and thousands who are aching for the way to stop the direction of this hated regime – and who are confronting the paucity and complicity of politics as usual – to bring out their friends, family, associates, neighbors. To all those people: We are counting on you to fill this space up. Email and get on the phone to everyone you have numbers for, take copies of the flyers and hand them out on the train, at the movies, or wherever you are this weekend.

Teams will be flyering the movie lines and clubs and raising money. Each team is a "materials depot" with boxes of flyers – this is different from a "flyering team." You will be getting these materials out to the masses in huge quantities. Use the World Can't Wait torture statement to agitate.

Each team should have 1-2 people selling the newspaper and getting out the new Talks

Raise funds!!!! People know that these materials and resources do not fall from the sky, can and will contribute and pledge to raise further funds as they go out and among their friends.

Set goals, meet them and set higher ones. Report daily, sum up scientifically and popularize advances.

Saturday hook-up spots: 9:30 AM at Revolution Books for orientation and then out!

Sunday- all areas to include churches as part of their plans

CHAIRMAN AVAKIAN'S TALKS. The 3rd part of Chairman Bob Avakian's 1st speech, from 30 minutes to 55 minutes, is very important. Take the time out to listen to this.

Give Your All, NOW For October 5th!

7 more days until the 5th

Here we are -- September 28, 2006: From the World Can’t Wait home page: “We have now come to a defining moment, where before the world's eyes the U.S. Congress is poised to legalize torture. We reject such a course outright. It does not represent us.”

Give Your All NOW for October 5th!

To quote from the October 1st Revolution Editorial:

“But right now, the political discourse and debate in this country is dominated by the top Democrats and Republicans, and it’s all about ‘who can better fight the war on terror…’

“The discourse and debate must change, radically and urgently. Something different must emerge: a massive force in the streets on October 5, actively demanding that the Bush regime go, and determined to keep fighting until that regime is politically driven out. Such a struggle can politically reverse the deadly momentum of events in the U.S. and worldwide, making known to millions and millions across the planet that there are people right here in the belly of the beast refusing to choose between McWorld/McCrusade and Jihad…people determined to not just “protest as usual” but to drive out this regime… …

“This regime could be driven out. It is possible. The next major step in doing that looms before us, and it can be taken. It is within reach.

“But again—urgent work must be done, now, to transform potential into reality. This paper comes out a little more than a week before October 5. If you are reading this editorial, you must give that week to making October 5 happen. What you do, what you contribute, can be and must be part of making the world change.

“What would you give to stop this juggernaut, to turn this society around?

“What would you sacrifice?

“Start with a week.”
Revolution #63, October 1, 2006

Stay turned to this blog. Friday morning plans for the weekend will be out. Check back then -- but get your crews ready today!

Give Your All, NOW For October 5th!

7 more days until the 5th

Here we are -- September 28, 2006: From the World Can’t Wait home page: “We have now come to a defining moment, where before the world's eyes the U.S. Congress is poised to legalize torture. We reject such a course outright. It does not represent us.”

Give Your All NOW for October 5th!

To quote from the October 1st Revolution Editorial:

“But right now, the political discourse and debate in this country is dominated by the top Democrats and Republicans, and it’s all about ‘who can better fight the war on terror…’

“The discourse and debate must change, radically and urgently. Something different must emerge: a massive force in the streets on October 5, actively demanding that the Bush regime go, and determined to keep fighting until that regime is politically driven out. Such a struggle can politically reverse the deadly momentum of events in the U.S. and worldwide, making known to millions and millions across the planet that there are people right here in the belly of the beast refusing to choose between McWorld/McCrusade and Jihad…people determined to not just “protest as usual” but to drive out this regime… …

“This regime could be driven out. It is possible. The next major step in doing that looms before us, and it can be taken. It is within reach.

“But again—urgent work must be done, now, to transform potential into reality. This paper comes out a little more than a week before October 5. If you are reading this editorial, you must give that week to making October 5 happen. What you do, what you contribute, can be and must be part of making the world change.

“What would you give to stop this juggernaut, to turn this society around?

“What would you sacrifice?

“Start with a week.”
Revolution #63, October 1, 2006

Stay turned to this blog. Friday morning plans for the weekend will be out. Check back then -- but get your crews ready today!

