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| + | '''Debra Sweet ''' is the Director of [[The World Can't Wait]], initiated in 2005 to “drive out the Bush regime” by repudiating its program, forcing it from office through a mass, independent movement and reversing the direction it had launched. Based in New York City, she leads World Can’t Wait in its continuing efforts to stop the crimes of our government, including the unjust occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan and the torture and detention codes, as well as reversing the fascist direction of U.S. society, from the surveillance state to the criminalization of abortion and immigrants. She has worked with abortion providers for twenty-five years, organizing community support and helping them withstand anti-abortion violence. Since the age of 19, when she confronted Richard Nixon during a face-to-face meeting and told him to stop the war in Vietnam, she has been a leader in the opposition to U.S. wars and invasions. Debra says, “Stop thinking like an American, and start thinking about humanity!”<ref>[http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1170/t/3716/content.jsp?content_KEY=6835, World Can't Wait Steering Committee Members, accessed january 5, 2011]</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 09:56, 9 January 2012
Debra Sweet is the Director of The World Can't Wait, initiated in 2005 to “drive out the Bush regime” by repudiating its program, forcing it from office through a mass, independent movement and reversing the direction it had launched. Based in New York City, she leads World Can’t Wait in its continuing efforts to stop the crimes of our government, including the unjust occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan and the torture and detention codes, as well as reversing the fascist direction of U.S. society, from the surveillance state to the criminalization of abortion and immigrants. She has worked with abortion providers for twenty-five years, organizing community support and helping them withstand anti-abortion violence. Since the age of 19, when she confronted Richard Nixon during a face-to-face meeting and told him to stop the war in Vietnam, she has been a leader in the opposition to U.S. wars and invasions. Debra says, “Stop thinking like an American, and start thinking about humanity!”[1]
World Can't Wait
The 2008 Steering Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party front World Can't Wait, anti war organization consisted of:[2]
- Elaine Brower, New York City
- Samantha Goldman, New York City
- Emma Kaplan, Seattle
- Jill McClaughlin, Chicago
- Dr. Dennis Loo, Los Angeles
- Prachi Noor, New York City
- Debra Sweet, New York City
- Ken Theisen, San Francisco
- Curt Wechsler, San Francisco