Stop the Assault On Abortion Rights!

Stand Up for Women’s Right to Abortion and Birth Control in 2011!

Saturday, February 26, at Noon in the Loop, Chicago

“From the ‘guerrilla activists’ trying to take down Planned Parenthood to the state and federal legislators (from both parties) further restricting women’s access to abortion, 2011 has seen more assaults on women’s most fundamental rights yet – even more than under the Bush years. There are 3 anti-abortion federal bills and more than 200 state level bills restricting access to abortion (and cutting funds for birth control, cancer screenings and other basic care for women into the attacks for good measure). Many of the state-level bills pose fundamental challenges to Roe v. Wade, paving the way for Supreme Court challenges down the line.  What we need is an outpouring of resistance to this assault on the humanity of women!” See more here

The exact location of this new style of protest will be announced Friday here. You can learn more about these attacks here and download the WCW flyer here. Spread the word and this link everywhere – now is the time!

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EIGHT YEARS Since “Shock & Awe” – PROTEST! STOP THIS WAR!

Join the protest in Chicago at NOON on Saturday, March 19.

We will meet at the corner of N. Michigan Avenue and Congress Blvd.

Bring your friends, family, posters, and energy, share your ideas with us. Visit our blog for updates on plans

Come to the monthly meeting of the Chicago chapter of World Can’t Wait this Monday, February 28, to workshop our plans for the March 19 protest and creative ways to build for the 8th anniversary of the “shock and awe” that started these immoral wars and occupations. Bring an anti-war vet and activist to a high school classroom, or show the Collateral Murder DVD at a school, church, club or anywhere people get together.  We’ll get together at 6:30 pm this Monday at Nesh Mediterranean Grill, 734 W. Fullerton, in Chicago. Come by!
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Chicago One of Many that Delivered Thank You Letters To Spain at Spanish Embassies for Moving to Prosecute Bush Lawyers

On Monday February 14th Chicago was one of many cities that participated in delivering thank you letters to Spain at Spanish Embassies around the country. The letters thanked the people of Spain and the Prosecutor who is moving toward prosecuting former Bush Lawyers for War Crimes in the so called “war on terror”. You can read the full report of these deliveries at David Swanson’s website http://www.warisacrime.org here . And below is a letter written to World Can’t Wait from a couple who attended one of these events in Chicago on their experience of the delivering the letter and why they believe it is necessary that the U.S. prosecute these war criminals.

To World Can’t Wait:

It was a pleasure and honor to participate in today’s visit to Chicago’s Consulate of Spain to urge that government to enforce international law against what the Nuremburg Tribunal defined as “The Supreme Crime” – the initiating of an unprovoked war of aggression (against Iraq by Bush and continued by Obama). That and the U.S.’s official torture policy. Patriotic Americans are deeply humiliated by Obama’s false claim that “We do not torture!” while he abets that abominable practice by obstructing attempted prosecutions of self-admitted torturers Bush and Cheney. Obama’s claim that “we do not torture” is especially obscene given his criminal creation of impunity for that crime. It is also humiliating that, due to the current U.S. government’s complicity in the crimes of the Bush gang, we once-proud Americans must beseech the Spanish government to be the world’s moral leader in this crucial matter.

Our deepest gratitude to the people of Spain and their government;

Rally in Solidarity with the People of Egypt!

Join us this Friday, February 4, at Upper E. Illinois Avenue and N. Michigan Avenue, in Chicago at 5 pm for a

Rally in Solidarity with the People of Egypt!

Print out the above image to use as a sign in the solidarity with the People of Egypt rallies happening today and tomorrow happening around the country. The low flying jets that flew over protesters this week and the tear gas canisters used against them were all brought to the people of Egypt by the U.S.

The Chicago Chapter of World Can’t Wait has endorsed the permitted rally at 5 pm sharp at Upper E. Illinois Avenue and N. Michigan Avenue, in Chicago. We will be demanding: “US – Get Your Bloody Hands off Egypt and the Middle East!” Events in Egypt and around the Middle East are moving rapidly. We are inspired by the people pouring into the streets, braving the army and secret service to demand a new future. And we welcome this opportunity to stand with them, in the streets here, demanding that the number one backer of the torturers who have ruled over them for decades – the US government – get out. Please join us, please forward this to everyone in the Chicago area, and keep watching our national website for important analysis, like “Egypt Erupts!” and “The Torture Career of Egypt’s New Vice Presid