September 22, 2006 - Plans for the Weekend—2 Weeks out to Oct 5!

Everyone should study the centerfold Bob Avakian On the Importance of World Can't Wait and the October 5 Day of Mass Resistance, the editorial, Taking the 7 Talks to the Proletariat and Building for October 5, and listen to Q&A#13 if you have not listened in the past few days, all in preparation for going out this weekend. The Party sees Oct. 5 as essential for laying the groundwork for revolution and also essential for anyone who wants to see something better in the world. This should be a key point of orientation this weekend and then really call forth the masses to step forward and organize to fulfill the vision of Way/Day for Oct. 5. Some of the agitation could be reading from the centerfold. We should also be prepared to play parts of the Talks on the spot when conversations develop, rather than putting our own spin on key points.

A critical part of this plan is to bring forward a core. We should be strategizing with them about how to mobilize these communities for October 5. Many thousands of flyers have gone out in Harlem broadly in the streets and stores, at the African Day Parade, etc. Many have gone out in Brooklyn too (not sure of the quantity), many through people taking stacks with them. Those who have heard about this and like it are part of the reservoir and now, a developing and increasing momentum towards Oct 5. We will not succeed in our efforts if people do not step forward and take responsibility for making this happen and strategizing about how to do this.

Exciting News From Insight Press: Tuesday September 26
"Caribbean Life Newspaper" will be running the Herb Boyd Review of the Memoir from Ike to Mao and Beyond. This will reach a circulation of 126,000 in the Bronx, Manhattan, and the Brooklyn editions. Let's take this moment to get out lots of cards for the Memoir and sell some books too! Insight-Press has 5,000 postcards and posters of the memoir that could be used for promotional materials. You can call their office for supplies.

SATURDAY - HARLEM AND BROOKLYN ORIENTATION

One team of 3 to do broad work:
1 to sell the paper and 2 people to do WCW organizing. This must include fundraising; this does not mean only having the cans. It means putting a pledge card in front of people asking them to fill it out on the spot, pledge to raise money from friends, family and co-workers discussing it with them and having a way to get back in touch with them!

One team to go out to key social forces in the community and make sure that every key gallery, cultural center, senior citizen center, library, health clinics, churches are being activated to let their constiutencies know about this and call them forth and organize to be out on Oct. 5. A critical component of this is to bring forward some folks from among a developing core to take responsibility for parts of this. Remember we should be strategizing with them including figuring out the top priorities.

Harlem
Key forces:Someone should contact DRUM TV immediately. They do a Let the world 'hear you out' on "The 125th Street Soapbox" at 125th & 7th Ave every Saturday afternoon at 1PM to be aired on cable tv every other Sunday afternoon. Will they devote tomorrow afternoon and next Saturday to October 5?
Come up with a list of 50-100 key places and forces in the community and figure out which 20 are the top key ones so you have a first priority tier, and then a second. Here are some suggestions:
Jumel Terrace Books
Harlem United Community Aids Center (provides care to 2300 clients every year)
A senior citizen center 4-5 blocks directly north of Harlem Hospital
Churches: plans should include approaching pastors (do we know which ones fell out on the right side of the debate over gay marriage this past year?) Also flyering the congregations.
Galleries: There are many! Tribal Spears, Casa Frela, Carlito's, others.


Brooklyn
The same approach as above should apply to Brooklyn as well. There is definitely the basis for a core in Brooklyn. This needs to be joined with a plan to get organized on a whole other level.

Special attention: Should be given to churches. Who among the core will take flyers to key churches
Haitian media
Medgar Evers College: priority should be to get with the guy who sponsors film showings there and who has already invited Oct 5 to get the word out.

Union Square
The store should take responsibility for getting out very broadly in Union Square this weekend with the above orientation.
This should include Damian.

