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 "Kosher Cajun food and the spirit of America" Kosher Cajun food was served at a luncheon in Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's Manhattan legislative office, a few blocks north of Ground Zero, as two unlikely groups came together to celebrate the donation of an ambulance to replace one lost on September 11th. There was no media coverage, major or otherwise, as members of a Southwest Louisiana Electric Co-op traveled up to New York City in early June to present a brand new ambulance to the Hatzalah Ambulance Corps of Lower Manhattan, whose volunteers were among the first to respond after the first plane struck the World Trade Center. The members of the Southwst Louisiana Electric Memership Corporation (SLEMCO), a rural electric co-op in the heart of Louisiana's predominately Catholic bayou country came together with the Orthodox Jewish volunteers of Hatzalah Volunteer Ambulance Corps in the spirit of united Americans, with one group helping the other to continue to still help others. Allen Thurgood, a lifelong New Yorker and leading figure in the cooperative housing movement, played ""matchmaker"" in bringing the two groups together. The founder and chief executive officer of 1st Rochdale Cooperative, an electric co-op based in Manhattan, Thurgood was overwhelmed, but not surprised by the generous efforts of the nation's electric cooperatives which contributed some $3 million to a wide range of recovery initiatives in New York City in the wake of 9/11. It was an emotional side as Harold Jacobs, the president of Hatzalah, wheeled up to Ground Zero in the new ambulance, with J.U. Gajan, the chief executive officer and general manager of SLEMCO, in the front seat by Jacobs' side. For Jacobs, it was his first return to the site since September 11th, while Gajan was there for the first time, but the two men shared a new hope for the future. 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 tp51.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. 2003-02-24