On Monday, October 2nd, more than six hundred people packed into Cooper Union’s Great Hall, New York, for a meeting held by World Can’t Wait [worldcantwait.org], to respond to Bush’s new torture legislation and to mobilize for nation-wide protest on October 5th to Drive Out the Bush Regime.
Craig was one one of several speakers that also included Alice Walker, Mark Ruffalo, Olympia Dukakis, Daniel Ellsberg, Boots Riley, Malachy McCourt, Bill Goodman, Reno, Elmaz Abinader, and a special message from Sean Penn.
An extract from Craig’s speech:
“They revoke our civil rights and patronize Muslims as non-humans so that when they arrest and torture humans we accept this, so that when they tell us habeas corpus is gone we will accept this, so that when they invade Muslim countries to get their oil and gas we will accept this’we are not accepting it anymore! It is the anti-war movement in the United Kingdom that has caused Tony Blair to have to leave office. The architects of this crusade are being driven out. Aznar is gone, Berlusconi is gone, Blair has gone and now Bush must go!”
Click here to hear Craig’s speech (mp3) and go here for full details of the meeting and the other speakers.
Regrettably Blair has not gone, although he is certainly on the way out – albeit clinging grimly to the wreckage.
What's interesting is seeing the former ardent supporters gradually drifting away to place their loyalties with others. Blair will, one hopes, find this excruciating – the death of a thousand cuts.
Bush is increasingly beset, too. One wonders how long it will be before his cronies too start to desert. Can't be long now.