Events, Films
Everyone except for the Iron Team phone bankers (they will be phone banking in the evenings) should be out at the movie lines in the evenings. You can find out more about Winter Soldier and Nixon/Nixon on the web site for Impact Festival.
Winter Soldier Saturday, 2 pm
Nixon/Nixon Saturday and Sunday, 2 pm
The US Vs. John Lennon Sunshine Theater Evenings
Al Franken: God Spoke IFC Evenings
Jesus Camp - Angelica Film Center, 18 West Houston at Mercer Street 12:00 2:00 4:00 6:00 8:10 10:10 12:10; AMC Empire 25, 234 West 42nd St., 11:20 1:30 3:40 5:50 8:00 10:10 12:20

SUNDAY
Everyone out to the churches Sunday morning

Harlem and Brooklyn: smaller teams should go out

Upper West Side:
big focus should be around 96th Street and the Columbia University area.
Make sure we go back to the 40 vendors who put up posters in their windows before the 9/7 meetings. Ask them to take stacks of flyers, monay cans and pledge cards

Park Slope: secondary to Upper West Side

MONDAY, SEPT. 25
6 – 9:30PM The World Can't Wait NYC Presents:
Jazz Benefit to Drive Out the Bush Regime featuring:
WILLIAM PARKER (bass)
ROY CAMPBELL (trumpet)
RAS MOSHE (sax)
MATT LAVELLE (trumpet)
MICHAEL WIMBERLY (drums)

WHERE: Minton's Playhouse
206 - 210 W. 118 St.
bet. 7th & St Nicholas Ave

Special Benefit Performance
Sliding scale $20-$40 Call to reserve tickets: Zeno Perez, 917-673-8648, or 212-969-0772. The Musicians are donating their time & talent to get the word out about this movement building for massive protest and resistance to drive out the Bush Regime.

September 18+ Drive Out the Bush Regime!

Monday, September 18

7 PM – The Guantanamo Guide Book. An extraordinary documentary about the power and cruelty of our officially sanctioned interrogation methods.
This extraordinary film recruited 7 young, physically-fit British men - 3 of them Muslims - to "experience" 48 hours in Guantanamo Bay. Packed in cages, dressed in orange jump suits, and subjected to officially sanctioned techniques including enforced stress positions, "sleep adjustment," and sensory deprivation, some volunteers claim they would have admitted to anything to please their interrogators.
PANEL DISCUSSION with Karen J. Greenberg, Co-Editor of "The Torture Papers" and Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law; Tara McKelvey, senior editor, The American Prospect, research fellow, NYU Law School's Center on Law and Security, contributing editor, Marie Claire; Claudia Milne, Executive Producer of The Guantanamo Guidebook; Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Shinbone Alley, 45 Bleeker Street

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

8:30AM - Join World Can't Wait as we take part in UFPJ's sidewalk march to the United Nations! From the WCW NY website:
WHERE: 39th St and 7th Ave (by the giant button & needle sculpture).

We will be sending a simple message to Bush & the world: BUSH CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY : BRING THIS TO A HALT! THE WORLD CAN'T WAIT - DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME!

We dare to get out this very bold message broadly throughout the crowd and to the world. Because it is crucial our dissent be heard, just as Bush is speaking at the UN, but it will not be enough if he and his cronies are allowed to stay in power and commit more crimes! Out of Iraq! No war on Iran! Bush Must GO! We will also get together for a MeetUp Tues night at Think Coffee (at Mercer & West 3rd) at 8PM for anyone who wants to volunteer with the chapter.

7 PM – We Feed The World - "Given the current state of agriculture in the world, it could feed 12 billion people with no problem. Or to put it another way: any child who dies of starvation today is in fact murdered."Jean Ziegler, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (Switzerland). In WE FEED THE WORLD, Austrian filmmaker Erwin Wagenhofer traces the origins of the food we eat. His journey takes him to France, Spain, Romania, Switzerland, Brazil and back to Austria. WE FEED THE WORLD is a film about food and globalization, fishermen and farmers, truck drivers and corporate executives - a film about scarcity amid plenty. With its unforgettable images, the film provides insight into the production of our food and answers the question what world hunger has to do with us. Shinbone Alley, 45 Bleeker Street

7 PM - Oil and Global Warming Today: Voices from the Front Lines
Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South.
It's been a hot summer. Some would say un-naturally so. Join Global Exchange for a special event about global warming and oil over-consumption with grassroots leaders from communities that are severely impacted, including the Arctic, Iraq, New Orleans, Nigeria and the small island nations Micronesia and Tuvalu. Speakers include UN Ambassador Enele Sosene Sopoaga of Tuvalu, which is drowning because of rising sea levels, and Faith Gemmill of the Arctic, which is melting because of rising temperatures.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20th

