From Fox28.com, South Bend Indiana Some 2,500 people, including protestors, greeted former President Bush at Lake Michigan College Thursday night. President Bush created an unprecedented amount of interest and anticipation. The Economic…
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5-28-09 Democracy Now Report/Video on NYC Demo
Click here to watch video. Anti-Torture Activists Call for Prosecutions, Photos’ Release Meanwhile, here in New York, anti-torture activists with the group World Can’t Wait held a protest at Grand Central Station…
5-28-09 NYC Grand Central Station & the Union League
Refusing to surrender to the passivity and moral relativism of the current political landscape, activists in New York City took a determined and inspired stand against torture on May 28. Scores of protesters—about…
5-28-09 Video of the Atlanta Demo
Click here to watch the video by Atlanta’s alternative weekly, Creative Loafing.
5-28-09 Harvard Square Rally
Despite brutal weather, the rally was from 2PM to 7PM – the hours were designed to attract bothstudents and people returning from their 9-5 jobs. The idea was to havepeople drop in…
5-28-09 Atlanta Protest a Success!
On Thursday May 28, 2009, Metro Atlanta Humanitarian Advocates and the Atlanta chapter of World Can´t Wait stood together in downtown Atlanta to protest against the use of torture by the United…
5-28-09 Torture and Truth
The Nation: Can The United States Really Get Things Right In The Future By Turning Away From The Past? By Jonathan Schell From CBS News Opinion | Original Article It has fallen…
5-26-09 Rove Denounced at Radio City Music Hall
By a NYC World Can’t Wait activist Several protestors heckled Karl Rove Tuesday evening, May 26th, during his appearance at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Rove, the longtime former political…
5-25-09 Obama’s Guantanamo Appeasement Plan
by Marjorie Cohn From marjoriecohn.com | Original Article Two days after his inauguration, President Obama pledged to close Guantánamo within one year. The Republicans, led by Senators John McCain, Mitch McConnell and…
5-24-09 Report on Bush in NM
by Sue Keller On Thursday, May 21, George W. Bush, the “Connecticut Cowboy,” came to thesmall town of Artesia NM, pop. approx. 10-11,000 people. This is an oil town run byultra-conservative Republicans…
5/21/09 Neocon Group Calls for Military Strikes on Media
by Jeremy Scahill from AntiWar.com | Original Article In the era of embedded media, independent journalists have become the eyes and ears of the world. Without those un-embedded journalists willing to…
5/23/09 Senate Votes to Block Photos’ Release for Five Years
by Dennis Loo from World Can’t Wait | Original Article CNN reported yesterday: “The Senate late Thursday easily passed a $91 billion spending bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. After…
5/18/09 Obama’s Animal House
by James Petras from Information Clearing House | Original Article “The Deltas are psychos. You have to be a certified psychopath to join the Delta Force”, a US Army colonel from Fort…
5-19-09 Who the Hell is Stanley McChrystal?
By Tim Heffernan From Esquire | Original Article Barely a week ago, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced a major change in the United States’s prosecution of the war in Afghanistan. General David…
5-21-09 Video of Paul Haggis Speech at West Hollywood City Hall
Paul Haggis speaks out about torture when a “No Torture” banner is hung at the City Hall on May 21, 2009.