Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Department of Justice Emails Description An account of the resource The Department of Justice received more than 11,000 e-mails in response to the agency's public solicitation for comments upon its plans to distribute the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 established by Congress to benefit the victims of September 11 and their families. These e-mails have been organized here by date. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Tuesday, March 19, 2002 1:03 PM Discrimination Dear Mr. Zwick, It is absolutely pathetic that the 9/11 Victim's Compensation Fund slaps Gays and Lesbians in the face with such overt vengeance. It is horrific that people lost their loved ones on 9/11 but then to have your government overtly discriminate against you based on your relationship is just as horrifying. Gays and Lesbians contributed to all the 9/11 Funds just like so many other people. Our taxes support not only this fund but all the other innumerable government programs out there. It is is reprehensible not to give us a fair shake by allowing Gay and Lesbian surviving partners to receive these funds. By relying on State law, this department knew that the pool of those eligible to receive benefits would be less than 1/10 of 1%, if that. Yet the government was willing to overlook Federal immigration law by allowing survivors of illegal aliens AND their employers off the hook, looking the other way so that undocumented workers would be eligible to receive funds. I think anyone who was in a committed relationship with someone that died that day should be eligible for the fund, regardless of their work status in this country or their sexual orientation. But as an American, I would think other Gay and Lesbian Americans would be given the same consideration as foreign nationals. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that this happened coming from Ashcroft's DOJ. His level of hypocrisy is unparalleled. I would urge your department to review and amend this discriminatory ruling. Sincerely, Individual Comment Denver, CO September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-03-19 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource dojR002189.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-03-19