6:00 PM Rockin the Mic Against Rape at Bowery Poetry Club. Amazing performance artist PIPER ANDERSON hosts a NIGHT OF SOUND AND FURY, of open mic poetry that will Rock the Mic Against Rape for Night in Our City, a grassroots project of the NYC Alliance Against Sexual Assault. @ the Bowery Poetry Club

Wednesday, September 20 - Sunday, September 24
9:30 am to 6:30 pm daily, Prospect Park: Long Meadow at Grand Army Plaza. 33 Million People Uprooted by War - A Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City - 2006, by Doctors without Borders. F train to 7th Ave. station; 2 or 3 train to Grand Army Plaza station; Q train to Parkside Ave. station

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Support Teachers in Oaxaca, Location: Mexican Consulate- 27 E. 39th St. Demonstration at the Mexican Consulate on 9/21 Protest Repression in Oaxaca, Mexico Defend the Striking Teachers! Thursday, September 21st, 5-6 PM Outside the Mexican Consulate 27 East 39th Street (Between Madison and Park Aves.) The struggle of the Oaxaca teachers and their supporters continues! It is imperative that we let the Mexican Government know that any additional repression against the teachers in Oaxaca will not be tolerated by the international community. We must show our support for the strikers by engaging in as large a demonstration as possible.

6:30 PM. Anderson Cooper in Conversation with Doctors Without Borders. Cooper Union. The Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue, New York, NY
Please join us as Anderson Cooper, award-winning journalist and anchor of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°, takes the stage with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Executive Director Nicolas de Torrenté, PhD, and long-time MSF aid worker Milton Tectonidis, MD, to discuss the organization's recent humanitarian work around the world, and the challenges it faces delivering medical care in complex crises such as Darfur, Sudan, Lebanon and Niger.

7:03 PM - Iraq: Should We Stay or Should We Go? Columbia University Bookstore, 2922 Broadway. Join us for a discussion of the critical political question of our time. Our expert panelists will be Prof. Andrew Arato (Dept of Sociology, The New School), and Anthony Arnove (author of The Logic of Withdrawal and anti-war activist).

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

1:00 PM - 5:00 PM, HarlemHouse2006 at Marcus Garvey/Mount Morris Park. HarlemHouse 2006 continues...bringing you the best of House music-Classics, Vocal House, and more: 6 DJs, performances, and good company; outdoors, Saturday 23 September, at the amphitheater at Marcus Garvey/Mount Morris Park, 124th Street and 5th Avenue

7 PM - How is political dissent silenced?
“American Blackout” chronicles the recurring patterns of disenfranchisement witnessed from 2000 to 2004 while following the story of Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney who, after taking an active role investigating the stories of voter disenfranchisement in 2000, soon found herself in her own election debacle after publicly questioning the Bush Administration about the 9-11 terrorist attacks. “American Blackout” travels from Florida to Georgia to Ohio examining the contemporary tactics used to control our democratic process and silence political dissent. The Tank, 279 Church Street (between Franklin and White).

Sunday, September 24th 2006

12:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Eighth Annual ?DRUM USA? DAY PEOPLES JAM? Location: BELL TOWER of MARCUS GARVEY PARK in HARLEM. Contact: SOUNDSHIP@EARTHLINK.NET We are calling on all peace-loving people, drummers, dancers, singers and other musicians, poets, performers, artists and activists of all cultural traditions and creative persuasions to come out and participate. Don?t forget the children! ?PEACE & drum!?

Special Revolution supplement on Mexico needs to get out broadly at Mexican Independence Day events this weekend!

