53 20 70359 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 Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. interesting info From: x Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 22:33:05 -0400 To: x Cc: x Subject: Fwd: [UIBLSAAlumni] The Most Wanted Man in the World I certainly don't want to fuel the hysteria - but this is a good write-up on bin Laden, from a Time magazine reporter.  Gave me more info than I knew before.  Better to be informed than not.  I hold no claims or assumptions to this piece, just thought it informative... From: x Reply-To: x To: x Subject: Fwd: [UIBLSAAlumni] The Most Wanted Man in the World Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 08:46:25 -0400 ----Original Message Follows---- From: x Reply-To: x To: x Subject: x The Most Wanted Man in the World Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 13:09:37 -0500 The Most Wanted Man in the World He lives a life fired by fury and faith. Why terrors $250 million man loathes the U.S. BY LISA BEYER http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010924/wosama.html Things might have turned out differently for Osama bin Laden -- and for the denizens of southern Manhattan -- if the tall, thin, soft-spoken 44-year-old hadn't been born rich, or if he'd been born rich but not a second-rank Saudi. It might have bee n another story if, while studying engineering in college, the young man had drawn a different teacher for Islamic Studies rather than a charismatic Palestinian lecturer who fired his religious fervor. Things might have been different if the Soviet Union hadn't invaded Afghanistan, if Saddam Hussein hadn't stolen Kuwait, or if U.S. forces hadn't retreated so hastily after a beating in Somalia, giving bin Laden the idea that Americans are cowards who can be defeated easily. Of course, Osama bin Laden wouldn't buy any of that. For him, life is preordained, written in advance by God, who in bin Laden's view must have delighted in the deaths of all those infidels in Manhattan last week. Still, those are among the seminal detail s that shaped the man U.S. officials believe to be not only capable but also guilty of one of the worst single massacres of civilians since Hitler's camps were shut down. How does any one man, and an intelligent man, come to be so angry? And so callous? B in Laden has considered himself at war with the U.S. for years, even if the U.S. is getting there only now. Still, how does one man come to be so comfortably certain in the face of responsibility for so many devoured lives? Last week's deadly operation took planning, patience, money, cool, stealth and extraordinarily committed operatives. It was a measure of the sophistication of the complex network of devout, high-spirited Islamic militants whom bin Laden has been assemblin g for almost 20 years. The big challenge here was will. Whence did the will grow to do something so atrocious? In many ways, bin Laden's story is like that of many other Muslim extremists. There's the fanatical religiosity and the intemperate interpretation of Islam; the outrage over the dominance, particularly in the Arab world, of a secular, decadent U.S.; the i ndignation over U.S. support for Israel; the sense of grievance over the perceived humiliations of the Arab people at the hands of the West. But bin Laden brings some particular, and collectively potent, elements to this equation. As a volunteer in the war that the Islamic rebels of Afghanistan fought against the Soviets in the 1980s, bin Laden had a front-row seat at an astonishing and empowe ring development: the defeat of a superpower by a gaggle of makeshift militias. Though the U.S., with billions of dollars in aid, helped the militias in their triumph, bin Laden soon turned on their benefactor. When U.S. troops in 1990 arrived in his sac red Saudi homeland to fight Saddam Hussein, bin Laden considered their infidel presence a desecration of the Prophet Muhammad's birthplace. He was inspired to take on a second superpower, and he was funded to do so: by a fortune inherited from his contrac tor father, by an empire of business enterprises, by the hubris that comes from being a rich kid whose commands had always been obeyed by nannies, butlers and maids. Though bin Laden grew up wealthy, he wasn't entirely within the charmed circle in Saudi Arabia. As the son of immigrants, he didn't have quite the right credentials. His mother came from Syria by some reports, Palestine by others. His father moved to Saudi Arabia from neighboring Yemen, a desperately poor country looked down on by Saudis. If bin Laden felt any alienation or resentment about his status, it was good preparation for the break he would ultimately make with the privileged and bourgeois life that was laid out for him a t birth. The family's wealth came from the Saudi bin Laden Group, built by Osama's father Mohamed, who had four wives and 52 children. Mohamed had had the good luck of befriending the country's founder, Abdel Aziz al Saud. That relationship led to important govern ment contracts such as refurbishing the shrines at Mecca and Medina, Islam's holiest places, projects that moved young Osama deeply. Today the company, with 35,000 employees worldwide, is worth $5 billion. Osama got his share at 13 when his father died, l eaving him $80 million, a fortune the son subsequently expanded to an estimated $250 million. At the King Abdel Aziz University in Jidda, bin Laden, according to associates, was greatly influenced by one of his teachers, Abdullah Azzam, a Palestinian who was a major figure in the Muslim Brotherhood, a group that has played a large role in the resu rgence of Islamic religiosity. Bin Laden, who like most Saudis is a member of the puritanical Wahhabi sect of Sunni Islam, had been pious from childhood, but his encounter with Azzam seemed to deepen his faith. What's more, through Azzam he became steeped not in the then popular ideology of pan-Arabism, which stresses the unity of all Arabs, but in a more ambitious pan-Islamicism, which reaches out to all the world's 1 billion Muslims. And so bin Laden at age 22 was quick to sign up to help fellow Muslims in Afghanistan fight the godless invading Soviets