80 20 70360 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 Sept. 11 is my birthday. Last year, after jetting through the night from Washington, D.C, my wife and I had beheld the Pentagon scaffolding only hours before it was struck. I awoke in L.A. to the horror of an event that would change things forever. At first, like so many others, I seethed with anger, despair, revenge. Then, after the debris cloud had settled, after the better angels of Lincolns time had descended into our own, I began to reflect upon 9-11s larger import. The attacks were more than an alarm; they opened a portal into a whole new consciousness. Beyond the detractors who say America had it coming, and the jingoists who say we should never deserve such a terrible blow, there is the growing realization that we cannot act the same way anymore. We cannot be arrogant unilateralists, policing the world at our whim. Oil fields, drug wars and Cold War recidivism cannot dictate our statecraft. There were no excuses for the atrocities of 9-11, but there certainly were motivations. It is our duty to try to understand them, to prevent their re-emergence. We have learned this much: Democracy is fragile and can be undermined from both abroad and within. Tragedy can be exploited for political and commercial gain. Security without freedom brings neither. Regrettably, the global sympathy that flowed so freely after the attacks has given way to resentment as the administration becomes ever more bellicose. Science of Mind, a nonjudgmental religious philosophy founded early last century, stresses the oneness of the universe, the indivisibility of humankind. It is time we ended the archaic duality us versus them that gave rise to Sept. 11. What unfolded on my birthday -- a day I will mark with renewed purpose this year -- has made me appreciate that necessity even more. 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 tp158.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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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" In the year 2000, candidate George W. Bush spoke of having a humble, non-arrogant foreign policy. Since his presidency, the contrary has been the case. One of his first acts was to intensify the bombing of Iraq, which only increased the hatred towards America. In a letter to the editor of mine to the Salt Lake Tribune dated, Tuesday, July 13, 1993 entitled ""Islamic Grievances"" I wrote: ""Israel and the Palestinians have been going at it an eye for an eye for nearly 50 years and have only reconfirmed the old adages that hate breeds hate and violence begets more violence. Now the United States is being sucked into a similar tit for tat with Iraq. As horrible as it is to envision, I am convinced that if we do not change our course and deal more seriously and sensibly with the grievances of the Islamic world (whether real or perceived) we will experience the explosion of a nuclear weapon in New York City before the year 2000."" The above was written a few months after the initial World Trade Center parking garage bombing in February of 1993. Even though my fear was not accurate in fact, it was close to it in effect. I refer to this only to make the point that I was not surprised with the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Since the day after the Gulf War with Iraq ended, one knew Saddam Hussein (and others) would devise ways to take out revenge on the United States. If there had been a full page add in the New York Times so proclaiming, it could have not been plainer. What have we learned from this horrific incident? The answer appears to be very little in regard to our standing in the world and conduct of foreign policy. Obviously, what was spoken of earlier by the president never saw the light of day, and he and his advisors remain blind and deaf to what is self-evident to most of the rest of the world. How many more 9/11's will it take? 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 tp42.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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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 September 11: One Year On Thats Entertainment The day that sent shockwaves around the world. The BBC marks the anniversary of September 11 with a series of special reports and commemorative broadcasts from across the globe. BBC Programme Information 7-13 September 2002 As the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11 approaches, broadcasters are preparing to go toe to toe to see who will win the broadcasting war of attrition which will mean wall-to-wall coverage of the anniversary of the al Qaeda attacks on America. The BBC - like almost every other large broadcast and media concern this side of Washington - is preparing to commemorate the anniversary of what has glibly been called ëGround Zero with round-the-clock coverage across its radio and television stations. Gathered together under a suitably bathetic. The day that sent shockwaves around the world banner, BBC coverage will go into overdrive in a way not seen since the actual coverage of September 11 (although BBC World Service did also devote a week of programming to the six month anniversary of the attacks). BBC Radio 4, Radio Five Live and the World Service will run extensive commemorative programmes to complement coverage on the terrestrial and digital television stations. BBC1 will also premiere 9/11, a documentary filmed in and around the World Trade Centre when the two hijacked planes struck New Yorks twin towers. The only other recent equivalent precedents in British broadcasting history are the deaths of the Princess of Wales and the Queen Mother respectively which ñ rightly or wrongly ñ were always going to be subject to a ëwar chest programming strategy. In a BBC press release issued in April of this year, acting Director General Mark Byford praised all BBC staff for their efforts in securing overnight figures for the BBC coverage of the Queen Mothers funeral: We should feel very proud of our coverage in providing programmes of real quality, depth and distinction. It was a very big team effort. Our professionalism, skill and outstanding creativity shone through in capturing the events so magnificently for audiences across the country and the world. We are gratified that the large majority of viewers turned to the BBC to witness yesterdays historic funeral service. The BBC celebrated an audience peak of 7.1 million viewers and a 58.2% audience share in contrast to ITVs 3.3 million and 27.1% of audience share. The BBCs outside