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Updated Friday September 15, 2006

As Bob Avakian has stressed and is laid out in the Draft Programme, there is an important inter-connection between revolution the U.S. and in Mexico. The current political crisis shaking Mexico is of great importance for people on both sides of the border. With this in mind, over 10,000 copies of a special supplement of the two major articles on this from Revolution #61, “Mexico: the Political Volcano Rumbles” and “Who is AMLO, What Is His Program and Where Does it Lead?” are being printed for the major outpourings of people expected at events in the NYC area this weekend, which marks the anniversary of Mexico’s (and El Salvador and other Central American countries) independence from Spain. These supplements need to get out broadly. This can have a very real impact both on the political terrain here and aiding and supporting our brothers and sisters in Mexico. Further, inspiration and lessons from this can inspire many to act in the battle in the U.S. to Drive Out the Bush Regime.

Contributions are urgently needed for publishing this supplement. Please drop off generous contributions at Revolution Books.

Specific plans:
While the Mexican Independence Day is actually Saturday, September 16th, all the events we have heard about will be occurring on Sunday September 17 2006


12 noon
?NY Times says 10AM - Mexican Day Parade. Madison Avenue from 41st South to 27th Street.

11 AM-6 PM - Mexican Independence Day Festival, 116th Street between 2nd & Lexington Avenues.

10 AM – 6 PM – Junta Hispana, Flushing Meadow Corona Park. This event will feature Hispanic people from Mexico, South American, Central America, the Caribbean.

[There may be other gatherings that we don’t know about in Sunset Park, the Bronx, New Jersey and elsewhere. If you hear of any, please let us know.]

Saturday, September 16th

9:30am-6:30pm "A Refugee Camp in the Middle of the City" Central Park, Cherry Hill at 72nd Street. Sponsored by Doctros Without Borders, exhibit simulates the conditions facing displaced people in Sudan, Chechnya and Colombia. Friday thru Sunday. In Prospect Park, Brookly, Wednesday through Sept 24th. doctorswithoutborders.org

11am-6pm 37th Avenue Festival, from 83rd to 89th Streets, Jackson Heights, Queens

11am-6pm Stonewall Veterans' ASsociation Festival, Greenwich Avenue, bet. Avenue of Americas & Seventh Avenue, Greenwich Village.

11am-6pm 13th Annual Upper Broadway Autumn Festival. Broadway, between 110th & 118th Streets, Morningside Heights. Sponsored by Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness and Housing

10am-5pm West 104th Street Yard Sale, between West End and Riverside Avenues, Upper West Side. Sponsor: West 104th St. Block Association

5pm "Port Huron Project I: Until the Last Gun is Silent" Central Park, Mineral Springs, north of the Sheep Meadow at West 69th Street. A performance art piece by Mark Tribe, featuring Gina Brown, based on a speech given by Coretta Scott King in the part in 1968. It is the first in a series of performances drawn from political speeches and stage in teh speeches' original settings.


SUNDAY, September 17th

2pm African-American Day Parade, Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard, from 110th to 147th Streets, Harlem

11am-6pm Columbus Avenue Festival, from 66th to 86th Streets

10am to 6pm Atlantic Anti Festival, Atlantic Avenue, between Fourth Avenue and Hicks Street, Brooklyn




Please RSVP to getoutrevolutionnyc@yahoo.com See you then.

Revolution Teams All Out for October 5

September 10, 2006

Please check this blog and the WCW web site daily for any changes in plans. There are many places and events that can/must be saturated with the Drive Out the Bush Regime Oct 5 fliers. The WCW website lists distribution points where fliers can be picked up. We need to tap in to the response from the September 7 meeting in NYC that over 250 people attended. Also, there was really positive response to the black Wanted T-shirts at the Caribbean Day Parade. We want to pushed forward on: paper distribution, t-shirt sales, WCW materials.

Wednesday, September 13

8:00 PM - Homage to Lenny Bruce and Free Speech with Lewis Black. A tribute to comedian Lenny Bruce and free speech, hosted by Lewis Black with Judy Gold, Jeff Garlin, Todd Barry, Eugene Mirman, Jonathan Ames and more. 92nd Street Y., 1395 Lexington Avenue.

