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After 9/11: Voices of Peace Bring Hope and Reflection After the Terror
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Editor's Note: Why This Page
September 11th, 2001 - A Troubling Metaphor Coping With Tragedy: Fighting Terror With Kindness
US Leaders Had Foreknowledge of Impending 9-11
Attacks and "Consciously Failed" To Act
Link to Petition for Peace and Justice
Websites, Phone Numbers, and Other Resources
Did Bush Know? Warning Signs of 9-11 and Intelligence Failures
A Survivor of 9/11 Talks about What's Really Important
Palestinians Too are Shocked by the Disaster
Statement of Bat Shalom (Daughter of Peace) to the UN Security Council
Michael Ruppert's Conspiracy Chronology
Vietnam Vets Against the War Statement
Letter From A Terrorism Survivor
The Dalai Lama's Letter to the President of the United States of America
A Message to Members and Supporters of Amnesty International
Statement by David McReynolds and the War Resisters League Executive Committee
Combatants for Peace: When Ex-Enemies Break Bread Together Have We Lost Our Sense of Outrage? World Prayer for Peace by All Artists Eliana Gilad: Healing in a time of War
Response of Christian Peacemaker Teams to the Death of Peacemaker Tom Fox
The Tent of Abraham: A Statement on Peacemaking
A Cheap Holiday in Other People's Misery (catching up with Mordechai Vanunu in Israel) 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action (Dr. Gene Sharp)
Coming to Consensus: Tips for Cooperative Decision Making
War Poetry Contest sponsored by Winning Writers The Secret Society For Peace: Dedicated to Global Peace Through Individual Peace
International Institute for Peace Through Tourism to Sponsor Summit Luncheon in Geneva, Switzerland
We Should All Be Pursuing A Lasting Victory Over World Want (Dr. James Cumes)
Rehumanizing the 'Enemy' and Confronting Ourselves: Challenges for Educators in an Era of Peace
The First Covenant Was Sealed With The Rainbow. Does Hope For Interfaith Harmony Begin There?
What Place for Peace Advocates After the Attack?
Replanting Trees, Rebirthing Peace (Rabbi Brian Walt and Rabbi Arthur Waskow)
A World Out of Touch With Itself: Where the Violence Comes From
(Rabbi Michael Lerner)
Marching in Gandhi's Footsteps
Manifesto: Artists (& Activists) After September 11
First Report from the current FOR Interfaith PeaceBuilders Delegation to Israel & Palestine
Think Globally, Protect the Vote Locally
Cynthia McKinney's Full Remarks on Bush Impeachment Bill A Liberal's Pledge to Disheartened Conservatives Was Vice President Dick Cheney Trying To Be Too Cute?
The Speech You *Should* Hear (but Won't) from Dick Cheney
The Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy: Part I (PDF File)
Imagine a Party Line of Awe and Wonder
Writing That Matters: Censorship, Journalism, Politics, and Art
'Stop Bush Now': New Book Calls on Americans to Join Movement for Impeachment Before November
Over 10,000 American Jews Petition Sharon and Bush to Bring the Israeli Settlers Home to Israel
Granny D's Spirited Defense of the First Amendment After Her Arrest for Speaking in the Capitol
Intelligence From Presidential Tax Returns
White House Press Secretary Refuses to Give Real Answers Whether Bush was AWOL
10 Good Things About a Bad Year
Greg Palast: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
America Two Years after 9/11: 25 Things We Now Know
Political Analysis from an Afghani-American Perspective
Second Thoughts on a Third World War: An American Professor's Analysis
Heresies in Pursuit of Peace: Thoughts on Israel/Palestine
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Reno Resident Sues Sequoia Voting Systems
Open Letter to Senator Barbara Boxer: Please Join the Call to Investigate the Election
Theses on the Failure of our Party
The 2004 Elections in the United States
Elijah the Prophet, Earl Robinson, and the Iraq War
West Pointers Get Cease & Desist Letter From West Point
Dying for Nixon, Dying for Bush
Letter to President Bush: Try to Stabilize Iraq, then Leave
More Damning Than Downing Street
Religious Leaders Condemn $82 Billion for War
British Member of Parliament George Galloway Condemns Iraq Invasion on Floor of US Senate, May 17, 2005
Giving Witness, Doing Civil Disobedience and Going to Prison
An American Peacemaker Reports from Baghdad
An American Peacemaker Reports from Baghdad, Part II
Stop The Coming October War in Iraq : The UN's Iraq Arms Inspector
Police Repression at NYC Peace Rally Forces Questions of Government Legitimacy
Fighting Iraq, Will It Re-ignite Inflation? Well-Designed Strategic Nonviolent Actions Response of Christian Peacemaker Teams to the Death of Peacemaker Tom Fox
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Imagining a World Where Labor Rights Trump Property Rights
Kind Words: Cheering the Grumpy Why Israel and Palestine Must Become One State
Human Rights Abuses in Uzbekistan: Eyewitness Report from Former UK Ambassador
AAUP Denounces FBI's "Chilling Effect" On Dissenting Professor
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Corey Flintoff on NPR's role in a Changing Journalism Climate Rosenbergs' Son Robert Meeropol's Life of Activism
Remembering Carolyn Heilbrun: Feminist Scholarship and Suicide
Media Training with Shel Horowitz Interest Builds for IIPT 2nd African Conference Deciding Right and Wrong: The Ethicist Speaks
The National Conference on Media Reform: Twin Fires of Change
National Conference on Media Reform Panel: News, Information and Corporate Media
National Conference on Media Reform Panel: Online Organizing
National Conference on Media Reform Panel: Engaging New Constituencies in Media Reform
National Conference on Media Reform Panel: Visioning a Media System that Serves Our Democracy and Culture
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I write this on the eve of the Jewish year 5762, less than a week
after the attacks on New York and Washington that destroyed the World
Trade Center and badly damaged the Pentagon in September, 2001--and
snuffed out the lives of some 5000 innocent people.