broadcast of the occasion pulled together more staff and equipment than the combined studios of Television Centre. A team of more than 350 people, 100 cameras, 15 television mobile control vehicles plus 100 trucks, ten large mobile radio studios and approximately 1,000 miles of cable were used to ensure the successful live BBC broadcast of the procession to Lying-in-State and the funeral service. Requisite television gravitas was lent to the proceedings by the BBCs resident man-at-arms David Dimbleby, while Fergal Keane was whiskedaway from less pressing business in Lebanon to commentate on events for BBC radio. It is this sort of infrastructural and logistical muscle which will allow BBC Radio 5s Five Live Breakfast to be broadcast from New York. Former BBC Radio One DJ Simon Mayo also presents from New York while the afternoon show presented by Peter Allen and Jane Garvey will be co-presented in Washington and Jerusalem respectively. The BBCs pop music station, Radio 1, will carry live reports from Ground Zero in its Newbeat programme throughout the day. More cynical minds might question the value of sending breakfast radio show teams and broadcasters more familiar with the back catalogues of Britney Spears and the Spice Girls half way across the world to broadcast the days latest hits mixed with on-the-spot interviews with grieving New Yorkers. As if that really wasnt enough, add to that list a specially developed website ( <http://www.bbc.co.uk/september11> http://www.bbc.co.uk/september11 which promises to carry archive material, news and information, international views and historical background to help put the events of the past year into context. Live webcasts from Ground Zero are also promised. The surfeit of coverage has of course nothing to do with constant speculation regarding the licence fee nor the criticisms levelled at the BBCs rolling news service BBC 24 (annual budget of 50 millions pound sterling compared to SKYs 20 million operating costs) which is caught in a three-way dog-fight between CNN and SKY. The BBC is proud of the way it handled its September 11 coverage last year - it won a clutch of journalism awards including the Foreign Event Special Award from the FPA as well as the George Polk Journalism Award for its authoritative, wide-ranging accounts of the attacks on America and the war in Afghanistan - pointing to the fact that it was able to take advantage of its international bureaux to bring immediate on-the-spot eyewitness reports. Not ones to normally crow, the BBC (in a report submitted to the Culture Secretary in December 2001 in support of the current independent review of BBC News 24) stresses the strength in depth of BBC reporting: Our newsgathering strength has been in evidence throughout the conflict with experienced reporters on both sides of the front line, including the first Western reporters into Kabul. BBC News 24 also managed to find a diverse range of contributors, benefiting from its close connection with BBC World, as were more able to persuade news-makers to appear in the knowledge that they would be heard across the world as well as in the UK (including Madeleine Allbright, General Musharaf, Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Netanyahu). Just as was the case with their exhaustive and exhausting royal funerals coverage, the BBCs coverage was a logistical and technical triumph (though whether the rogues gallery of interviewees listed truly deserves the epithet diverse is certainly questionable). But more problematic still is the use of a slick linguistic casuistry more commonly associated with hack advertising copywriters and feature film trailer writers - ëThe day the world changed, ëThe day the world changed forever and other tired variations of the same theme - which presupposes an agreed consensual agenda and shared historical marking of the day. Similarly emotionally charged appeals to some imagined wider public sentiment were expressed in BBC World's 'The Shrine' (31/08/02), a documentary marking the fifth anniversary of the death of Princess Diana as part of the channel's 'Modern Times' series: 'A powerful and moving account of the astonishing late summer days that saw a normally genteel Royal park transformed into a site of fervent devotion. Richard Alwyns film catches the vigil like atmosphere outside the Palace in the hours before the funeral, the anguish in Hyde Park during the ceremony, and the tranquillity of the night times spent in sleeping bags around fires.' Having waded through acres of adjective and the sort of tired prose Hallmark greetings card writers kill for, we learn that Dianas death changed the [British] people. True, blue rinsed pensioners and flags and banners monarchists did weep and wail, but there certainly wasnt the extraordinary outburst of national grief that has been claimed: an extraordinary outburst of media coverage yes; but whether the two are mutually exclusive is debatable. We are invited to believe that Dianas death re-framed Britain in much the same way that Ground Zero is Year Zero for world history. The death of a jet-setting royal and the events of September 11 brook no comparison ñ one is the stuff of OK! Magazine specials, the other a tragedy on a grand scale ñ but the framing of both in absolutist terms demands further examination. Not only are the invariably starsntrite sentiments attached to 11/09 anniversary coverage bogus; but the need to dress them up in neatly trailed packages withsolemn snatches of music playing beneath suitably reverential tones servesonly to silence debate and to privilege a false new world order discourse decreed from on high in Washington. Worse still, as Michael Goldberg writing in Salon (09/07/02) observes, in a media glutted world, September 11 couldnt help but become the ultimate reality show. So enamoured were we of its rare shocking authenticity that we replicated its image into infinity and leached it of its meaning. September 11, he argues, has become the political sledgehammer that the US administration can now take to any nut. Radio and television ñ wittingly or not - provide the dramatic narrative exigencies required to support the risible war noises emanating from Washington and London. Of course, the BBC is not alone in its use of extra-diagetic music and sundry other dramatic devices to hook the audience - this is symptomatic of a cultural sea-change in news and factual broadcasting which is now regrettably the norm from CNN to Channel 4. Nor should it be singled out for its planned September 11 coverage: again, this is demonstrably the case across the board - whether you are in Bermondsey or Baltimore. Nonetheless, the rationale behind the decision to film a British Bank Holiday special (27/08/02) of the gardening makeover programme Ground Force in New York must be questioned (you can probably imagine the scene as the allusive penny slowly drops in some bright spark editors head ñ I know! Why dont we). In what must be the worst known case of what the satirical British magazine Private Eye calls WarBalls ñ the linking of anything and everything to September 11 on the flimsiest of pretexts - the Ground Force team of celebrity gardenersundertook its mission to help by rejuvenating a small area for a local communityof New Yorkers who have been deeply affected by the tragedy. In a three dayproject the Ground Force team flew over to New York to surprise actress BetteMidler and the local people of Lower East Side, Manhattan with a garden in recognition of what the people of New York have been through. Writing in The Mirror (28/07/02), Jim Shelley commented on the opening scenes of the programme where regular presenter Charlie Dimmock looking at her NewYork holiday snaps ñ replete with twin towers ñ as bearing ëthe unmistakable stench of blatant exploitation. BBC America viewers hopefully wont be quite so squeamish. But why so much coverage? To paraphrase the much maligned Noam Chomsky, the crimes of September 11 are indeed a historic turning point ñ not because of the scale but rather because of the choice of target. That, as the New Statesman argued in its leader of 24/09/01, is the reason why British sympathies are perceived as being almost wholly concerned with the sufferings of ordinary Americans because they are ëpeople like us as opposed to ordinary people in the third world (or now, Afghanistan and very possibly Iraq). These are sentiments which would seem to be shared by commissioning editors the length and breadth of Europe. There is no question that the terrorist attacks on the twin towers deserve to be comprehensively covered, and indeed, deserve to be fittingly marked in tribute to the dead and to the hundreds and thousands of Americans whose lives were irrevocably changed by the events of September 11. Whether September 11 has proved to be the turning point in recent modern history as is so often claimed is a completely different question. Certainly, the events of September 11 have left an indelible mark on the global collective conscious which will not and cannot be easily erased. September 11 is without question a day for mourning and reflection on what has passed and what might yet still come to pass. Let us respect the tragedy of last year without turning it once more into a rolling media jamboree more concerned with audience share, overnight figures and the repetition of febrile unchallenged half truths about the threat posed by Saddam to western capitals. Constant media raking over of the ashes in the guise of tribute might ultimately prove to be as disingenuous in spirit as the dollar hungry ghouls who tout Ground Zero DVDs and Osama Bin Laden toilet paper on the streets surrounding the site where the World Trade Centre once stood. It is impossible to forget the cleaners, firemen, janitors and office workers who lost their lives on that fateful day last year, but nor should we forget the ordinary lives which have already been thrown into turmoil in Afghanistan (and very probably Iraq if messrs Bush and Rumsfeld continue to militate for war against their former favourite despot). Only this month, the World Food Programme announced that rations to millions of Afghans are to be cut as a result of international donors failure to honour promises to help re-build the stricken country. UN figures calculate that some six million Afghans still need food aid over the next year, but a $90 million shortfall of required aid- or 200,000 tonnes of food- means that the money required for the most basic levels of subsistence is already beginning to run out as Washington and Brussels continue to squabble over who should pay what. Whether the eyes and ears of the BBC and CNN will be on the ground in Kabul - or Baghdad should push come to shove - in quite such numbers when that corner of the worlds anniversaries come around remains to be seen. As is so often the case, out of sight is very much out of mind. Perhaps George Orwell was only partially wrong when he wrote that if you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever. He should of course have said a video loop of two jets crashing into the World Trade Centre. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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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 The Bush agenda was not interrupted by the attack upon America's symbols of power and wealth last year. Indeed, that event provided pretext for the expedited continuity of its planned agenda, which required in great part any entry into Central Asian hegemony. There was collateral damage. But the agenda remains intact. The implicit terms of the Bush agenda were to levy executive power into service for the contracting wealthy sector, and correspondingly to vitiate resistent Congressional and Constitutional processes by whatever means necessary. The Bush agenda began with one such means, unConstitutional corrupt connivance in the election process. Once in ""office"", the Bush agenda required withdrawal from any treaty limiting to its power, and systematic reversals of prior advances towards human safety, health, equity, civil protection, and employment. It required limitations on U.S. intelligence services not to pursue Al Qaida and bin Laden. Preparatory defensive tactics were contrary to righteously conquering Afghanistan, and also to family loyalties--i.e., the Carlyle Group--towards the bin Laden clan. In aggressive preparation for war, the Bush agenda endorsed the ransacking of five trillions promised for Social Security, and even telegraphed their immediate use, on August 24, 2001, by the words that the Social Security trust fund would only be reduced in times of war. (NY Times) In further preparation, the Bush agenda shipped munitions to Diego Garcia, just off Pakistan, (NY Times, August 30, 2001) as needed for (a yet unannounced) war. There was also the order to keep U.S. jets on the ground in case of hijack, contrary to prior practice. The Bush agenda needed one thing more, a blood-curdling pretext for war--and its corollary, dictatorial power. That pretext happened eerily, though not innocently, beyond the Bush agenda's greatest expectations. 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/. 