The World Can't Wait

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World Can't Wait protesters at a January 4, 2007 rally in Upper Senate Park.

The World Can't Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime! (WCW) is a left-wing non-profit organization of political activists in the United States. According to its mission statement, by organizing people living in the United States, WCW seeks "to create a political situation where the Bush administration's program is repudiated, where Bush himself is driven from office, and where the whole direction he has been taking U.S. society is reversed."^[1]

WCW levies many accusations against the Bush Administration, including: the Iraq war, alleged prisoner abuse and torture in the interrogation of military detainees and the alleged abrogation of their rights to habeas corpus, domestic wire-tapping and surveillance activities ordered personally by the President, what it sees as the administration's incompetence in response to Hurricane Katrina, and the Administration's support for anti-abortion legislation which they claim has a basis in the goals of the Christian Right.

World Can't Wait was formed in 2005. Its headquarters is in New York City. Its founders and steering committee represent a broad array of political affiliations and its call for Bush's removal has attracted a diverse range of endorsers which include members of the Green and Democratic party. Prominent figures who have publicly supported the World Can't Wait include Cynthia McKinney, Major Owens and Rev. Al Sharpton, Ralph Nader, Michael Lerner, Gore Vidal, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, and Sean Penn.^[2] WCW has been selected "Most Valuable Crusade" by The Nation magazine.^[3]

1 Events organized
2 Criticism
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Events organized

November 2, 2005: Demonstrations attended in protest of the anniversary of the 2004 presidential elections.
January 31, 2006: Demonstrations attended in protest of Bush's State of the Union address.
February 4, 2006: Demonstration in Washington, DC outside the White House.
May 12, 2006: Demonstration at Wachovia Stadium to protest Battle Cry.
October 5, 2006: A mass walkout from school and work and demonstrations in over 200^{[citation needed]} towns and cities; some 2,000 participate in New York City^[4].
January 4, 2007: Rally in Upper Senate Park in Washington, DC at noon on the opening day of the 110th United States Congress.
January 23, 2007: Demonstrations attended in protest of Bush's State of the Union address, in conjunction with DAWN.
February 17, 2007: "Emergency Summit to Impeach Bush for War Crimes" held in New York City, with speakers including Cindy Sheehan and Rebecca Rotzler.

[edit] Criticism

Some leftists have claimed that World Can't Wait slogans such as "Drive Out the Bush Regime" "have effectively served as a 'radical' coat of paint on the more mainstream liberal call to impeach Bush." ^[5]

David Horowitz and others have criticized the organization's communist involvement.^[6]