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Report on the Jan 10th forum "Shut Down Guantanamo! Drive Out the Bush Regime"

Michael Rapkin
On Thursday, January 10th in Los Angeles, seventy people gathered at the Echo Park United Methodist Church to hear Michael Rapkin, an ACLU lawyer who represents a Guantanamo detainee, Dennis Loo PhD. who is a member of the World Can't Wait national steering committee, Sunsara Taylor, writer for Revolution newspaper and member of the World Can't Wait advisory board, and John Heard, a noted actor and activist, speak about the horrors of codified torture and why we must all act to put an end to it and the Bush program that seeks to justify the unjustifiable.

Michael Rapkin shared his profoundly disturbing first-hand experiences in coming face to face with atrocities visited on detainees as they languish in inhumane conditions at the prison in Guantanamo, and have little legal recourse or hope toward a day of release and return to their homes and families. The depth of the cruelty that he has uncovered toward detainees as he has worked tirelessly for their release left the audience breathless with horror at times.

Report from World Cant Wait Los Angeles - 1/6/2008

Report from World Cant Wait Los Angeles: The Annual Rose Parade Meets the White Rose Coalition

January 1, 2008 began the evening before as tens of thousands gathered in Pasadena to camp out, securing front row seats to watch the Rose Parade. World Cant Wait Los Angeles and San Francisco joined the White Rose Coalition to spread the message throughout the crowd; fascism must be repudiated and torture in our name is immoral and unacceptable.

On New Years Eve, we dressed in orange, and passed out flyers and orange flagging tape to those willing to declare their opposition to the Bush Regime. Orange was already a prominent color in the crowd as the Illinois football team scheduled to play in the Rose Bowl use orange as their team color. Our message was greeted with a variety of responses. Our brand-new Torturers: Drive Them Out! t-shirts were grabbed up by some, young and old. A few yelled at us about how they support torture. Some engaged with us about this, saying that they thought that the US should torture terrorists, and that they felt that citizens of the US were not in any danger from their own government and only from terrorists who needed to be tortured first, before they tortured us. Others we talked to had never heard of Guantanamo, nor did they have knowledge of the passage of the Military Commissions Act and its implications. These people took our flyers with interest and thanked us for informing them.

"Just Found!"

The World Can't Wait / LA rally October5 / "Cold Criminals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVfc-P7eqLA

TOWN MEETING REPORT FROM LOS ANGELES

JULY 12, 2007 7pm

On a warm evening in Los Angeles, about 175 people gathered at their town hall meeting at the Immanuel Presbyterian Church on Wilshire Blvd.

It was mostly a middle-aged crowd, punctuated by some youth, and distinguished by a number of seniors exuding a notable and fiery stance against the Bush regime. Others seemed new to political life. The overall spirit of the crowd was high and determined as people sat listening intently, orange ribbons that had been given to them at the door bedecking their clothing in a variety of ways. Each speaker was received with applause, cheers and a few standing ovations.

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