in 1979. For hard-liners like bin Laden, a non-Muslim infringement on Islamic territory goes beyond the political sin of oppression; i t is an offense to God that must be corrected at all costs. At first, bin Laden mainly raised money, especially among rich Gulf Arabs, for the Afghan rebels, the mujahedin. He also brought in some of the family bulldozers and was once famously using one to dig a trench when a Soviet helicopter strafed him but miss ed. In the early 1980s, Abdullah Azzam founded the Maktab al Khidmat, which later morphed into an organization called al-Qaeda (the base). It provided logistical help and channeled foreign assistance to the mujahedin. Bin Laden joined his old teacher and became the group's chief financier and a major recruiter of the so-called Arab Afghans, the legions of young Arabs who left their homes in places like Egypt, Algeria and Saudi Arabia to join the mujahedin. He was instrumental in building the training camps that prepared them to fight. Bin Laden saw combat too; how much is in dispute. During the same years, the CIA, intent on seeing a Soviet defeat in Afghanistan, was also funneling money and arms to the mujahedin. Milton Bearden, who ran the covert program during its peak years -- 1986 to 1989 -- says the CIA had no direct dealing s with bin Laden. But U.S. officials acknowledge that some of the aid probably ended up with bin Laden's group anyway. In 1989, the exhausted Soviets finally quit Afghanistan. With his mentor Azzam dead at the hands of an assassin and his job seemingly done, bin Laden went home to Jidda. The war had stiffened him. He became increasingly indignant over the corruption of th e Saudi regime and what he considered its insufficient piety. His outrage boiled over in 1990. When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and threatened Saudi Arabia, bin Laden informed the royal family that he and his Arab Afghans were prepared to defend the kin gdom. The offer was spurned. Instead, the Saudis invited in U.S. troops for the first time ever. Like many other Muslims, bin Laden was offended by the Army's presence, with its Christian and Jewish soldiers, its rock music, its women who drove and wore p ants. Saudi Arabia has a singular place among Islamic countries as the cradle of Islam and as home to Mecca and Medina, which are barred to non-Muslims. When bin Laden began to write treatises against the Saudi regime, King Fahd had him confined to Jidda. So bin Laden fled the country, winding up in Sudan. That country was by then under the control of radical Muslims headed by Hassan al-Turabi, a cleric b in Laden had met in Afghanistan who had impressed him with the need to overthrow the secular regimes in the Arab world and install purely Islamic governments. Bin Laden would go on to marry al-Turabi's niece. Eventually the Saudis, troubled by bin Laden's growing extremism, revoked his citizenship. His family renounced him as well. After relatives visited him in Sudan to exhort him to stop agitating against Fahd's regime, he told a reporter, he apologized to them because he knew they'd been forced to do i t. In Sudan, bin Laden established a variety of businesses, building a major road, producing sunflower seeds, exporting goatskins. But he was seething. He was also gathering around him many of the old Arab Afghans who, like him, returning home after the war, faced suspicion from, if not detention by, their governments. In 1993, 18 U.S. soldiers, part of a contingent sent on a humanitarian mission to famine-struck Somalia, were murdered by street fighters in Mogadishu. Bin Laden later claimed that some of the Arab Afghans were involved. The main thing to bin Laden, howev er, was the horrified American reaction to the deaths. Within six months, the U.S. had withdrawn from Somalia. In interviews, bin Laden has said that his forces expected the Americans to be tough like the Soviets but instead found that they were "paper ti gers" who "after a few blows ran in defeat." Bin Laden began to think big. U.S. officials suspect he may have had a financial role in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center by a group of Egyptian radicals. This may have been bin Laden's first strike back at the entity he believed to be the sourc e of so much of his own and his people's trouble. That same year, U.S. officials now believe, bin Laden began shopping for a nuclear weapon, hoping to buy one on the Russian black market. When that failed, they say, he started experimenting with chemical warfare, perhaps even testing a device. Then, in 1995, a truck bombing of a military base in Riyadh killed five Americans and two Indians. Linking bin Laden to the attack, the U.S. -- along with the Saudis -- pressured the Sudanese to expel him. To hi s dismay, they did. With his supporters, his three wives (he is rumored to have since added a fourth) and some 10 children, bin Laden moved again to Afghanistan. There he returned full time to jihad. This time, instead of importing holy warriors, he began to export them. He turned al-Qaeda into what some have called "a Ford Foundation" for Islamic terror organizations, building ties of varying strength to groups in at least a few dozen places. He brought their adherents to his camps in Afghanistan for training, then sent the m back to Egypt, Algeria, the Palestinian territories, Kashmir, the Philippines, Eritrea, Libya and Jordan. U.S. intelligence officials believe that bin Laden's camps have trained tens of thousands of fighters. Sometimes bin Laden sent his trainers out to , for instance, Tajikistan, Bosnia, Chechnya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, according to the State Department. As a result, U.S. officials believe bin Laden's group controls or influences about 3,000 to 5,000 guerrilla fighters or terrorists in a very loose o rganization around the world. Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian who was arrested entering the U.S. from Canada in December 1999 with a carful of explosives, has told interrogators that his al-Qaeda curriculum included lessons in sabotage, urban warfare and explosives. He was trained to attack power grids, airports, railroads, hotels and military installations. Visitors to al-Qaeda camps say that students receive instruction not only in using intricate maps of U.S. cities and targeted venues but also in employing scale models of potential site s for strikes. A 180-page al-Qaeda manual offers advice to "sleepers" (agents sent overseas to await missions) on how to be inconspicuous: shave your beard, wear cologne, move to newly developed neighborhoods where residents don't know one another. Bin Laden's far-flung business dealings have been a tremendous asset to his network. U.S. officials believe he has interests in agricultural companies, banking and investment firms, construction companies and import-export firms around the globe. Says a U .S. official: "This empire is useful for moving people, money, materials, providing cover." Though American authorities did break up two al-Qaeda fund-raising operations in the past year, they have been mostly unsuccessful in finding and freezing bin Lad en's assets. As he built his syndicate, bin Laden also became more open about what he was up to. In 1996 he issued a "Declaration of Jihad." His stated goals were to overthrow the Saudi regime and drive out U.S. forces. He expanded the target with another declaration in early 1998 stating that Muslims should kill Americans, civilians included, wherever they could find them. Later that year, his operatives used car bombs against the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224, mostly Africans. Those blasts provok ed a U.S. cruise-missile attack on an al-Qaeda base in Afghanistan that missed bin Laden and only burnished his image as an authentic hero to many Muslims. Bin Laden has spoken out against Israel, which he, like many Muslims, regards as an alien and aggressive presence on land belonging to Islam. Lately, he has lauded the current Palestinian uprising against Israel's continued occupation of Palestinian terri tories. But his main fixation remains the U.S. Officially, he is committed to preparing for a worldwide Islamic state, but for now he focuses on eradicating infidels from Islamic lands. Bin Laden's precise place in the terror franchise he's associated with is somewhat nebulous. Certainly, he is its public face. But Ressam has told interrogators that bin Laden is only one of two or three chieftains in al-Qaeda. Many bin Laden watchers and even ex-associates have observed that bin Laden appears to be a simple fighter without a brilliant head for tactics. His lieutenant, Ayman al Zawahiri, an Egyptian physician who heads the Egyptian al Jihad, which took credit for the assassination of Egyp tian President Anwar Sadat in 1981, is often mentioned as the brains behind the operations. U.S. federal prosecutors have asserted in court filings that al Jihad "effectively merged" with al-Qaeda in 1998. Mohamed Atef, al-Qaeda's military commander, is a lso a powerful figure. He is said to be a former Egyptian policeman who joined the Arab Afghans in 1983. His daughter recently married bin Laden's eldest son Mohamed. Speculation that bin Laden is in poor health -- he sometimes walks with a cane and is rumored to have kidney problems -- has focused succession discussions on these two men. It's not clear that any of the three key figures actually issues specific attack orders to adherents. Ressam told investigators the al-Qaeda operatives are rarely given detailed instructions. Rather, they are trained and then sent out to almost autonomous cells to act on their own, to plan attacks and raise their own funds, often using credit-card scams to load up on money, despite the Islamic prohibition against theft. Bin Laden, whose general practice is to praise terror attacks but disclaim any direct connection to them, has said, "Our job is to instigate." If his current hosts, the radical Islamic Taliban regime in Afghanistan, are to be believed, that's about the maximum bin Laden can personally do now. Under heavy international pressure to give their guest up, the Taliban claims to have denied him phone a nd fax capabilities. (He had already quit using his satellite phone because its signal can be traced.) Bin Laden has been forced to rely on human messengers. He leads a spartan life; he no longer has a comfortable camp. U.S. officials believe he lives on the move, in a sturdy Japanese pickup truck, changing sleeping locations nightly to avoid attempts on his life. He's still able to get out his message, though, through interviews and videotapes produced for his supporters. A tape of his son's wedding last January features bin Laden reading an ode he'd written to the bombing by his supporters of the U.S.S. Cole in Y emen, an attack that killed 17 service members. "The pieces of the bodies of the infidels were flying like dust particles," he sang. "If you had seen it with your own eyes, your heart would have been filled with joy." What would he say about the civilian men and women, the moms and dads, the children who died in New YorK City on Sept. 11? He might say, as he said to abc News in 1998, "In today's wars, there are no morals. We believe the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are the Americans. We do not have to differentiate between military or civilian. As far as we are concerned, they are all targets." With reporting by Hannah Bloch/Kabul, Massimo Calabresi/ Washington, Bruce Crumley/Paris, Meenakshi Ganguly/New Delhi, Scott MacLeod/Cairo, Simon Robinson/Nairobi, Douglas Waller/ Washington, Rebecca Winters/New York and Rahimullah Yusufzai/Peshawar September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Thu, 20 Sep 2001 23:47:28 EDT September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients xxx September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. x September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. The Most Wanted Man in the World 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 Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. From: X Date: Friday, January 11, 2002 2:05 PM To: XXX Subject: Did you all see this? Dear Friends, Forwarded to me as I forward it to you. X ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CNN:  AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN Explosive New Book Published in France Alleges that U.S. Was in Negotiations  to Do a Deal with Taliban Aired January 8, 2002 - 07:34 ET PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: Time to check in with ambassador-in- residence, Richard Butler, this morning. An explosive new book published in France alleges that the United States was in negotiations to do a deal with the Taliban for an oil pipeline in Afghanistan. Joining us right now is Richard Butler to shed some light on this new book.  