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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 HEAVILY THICKENING TO EMPIRE I used to think he was too pessimistic. When I first read Robinson Jeffers poetry, I thought he gave up on the idea of America too quickly. In Shine, Perishing Republic Jeffers spoke of America heavily thickening to empire. In Be Angry at the Sun he wrote: America must accept like the historical republics corruption and empireÖ I rejected that. Fired by Dr. Kings nonviolence and the civil rights movement, I believed America was getting more democratic, free, equal. Vietnam War resistance fueled my hope that America could reverse the transition to empire. Those hopes are dimmer. Once, Americans believed in leading by example. And our ideals of liberty and justice for all, though penned by slaveowners, did inspire freedom fighters from Selma to Soweto, from Gettysburg to Gdansk. Now the sun never sets on the American Empire. US military bases circle the globe. American culture, language, commerce, music, media, movies, athletes rule. International organizations bend to American willóor else we ignore/defund them, or force their leaders to resign. We view allies as assistantsóor we just go it alone. The UN, which America largely created, is now denigrated. US-inspired treaties are honored only if convenient. International banks are pressured to force smaller nations to cut health/education budgets, and vote for leaders we prefer. America bestrides the globe, like Rome, like Britain. Example has become Empire. After 9/11, we need to askóis an empire what we wanted? It has, after all, been tried previously, with poor results. In Shine, Perishing Republic Jeffers was pessimistic about our ability to change course: And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out, and the mass hardensÖ Was he right? 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 tp46.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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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 Talking About An American Surprise Earlier this summer many of us were worrying about an October surprise. Now, whatever happens in October, it won't be surprising. Despite what looks increasingly like a deliberate disinformation campaign about plans to attack Iraq, the American public is beginning to get a very clear picture about what kinds of things to expect from this administration so far. And that new understanding is what people of all political persuasions are talking about the most now, in the press, in private homes, across shop counters, and even in elevators. It's a discussion whose time has come, and it will continue to grow. For no matter what October (or even November) brings, there is a real American surprise unfolding, and it is the one that counts the most. People all over the country, conservatives and liberals alike, are suddenly thinking again about the U.S. Constitution and what it means to them, about the balance of powers, and about our precious rights as citizens. Ordinary people are talking more and more among themselves about the fundamental American character, about who we are as a nation and about who we want to be in the future. There is a broad new public consensus that as a people we are unwilling to turn into something completely different and morally repugnant, no matter what kind of internal or external danger we face. You could even say that a year after September 11th, 2001, we the people, if not our government, are rising like the proverbial phoenix, reborn from the sacrificial fires of the World Trade Towers. This growing grass-roots American rebirth is a process that will only get stronger as time goes on, because in the last year we have learned that we need to take care of ourselves. We can no longer safely assume that what's good for business or good for some government officeholders is automatically what's good for us. We have also learned, as our own government has repeatedly told us, that neither our FBI nor our CIA can really protect us from terrorists. Before September 11th, 2001, any kind of terrorism in the U.S. had the advantage of surprise. That is no longer true. And we know the action of ordinary American citizens all paying close attention to what's happening around them seems to work faster than an army of spooks working full-time, whether or not they are one department called Homeland Security. So, because of this new American awakening, all future ""surprises"" whatsoever will also be judged by those standards we share in our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and our best vision of ourselves. Now we know that our core values, the finest things in our shared national heritage, are under assault, from within as well as without. We understand that is the greatest danger we face. We know if we lose contact with our people's historic moral compass and do not consistently base our actions on it, we will surely go down to defeat in the end, sooner or later, a rogue nation ourselves. In fact, what we are seeing here at home now is nothing less than the beginning of what Jacob Needleman calls in his book, The American Soul, "" the second American democracy."" As a people, we have know now that the most dangerous alternative to our best is very real. That is, our America could decline into the kind of soulless despotism of which Benjamin Franklin spoke, when he said ""{our form of government} can only end in despotism . . .when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other."" We know the administration's proposed preemptive strike on Iraq could be the beginning of our country's death spiral into despotism. This is true, even if our new doctrine of the right to preemptive strike is actually just a bait and switch operation, or a provocation in itself. Now, there are people who will argue, with some justice, that the American government has long been a morally bankrupt entity, perpetrating crime after crime, and not just abroad. And there will also be those who point to differing interpretations of what is moral in our culture (as documented by George Lakoff in Moral Politics). But this is not the time to focus on that history or those differences as we deepen our natiosnal conversation. Current realities prove again that when the chips get far enough down, there is a bedrock set of morally sound ideas and values most ordinary Americans share and want to see our government uphold, as sociologist Alan Wolfe demonstrated definitively in his 1998 book, One Nation After All. Right now we are mourning once again the fallen of September 11th, 2001. And some of us are rising up to vigorously protest the shortsighted new military doctrine of preemptive strike. But it is vital that we all continue and deepen our vigorous democratic conversation about how core American values apply to the full range of problems we face today, at home and all around our planet. That is true patriotism, not some rush to action deeply against the American grain. We need a president who can surprise us by rising to this challenge. 