MilitaryRecruitersAtNAACP

REMINDER: Thursday July 9 10pm EST/ 7pm PST

Join a phone conversation with Candace Gorman , attorney for Guantanamo detainees. Make a donation of $5 or more, and you will be sent the call-in information.

Candace in her office, participating in a 2007 orange jumpsuit protest of torture.

Email me your questions for Candace now, or during the phone call. Read Candace's blog here.

Eric

Join Howard Zinn, Cindy Sheehan, Michael Parenti and more than 600 others. Today you can still sign the letter to NAACP CEO and Board, before we send it Wednesday. We've been hearing from NAACP chapters, members, and staff, uniting with the demand that the NAACP disinvite military recruiters from their 100th anniversary national convention, starting Saturday in New York. Thanks to the Veterans for Peace in Florida, and military families from all over the country for signing on!

The revised schedule of World Can't Wait actions this coming week at the NAACP convention:

Saturday July 11 : 11am - 1pm we'll be greeting the opening of the convention with the demand that the Army Strong tour be disinvited. @ New York Hilton 1355 6th Avenue between 53/54 Streets

Tuesday, July 14 11:00 - 1:30 Rally & Press conference as the NAACP Job Fair opens at noon. ( note date change from Monday July 13)

When Barack Obama speaks at the convention Thursday July 16 , we'll be delivering an anti-war message outside to the media and the public. 9:30 - 12 noon.

Two related events I am supporting:

Tuesday July 14 : Drive Out the Bush Regime (World Can't Wait's Call in 2005) signers Cornel West & Carl Dix hold a dialogue "The Ascendancy of Obama and the Continued Need for Resistance and Liberation: a Dialogue between Cornel West and Carl Dix". Harlem Stage at Aaron Davis Hall, City College 7:00pm, a benefit for Revolution Books & the Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund. See Carl on why you should come. Cornel West & Carl Dix youtube.

Monday July 13 : The movement to free Mumia Abu-Jamal from death row will be at the NAACP convention calling on the NAACP to fulfill its commitment in a 2004 resolution to support a new and fair trial for Mumia. They will hold a press conference @ noon about a federal civil rights investigation into and an educational rally @ 5pm. (World Can't Wait moved its press conference until Tuesday). Learn more about Mumia's unjust conviction and death sentence, and the movement to free him.

This weekend, leaders of World Can't Wait will be participating in the National Assembly to End the Wars & Occupations of Iraq & Afghanistan near Pittsburgh. We're bringing a proposal that the anti-war movement converge in Washington on Monday, October 5 to protest and mark the anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan. Here's the proposal. We'd like your opinions this week, before we present on Saturday. You can write me, or post your comments online at worldcantwait.org.