A World Can’t Wait Panel at the Left Forum, June 1, 2014 CUNY has restored ROTC on a number of campuses after it was driven out by protest 40 years ago. General…
Category: Speeches & Public Statements
6-18-14 Playing with Drones
Eleven Play is a Japanese dance group that incorporates advanced technologies directly into their practice. This piece incorporates drones into the performance. Surrounded by an all-white stage, sprinkled with black computer monitors…
6-5-14 Report on our Left Forum Panels
By Debra Sweet Memorable moments from the World Can’t Wait panels this weekend at the Left Forum, attended by 240, and soon to be available on video: Vast Surveillance of Whole Populations:…
5-8-14 Three Reports on the Rutgers Teach-In on Condoleezza Rice on May 6, 2014
By Deanna Gorzynski, World Can’t Wait volunteer The palpable excitement and satisfaction of the Rutgers students successwith exiling war criminal Condoleezza Rice from their commencementexercises didn’t take long for me to see….
4-22-14 Dear Spain: Please do what the U.S. won’t. Prosecute Torture.
A Spanish judge has just decided to proceed with a case against Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld. The Spanish legislature can be expected to try to block the case, unless perhaps they hear…
4-16-14 Rutgers Faculty Petition Regarding Condoleezza Rice
Below is the text of the petition asking the Board of Governors to rescind its decision to invite and honor Dr. Rice. The petition has been signed by over 375 Rutgers faculty…
4-16-14 UMN Faculty Statement on the Visit of Dr. Condoleezza Rice
From ipetitions | Original Article On April 17, 2014, former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit the University of Minnesota to give the Distinguished Carlson Lecture, an annual activity of…
4-10-14 Public Hearing on Petraeus at CUNY
On April 3, 2014 CUNY students, faculty and staff, together with concerned individual and organizations (such as War Criminals Watch), came together to hold a public hearing to investigate charges that former…
4-10-14 Knowdrones kick off forum in NYC
Photo by Cat Watters (Madiha Tahir, Carl Dix, Maria LaHood, panelists (l-r) and Debra Sweet, moderator, at the April 2 kick-off forum of Spring Days of Action – 2014.) On April 2,…
1-23-14 What we learned touring Close Guantanamo NOW
By Debra Sweet 5 years ago yesterday Obama signed an executive order to close Guantanamo. But the Obama administration is still making arguments in US federal court, and to the public that…
10-9-13 Statement of Support to CUNY Students
By the Ad Hoc Committee Against the Militarization of CUNY A “Statement of Support to CUNY Students” attacked at the September 17 protest has been signed by hundreds of academics, while the…
9-13-13 Pardon Manning
See pardon.bradleymanning.org Amnesty International and the Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning Support Network initiated a petition on WhiteHouse.gov calling on Barack Obama to “grant clemency to Pvt. Bradley Manning.” The petition requires 100,000…
8-13-13 Two Plays on Bradley Manning
By World Can’t Wait Many of us are deeply grateful to Bradley Manning for telling us about things in Iraq and Afghanistan that we suspected but were not certain about. Two playwrights…
7-6-13 We Indict the US Government for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity
By the Steering Committee of World Can’t Wait From World Can’t Wait | Original Article The U.S. government is prosecuting Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden who exposed war crimes and crimes against…
6-17-13 Stopping Indefinite Detention by the US: Guantánamo & Bagram Panel at the Left Forum
A multi-media presentation with an ongoing slide show of art against torture. Eleven years since the building of the US prison at Guantánamo, and nine years after disclosures of prisoner abuse at…