He is the former chief U.N. weapons inspector. He is now on the Council on Foreign Relations and our own ambassador-in-residence -- good morning. RICHARD BUTLER, FMR. U.N. WEAPONS INSPECTOR: Good morning, Paula. ZAHN: Boy, if any of these charges are true... BUTLER: If... ZAHN: ... this... BUTLER: Yes. ZAHN: ... is really big news. BUTLER: I agree. ZAHN: Start off with what your understanding is of what is in this book --  the most explosive charge. BUTLER: The most explosive charge, Paula, is that the Bush administration -- the present one -- just shortly after assuming office, slowed down FBI investigations of al Qaeda and terrorism in Afghanistan in order to do a deal with the Taliban on oil -- an oil pipeline across Afghanistan. ZAHN: And this book points out that the FBI's deputy director, John O'Neill, actually resigned because he felt the U.S. administration was obstructing... BUTLER: A proper... ZAHN: ... the prosecution of terrorism. BUTLER: Yes, yes, a proper intelligence investigation of terrorism. Now, you said if, and I affirmed that in responding to you. We have to be careful here. These are allegations. They're worth airing and talking about, because of their gravity. We don't know if they are correct. But I believe they should be investigated, because Central Asian oil, as we were discussing yesterday, is potentially so important. And all prior attempts to have a pipeline had to be done through Russia. It had to be negotiated with Russia. Now, if there is to be a pipeline through Afghanistan, obviating the need to deal with Russia, it would also cost less than half of what a pipeline through Russia would cost. So financially and politically, there's a big prize to be had. A pipeline through Afghanistan down to the Pakistan coast would bring out that Central Asian oil easier and more cheaply. ZAHN: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) as you spoke about this yesterday, we almost immediately got a call from "The New York Times." BUTLER: Right. ZAHN: They want you to write an op-ed piece on this over the weekend. BUTLER: Right, and which I will do. ZAHN: But let's come back to this whole issue of what John O'Neill, this FBI agent... BUTLER: Right. ZAHN: ... apparently told the authors of this book. He is alleging that -- what -- the U.S. government was trying to protect U.S. oil interests? And at the same time, shut off the investigation of terrorism to allow for that to happen? BUTLER: That's the allegation, that instead of prosecuting properly an investigation of terrorism, which has its home in Afghanistan as we now know, or one of its main homes, that was shut down or slowed down in order to pursue oil interests with the Taliban. The people who we have now bombed out of existence, and this not many months ago. The book says that the negotiators said to the Taliban, you have a choice. You have a carpet of gold, meaning an oil deal, or a carpet of bombs. That's what the book alleges. ZAHN: Well, I know you're going to be doing your own independent homework on this... BUTLER: Yes. ZAHN: ... to see if you can confirm any of this. Let's move on to the whole issue of Iraq. The deputy defense secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, at one time was considered one of those voices within the administration... BUTLER: Yes. ZAHN: ... that was pushing for moving beyond Afghanistan. He seemed to back off a little from that yesterday. BUTLER: Yes. ZAHN: What do you read through the tea leaves here? BUTLER: A very interesting report that the administration will focus on the Philippines, Yemen, Somalia as places where there are al Qaeda cells. But the word Iraq wasn't used by the man who was the chief hawk -- used as a, you know, as a future target. So what I interpret from that is this: That very likely our allies have been saying to us, this is too hard. This is really serious. Be careful. Saddam is essentially contained at the moment. Don't start, you know, a bigger problem either in the Arab world or in the coalition by going after him. And Wolfowitz, it seems, has probably accepted that. ZAHN: A quick thought on the Israelis intercepting this latest armed shipment? What that means? You've got to do it in about 15 seconds. BUTLER: It's extraordinarily serious, because it seems to have been tied to Yasser Arafat himself. It needs to be further investigated, but you know, Paula, the potentiality that this could once again prove an impediment to resume peace negotiations is really quite serious. ZAHN: Thank you as usual for covering so much territory. Richard Butler, see you same time, same place tomorrow morning. BUTLER: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). ZAHN: We appreciate your insights. *************** "Who are we calling terrorists here?  Outsiders can destroy airplanes and buildings, but it is only we, the people, who have the power to demolish our own ideals." --Barbara Kingsolver **************** September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:27:42 EST September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients XX September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. I will be happy to go there.  Where will it be? -----Original Message----- From: X [mailto:X]On Behalf Of X Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 8:42 PM To: X Subject: [MAPC-coord] action comm meeting X, the action comt meeting is Tuesday at the same time as OE, Policy, and Communications.  That leaves X, X, X, or X to be able to show up to explain our vote.  X was a nay, X was abstain, and X has work conflicts, leaving X.  