I am a native New Yorker and lived for a while in Washington, DC.
While I now live 150 miles away from New York, there is a part of me
that will always think of it as home. In fact, I was walking in front
of the World Trade Center just two weeks before the bombing, and
watched the sun set gloriously over the twin towers from Staten
Island, where I gathered with my family to celebrate my
father-in-law's birthday. We know people who got off the subway and
saw the terror; this is very personal to me. We are fortunate that
all our loved ones were safe; we know others not so fortunate.
My mailbox this week has been full of responses to the attacks. As I
grappled in my own mind with the meaning of it all, I felt driven to
offer a Page of Peace, where I could share writing and resources that
have helped to give me comfort, understanding, and hope for peace.
The pieces I present here are the voices, the opinions of their
authors. When I had them, I included the authors' names and e-mail
addresses. Even I don't agree with everything I read here; nor do I
expect you to. In fact, if you're the sort of person that thinks,
America Right or Wrong, you my not want to read farther. Some of
these voices are critical of US actions in the past that led to bin
Laden's vast level of anger--and as a child of the Vietnam era, who
saw my own government perverted and distorted toward evil, I can
understand that viewpoint. If you have not thought about what would
happen in the world if the US response takes many innocent lives, you
will not be happy with this page. And I don't want to argue with you;
you may leave now and I won't be insulted. (And I really don't want
to deal with nasty e-mail about your perspectives; if you send it, I
won't respond.)
I believe that each of us has the power to do good in the world--even
in the face of unspeakable evil. I am presenting these writings as
one small thing that I can do to help heal these wounds of war, and
it comes from my perspective about the interconnections within the
world. If you're looking for other ways to help--consider starting a
Jewish-Christian-Muslim dialog group...giving money to the Red Cross
or other legitimate international disaster relief group...donating
blood at your local hospital. And do what you can to make sure we do
not compound this crime through the crimes of racism/ethnic cleansing
(against Arabs, Muslims or anyone else), destruction of civil
liberties, or abandonment of our struggles to improve the world
Peace be with you http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/224622495
Compiled by Hollis Thomases, mailto:marketing@webadvantage.net--with
a few additions from me:
RESOURCES:
Local peace site (western Massachusetts) with links to national and international resources: NEWS (in addition to the major news networks):
http://www.wtop.com (news site from Washington, D.C.)
CamWorld is keeping an online timeline 16 Sept 2001 2nd WTC Special Issue of GlobalCircle NetNews is now online at
http://globalcircle.net/1gnn0916wtc.htm
Real news from the global Internet - Offering balance to the media
monopoly with a broad range of links to the large and growing body of
alternative news and analysis, to promote rational discussion and
responsible reaction based on a wider range of sources of information
outside mainstream media. Noncommercial, independent, nonpartisan.
Special Issue THE WAY OF PEACE "Appeals for restraint, appeals to forego retaliation, don't
go to the root of terrorism. You have to halt the long standing pattern
of death and destruction, U.S. military and covert attacks on those
countries, to remove support for terrorists. You have to halt aid to
ruthless puppet regimes, because their people know the U.S. is behind all
that. The reason they support terrorists is no mystery in other
countries. Genuine patriotism and concern for our own people should prompt
us to demand our politicians halt the cause of terrorism, not escalate the
very policies that created it."
CONTACTING OUR NATIONAL LEADERS:
http://capwiz.com/msnbc/home/default.asp
allows US residents to write to the President, both senators, and your representative in Congress--with one click. it also allows you to write to local and selected national media. make your voice heard for peace!
ABOUT SURVIVORS:
http://safe.millennium.berkeley.edu If you are not sure if friends or family worked in the World Trade Center in NYC, a list of tenants in the WTC can be found at: http://www.onisland.com/wtc/bizdir/index.html. Simply click on each type of business to find a listing of firms.