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 tp13.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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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 9/11 was a wake up call for us because we finally realized that we should be more united. When we opened our eyes we saw that we weren't as safe as we thought we were. Before 9/11 we felt secure about our country so we would do our daily chores, worked, shopped, and attended school. Now any one who is a noncitizen will make us very uncomfortable and we tend to get away frome them because we are afraid of getting hurt. Which made us criticize more often of people who dress different and follow another culture than us. We have seen other disasters or tragedies in other countries and have felt and seen their needs afterwards. But 9/11 was something that made an impact in our lives and now we see things differently it hurts more what it is going out in the world. We have learned that there is a lot of evil and mean people all over the world and it seems like there is a continuous World War. Different countries are just fight ing without cause or just for what they think seems to be right for everyone. The ones that always pay for it are innocent children and people who don t have part in what is going on. There are many other there who don t like the way we live in democracy so they want to get rid of us. We can salvage anything good from 9/11 but it depends on each one of us because we all live in a different world in our heads. So what I learned from 9/11 will be different from some one who lost a relative. 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 tp105.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 Notes Notes about this item. San Benito High School Assigned by John Hand, English 4 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 The 9-11 attacks have made contesting the issues of corporate globalization more vital than ever, for they have shifted the basis of legitimacy of the system from unfulfilled, discredited promises to fear. Fear of the terrorist enemy, fear of the unknown, fear of the repressive power of the system itself. If we who value liberty and real democracy retreat now, the system will consolidate its hold on every aspect of life and set the global agenda for decades to come. Yet we are called to act at a time when action seems dangerous, frustrating and sometimes hopeless. In an unsafe world in which we have real enemies, we cannot easily delegitimize fear. But we can delegitimize the need to be ruled by fear, by acting strongly and visibly with courage, vision and love. Acting from courage isn<pi>t easy, but we already know how to do it. In our personal lives we face and overcome fear every day: the fear of making mistakes, of failing, the fear of opening up to love for another vulnerable, flawed and mortal human being. When we act with courage, we feel good about ourselves, so good that we find the resources we need to face even violence and repression. For the opposite of fear is love. Not abstract, insipid, greeting card love, but gutsy, passionate, mother-tiger love, for the best of what America is supposed to represent, for that promise of liberty and justice for all that has never fully been realized. That's the lesson I take from 9-11. To undermine a system based on fear, don't accept the limited choices it poses. Choose vision. Choose hope. When we do, we mobilize powers stronger than fear: the great invincible forces of creativity and love. 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 tp85.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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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 Lesson Learned? After 9/11, many people asked, ""Why do they hate us so much?"" The answer holds the key to making successful foreign policy. But, America ignores the answer and continues to mishandle an explosion of apocalyptic rage that can be all too easily repeated. The grievances against the U.S. are many and damning. The terrorists say that we are a terrorist nation, exporting arms and conducting wars of self-interest at will. They say we are a shallow, self-absorbed, prejudiced, gluttonous, and violent people. Facts support these charges. We must respond to the truth in them or be doomed to perpetual terror. The terrorists are succeeding. Our ill-conceived war mentions them every day. World opinion about us is at historic lows. Wrapping prudent defensive measures in the language of war or Hollywood does not protect us. An eye for an eye will lead to an eye for an eye. Any thought to the contrary is deluded and will only lead to a false sense of security. We must follow our own counsel to war-ravaged nations and end the madness of war. We should launch a Peace Initiative under the auspices of the New York-based United Nations and devote ourselves to an inconceivable good that memorializes those who fell on 9/11. Fund AIDS programs, provide debt relief for developing nations, capitalize alternative energy institutes. Our response to terror should be informed by the lessons of modern history. Our teachers trod the paths of terror before us and won victories without firing a shot-Gandhi, Gorbachev, King, Sadat. These men of vastly different nations, colors, creeds, and times, show the way. They applied themselves to a just cause--the unity of mankind--and their followers rallied, withstood the onslaught of hate, and prevailed over evil. We should do likewise. 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 tp185.