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: Although Joseph J. Ellis, in his best-seller, Founding Brothers , tells us with justifiable pride that the United States is now the oldest enduring Republic in world history, with a set of political institutions and traditions that have stood the test of time , he warns us too, with historical wisdom , that our unrivalled democracy is still a work in progress. The American agenda from the beginning was a heady introduction of the principles of equality and the renunciation of the twin evils of monarchy and religious tyranny. Tom Paine said The only legitimate government, in the end, was self-government . And, Like Voltaire, Jefferson longed for the day when the last king would be strangled with the entrails of the last priest. . It was this historic tradition, Americas revolutionary contribution that burst upon a world of monarchical privilege and religious power, that was attacked on September 11, as religious fascism, the 21st. century version of mediaeval thought, sought to destroy the American agenda of freedom and liberty. From its inception the American experience has been an exuberant expansion of liberty in a nation of diversity. The concept of freedom runs as a unifying thread as each generation fought to maintain and extend individual rights: slavery, state-sponsored racism , civil rights, the rights of women, labors right to organize, religious freedom , the separation of church and state, the struggle against fascism, each held center-stage in its time, and together they represent the ongoing saga of the centrality of freedom started at our nations birth. We have stopped the fascist-religious-terrorists for now. Our challenge now is : Will we be able to do so in the years ahead while continuing our historic American agenda of freedom and liberty? 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 tp166.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. 2003-03-03