The Bush Must Go! Campaign began at the Ithaca Peace Summit held in Ithaca, New York on April 26, 2003. At the Summit, a broad-based coalition of over 150 individuals and organizations committed to peace and justice in the Ithaca, Tompkins County and surrounding areas agreed to:
- Work collectively to assure that George Bush is not reelected president in 2004 and to support a candidate committed to an agenda of peace and justice.
- Develop a sustained long-term coalition committed to addressing issues of peace and justice locally, nationally and globally.
The Bush Must Go! Campaign is part of the effort to address the first resolution and will, we hope, help provide part of the foundation for the second.
The Campaign is evolving very quickly, and things are changing almost every day. Thus far, we have this website, an announcements listserv (to sign up, send a blank email to BushMustGo-subscribe@yahoogroups.com), new headquarters on the Ithaca Commons, the yard sign and bumper sticker campaign, and a whole host of events and activities.
If you are in the Ithaca area, please join in our effort locally. If you're not local to Ithaca, please join our effort by starting your own group where you live!
Bush Must Go! Vision
In coordination with other national and local groups, we are part of a sustained campaign of political mobilization to defeat Bush in 2004 and to build a large, active, and enduring community movement devoted to peace, justice, social equality, and grassroots democratic participation.
Why "Bush Must Go"?
Many of us, regardless of political affiliation, are very disturbed at the direction the Bush Administration has been taking us since taking office in January 2001. The following issues, in particular, concern us about the Bush Administration:
- A continuing attack on working people and labor standards
- Extraordinary tax relief given to the richest citizens and corporations
- A willingness to go to war and needlessly endanger the lives of Americans and those in the country we invade, in violation of international law
- Offering every possible kind of deregulation of business activity that is destructive to the environment and our pocketbooks
- Overlooking the criminal activity of the businessmen who support their agenda
- Disregarding how the immense cutting of taxes on the wealthy and the increase in the defense budget will create a much larger federal deficit