Step Down! Step Down! Bush Must Go!
Revolution #022, November 13, 2005, posted at revcom.us
This statement from The World Can't Wait was read at events across the country on November 2.
We are serving notice today that George W. Bush MUST STEP DOWN, GET OUT AND TAKE HIS PROGRAM WITH HIM! And we are further serving notice that this January we intend to make this demand resound throughout the country.
We remember how Bush used his State of the Union in 2003 to make his lying case for the war against Iraq. We know that he will want to use it this year to lay out his plans for another year of his literally horrific agenda and set the political terms for the whole country.
But imagine this:
a movement spreading in the next two months that demands that . . . BUSH STEP DOWN.
A movement growing, getting more organized, reaching deeper into the country and reverberating around the world with the simple phrase that . . . BUSH STEP DOWN.
A movement that, as Bush steps to the podium, politically drowns out his address with the simple demand that . . . BUSH STEP DOWN.
And on the day and night of the State of the Union even more thousands and tens of thousands even hundreds of thousands in the streets demanding that . . . BUSH STEP DOWN.
We’ll be saying step down and take your program with you. That’s right--take your whole program with you. And we’ll be chanting:
STEP DOWN! STEP DOWN! BUSH MUST GO!
DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME!
STEP DOWN! STEP DOWN! BUSH MUST GO!
DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME!
This is our next step--a concrete demand, beginning now, that Bush step down and, in particular, major demonstrations at the time of the State of the Union. We don’t intend to fail. Our actions today, and especially the tremendous buildup of the last two weeks as we came from way behind to make this incredible day happen, show that there is every basis to go forward and to win.
But we must realize the basis through work and through struggle and through every person here--every person--themselves becoming an organizer. Not just writing the State of the Union down in your datebook, but getting plugged into the local committee or the website and doing everything you can to spread the word. Taking what we have and growing this movement, getting more organized, stronger and more determined and actually driving out this horrible regime and changing the whole direction of society.
THE WORLD CAN’T WAIT! DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME!!