Monday, January 30, 2006

The World Can't Wait

I want to call your attention to the World Can't Wait movement. It is endorsed by such notables as Martin Sheen, Cindy Sheehan, Gloria Steinem, Gore Vidal, Howard Zinn, Kurt Vonnegut, Al Sharpton, Mark Crispin Miller, Harold Pinter and many more. There's a nation wide protest planned for tomorrow night during the State of the Union address. Everyone is urged to bring noise makers to symbolically drown out the sound of Bush making his speech. Yes, there is a protest right here in Tulsa for you locals out there. Here is the Tulsa website for the movement. And the details of the protest are as follows:

This event will be in front of KJRH channel 2.
3701 South Peoria, Tulsa
Gather and rally at 7:30pm, protesting begins at 8pm, the scheduled time for Bush's address speech.
There is plenty of parking just south of Ch 2 in the Old Village Cleaners parking lot.

Tulsa Can't Wait consists of individuals from Tulsa and the surrounding areas that want to make a difference. Our current goal is for Bush to step down, "BUSH STEP DOWN, AND TAKE HIS WHOLE PROGRAM WITH HIM!" On November 2, the birth of our movement, we had over 50 people for our FIRST protest. Groups included TULSAPEACE.ORG, JUSTPROGRESS.ORG, VETERANSFORPEACE.ORG, Democrats of OK, Jenks High School, and many others! Please make sure to look over our GET INVOLVED link so you too can help by sharing ideas and thoughts.

Amazing that this movement exists in this reddest of states, in the buckle of the Bible Belt. Definitely worth finding out more about this organization and lending the movement our support.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous8:20 AM

    I went to this event last night with two friends. It was really neat. A lot people--from all walks of life--stood around holding signs; others, brought drums and guitars and provided a rhythm for everyone else.
    The police were really nice and respectful and the weather great. It felt really good to among like-minded people in this city.
    Even though we were outside their front doors, Channel 2 didn't even come out. However, channel 8 arrived and interviewed people. As far as I know, channel 8 is the only station that ran the story of 90 people protesting the president's lies...um, speech.
    So if you do watch the news, I give a lot of support to channel 8 on coming out and reporting.
    M.

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  2. I'm glad you went, M. I thought about it but I have extremely sensitive hearing and I didn't think I could tolerate the noise well. I stayed home and followed the SOTU address on "live-blogging". I can't stand Bush's voice so I didn't actually watch it but plenty of people who DID watch it blogged about it on Eschaton as it was happening.

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