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…
Category: Reports of Demonstrations
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…
5-27-09 Report & Video on World Can’t Wait protest outside Obama fundraiser in Beverly Hills
Antiwar Protesters Criticize President Obama During LA Visit From Los Angeles Times | Original Article May 27, 2009 About 40 antiwar protesters were holding a peaceful but noisy demonstration near the Beverly Hilton…
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…
5-24-09 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 West Hollywood CA City Hall Hangs “NO TORTURE” Banner with Hollywood Artists, Former Mayor, & Guantanamo Lawyer
Report by Debra Sweet, National Director of World Can’t Wait As I watched the Obama and Cheney speeches yesterday, I was rushing to a press conference called by the West Hollywood City…
5-21-09 West Hollywood Press Conf. Newspaper Report/Photos
From Beverly Press | Original Article West Hollywood City Councilmember John Duran joined entertainment industry representatives andactivists last week at West Hollywood City Hall in a rally to urge President Barack Obama to…
Report on Berkeley Law School Commencement Protest
On Saturday May 16, 2009, the Fire John Yoo protest at the UC Berkeley Law School Commencement furthered a visible resistance against torture in the Bay Area. With super-pickets (large backpack-like signs) displaying…
Hawaii Public Radio Report on Honolulu Bybee Demo
Please click on the link for “Protestors disapprove visiting judge.” This was aired May 12, 2009.
Video of Code Pinkers Calling Rumsfeld a War Criminal at White House Correspondents’ Dinner 5/13/09
To see this video, please click here.
Students Protest Mukasey at UNC Graduation
For article and video from WTVD in Winston-Salem, NC, click here.