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 British journalist Robert Fisk has been among the most insightful commentators since September 11. In an essay focusing on the Wests history of broken promises to the People of the Middle East, he remarks that ""The problem, I fear, is that without any sense of history, we do not understand injustice."" This wise observation is relevant both to the roots and to the frightening potential outcomes of this war. Blindness to history and injustice has many diverse origins: transnational corporate economics, racial bigotry, religious intolerance, disregard of international law, a superpowers eagerness to use overwhelming military power regardless of consequences, the crushing of dissent and the violation of fundamental human rights and liberties. These longstanding problems have cost many lives in the past. They have never been combined in a culture of cruelty more odious than the mass media extravaganza of ""America Strikes Back."" After September 11, we are living through the first war of the 21st century. The stakes in potential loss of life and suffering are immense. The First World War of the last century caused horrible death, and helped shape the world for decades, spawning a Second World War and a cold war between its victorious superpowers. Overcoming terrorism will require overcoming George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and their dark hallucinatory vision of complete control. It will require substituting instead a vision and an international political economic order authentically based on the ""recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family"" enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. How to make it happen, or alternatively the failure of the mass of People to see the cracks in the foundation of U.S. war for domination, will be the essential stuff of 21st century history. 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 tp225.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. 2003-03-10