SPECIAL TELEPHONE NUMBERS FOR FAMILY MEMBERS:
American Airlines: 800-245-0999 The FBI has established a toll-free telephone number for anyone with information regarding the incidents: 1-866-483-5137 (or go to http://www.ifccfbi.gov).
STATE-LEVEL INFORMATION: http://www.researchbuzz.com/#state
TO HELP:
http://helping.org/promos/cs_wtc.adp
http://www.firehouse.com (provides information on NYC firemen)
Email911 http://www.email911.com/bbs/ (a bulletin board with threads about ways to help and survivors)
Blood Donations (and Cash Donations)-- COPING/GRIEF COUNSELING:
American Psychiatric Institute http://www.psych.org
APA Help Center http://helping.apa.org/therapy/traumaticstress.html
Patience Press http://www.patiencepress.com/
AtHealth.com http://www.athealth.com/Practitioner/Newsletter/FPN_2_42.html
List of Crisis Counselors http://www.find-a-therapist.com/directories/crisis.htm
National Disaster Information for Children http://www.nasponline.org/NEAT/terror_eds.html
Educators for Social Responsibility (ESR) free guide, "Talking to Children about Violence and other Sensitive and Complex Issues in the World" http://www.esrnational.org/
(Quoting from the press release: According to ESR executive director,
Larry Dieringer, "many children will be scared for their own and their loved ones' safety after hearing about and watching the tragedy on television. Some will have violent
retaliation fantasies. There is a danger that some students will
stereotype Arabs and other ethnic groups, and harass students perceived
to be from the Middle East. Still others will ask why some people in
other parts of the world are so angry at the United States." The
guide helps adults think about the impact of tragedies like this one on
young people, understand how children's needs differ at various ages, and
choose appropriate responses.)
Grief Counselors (Children's Educational Co-op) http://www.GriefCounselors.com
ONLINE MEMORIALS:
American Memorials National Obituary Archive Internet Remembrance Campaign September 11th Ribbon Children's Hunger Relief Fund Victim's Memorial Online.Resources & Writings Related to the 9/11 Attacks on the US
Perspectives on Peace
By Suliman Al-Hamre and Elik Elhanan, as reported by Shel Horowitz, Editor, Peace & PoliticsPolitical Commentary & Analysis
2004 United States Electoral Analysis
Why the Iraq War is Wrong
Sustainable Earth: Environmental, Conservation & Related Issues
Like oil, water rights can be a major source of political unrest, and this will get worse with time. This article offers many low-cost/no-cost ways to cut water consumption.
Other Social Issues
National Conference on Media Reform
Josh Silver, Free Press
Yolanda Hibbenstiel, Conference Organizer
Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation of America
Malkia Cyril, Youth Media Council
Amy Goodman, Producer/Host, Democracy Now!
Chellie Pingree, Common Cause
Sydney Levy, San Francisco Media Alliance
Amanda Ballentine, Free Press
Jim Hightower, Populist author/speaker
Kim Gandy, NOW
Davey D, hiphop historian/DJ
FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein
FCC Commissioner Michael Coops
Recommended Websites
Help for Peace Activists
Editor's Note: Why This Page
Shel Horowitz
September, 2001
Petition for Peace and Justice
Websites, Phone Numbers, and Other Resources
http://www.crocker.com/~afsc/calendar/calendar.html
Includes a Calendar of upcoming events in the Valley related to the disasters of September 11th and the national reaction to them, and of Peace and Justice events
http://www.camworld.com
The Independent Media Center - http://www.indymedia.org/
The New York City Indy Media Center (with news of the Friday night
vigil in Union Square) is at the following URL: http://nyc.indymedia.org/
-- Online sources for survivor information and where to help
-- U.S. Media - if it bleeds, it leads
-- The tangled web of covert ops -- terrorist funding and training
-- What's behind many countries' support for terrorist networks - it's
not rocket science
-- And more hidden history on the World Policeman, exhaustive compilation
of background links on US foreign policy
-- No More Victims - editorial
http://okay.prodigy.net
http://www.ny.com/wtclist.html
http://www.viexpo.com/dmstest/america.html
http://www.bostoncoop.net:8080/SeptEleven
http://www.shunn.net/okay/
http://www.ahnj.com/Ferry.htm
United Airlines: 800-932-8555
Army: 1-800-984-8523 or 703-428-0002
Navy and Marine Corps: 1-877-663-6772
Air Force: 1-800-253-9276
U.S. Justice Department's Family Assistance Center Victims
Hotline: 1-800-331-0075.
American Red Cross: 800-448-3543 (GIVELIFE)
American Red Cross: http://www.redcross.org/
http://www.americanmemorials.com/NationalTragedy.htm
http://www.nationalobituaryarchive.com/notablePersons/
notable.asp?obituaryid=64163480
http://remember.worldatwar.org/
http://clubs.lycos.com/live/events/september11_ribbon.asp
http://www.victims-memorial.org
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