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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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" I love the America that revealed itself last September 11: the office workers instinctively helping coworkers and clients escape, the quick-thinking aviation administrators immediately grounding all planes, the fearless firefighters ascending the doomed staircases all the way to heaven. Throughout all the heartbreak of that awful day and since, I have loved America. But even more than I love America, I love the idea of America: the notion of equality, respect and fairness. The assurance that everyone plays by the same rules. This is the foundation of our Republic. But there is an opposing notion. The ancients called it hubris, and it is the foundation of Empire. It is wantonness, insolence, violence, and outrage. It is the idea that we can impose our will on other nations just because we have enough power to get away with it. It is the idea that we can ignore the rules that are binding on all simply because we believe that only we are righteous. It is to willfully forget that, in Solzhenitsyn's words, the line between good and evil runs through the center of each human heart -- and through each human culture -- and that therefore we cannot run roughshod over someone else's rights. Or someone else's country. Some are openly hoping for an American Empire. But there is a better way of spreading Americanism: let us preserve the American Republic. Let every person and every nation know that there is a stable, safe place ruled by equality, respect, and fairness towards all. Let us make sure that September 11 will be remembered as the day when true American heroism revealed itself -- not as the day when the American Republic died and the American Empire was born. 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 tp36.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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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 Whenever there is a calamitous national event, such as the terror attacks of 9/11, the American impulse is predictably patriotic. We rally around the flag, mourn our dead, and mutually reaffirm our convictions and character as a nation. This is as it should be, and only the cold-hearted and cynical could fault such a reaction. However, the inevitable impulse to ëprotect and defend is endangering our society by blinding us to that which truly threatens us in the first place: our callous and arrogant attitude toward the third world, coupled with the hypocrisy of our foreign policy. Despite our enormous generosity as a nation, we are widely despised, even by those we feed and clothe. Terrorism is engendered by attitudes which our own behavior helps to create. While the efforts to improve security are important, no amount of increased vigilance can completely preclude individual acts of terror like those witnessed last year. One determined zealot with a suitcase-sized nuclear device could potentially cause a calamity far greater than the one we suffered on 9/11. We simply cant defend ourselves against those kinds of attacks without destroying the liberties and freedoms that we consider essential to democracy. Terrorists understand this only too well, and will continue to try to exploit this fact. Instead, it would be more productive to at least attempt to understand the emotions and attitudes which give rise to terrorism, and find ways to combat it by rebalancing our policies and behavior around the world. In particular, our totally blind support of Israel must change. Using our power and influence to force Israel to conclude a fair and just peace with the Palestinians would do far more to enhance our national security than any domestic spying operation, ethnic profiling, or saber-rattling could ever do. 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 tp213.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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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 What were the issues in the national news in the days leading up to 9/11? The fact is I tuned out not long after the 2000 non-election. The feelings of powerlessness and anger it engendered were overwhelming. My teeth would grind every time I heard George W. Bush referred to as the ""President elect"" so I vowed not to look at the news again for four years. I had employed the same strategy during the tenure of Bush the elder with some success. After surviving eight years of Reagan, the extension of his reign by proxy swamped my endurance and I determined to ignore the whole thing. I stopped watching the nightly news and my mental outlook did brighten a bit. I thought I could do it again this time. I was wrong. Because, truthfully, even before 9/11, Bush the youngers thundering missteps in governance (the tax cut, the repudiation of the Kyoto Accords), troubled my deliberate inattention with a vague unease like the vestiges of a nightmare. I said to myself, ""Of course there will be some damage but in four years time we can begin to mend."" I was lying to myself. I was hoping for the best. Then the towers came rumbling down. And with them went whatever restraint those-who-would-be-our-masters might have had about robbing and enslaving us as rapidly and as completely as they can. The intent is so blatant that it cannot even be masked behind a thick lacquer of patriotic rhetoric. There is no ignoring it. But, it may be that their gleeful exploitation of 9/11 will be their downfall. For now they have shown the world plainly what they are. The agenda before 9/11 and the agenda after is the same really. The difference is now I am fully awake to the consequences of waiting in silence and letting these stupid, greedy, privileged thugs have their free and unfettered way with it. I am only sorry it took me so long and I apologize for my feebleness and my fear. Now I must speak. Now I must oppose. Please, let millions of others awaken as well and do the same. It is our only hope. 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 tp183.