The Six Essentials

( DJ at Battle Bush M.C contest in the Bay Area)

10 Days Until the Beginning of the End of the Bush Regime!

The Six Essentials Between Now and November 2nd

(1) Concretize Plans for November 2nd. We need more than simply calling for convergences. Who will be speaking? What will be the march route? What creative and bold actions need to happen on the day? What plans do we have to call on others to JOIN US throughout the day, challenging students to walk out of class? One idea is to have a banner on the 2nd that reads " Join Us" along with the other visuals.

(2) Call for a Massive City Wide Emergency Meeting. Comb through all of your contacts, inviting them to the meeting and don’t take NO for an answer. The meetings should not go too long, if there are people who want to get into this more deeply set up a time to sit down and have a longer meeting. We need to hit at the key points, outline the plans and have plenty of materials for people to take.
-Sharply get into What will it mean if Nov.2nd falls short of galvanizing a critical mass on that day and is not on the minds of hundreds of thousands? But what if we do? The impact that this day would have on the terrain and dynamics in this country. We can accept nothing less than what this Call is putting forward and we should be losing sleep over where the world is heading and fighting like hell to derail this disastrous path.
-Tremendous leaps can be made in 10 days. Each day needs to be planned and assessed on did we get to a different place today, will Nov.2nd have a different character because of a breakthrough made today?

(3) Saturation on the Campuses and High Schools

-Getting into dorms can make a big impact. Get calls with local info into all the dorm rooms, up in the hallways and lounges. Talk to students who are around and ask them to take responsibility for covering a floor. Students can hang World Can’t Wait Posters in their dorm room windows or homemade signs supporting NOV 2. For high schools, stuff all the lockers with flyers.
-Make announcements every day about Nov.2nd in lecture halls, class rooms and cafeterias. Break people out of the normal routine; stand on tables and challenge people to be part of a day Nov.2nd when a new political movement will burst through with enough strength and political force to give the whole world notice that Bush Regime will be driven out.
- Have a banner drop everyday counting down until Nov. 2nd. " 10 days until Nov 2nd, 9 Days until Nov.2nd, ect" with local convergence info on it.
-Contact local college papers to do a story on the organizers building for Nov.2nd or carry announcements about local Nov.2nd convergences.
-Get PSA’s for Nov. 2nd played on college radio stations. Contact dj’s, send in the PSA’s along with a press release to the station, etc. PSA’s are available at http://www.worldcantwait.org/media/PSAs.php.

(4) Study and perform Guantanamo Bay Torture dramatizations on campus (check out the instructional video on the student page, http://www.worldcantwait.org/youthandstudents.php). If you have already done this, follow up on the buzz created on campus.

(5) Listen (or listen again) to Sunsara Taylor’s speech at the Labor Day National Conference. Throw it on your I-pod or burn it. In the midst of running around saturating campuses, calling contacts, making plans, jumping up on cafeteria tables we need to stay grounded in why this regime needs to go and how people in their millions can drive out this regime.
http://www.worldcantwait.org/media/sunsara_conference.mp3

(6) Check the student/youth page constantly for the latest- http://www.worldcantwait.org/youthandstudents.php
and send in news and photos to youth_students@worldcantwait.org

Allen Lang
National Student and Youth Organizer
youth_students@worldcantwait.org