Protest March! Two years since Katrina: Never forgive never forget!

Two Years Since Hurricane Katrina:
The Bush Regime’s Crimes Will Not Be Forgotten!

Protest - Orange Friday - this Friday afternoon - August 31!
3:00 PM meet up and speak out at the crossroads of 14th Street & Broadway in downtown Oakland
4:30 PM we will march to the FEMA building at 11th Street & Broadway
Bring musical instruments, especially if you play New Orleans jazz (the music played during traditional New Orleans funeral processions). And bring drums. This will be a powerful, all-ages, lively march in the festive spirit of New Orleans.

World Can't Wait especially welcomes Katrina survivors -- come tell your truth to the people! Organizations, students, communities of faith, join us to call out the crimes of the Bush regime; before, during and after Katrina, and demand that the regime be held accountable for these towering crimes. And anyone else, burning with something to say about this outrageous injustice – one that still continues in the ongoing ethnic cleansing of New Orleans – you too are most welcome to speak out.

Two years - since the names Katrina and Lower Ninth Ward seared into the world’s vocabulary, along with Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and Falluja, as one of the monstrous crimes of the Bush Regime.

Two years - since the world watched in horror as bodies floated in the streets of New Orleans.

Two years – since the Bush Regime allowed tens of thousands of people – overwhelmingly Black people – to suffer, starve, dehydrate and die in the unbearable heat and humidity and toxic sludge of a flooded city.

Two years – since entire swaths of a city known for the joyous and unique culture it has given as a gift to the world were allowed to be overwhelmed and destroyed.

Two years – since tens of thousands of people were packed into the Superdome and Convention Center of New Orleans, in horrific, murderous conditions that recalled the enslavement that had originally brought African people to the “new world”.

Two years – since people trying to escape the living hell of New Orleans were turned around at gunpoint by racist police at the Gretna city line.

Two years – since the bodies of dead people were stacked on the luggage carousels of Louis Armstrong Airport.

Two years - since tens of thousands of Black people were turned into refugees, scattered throughout the country, separated from their families.

Two years – in which tourist sections and a football stadium have been restored while public housing has been shuttered and surrounded with barbed wire, people trying to return to the projects have been evicted by SWAT teams, and the public hospital remains closed, never to reopen.

TWO YEARS TOO LONG – the verdict is in; the Bush Regime is guilty, guilty, guilty, of towering crimes against humanity:

http://www.bushcommission.org/ & http://internationaltribunal.org/tribunal-charges/

One more day of this regime is too long. Now is the time for people everywhere to act with a defiance, rage and determination that is as radical as the times we live in, fully determined to wrest the fate of our planet and its people from the likes of Bush and Cheney and into the hands of the people, determined not just to call them out for their crimes but to put an end to them:

DECLARE IT NOW: WEAR ORANGE! DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME!

In New Orleans and throughout the country this week, everywhere people gather to mark the two year anniversary, the color orange needs to burst out -- in neighborhoods and workplaces, on subways and buses, on campuses, in big cities and small towns, everywhere. The monstrous crimes committed against the people of New Orleans and the Louisiana/Mississippi Gulf Coast by Bush and his crew can never be forgiven. The whole Bush regime must be driven out! Spreading the color orange everywhere is a vital way of breaking the paralyzing chokehold put on the people by the tag-team partnership of Bush/Cheney and the Democratic Party leadership.