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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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 We were told that September 11 changed everything, but however much the rhetoric has changed, the Bush Administrations actions certainly havent. For example, from their first day in office, they have tried to mislead the American people. Remember how they told us of the case of the keyboards missing Ws and the vandalized and looted White House at the hands of the dastardly, retreating Clintons? Only later the GAO reported it hadnt happened. After the terrorist attacks, we were told the President couldnt return to Washington, DC and had to keep flying about the country because there was "credible evidence" that Air Force One was a target. Only that wasnt true either. Before September 11, Vice President Cheney refused to release the names of the executives and lobbyists he met with while drawing up his energy plan. Now, even after law suits, court orders, and the collapse of Enron, he still refuses to let the American people know with whom the plan was conceived. All we know is that conservation may be a "personal virtue" but its not part of his or his pals vision. So nothing much has changed there either. Oh, weve also had campaign finance reform banning "soft money." The President has since set a record raising the same. Weve had record corporate bankruptcies in the past year, so its been a priority to make it harder for individuals to file for similar protection. If you were interested in protecting the environment, retirement savings, or Social Security your concerns were not those of the White House before September 11 or after. Your agenda hasnt been interrupted; it was never considered to begin with. Next time they suggest writing bigger checks. That will get their attention, after all some things never change. 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 tp94.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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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 Up until September 11, 2001 discrimination seemed to have almost disagreed. One strong emotion that I felt after this catastrophe was insecurity it was as if no one could be trusted. After, September 11, 2001 people that looked like if they were from the Middle Eastern seemed to be easily detected in public places. Even though most people are taught not to judge a person by their appearance now people from the Middle Eastern or with decent are being ridiculed. This is very inconsiderate of us because some of them are also Americans and have also been hurt by this tragedy. A reason that I know that their is a lot of discrimination id because just a week ago at a local grocery store I notice many people turned their eyes to the door as two women entered the store with Turbans on their head. This is unfair to these women that they are being judged by their appearance rather than who they are. September 11, 2001 brought Americans closer together in the fight against terrorism and everyone more patriotic than ever, but together we have turned our back to those people that look Middle Eastern. 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 tp146.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 Notes Notes about this item. San Benito High School Assigned by John Hand English 4 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 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 People can say that September 11, 2001 was a wake up call. In ways it was but in some ways it still isnt. After the event, people started to feel a patriotic feeling and it was soon all over the U.S. Now people started to appreciate their way of life and realize the evils of the world. They didnt realize that evil has been going on forever only they were too self-centered to care. Now that September 11, came, terrorism has become a face of American life such as potential biological attacks and the anthrax attacks. Things have already faded off a bit and maybe were thinking about the war were at. When and if we an salvage anything good from this, it could only be the reality slap. For the good, people can now appreciate their way of life and everything we have for free. Before then we took for granted everything we have. Unfortunately we maybe going back to our attitudes of before and assume nothing again. Nowadays everything seems to be going back to normal. I know that I feel normal now. September 11 is in the back of my mind but it not something i think about all the time. Its more of a bad memory. Its not exactly life changing but it did open my eyes to things I never thought about before. But I wonder what people will do when the first year anniversary comes around. Will people be sad to the point where they cant work? Ill be sad and Ill give my respects to the people who died but I wont really be to the point of no work. 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 tp111.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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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 When the rich wage war its the poor who die. --Jean-Paul Sartre I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. --Dwight Eisenhower Having failed to capture Osama bin Laden as promised, President Bush has revived a tried-and-true boogeymanóSaddam Hussein, the mother of all despots. Yet, does it really matter who the bad guy is? Weve stockpiled a lot of bombs and missiles; weve declared war without end; weve got to attack somebody. When Bush orders our troops into Iraq (according to some sources this has already begun on a limited scale), do you think that his children or any of the other Bush clan will be among the first wave of troops? Do you think that any of the presidential advisers who are cheering loudest for war will have a child whose life will be at risk? And what about the kids or grandkids of our senators and representatives in Congress? Many of these folks seem to be perfectly willing to send our offspring into battle. If their progeny were at risk, however, I suspect theyd be a bit more judicious. If Bush and his cohorts are so anxious to get it on with Saddam, I have a more modest proposal than Middle East conflagration: tag team wrestling on international TV. In the red, white and blue tights we have Gorgeous George Bush and Karl King Kong Rove, and in the black tights, Osama Yo Mama bin Laden and Saddam Bruiser Hussein. Wrestle to the finish. The losers cry uncle and refrain from building or using weapons of mass destruction for the rest of their days. No innocent bystanders hurt, in fact nothing hurt but perhaps a little pride. Recently I met a small group of committed women who are walking across the nation for peace. (To learn more, visit their website at www.walkforpeace.org) They departed from California on Martin Luther Kings birthday, January 21, 2002, and reached Asheville after seven months of walking on their way to Washington, D.C. One of the women spoke of breaking bread with folks of disparate political, economic and religious backgrounds in many towns and cities across our nation. During her remarks she revealed a common thread in the conversations shed had: Everyone really wants peace. In many respects were all the same; we want to love and be loved. Our beliefs just get in the way. Not too many decades ago, some white politicians in the South retained power by