In the weeks to come members of World Can’t Wait and others will be engaging in street theatre, protests, and nonviolent civil disobedience to build mass sentiment and resistance to torture and other outrages of the Bush Regime agenda. We will be, as we have been, wearing orange in solidarity with those detained and tortured and as the color of resistance to the Bush Regime and its agenda. Some of you will join us in the streets and we call on you to take up orange in your daily lives and bring it as you join us. We call on all others who oppose and are outraged by the torture committed in your name we to wear orange in your daily lives.
By joining the call to wear orange you too are showing your opposition and engaging in resistance, especially as others ask you about the orange and what it means. You are opening up and deepening the discourse. Wear an orange ribbon, button, or bandana. Give an orange ribbon to three others in your life and have them do like wise. Check back with people on the responses they are receiving. You are then building networks of people showing resistance daily through wearing orange. In this way mass sentiment and mass resistance is built. In this way we the people are holding the Bush Regime and those colluding with it accountable for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
In 1968 the student protesters clogging the streets of Chicago chanted, “The Whole World Is Watching”. Friends, we are at a moment when the issue of torture has once again made its way into the light, where the whole world is watching…watching to see what the people of this country do to stop torture. The whole world is watching and it is waiting for us to act. If the millions of us who oppose this act now then it can never be said that we the people of this country did not know torture was committed in our name. Let it not be said that we knew this and did nothing to stop it. Sing, damn it!
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