[R-G] This World AIDS Day, Commit to driving out the Bush Regime

[james m nordlund]

2008 World Can't Wait Calendar: We're not Waiting til 2009 - Bush Must Go
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Spread these beautiful images of youth in the streets. 
 
Today, December 1, is World Aids Day.

I am filled with outrage at the nerve the Bush administration had in
hanging a giant AIDS awareness ribbon in front of the white house. This is
a regime that has done more than fan the fires of this deadly pandemic
with their codification of fundamentalist Christian morality through
United States policy.

There are 40 million people living with HIV worldwide and in this year
alone there have been 2.1 million AIDS related deaths.

It's clear: The World Can't Wait for a movement to bring the Bush Regime's
program to a halt! Let us take this opportunity to commit ourselves to
stopping the Bush Regime's perpetuation of crimes against humanity.

In 2006, International Commission of Inquiry On Crimes Against Humanity
Committed by the Bush Administration considered these indictments
concerning HIV/AIDS:

Count 1: The Bush Administration is using its political influence, aid,
and funding in the sphere of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment to advance
policies and programs that worsen the AIDS pandemic. Guided by a Christian
fundamentalist ideological agenda, the administration is promoting and
forcing deadly abstinence-only HIV prevention and sex education programs
instead of proven comprehensive programs that comprise consistent and
correct use of condoms.

Count 2: The Bush Administration has re-instated the "gag-rule" restricts
foreign organizations that receive US funds from using their own, non-US.
Funds to provide legal abortion services or even provide accurate medical
counseling of reproductive health clinics dependent on international
funding in very poor parts of the world. In man areas, these clinics have
also been the only source of HIV/AIDS prevention and care, including the
supply of much-needed and life saving condoms.

Count 3: The Bush Administration and its political operatives have
distorted sound science and attempted to suppress medical research studies
in HIV prevention when it conflicts with the ideology of the Christian
Right.

Count 4: The Bush Administration has used its political and economic power
to coerce other countries into agreements that severely restrict and
manufacture and supply of generic drugs, the only affordable option for
most HIV positive people in the Third World.

The Commission found the Bush regime culpable on all counts, and the story
only gets worse.  You can learn more on video, and help people understand
why, really, the World Can't Wait.

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available for $25, or $20 for 5 copies.

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Debra Sweet,
Director, The World Can't Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime
 
World Can't Wait

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