practicing the politics of divide and conqueróplaying whites against the blacks. You may not have much, but at least your better than him, youve been born with white skin, they exclaimed. And of course, the hope was that the white folks would regard the black folks as scapegoats for whatever was not working in their lives, while the wealthy politicians, at the top of the heap, endeavored to maintain the status quo. Now the strategy is a bit more complex what with our various ethnic backgrounds, our multitude of spiritual beliefs, our different social groups, our divergent political persuasions. But as long as those in power can keep us fighting among ourselves, we frequently dont take the opportunity to discern who is making out like a bandit (sometimes literally). And who is sending our kids off to a fight in which only the arms manufacturers, the energy corporations, other corporate powers and the politicians have a significant stake. Saddam is not moving our jobs overseas. Saddam is not diverting U.S. tax dollars from health and education toward the acquisition of more sophisticated weaponry. Saddam is not plundering American corporations for his own benefit. If those of us who really oppose this war stand up, we can stop the madness advocated by Bush and Lieberman and Lott. We can keep our young men and women (and the people of Iraq) from harms way. We can resist. We can let our voices be heard. We can support those who refuse to serve. When the drums roll and the trumpets blare and the flags unfurl, war may seem a patriotic and noble venture. But how will we feel, I wonder, when our kids start coming home in body bags? 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 tp38.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 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 The lesson that was explosively forced upon us on September 11 was one that was philosophically and theoretically known but not truly understood : that we are indeed One World, inescapably bound to one another, where inter-dependence has become more than just a theoretical concept. The condition of peoples on one side of the globe has profound influence on the other side. The prejudices, superstitions, and belief systems of distant peoples reverberate world-wide. The consequences of hatreds reach beyond state and regional borders. Three thousand Americans died because of the twisted misconceptions of a distant, uninformed ,and manipulated enemy. Through a ghastly, cruel and tragic event, we learn that millions of people on the other side, see us as an evil enemy , to be destroyed even at the expense of their own martyrdom and death. They have been taught to hate us with an intensity we could not understand.....by deliberate increments, from a brainwashed childhood to the all-encompassing religio-fascism that spawned todays monstrous terrorism. The explosion of hatred and suicide and destruction was almost beyond our comprehension. The lesson? Beyond the immediate remedies to prevent a continuance of terror, only a new vision of mankind liberated from the shackles of inherited dogmas of hate, will provide the answers in the long run. Twenty-first century technology , which has made the world a global village, needs to be matched by a new twenty-first century ethic that infuses us all, to the marrow of our beings , with the sense that we are all responsible for each other, wherever we live. National, regional, religious boundaries have become anachronistic and must be overcome as we recognize and respect our common humanity. That is not only the challenge of the new century, but the ultimate challenge of man on earth! 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 tp34.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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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 September 11"" Before September 11, 2001, ""conservatives,"" ""Republicans,"" and ""libertarians"" said government was the enemy and that government programs to help people was the first step toward Stalinism. Suddenly, after the horrific events of that day, many of these people called for federal government action and subordinating individual rights to ""national interests."" As we approach September 11, 2002, we should discard sophomoric arguments over ""limited"" or ""expansive"" government. For as Founder James Madison admitted in Federalist Paper #37, the Founders chose broad words to reflect the compromises of the Founders themselves and that experience, not theory, is the best definer of our Constitution's meaning. For those who insist that the federal government must be strictly limited, consider: Alexander Hamilton, in 1791, said: ""(T)he general administration of the affairs of a country...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good"" and that legislatures ""must of necessity (exercise) great latitude of discretion..."" James Madison, in Federalist Paper #10, wrote that the ""regulation"" of ""a landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests...forms the principal task of modern legislation..."" The Supreme Court, in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), unanimously stated: The Constitution is ""intended to endure for ages to come...and to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs. To have prescribed the means by which government should, in all future time, execute its powers...would have been...unwise..."" Am I arguing for a vision that only reflects the views of Hubert Humphrey and Ralph Nader? No--and that's the point. The Founders gave us the Constitution to debate the merits of public policy proposals, not place them outside the bounds of our discourse. Whether it is Medicare for all Americans or federal airport security, we must debate policy merits, not ivory tower theories of government. 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 tp169.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 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 a different type of missile Why dont we blow-up the world? We got enough bombs Waiting underground, in the ocean We wont live afterwards, But today we can Blow-up the world. I want to, I want to Blow-up the world. Blow it up! Blow it up With words. Hit each city, Hit each town. Blow em up! Blow em up With words. Why cant we Get rid of these bombs These bombs that could Blow-up the world? Instead of bombs Why cant we use words? Blow-up the world, blow it up With words. 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 tp164.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