About Debra Sweet
Debra Sweet is the Director of World Can’t Wait, initiated in 2005 to “drive out the Bush regime” by repudiating its program, forcing it from office through a mass, independent movement and reversing the direction it had launched. Based in New York City, she leads World Can’t Wait in its continuing efforts to stop the crimes of our government, including the unjust occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan and the torture and detention codes, as well as reversing the fascist direction of U.S. society, from the surveillance state to the criminalization of abortion and immigrants. She has worked with abortion providers for twenty-five years, organizing community support and helping them withstand anti-abortion violence. Since the age of 19, when she confronted Richard Nixon during a face-to-face meeting and told him to stop the war in Vietnam, she has been a leader in the opposition to U.S. wars and invasions. In 2012, Debra was named Humanist Heroine of the Year by the Feminist Caucus of the American Humanist Association. Debra says, “Stop thinking like an American, and start thinking about humanity!”
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#1 by Reynolds on January 26, 2010 - 6:08 pm
Hi Debra…my computer will not submit a comment..so now I will try again ..of course the media focuses on the75,000 right to lifers when the March for Women’s Lives in 2004 had over a million people. I do not have the patience to talk to right to lifers…but I think that it is good that you do it. At least ab only has now been defunded so the brainwashing money stream from the federal government will dry up. A good example of the Orwellian thinking on this issue is the gag tape when they are the ones who perpetuated the Global Gag rule!
#2 by Reynolds on January 26, 2010 - 6:14 pm
Hi Debra..I’m trying once last time to make a comment..I love how the media focuses on 75,ooo right to lifers when the March for Women’s Lives was the biggest protest in DC history with over a million people. The problem with right to lifers is that they don’t have a life and the Catholic Church is an endless source of money (much of it made in their adoption racket). At least ab only has FINALLY been defunded so the brainwashing our our tax dollar will dry up. A good example of the Orwellian thinking is the gag tape when the Right to Lifers are responsable for the Global GAg order (now at least we can talk about abortion on the international front)! I am glad you were there..Thanks for holding up the Choicestandard!
#3 by Ed Tant on March 22, 2010 - 9:51 am
Thanks for what you’re doing, Debra. I’m a columnist with the Athens Banner-Herald (onlineathens.com), the daily newspaper here in Athens GA, and a volunteer with the Athens Human Rights Festival (www.athenshumanrightsfest.org). Our 32nd Annual Athens Human Rights Festival comes up on May 1 and 2. I was at the massive March for Women’s lives mentioned in Reynolds’ posts. To see photos of that event and many other marches and rallies I have photographed since 1976, visit my website, http://www.edtant.com. Thanks!
#4 by Marilyn Hoffman Fuss on December 3, 2010 - 5:46 pm
Keep up the very good work! By any chance are you related to Susan and Michael Sweet? I grew up in Madison with them. We all lived on Van Buren St.
#5 by Bill McLaughlin on January 18, 2011 - 2:31 pm
The body count – as well as the number of maimed and tortured – from America’s almost continual wars of aggression since WWII rivals that of Nazi Germany. We have long wondered how the “good Germans” could have remained silent as the smoke drifted by from the crematoriums. Now “good Americans” for the most part, also remain silent even as even main-stream media, recount the horrors of predator attacks and the ongoing torture of innocents and the evils of white phosphorous and depleted uranium. So keep up the good work you are doing…hopefully there will come a day when the “new rulers of the world” give up their militarism and barbarism and live in peace with others on this earth….something I had once hoped might begin to happen under Obama but now despair. It will only come about through the continuing work of people like yourself.
#6 by amin on October 22, 2011 - 3:53 am
God bless you. good luck