Two World Can't Wait! LA Organizers Ambush David Horowitz Film Festival
Two World Can't Wait! LA Organizers Ambush Horowitz at Reactionary "Liberty
Film Festival"
October 21, 2005
David Horowitz, right-wing bully and Bush
Regime operative, made an appearance at a film festival in West Hollywood to
introduce a film and to speak about his "Academic Bill of Rights." A
group of World Can't Wait! organizers from here in LA went determined to
disrupt and shut this fascist down. We approached this with the orientation
that this was analogous to a KKK grand wizard coming to town to speak in the
lynching belt of the US south, and that this monster must not be allowed to
speak. We had to make sure his unwelcome was known.
Two of us were able to walk into the theater
free of charge, by pure chance. We sat right up front and had to endure about
20 minutes of the most nauseating commentary, film trailers and award-giving
for virulently reactionary, despicable films such as one that honored that
great enemy of humanity, Reagan (it opened with a mushroom cloud, literally!).
One of the vile dogs sitting next to us kept leering at us and feverishly
clapping, noticing that we weren't showing any love. I was worried this
storm-trooper might try to thwart our actions.
Finally, Horowitz stepped on stage. He began
by talking about the success his "Academic Bill of Rights" campaign
is having across the country, including by passing legislation and attacking
progressive professors. We jumped up out of our seats and onto the stage and
shouted that we were there to put a stop to all that. We declared that
"Fascists have no right to speak! Horowitz and the whole Bush Regime must
be Driven Out! Horowitz is a bigot who wants to end ethnic studies and all
critical thought on the campuses!"
We stood our ground as long as we could until
we were assaulted by some of the henchmen in the audience. They literally threw
me off the stage and tackled me to the ground and into the first row of seats.
My companion received the same treatment. We continued agitating and they
strong-armed us out of the theater and shut the doors, dragging us into the
lobby and guarding the door as security came up. The reactionary watch-dog
sitting next to us followed behind the brawl shouting, "I knew those two
were dangerous!" We replied that the real danger was the NAZI RALLY going
on in that theater.
In the lobby, security pleaded with us to
leave and said the pigs were on the way. We told them they should be kicking
out the fascists occupying the theater! As people continued to come into the
theater (having to be re-routed since we were agitating in the front) we
advised people to work on their goose-step and put up their Nazi salute for
Horowitz and the Bush Regime. All too appropriately, one Horowitz fan responded
to this by giving us the US military salute!
We were definitely outnumbered and, with no prospect
of media coverage or mass participation, decided to leave the building before
the sherriffs arrived. We had managed to disrupt and denounce Horowitz-- and
put him on notice that he and his whole brownshirt movement will be resisted
and defeated as a decisive part of ushering in the END OF THE BUSH REGIME and
everything they represent. Because, truly, the WORLD CAN'T WAIT!
Tony
World Can't Wait! LA Youth & Student Organizer
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