X, are you up for it? Otherwise, perhaps a document or email listing the points would help???? X September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Monday, October 22, 2001 7:53 AM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients X September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. RE: [MAPC-coord] action comm meeting 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 RE: [MAPC-coord] action comm meeting 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Possibly we need a name... There are currently 9 prospective members and 3 folks who asked to be kept informed.  We are meeting Tuesday 11/20 at 6:45 at a place to be determined. Our agenda will consist of naming ourselves, selecting an outie and innie, and setting up a workplan for ourselves.  Many of the prospective members (including myself) are parents, and have expressed cautiousness about our ability to commit to too many meetings.  We might be an unusual group.  I think we might be a email-based working group. I have a concern for discussion by the CC.  Since joining the MAPC, I scarcely have time for peace work.  I am not alone in expressing this. Between email overload, the general meeting, committee meetings, and CC meetings for outies, it's a lot.  I know that some of you are doing it, and doing it incredibly well.  And I understand and support the need for a great deal of communication and process in a new organization.  But we need structural niches persons with less time available.   I don't have a solution to suggest just yet, and I will keep thinking about this, but I wanted to bring this up for discussion as well. Finally, I am very pleased to see the push for outreach.  I think this the most critical thing for us right now - for all the right political reasons, but also because I am beginning to get faint wiffs of toast at every level in the organization.  Which is not to say we are not doing absolutely amazing things - the fast, the rallies, the art stuff, the teach-ins and tabling, the policy and website development, the fact the we already have a budget and money to fund it - it's all pretty astonishing.  But we could certainly use more person-power. PeaceLoveDove, (an old hippee) Norah _______________________________________________ coordination@madpeace.org http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-cc September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Thursday, November 15, 2001 10:38 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients coordination@madpeace.org September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. Re: [MAPC-coord] International/National Solidarity/Networking 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 Re: [MAPC-coord] International/National Solidarity/Networking 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. This is a very useful Q & A series from ZNET. "The average American is not surprised that corporations and the government seek to use fear of terror to redistribute funds upward by means of regressive tax reforms and boondoggle military spending, to gut public programs, to stifle public debate by calls for patriotism from the media, and to restrict rights by draconian legislation. But not as commonly understood is that active dissent can curb these trends and can foster opposite ones on behalf of the poor, of those who work, and of those who need civil liberties. And dissenters continuing to dissent and to make known the power of dissent, are thus absolutely essential, in this, now as at any other time." Eight Questions on the Direction the US "War on Terror" is Taking More Q & A On Terror and War By Michael Albert & Stephen R. Shalom 1. You have expressed skepticism that Osama bin Laden was involved in the Sept. 11 attacks. Are you still skeptical? Actually, what we and other advocates of democratic judicial values argued was not bin Laden's innocence, but that evidence regarding his involvement was not presented. On November 14 -- more than five weeks after the bombing began -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair declared that the evidence "now leaves no doubt whatever" that bin Laden was responsible. But isn't the evidence supposed to precede, not follow, the punishment? In any event, however, Blair's evidence even at this point is not decisive -- the only real addition to Blair's earlier dossier are quotes from an unpublicized bin Laden video -- that Britain doesn't have a copy of, but has knowledge of, reports the Los Angeles Times (15 Nov. 2001) -- that are not given in context and fall short of an admission. Bin Laden's guilt seems very likely, but the point is not to convince Blair or one allied government or another or even us, but public opinion in the Muslim world. Despite Washington's initial promise to present evidence publicly, it has yet to do so. Not only did we never dispute the possibility that bin Laden was involved in some way, we instead offered an explanation of why he might very well have been involved, what he was seeking, etc. We suggested that his motive, were he responsible, was probably to draw the U.S. into a massive response, destabilizing the region, a result that still may occur. More to the intent of the question, if, when a vigilante mob tries to lynch someone, it turns out that their suspect actually was guilty, that doesn't make the mob's actions any less vigilante. And this is true even if the mob doesn't kill a great many people (mostly victims, not culprits) in the process of going after their suspect, as has been occurring in Afghanistan. 