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 Agenda Interrupted The world didnt change on September 11th. You still work, if youre lucky; and probably still dont earn enough to make ends meet. The political battle is still between the working and moneyed classes, even if post-Reagan generations know little of it. Corporate airwaves banned Labor Day union stories along with the story of the creation of the EPA in response to a nations outrage at corporate polluters. Now people with such concerns are trivialized and vilified. Republicans accuse them of class warfare, as if the party of the moneyed class had not been waging its own. Like chameleons, market fundamentalists have become military fundamentalists. The market as panacea has changed to the war on terror as our reason for being. This fundamentalism subordinates all to a cause prosecuted behind closed doors, vulnerable to enormous corruption. Militarists know that the first rule of war is to control communications. Theres the rub: we have lost the right to set the public agenda. Exhibit A: the missing ozone layer. This story has been absolutely wiped clean from the national memory bank. Yet, according to scientists at NASA, ozone thinning will reach its peak by 2006. But that scenario works only if global warming is controlled because the two problems, ozone depletion and global warming, might interact. But hey, theyre only rocket scientists, so Im sure if corporate-controlled Blowhard Radio says theyre wrong, half of America will agree. Voila, nothing gets done. Television would rather warmonger nonstop than admit how close corporations have come to destroying us all. Nor will they tell the tale of how Doolittle and Delay, anti-regulation Republicans, delayed addressing the ozone problem. Likewise, Bush remains unchallenged as he stonewalls global warming. Are they patriotic or self-serving? Corporate Americas accountability dodge might ultimately be our greatest threat. 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 tp207.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