World Can’t Wait at the People’s Summit May 12th and May 13th. World Can’t Wait prominently diplayed 2 of it’s 8 Humanity and the Planet Come First banners at it’s table. We spent the 2 days talking with and signing up people to help us get this message out. Debra Sweet participated in panels exposing the crimes of our government and talking about what the people of this country need to do to stop them
Photo and video here
During the daytime May 14th through the May 19th we went into different neighborhoods like Pilsen, Devon and Western, Kimball and Lawrence, and Logan Square with the Humanity and the Planet Come First banners to do outreach. We exposed to people what NATO really stood for and encouraged the to join in protesting U.S./NATO crimes
On Thursday May 17th World Can’t Wait , Veterans for Peace, and Code Pink protested outside the Obama Head Quarters the drone warfare on countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia and marched to 3 consulates of NATO member countries. Watch video of this action below
Evening events:In the evenings we had events like the film showing of the Chicago 10, Kevin Gosztola at Revolution Books talking about the book Truth and Consequences: The U.S. vs. Bradley Manning, that he co-authored with Greg Mitchell and Lynne Jackson of project Salam who gave at talk at St. Lukes Lutheran in Logan Square called Post 9/11 Targeting of Muslims: Naming the Names, Naming the Repression. On Friday evening May 18th we held a arts and cultural event called International Voices for Humanity and the Planet: An Evening to Oppose NATO. Headlining the event was David Rovics an anti-war singer/songwriter, and Outernational going acoustic. Women from Afghan Women for Peace talked and read poetry. This was truly an inspiring evening and you can watch Outernational perform here
Sunday May 20th was the March against NATO and World Can’t Wait was proud to be a part of this historic moment along with thousands of other. We had our contingent of people carrying the banners with the phrase Humanity and the Planet Come First in 8 different languages. These banners were carried by both a younger and older generation. Here is video of Emma agitated before the march and then video of Usman, a young Pakistani man who stepped forward to help carry the Urdu language banner and did agitation of his own that was very inspiring
Wat ch Usman here
And here are some photos of the contingent
On Monday May 21st We held a Memorial for the victims of U.S./NATO wars here is some moving footage from that memorial
Unite! Inspire! Resist! An Evening of Arts to Oppose NATO