2. Critics of the war have warned about mass starvation, genocide, and catastrophe. Weren't these warnings exaggerated? No. Opponents of U.S. policy, ourselves included, indicated that human rights and aid organizations warned that the bombing could lead to a million or even millions of deaths. And we pointed out that ignoring this warning, regardless of whether the horror came to pass or not, was an absolutely devastating commentary upon our ruling and media elites, and on others as well. That remains exactly the case. We also urged that it was a priority to pressure the U.S. to stop the bombing, stop the war, and aid in averting this catastrophe. That is still the priority, in fact. As to what damage has already been done, no one knows. What has happened, for example, to the large fraction of the population that has fled to the heavily-mined countryside? And many harmful consequences of U.S. policy will not be felt until later. What will be the future effects, for example, of losses in grain planting that was disrupted in October? When eyes turn away, who will be there to assess it? That a country embarks on a policy that puts a million or more innocent civilians at risk for political purposes is mass-scale terrorism. If -- and it remains a big if, regrettably -- the catastrophe is averted that will certainly be a reason to celebrate, but it will not be not reason to laud those who aggravated the prospects of disaster in the first place. Playing Russian Roulette is stupid -- even if you don't end up blowing your head off. Shooting a gun with a bullet in a random chamber at someone else is immoral, whether or not you end up committing murder. At the current time prospects are still very unclear. Yes, the U.S. could cease hostilities and assist food distribution, thereby reducing the prospect of catastrophic starvation. But the U.S. seems intent on rejecting any military let-up, and any pressure we can bring to bear urging this course of action is no less a priority now than it was yesterday or last week. Aid agencies warned that the crucial factor was how much food could be gotten in place before the winter snows and that the bombing interfered with getting the food in. Whether enough time now remains and whether the necessary effort is made before the snow arrives remains the critical question. 3. Some have been critical of the U.S. food drops. But weren't these helpful until the war provided a means to get food in by land? No. The food drops were pure PR, perhaps doing more harm than good. And while left critics of the war certainly argued this, they did so by quoting the World Food Program, the Red Cross, and others aid agencies, and even the Financial Times, all of whom issued scathing denunciations of this propaganda tool. Nothing has changed about that. What has now occurred is that the Northern Alliance has occupied Kabul, and what's left of the Taliban has retreated, it appears, to the mountains, virtually without a fight, under the weight of the most powerful non-nuclear bombs ever created, perhaps with the intention of waging an ongoing guerilla war from outside the main cities. The end to major fighting in the north may well have welcome humanitarian consequences. But what does that lead us to conclude about the morality of U.S. actions? Suppose the Taliban were to release, tomorrow, a proclamation declaring "we left the cities for the mountains so that the bombing would halt -- not having us as a target -- and the way would be clear for food aid to get to our fellow citizens. We have sacrificed our hold on power, to avert starvation among our people." Would we take that seriously? It would be true that their having left the field of battle created the conditions mentioned in the question. It would be true that it was a choice on their part, and that they could have instead fought on, leading into the winter, etc. Nevertheless, we would deduce based on our knowledge of their past policies that they made the choice out of their own strategic concerns, not out of concern for those suffering hunger. When the U.S. claims to care about the Afghan poor, we should not relinquish our critical faculties, just as we wouldn't were the Taliban to make the claim. Note, incidentally, that it was not the case that U.S. planners "knew" they could force the Taliban out of the northern cities before winter. Every indication suggests that the Taliban retreat was as much a surprise to the Pentagon as to everyone else. Just two days ago Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld was warning that though victory wouldn't take years, it would take months (which, he observed, meant that he had 23 months in which to operate). 4. Do you still think we're targeting civilians in our bombing? We never thought or stated that the bombing was targeting civilians per se. We did say that the direct violent affects on civilians were predictable. U.S. military planners know how often their smart bombs, not to mention their dumb bombs, miss, and how often their cluster bombs fail to detonate, thereby spewing future death traps across the land. But the real issue, from the beginning, was not the hundreds of civilians killed by bombs, horrible as that is, but the tens or hundreds of thousands, or maybe more, who might succumb quietly out of camera range. Some will be victims of the destruction of what little civilian infrastructure there is in the country: for example, electrical transmission from the power station at the Kajaki Dam has been knocked out, creating (according to UN officials) the risk of massive flooding and crop failures (Independent, 8 Nov. 2001). Some will be driven into the landmine-infested countryside. But the potentially most disastrous effect of the bombing -- as we always maintained, and as various aid agencies have warned -- has been to put huge numbers of people at risk of starvation. And this remains the case. And we said that the latter was the most abominably heinous aspect of the project -- beyond that it [the War] was undertaken outside the law, indeed specifically to delegitimate the law, and to maintain military credibility, and to propel a "war on terrorism" whose purpose to no small degree is to organize domestic fear in pursuit of elite agendas of financial redistribution from poor to rich and draconian social reaction against civil liberties. 