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Communists Are Protesting Marines at Berkeley With Code Pink
Discover the Networks ^ | 02./04/2008 | Discover the NEtworks

Posted on 02/04/2008 12:02:02 PM PST by Wyatt K

Founded in June 2005 by Charles Clark Kissinger, a longtime leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party, World Can't Wait (WCW) is a direct action movement seeking to organize "people living in the United States to take responsibility to stop the whole disastrous course led by the Bush administration." The organization asserts that removing President Bush from office "will be like removing a forty-pound tumor from your gut." WCW vows "to send Bush, Cheney and the rest of those fascists packing. ... After that, there are people in 'World Can't Wait' who are working for everything from reforming the Democratic party, to building a 3rd party, to revolution.”

On October 13, 2005, WCW organized a protest "encampment" near the White House. Participating activists spent the ensuing twenty days counting down to the "end of the Bush regime." The campers were treated to visits from "national voices of conscience" who had endorsed their efforts. Most prominent among them was anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan. Sunsara Taylor, a WCW organizer, declared that the "encampment is a premonition. Soon, all the pent-up anger and outrage -- of the hundreds of thousands of Black people betrayed during [Hurricane] Katrina, of the millions of women who refuse to give up abortion, of the immigrants who have been demonized and rounded up, of the majority that is fed up with the lies and lies and lies -- will come forward in a movement to drive Bush out."

The WCW movement encourages the harassment and intimidation of those opposed to its agendas. On October 24, 2005, two Los Angeles-based WCW activists infiltrated a West Hollywood appearance by conservative speaker David Horowitz. Professing themselves determined to "shut this fascist down," the activists had to be forcibly restrained and removed from the theater, and later boasted that they had disrupted a "Nazi Rally."

Another target of WCW attacks is Berkeley Law Professor John Yoo, who incurred the organization's wrath after advising the Bush administration that the detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba were not eligible for Geneva Convention protections accorded to prisoners of war. In late October 2005 a number of WCW organizers stormed into Yoo's class, accompanied by student activists outfitted in orange jumpsuits meant to symbolize those worn by detainees in Guantanamo Bay.

A number of college campuses host WCW chapters, and many of the group's activities center on student organizing on both the college and high-school levels – exhorting young people to engage in civil disobedience, distribute political literature, and participate in such activities as "walkouts" and "campus shutdowns."

A key date in WCW history was November 2, 2005. To hasten the coming of its eagerly anticipated communist revolution, the organization designated this date, the one-year mark of President Bush's reelection, a day of "society-wide resistance" in cities and college campuses across the United States. There were small-scale protests in a number of cities -- including New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Atlanta and Chicago -- aimed at helping to ignite the communist revolution for which WCW organizers candidly agitate. At the San Francisco rally, the festivities began with the reading of a statement from the Revolutionary Communist Party. That was followed by a taped message from convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal, a supporter of World Can't Wait. Cindy Sheehan also delivered a speech.

A comprehensive list of WCW's individual and organizational endorsers can be viewed on the WCW website. Among these supporters are: the After Downing Street anti-war coalition, the ANSWER coalition of New York City, Aris Anagnos, Ed Asner, Mumia Abu Jamal, Bill Ayers, Code Pink, Harry Belafonte, Bob Bossie, Ward Churchill, John Conyers, Michael Eric Dyson, Eve Ensler, Jodie Evans, Gloria Steinem, C. Clark Kissinger, Frances Kissling, Martin Sheen, Jane Fonda, the Islamic Circle of North America, the Islamic Association of America, Jesse Jackson, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Michael Lerner, the National Lawyers Guild, Armando Navarro, Not In Our Name, Michael Ratner, Cindy Sheehan, Gore Vidal, Carl Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party, Alice Walker, Leonard Weinglass, Cornel West, Sean Penn, Harold Pinter, Maxine Waters, Al Sharpton, Susan Sarandon, Progressive Democrats of America, Major Owens, Mark Crispin Miller, Lynne Stewart, Michael Berg, Ali Khan, Mara Verhayden-Hilliard, Cynthia McKinney, Keith Ellison, John Conyers, Gold Star Families for Peace, Medea Benjamin, and Howard Zinn.

Virtually all of the foregoing individuals and groups were signatories to a December 12, 2005, WCW paid advertisement that appeared in The New York Times, accusing the Bush administration of "setting out to radically remake society very quickly, in a fascist way" by “waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq … openly torturing people … moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule … [and] enforc[ing] a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance."

On September 20, 2006, WCW ran another ad in The New York Times, promoting its upcoming October 5 rally "to drive out the Bush regime." Billed as a set of concurrent "protests in cities all across the country," the ad exhorted people to skip work and school that day in order to participate in the demonstrations. The declared aim of the protests was to bring "to a halt" the U.S. government's alleged pursuit of "endless wars," its routine use of "torture," its indifference to the victims of Hurricane Katrina (in 2005), and its quest to transform the United States into a "theocracy."

