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 TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story "Toward A More Perfect Union-Lessons Learned Or Not-Since 9-11 ", "I was so very proud of how America responded to the 9-11 attack. We didn't respond as people of different religious, ethnic or political groups; we responded as human beings united in caring. Nothing else mattered, nothing else got in the way. It didn't take long for us to revert to the level of our attackers. Our thoughts turned to killing, military action, our usual, if not preferred response. . We've heard how the enemy was different this time, it didn't matter, our response was the same as theirs. They attacked in god's name, we did the same, each of us terrorists in each other's eyes completely justified by our religions. They danced in the streets, we applauded as the bombs fell. 9-11 hasn't changed a thing; we'd rather deal with symptoms than causes. We didn't really question what led to the attack, we aren't questioning the systems leading us to perpetual war, especially our systems of belief. Something is very wrong with what we all believe, with what religions teach us about ourselves and each other, with what we think this thing we call god is. We could have responded on a level as highe as our response to the victims of 9-11, we could have united the world as never before. That wasn't the role our leaders were interested in. Common, ordinary, regular people responded to 9-11 on a higher level and it happened because we didn't let our differences or our beliefs get in the way. The leaders we are given and our political, religious and economic systems are failing us, not least of all our systems of belief. We're genuinely lost. If we are to find a way out of the madness, common, ordinary, regular people have to make a difference again. Our leaders aren't interested. 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 tp65.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. story 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. 2003-02-28