5. There's been lots of criticism of the Northern Alliance. But haven't they proven pretty effective? Criticism of the Northern Alliance has been not that they are incompetent soldiers, but social monsters, slightly different in kind from the Taliban, but small improvement morally. Nothing in the past few days changes the historical record of the Northern Alliance, and indeed, the first sketchy reports of executions and looting in cities newly fallen under their control suggests that their thuggish practices continue. As RAWA, perhaps the foremost organization fighting for the rights of women in Afghanistan, announced as the Northern Alliance entered Kabul, "The retreat of the terrorist Taliban from Kabul is a positive development, but the entering of the rapist and looter Northern Alliance in the city is nothing but dreadful and shocking news for about 2 million residents of Kabul whose wounds of the years 1992-96 have not healed yet. Thousands of people who fled Kabul during the past two months were saying that they feared coming to power of the NA in Kabul much more than being scared by the US bombing." Moreover, while they are no doubt capable warriors, what has occurred has little or perhaps even nothing to do with their battlefield abilities, since there was no battle. The Taliban essentially withdrew without a fight, apparently choosing to cede the cities to continue the struggle from the mountains, depending on how much there is left to them, under the onslaught of the bombing. 6. Since the anthrax probably has a domestic source and since the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 probably was accidental, don't your concerns about creating more terrorists seem a little alarmist? Not at all -- unfortunately -- since people who are newly pushed to desperation by current policies, by the starvation, by the other continuing policies in the region, all now highlighted and aggravated, do not overnight manifest their commitment via terrorist attack, of course. The assessment of this miserable and depressing prediction against actual outcomes is in the future, not the present. It is not unlike when critics warned back in the 1980s that supporting bin Laden and the Mujahideen would have horrible future blowback ramifications. To say a week or two, or even a year or two after that prediction that it was proved false would have been a bit premature, obviously. 7. And your worries about uprisings throughout the Arab and Muslim worlds (including nuclear-armed Pakistan) -- weren't these too rather exaggerated? We and other critics said that the policies undertaken in Afghanistan and proposed for the rest of the world risked such destabilization. They did, and they still do. Does anyone think that Pakistan's stability is assured as the battle moves to the southern Pashtun region of Afghanistan, a region with many cross-border ties to Pakistan? And if the U.S. decides to expand the "war on terrorism" to some new defenseless venue, say the Sudan, or perhaps a not entirely defenseless venue, say Iraq, the prospects of general social dissolution in the region will enlarge, again. Numerous surveys in Arab and Muslim nations show extremely high levels of opposition to the U.S. war, even in supposedly friendly states. Most people are not inclined to heed bin Laden's call to holy war, but as the U.S. pushes its dictatorial allies to join Washington's holy war, instability is likely to spread. 8. Isn't it time to celebrate the demise of the Taliban and return to healing our country, setting aside all the negative talk about U.S. criminality, and all the opposition to U.S. policies? If the Taliban were finished as a social force, that would be something worth "celebrating" in that the Taliban is a horrendously reactionary and violent organization impeding justice by its very existence and practices. But, regrettably, it is quite possible that they are off planning their next actions, not disintegrating. As to setting aside criticisms of the U.S., nothing could be less constructive. First, to continue to criticize and more importantly raise dissent to pressure an end to bombing and undertaking food aid in all endangered regions is paramount. The alternative is too horrible to even entertain. Second, addressing the just grievances of people throughout the Middle East and the world regarding U.S. foreign policies is necessary both on behalf of those who suffer the impact of those policies, and also to eliminate the cause of support for terrorism against the U.S. And third, the events in NYC, Washington, and Afghanistan, we are told by our government, auger a larger project, a war on terrorism, whose character, as we can already see, is to be quite like that of the Cold War. It will, if it actually transpires as intended, marshal hate and fear through manipulation and misrepresentation into support for policies that further enrich and empower the already rich and powerful. Everyone, at some level, knows this. The average American is not surprised that corporations and the government seek to use fear of terror to redistribute funds upward by means of regressive tax reforms and boondoggle military spending, to gut public programs, to stifle public debate by calls for patriotism from the media, and to restrict rights by draconian legislation. But not as commonly understood is that active dissent can curb these trends and can foster opposite ones on behalf of the poor, of those who work, and of those who need civil liberties. And dissenters continuing to dissent and to make known the power of dissent, are thus absolutely essential, in this, now as at any other time. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Over the weekend, when reporting that the U.S. bombing raids were intensifying support for the Taliban within Afghanistan, CNN repeatedly commented that the Afghan people were not sophisticated enough to blame their own government for the U.S. attacks. Talk about perversion.  More below.... X ----- Original Message ----- From: "X To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:@hera.webcom.com;;;;> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 7:49 PM Subject: !