To fund its various protests and appeals, WCW relies partly on individual contributions and in the main on the Alliance for Global Justice, a Washington D.C.-based 501(c)(3) charity "focused on human, environmental and worker rights.”


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Profile for the World Can't Wait who is assaulting our Marine recruiters and people going to the Marine Office
1 posted on 02/04/2008 12:02:03 PM PST by Wyatt K
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To: Wyatt K

And, it goes without saying that we will defend their right to do it! After all, the Constitution is a suicide pact!


2 posted on 02/04/2008 12:04:58 PM PST by Revolting cat! (We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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To: Wyatt K

How I wish these pinkos would try interfering with Red China’s military machine. Then they’d at least get first-hand knowledge on how things would be if they got their way in disarming the United States.


3 posted on 02/04/2008 12:05:20 PM PST by Digital Sniper (Hello, "Undocumented Immigrant." I'm an "Undocumented Border Patrol Agent.")
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To: Wyatt K

Hillarys supporters at it again


4 posted on 02/04/2008 12:09:40 PM PST by OPS4 (Ops4 God Bless America!)
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To: Wyatt K

Q: What’s the difference between communism and socialism?

A: With communism it’s man against man, but with socialism it’s the other way around.

Ba DOOM boom

Honestly, what a sick, intolerant, vile, violent bunch of people.


5 posted on 02/04/2008 12:16:10 PM PST by cake_crumb (American Conservative Union prez endorsed ROMNEY over McCain. 'Nuff said.)
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To: Wyatt K

“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.”
P.J.O’Rourke


6 posted on 02/04/2008 12:21:42 PM PST by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: Wyatt K

The WCW activities mirror those of the feminists organized against the Shah of Iran with the help of Jimmuh Carter in the 70’s....look how well Iran’s feminists are treated today! Jimmuh must be proud! Jimmuh, where are you...tell us how proud you are! Show the WCW how you got the Ayatollah ‘elected’!


7 posted on 02/04/2008 12:26:31 PM PST by CRBDeuce (an armed society is a polite society)
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To: Wyatt K

Their actions COULD be interpreted as terroristic.


8 posted on 02/04/2008 12:26:52 PM PST by cake_crumb (American Conservative Union prez endorsed ROMNEY over McCain. 'Nuff said.)
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To: Wyatt K

So wonderful to see these Pinkos helping all those poor, wounded Iraqi children and their grieving families.

/end sarcasm


9 posted on 02/04/2008 12:27:36 PM PST by Soothesayer (I'm breaking out of this hand basket!)
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To: Wyatt K
Correct me if I'm wrong... but has ANY Communist country ever have an army that didn't turn on its own citizens?

(empty silence...)

10 posted on 02/04/2008 12:30:15 PM PST by John123 ("What good fortune for the governments that the people do not think" -- Adolf Hitler)
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To: Wyatt K

Code Red.


11 posted on 02/04/2008 12:30:28 PM PST by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: Wyatt K

Petition to cut off Berkeley’s federal funding: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/cutoffberkeleynow/


12 posted on 02/04/2008 12:34:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Second To None!)
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To: kellynla

P.J. for President!

Listening to these guys call Horowitz a ‘facist’! Un-friggin-believable!


13 posted on 02/04/2008 1:24:56 PM PST by griswold3 (Al queda is guilty of hirabah (war against society) Penalty is death.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Done.


14 posted on 02/04/2008 1:29:00 PM PST by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: Digital Sniper

They won’t because they’re cowards.


15 posted on 02/04/2008 1:52:01 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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To: Wyatt K; All; everyone; Everybody; Anybody
Thanks for the excellent post, Wyatt

Bumpin' to the thread for activizm to counter the commies and Support Our Marines and Troops:

See this thread for the action that is going to be taken, click on below:

Berkeley Attacks U.S. Marines - MAF Responds! PROTEST OF BERKELEY CITY COUNCIL
Move America Forward ^ | Feb 5, 2008 | Move America Forward

Posted on 02/05/2008 12:50:10 PM PST by Syncro

Berkeley Attacks U.S. Marines - MAF Responds!

PROTEST OF BERKELEY CITY COUNCIL

16 posted on 02/08/2008 9:48:50 AM PST by Syncro
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To: Wyatt K; All; everyone; Everybody; Anybody
Thanks for the excellent post, Wyatt

Bumpin' to the thread for activizm to counter the commies and Support Our Marines and Troops:

See this thread for the action that is going to be taken, click on below:

Berkeley Attacks U.S. Marines - MAF Responds! PROTEST OF BERKELEY CITY COUNCIL
Move America Forward ^ | Feb 5, 2008 | Move America Forward

Posted on 02/05/2008 12:50:10 PM PST by Syncro

Berkeley Attacks U.S. Marines - MAF Responds!

PROTEST OF BERKELEY CITY COUNCIL

17 posted on 02/08/2008 9:49:36 AM PST by Syncro
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