Build Bushville, DC on 9/11/05

http://www.campkatrina.org/

On 9/11 survivors of Katrina will participate in a

NONVIOLENT

act of Civil Disobedience:

building an encampment on the Washington DC Mall.

FEMA pens Katrina survivors like diseased cattle.

Bushville, DC will force politicians and reporters to see them every day.

We may be few on 9/11, but Bushville, DC will grow.


Bushville, DC isn’t an organization - it’s a vision.

Everyone come to the Mall and join the crowd.

You don’t need to be a Katrina survivor, all Bush survivors are welcome.

Be there and make history.

Email 10 friends about www.bushville.org right now.


Imagine 10,000 Katrina survivors camped on Bush’s doorstep.

Camped in the seat of power and media.

In the Government’s face.

With endless stories for the press.


Bushville, DC will be the FACT that even George Bush can’t bluster away.


Bushville will stay through:

-Rumsfield’s 9/11 Freedom March

-The Katrina investigations and trials.

-The catharsis of Rove’s treason conviction.

-The Supreme Court coronations.

-Bush’s last days of office - soon.

-The rebuilding of our government’s ability to protect us.


On 9/11 Bush will try to blindfold us with our own American flag.


Founding Bushville, DC on 9/11 will honor ALL the victims of America’s tragedies.


Bushville, DC will be a center for Katrina survivor activism.


Help Bushville grow by telling your friends about www.bushville.org.


The White House has generously agreed to let us use its bathrooms.

Those who intend to camp on The Mall should bring tents and bail.

Weather in DC is predicted to be 80’s day 60’s night.

We will depend on the people of DC for food and support.

We could sure use some good Southern music. Bring an instrument.


If you are on the Mall 9/11 find others and document yourself. Signs saying “Bushville, DC 9/11” are encouraged. They’ll help us find one another. Take pictures, please.


Take pride in DOING something. Free speech and assembly can be healing and inspiring.


We will post general directions which avoid the path of the Freedom March.

We are NOT counter-demonstrating against the Freedom March folk. They are commemorating 9/11/01 and should be honored. Some of them suffered family deaths on 9/11. We are all Americans and it’s time to be kind to one another.

Police are as angry at Bush as we are. They don’t want to arrest Katrina survivors.

Treat police with firm kindness.

We need volunteers to teach non-violent protest techniques.

We need people with video cameras.

We need lawyers on the scene.

We need a spirit of healing and community.

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Reader email – We’re back.


Press mentions:

http://www.rawstory.com has a very nice article about Bushville and other DC Katrina protests.

Bartcop gives us a mention.


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Your rights – use ‘em or lose ‘em:


Constititution of the United States: 1st Amendment, Bill of Rights : “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”



The original document of the Constitution of The United States is kept in the National Archives 1 block from the Mall and Bushville, DC.


History of Protest Encampments in Washington DC and elsewhere:



Hoovervilles – 1929 – 40’s

Villages of homeless that appeared following the Great Depression.


Bonus Army – June 17th, 1932

Group of about 20,000 WWI veterans, their families, and other affiliated groups, who demonstrated in DC during the spring and summer of 32 for promised benefits for WWI service.



Poor People’s March on Washington – 1968

“King's vision was to gather 3000 poor people from all over the United States in Washington, D.C. and demand that the government guarantee every American a job, health care, and housing.”



Dewey Canyon III - Washington, D.C., April 1971

Vietnam Veterans Against the War stage "a limited incursion into the country of Congress."


This site will be donated to the Katrina survivors who will run Bushville,DC.

Email: info@bushville.org

Also see: www.campkatrina.org


My own thoughts:

Because of George Bush our children live in a more dangerous world.

I refuse to leave to my daughter a worse world than I was given.

I demand a truthful, competent, humble, and compassionate government.

I will work to thwart this rapacious government based on fear and fantasy and dynastic plutocracy.

We need to act NOW before our outrage numbs and the lapdog press returns to its fawning stupor.

I refuse to sit on my butt.


We are all in this together folks.

I honor my parents for their lifelong work for justice and peace. They took me to my first Civil Rights March in DC in 1962.

No one could find Bushville today. Everyone knew about it, and everybody was looking for it, but nobody could find anything. There is a big black family reunion thing on the mall. It may grow out of this. Otherwise it is just one of those things that never happened.





Today this woman came to the White House alone to protest Bush's policies on 911. Her name is Mindi and I said I would get her picture up around the net.

Didn't like my URL for some reason. Here is the woman that came alone to protest:

http://images.snapfish.com/34496%3A8323232...3B%3B3899ot1lsi

Cick the link.

Thanks Crack, that's cool!



As to the tent village. Maybe give it time?
It was rather short on the announcement.

Sometimes homeless people take more than a coupla days to travel cross country.
Give it time for those who have been displaced to become disgruntled.
That is, if they do.