September 13-15 COMMUNITY DIALOGUE ON MIGRATION, HUMAN RIGHTS & DEVELOPMENT - -- Center for Labor, Community and Policy Studies, CUNY, 25 W. 43rd Street (between 5th & 6th Ave.)
Migrant Rights International (MRI), Migrant Forum Asia (MFA) and the National
Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR), invite broad civil society
and governmental participation in the "Community Dialogue on Migration, Human
Rights & Development," a parallel forum to the United Nations High Level Dialogue (HLD) on Migration and Development. What are the HLD and the Community Dialogue About? The UN's High-Level Dialogue (HLD) on Migration & Development on 14-15. September 2006 is intended to examine "the multi-dimensional aspects of International migration and development" in order to "maximize its development benefits and minimize its negative impacts." As a response, MRI, MFA and NNIRR alongside our respective members and partners in New York and from around the world are organizing a parallel forum - a "Community Dialogue on Migration, Human Rights and Development" - to provide an alternate space to share perspectives on the current situation, challenges and proposed solutions around migration and of migrants' rights from communities around the world.

Friday, September 15Mental Missiles, directed by Liz Swados, is a dark, satirical revue filled with irreverence and disrespect with songs, monologues and scenes that are meant to go for the jugular of all parties, politicians, capitalist icons and media maniacs. This Revue is a way for us to speak about what's going on in this world without being cutesy or catering to a crowd. No one is spared. And the music is as strong as the words with many styles, from cabaret to the most contemporary rap and rock. Twelve performers will step up onstage with attitudes that are meant to tease, provoke and make you laugh. And since not all the news is hilarious, a good dose of dark irony will be injected into the night. The rehearsed show will be supplemented by nightly guest artists invited to do their art, song, rap, rant or dance on a chosen issue. And each night will have a new piece written that day confronting the most immediate news and gossip.
Isn't it about time we tried something a little edgy? On the verge of dangerous? We aim to create an evening that will break through the dumb silence which is suffocating this culture! And we hope we'll be as entertaining and funny as can be – without self-seriousness or pedantics.
Shinbone Alley, 45 Bleeker Street, NY
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7 PM - The People Speak. By Rob Urbinati with Anthony Arnove and Howard Zinn. Directed by Rob Urbinati and Will Pomerantz. Incendiary and inspirational stories of dissent from American history, past and present.
A stage adaptation of Howard Zinn's Voices of a People's History of the United States, The People Speak is a new play about the United States today, as seen through the prism of history.

Saturday September 16

9 am - 5 pm - The Lynne Stewart Case. Broadening our understanding of its repercussions, context and how to fight back. The Community Church of New York, 40 East 35th Street (between Park and Madison Avenues), New York, NY

11:00A to 6:00PM Interfaith Assembly Street Festival. Broadway between 110th & 118th Streets

11:00A to 6:00PM Stonewall Veterans' Association Festival. Greenwich Avenue between 6th & 7th Avenues

4-7 PM – Citizens by Any Other Name. Empire Fulton Ferry State Park, Brooklyn. The Immigrant Society into the Bush YearsMPACT Concert - FREE to the public! As the sun sets behind the skyline of Manhattan, New Yorkers can gather together for a concert featuring Suzanne Vega, Alejandro Escovedo, and Don Byron. A musical journey celebrating the immigrant society up to and in the present day. Enter at Water Street and Dock Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn.

7 PM - The People Speak. By Rob Urbinati with Anthony Arnove and Howard Zinn. Directed by Rob Urbinati and Will Pomerantz. Incendiary and inspirational stories of dissent from American history, past and present. A stage adaptation of Howard Zinn's Voices of a People's History of the United States, The People Speak is a new play about the United States today, as seen through the prism of history.

Sunday September 17 2006

12 noon - Mexican Day Parade. Madison Avenue from 41st South to 27th Street. Selling teams will also have the very timely and important articles on Mexico from last week's paper as a standalone for distribution at both Mexican Day events.

11 AM-6 PM - Mexican Independence Day Festival, 116th Street between 2nd & Lexington Avenues. Selling teams will also have the very timely and important articles on Mexico from last week's paper as a standalone for distribution at both Mexican Day events.

10 AM – 6 PM – Junta Hispana, Flushing Meadow Corona Park. This event will feature Hispanic people from Mexico, South American, Central America, the Caribbean.

2 PM - African-American Day Parade, Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard from 111th to 142nd Streets. The African-American Parade is a huge, colourful and noisy affair. Crowds pack out the wide boulevards of Harlem, one of New York's busiest African-American areas, as floats move along the streets pumping out a variety of music from soca to reggae, ragga and soul. The route follows 111th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard, proceeding to 142nd Street, then right to Fifth Avenue. With dazzling costumes, funky grooves and great dancers, this is an amazing street party.

