October 5: No Work. No School. Protest in the Streets.

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CA
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Thursday, October 5th, 2006
TIME: Converence at 12 noon. THIS PROTEST IS AT LEAST 24 HOURS LONG
LOCATION: Justin Herman Plaza, #1 Market St. (near Embarcadero BART)

october 5th, 2006

NO SCHOOL! NO WORK! NO BUSINESS AS USUAL! STUDENTS, VETERANS, WORKERS, RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES, IMMIGRANTS, ARTISTS -- ALL DAY AND INTO THE NIGHT! COME ONE! COME ALL! JOIN US IN THE STREETS! GET INVOLVED!

LOCATION: Justin Herman Plaza; Convergence, march begins/ends, rally, vigil/encampment

(We have a permit for Justin Herman for 24 hours & a permit for a Market St. MARCH)

• 12 NOON Convergence and youth speak-out
• 1 PM MARCH up and down Market street
• 4 PM rally and a dramatic Peoples Tribunal to indict the regime
• 7 PM Into the night vigil Camp WAKE THE FOLK UP broadcasting 24+ hours
• 9 AM (OCT 6 Friday morning) morning rally and press conference

October 5 morning: High School and College Walk-Outs -- Leave work early or stay out -- join us in the streets. Bring signs, banners, music, boom boxes, creative arts supplies, your ideas, your voice. Come to downtown San Francisco early, head for the mass convergence -- on your way there, pick your spot for creative action in the street, join those who have planned a sit-in, a worship service, street theater, a rally. The theme and message of October 5th: WE REPUDIATE THE ENTIRE PROGRAM OF THE BUSH REGIME, THE PEOPLE WILL DRIVE THEM OUT AND REVERSE THE DIRECTION THEY HAVE BEEN TAKING THIS COUNTRY AND THE WORLD. The color is of the day is The World Can't Wait green. ** Send your plan and contact info to be included in a schedule of the day to sf@worldcantwait.org

OCTOBER 5 THURSDAY NOON: 1. Mass Convergence at the 40 foot tall Statue of the Bush Regime, 2. Youth Speak Out and then MARCH.

Groups of youth will gather to publicly take a pledge to the people of the world: We refuse to take any part in this governments murderous and utterly illegitimate war on the world, and we refuse to give our support to any of the other crimes of the Bush Regime! ** This pledge wording is not finalized.

OCTOBER 5 THURSDAY 4PM into the evening: RALLY

RALLY SPEAKERS (partial list in alphabetical order; list in formation)

• Medea Benjamin, Founding Director of Global Exchange & co-founder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace
• Reverend Edgar Boyd, Bethel AME Church, San Francisco
• Larry Everest, author " Oil, Power and Empire, contributing writer to Revolution newspaper, Pacific News Service, and Z magazine"
• Jack Hirschman, San Francisco Poet Laureate 2006-7
• Marc Bamuthi Joseph, poet, National Poetry Slam champion, Broadway veteran, featured artist on HBO Russell Simmons' Def Poetry
• Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor TIKKUN Magazine; author of "The Left Hand of God: Taking Our Country Back from the Religious Right
• devorah major, poet, novelist, and essayist; San Francisco’s Poet Laureate 2002-3 (note her name has no capital letters please)
• Haydee Martinez, Coalicion Primero de Mayo/FMLN

A dramatic People's Tribunal against the Bush Regime on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Trial to be convened in the traditional San Francisco World Can't Wait huge manner. Will the people find the Bush Regime guilty as charged?

7 PM Into the night vigil Camp WAKE THE FOLK UP will continue non-stop as a large diverse crowd vigils all night listening to testimony by victims of the Bush Regime, and by those in resistance against it - and their speakers, poetry, songs - broadcast and podcast from the vigil grounds round-the-clock. People are invited from everywhere to come to join this encampment whatever the hour. As the night unfolds, people will talk, debate, and work together on visions and plans for driving out the Bush Regime and reversing the whole direction it has been taking the country and the world.

OCTOBER 6 FRIDAY 9AM: Press Conference and Rally. Morning rally, reporting on the historic events of the past 24 hours around the country -- and plans for upcoming days as this mass movement looks ahead to its next steps to drive out the Bush Regime.

GET INVOLVED! DON'T WAIT ANOTHER SECOND TO CALL US: 415-864-5153

or email
sf@worldcantwait.org

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