3 PM - The People Speak. By Rob Urbinati with Anthony Arnove and Howard Zinn. Directed by Rob Urbinati and Will Pomerantz. Incendiary and inspirational stories of dissent from American history, past and present.
A stage adaptation of Howard Zinn's Voices of a People's History of the United States, The People Speak is a new play about the United States today, as seen through the prism of history.

11 AM to 7 PM - Sunset Park BID Festival5th Avenue between 44th & 59th Streets

10:00A - 6:00PM - Atlantic Antic Street Fair. Atlantic Avenue between Hicks Street & 4th Avenue


Monday, September 18

7 PM – The Guantanamo Guide Book. An extraordinary documentary about the power and cruelty of our officially sanctioned interrogation methods.
This extraordinary film recruited 7 young, physically-fit British men - 3 of them Muslims - to "experience" 48 hours in Guantanamo Bay. Packed in cages, dressed in orange jump suits, and subjected to officially sanctioned techniques including enforced stress positions, "sleep adjustment," and sensory deprivation, some volunteers claim they would have admitted to anything to please their interrogators.
PANEL DISCUSSION with Karen J. Greenberg, Co-Editor of "The Torture Papers" and Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law; Tara McKelvey, senior editor, The American Prospect, research fellow, NYU Law School's Center on Law and Security, contributing editor, Marie Claire; Claudia Milne, Executive Producer of The Guantanamo Guidebook; Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Shinbone Alley, 45 Bleeker Street

Tuesday, September 19

7 PM – We Feed The World - "Given the current state of agriculture in the world, it could feed 12 billion people with no problem. Or to put it another way: any child who dies of starvation today is in fact murdered."Jean Ziegler, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (Switzerland). In WE FEED THE WORLD, Austrian filmmaker Erwin Wagenhofer traces the origins of the food we eat. His journey takes him to France, Spain, Romania, Switzerland, Brazil and back to Austria. WE FEED THE WORLD is a film about food and globalization, fishermen and farmers, truck drivers and corporate executives - a film about scarcity amid plenty. With its unforgettable images, the film provides insight into the production of our food and answers the question what world hunger has to do with us.
Shinbone Alley, 45 Bleeker Street

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There’s a message on the WCW Web site entitled: The Fierce Urgency of Now, by Dr. Robin Meyers, 9/6/06; the minister of Mayflower UCC Church, Oklahoma City, Professor of Rhetoric in the Philosophy Department at Oklahoma City University, and author of WHY THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT IS WRONG: A Minister's Manifesto for Taking Back Your Faith, Your Flag, Your Future. http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2838&Itemid=220 Check it out.

Such a great line: The Fierce Urgency of Now.

This urgency propelled: “The outpouring of thousands of people in Salt Lake City, Utah—of all places—to protest Bush, and the sentiments expressed even by the mayor of Salt Lake City, tell you something about the pent-up anger and outrage at the direction this country is moving in—very quickly. That outrage is right, and necessary. But it has to be directed at HALTING the whole package, not misdirected into lining up with the Democrats!”
“Lies from the Bush Regime, Dangers and Challenges for the People”
Revolution #60, September 10, 2006

This urgency propelled WCW meetings in something like 50 cities (known meetings) on September 7th.

Revolution Teams Schedule for September 5-7

September 5, 2006 (Updated)

Revolution Team Schedule for September 5-7

Our aim is to saturate these neighborhoods with flyers and posters the next two days.

Tuesday, September 5th: East & West Villages

AM Stores & restaurants

1pm West Village: Meet at 8th Street & 6th Avenue


Wednesday, September 6th: Upper West Side & Columbia U

7am Meet at 116th & Broadway to flyer the subways and then get out in the neighborhood

1pm Meet at the McDonald’s at 96th & Broadway

**6:45pm Get out flyers & papers at the line at the Delacourt Theater in Central Park (if people can, it might be good to also get to the ticket lines before 1pm at the Delacourt theatre or from 1-3pm at the Public Theater at 425 Lafayette St) for FREE READING IN CENTRAL PARK BY DAVID HARE of his new play, STUFF HAPPENS. Show starts at 8pm. one night only, post show discussion with David Hare & Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis. A provocative and thoughful play about how and why we went to war in Iraq.


Thursday, September 7th: Harlem

7am TBA

Afternoon TBA

TEAM ORIENTATION FOR THE CARIBBEAN DAY PARADE

Meet up on Monday Morning at 9:30 AM at the corner of Utica Avenue and Eastern Parkway

The World Can't Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime! October 5!
Build and Join Our Contingent at the Caribbean Day Parade!

We will be going out to one of the largest concentration of Black masses in the world at the Caribbean Day Parade. They are part of a huge reservoir of people who are disgusted, outraged and hold deep hatred for what the Bush Regime is and does around the world. The challenge for us, simple: challenge them to take history into their hands, leave there as organizers for the "Way" and "Day" to do this: October 5th - and the September 7th meeting - letting it be known that they will not stop until the Bush Regime is driven out. Make this message infuse and characterize huge sections of the parade itself.

Everyone there needs to know: There is a Way - There is a Day - and it's October 5th. They must be organized on the spot - letting everyone they know about this, bringing themselves and their families, church groups, school classes and fraternities, unions, book clubs, etc. to the city-wide September 7th organizing meeting - on the same night as hundreds and thousands of people do the same across the country - if we are to succeed in driving out this hated regime.

For many of the masses who come out to this parade, revolution in this country could not come soon enough. There are particular questions we need to be prepared to speak to from this perspective. "It's been bad for Black people in this country for 400 years." Yes. And this should not be an argument to let it continue and get worse - there is the potential, if millions including those on the bottom, come out of the shadows and the sidelines and into the streets to drive out this regime, to start a whole different direction in society that would be favorable for accelerating a revolutionary opening.

Among immigrant masses - again, this includes many people here: "does protest do any good? We were out in the spring and now the bills that are being considered are horrendous." But look at the fact the people around the country and the world were woken up to the situation of the previously hidden and silent millions of immigrants in this country The protests were a good example of people refusing to take this - the problem wasn't mass action, but how that got turned into support for the Hillaries and the Schumers and how people were pressured to be acceptable to the mainstream and not defiant!

So, the main thing we will be doing at the Caribbean Day Parade is getting out tons of the WCW flyers and raising funds. We will have approximately 190,000 flyers and we want to get stacks and bundles in people's hands to take back to their churches, communities, unions, schools and laundromats.

We also aim to sell out Revolution newspaper, get out lots of the new Presentations by Bob Avakian and sell lots of Wanted T-shirts. Let's raise people's sights and help them understand why we are in the situation we're in today and what to do about it...the overall problem and the problem of the Bush Regime. Imagine if millions of people were listening to thses Presentations.

World Can't Wait will have a contingent in the parade with beautiful and compelling banners. People will be organized into leafletting fundraising teams on both sides of the contingent, as well as other teams with the Revolution newsppaer, new Avakian presentation CD's , etc. This contingent will be a focal point of attention - all eyes will be on it and its message. The contingent and teams should work as one - in order to make the strongest statement and maximize fundraising. People will donate the most money and take stacks of flyers when they see the contingent - so teams should be disciplines in staying with the contingent and not getting left behind. Leapfrog forward if you fall behind!

Activating People Right Away

For the National Organizing Meeting on September 7

For Funding Major Ads with 1/2 million dollars

People should be:
*** leaving with stacks of flyers to spread everywhere the reservoir is. People come from all over the world for this parade!
*** signing up with their contact info to stay in touch, but,
*** leave knowing what they will be doing now; tomorrow, this week, up to 9/7 and behong to Oct. 5. This should include pledges to raise hundreds of dollars this week.

A Word on Fundraising: This is crucial to this very basic and simple plan: very quickly reach millions of people with the message that there is a way to act on the sentiments that people already feel - come to the September 7th organizing meeting, hundreds coming out of those meetings as organizers for tens of thousands taking to the streets on October 5, taking responsibility to drive this regime out. Find the ways around the noise level to let people know that we are expecting them to throw $10 and $20 bills in the bucket and not coins or singles.