*CNN: Focus on Civilian Casualties Would Be "Perverse" + More > FORWARDED MESSAGES > ==================== > From: "X > Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 1:36 PM > >  ACTION ALERT: >  CNN Says Focus on Civilian Casualties Would Be "Perverse" > >  November 1, 2001 > >  According to the Washington Post (10/31/01), CNN Chair Walter Isaacson "has >  ordered his staff to balance images of civilian devastation in Afghan > cities >  with reminders that the Taliban harbors murderous terrorists, saying it >  'seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in >  Afghanistan.'" > >  Post media reporter Howard Kurtz quotes a memo from Isaacson to CNN's >  international correspondents: "As we get good reports from >  Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, we must redouble our efforts to make sure > we >  do not seem to be simply reporting from their vantage or perspective. We >  must talk about how the Taliban are using civilian shields and how the >  Taliban have harbored the terrorists responsible for killing close to 5,000 >  innocent people." > >  The memo went on to admonish reporters covering civilian deaths not to >  "forget it is that country's leaders who are responsible for the situation >  Afghanistan is now in," suggesting that journalists should lay >  responsibility for civilian casualties at the Taliban's door, not the U.S. >  military's. > >  Kurtz also quotes a follow-up memo from Rick Davis, CNN's head of standards >  and practices, that suggested sample language for news anchors: > >  " 'We must keep in mind, after seeing reports like this from >  Taliban-controlled areas, that these U.S. military actions are in response >  to a terrorist attack that killed close to 5,000 innocent people in the >  U.S.' or, 'We must keep in mind, after seeing reports like this, that the >  Taliban regime in Afghanistan continues to harbor terrorists who have >  praised the September 11 attacks that killed close to 5,000 innocent people >  in the U.S.,' or 'The Pentagon has repeatedly stressed that it is trying to >  minimize civilian casualties in Afghanistan, even as the Taliban regime >  continues to harbor terrorists who are connected to the September 11 > attacks >  that claimed thousands of innocent lives in the U.S.' " > >  Davis stated that "even though it may start sounding rote, it is important >  that we make this point each time." > >  The New York Times reported (11/1/01) that these policies are already being >  implemented at CNN, with other networks following a similar, though perhaps >  not as formalized, strategy. "In the United States," the Times noted, >  "television images of Afghan bombing victims are fleeting, cushioned > between >  anchors or American officials explaining that such sights are only one side >  of the story." In other countries, however, "images of wounded Afghan >  children curled in hospital beds or women rocking in despair over a baby's >  corpse" are "more frequent and lingering." > >  When CNN correspondent Nic Robertson reported yesterday from the site of a >  bombed medical facility in Kandahar, the Times reported, U.S. anchors > "added >  disclaimers aimed at reassuring American viewers that the network was not >  siding with the enemy." CNN International, however, did not add any such >  disclaimers. > >  During its U.S broadcasts, CNN "quickly switched to the rubble of the World >  Trade Center" after showing images of the damage in Kandahar, and the > anchor >  "reminded viewers of the deaths of as many as 5,000 people whose 'biggest >  crime was going to work and getting there on time.'" > >  If anything in this story is "perverse," it's that one of the world's most >  powerful news outlets has instructed its journalists not to report Afghan >  civilian casualties without attempting to justify those deaths. "I want to >  make sure we're not used as a propaganda platform," Isaacson told the >  Washington Post. But his memo essentially mandates that pro-U.S. propaganda >  be included in the news. > >  ACTION: Please tell CNN to factually report the consequences of the U.S. > war >  in Afghanistan without editorializing. Including a justification for the >  bombing with every mention of civilian casualties risks turning CNN from a >  news outlet into a propaganda service. > >  CONTACT: >  CNN, Walter Isaacson, Chairman and CEO >  Phone: (404) 827-1500 >  Fax: (404) 827-1784 >  mailto:community@cnn.com > >  As always, please remember that your comments are taken more seriously if >  you maintain a polite tone. Please cc fair@fair.org with your >  correspondence. > >  For further details, see Howard Kurtz's full Washington Post story: > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14435-2001Oct30.html > >                                 ---------- > > ACTION ALERT: > Op-Ed Echo Chamber: > Little space for dissent to the military line > > November 2, 2001 > > During the weeks following September's terrorist attacks, two leading > dailies used their op-ed pages as an echo chamber for the government's > official policy of military response, mostly ignoring dissenters and policy > critics. > > A FAIR survey of the New York Times and the Washington Post op-ed pages for > the three weeks following the attacks (9/12/01 - 10/2/01) found that columns > calling for or assuming a military response to the attacks were given a > great deal of space, while opinions urging diplomatic and international law > approaches as an alternative to military action were nearly non-existent. > > We counted a total of 44 columns in the Times and Post that clearly stressed > a military response, against only two columns stressing non-military > solutions. (Though virtually every op-ed in both papers dealt in some way > with September 11, most did not deal specifically with how to respond to the > attacks, with many focusing on economics, rebuilding, New York's Rudolph > Giuliani, etc. During the period surveyed, the Post ran a total of 105 op-ed > columns, the Times ran 79.) > > Overall, the Post was more militaristic, running at least 32 columns > favoring military action, compared to 12 in the Times. But the Post also > provided the only two columns we could find in the first three weeks after > September 11 that argued for non-military responses; the Times had no such > columns. Both dissenting columns were written by guest writers. > > The Times' and Post's in-house columnists provided the bulk of the pro-war > commentary. Two-thirds of the Times columns urging military action were > written in-house, as were more than half of the Post's pro-war columns. This > may say something about which journalists are singled out for promotion to > the prestigious position of columnist. > > In addition, both op-ed pages showed a striking gender imbalance. Of the 107 > op-ed writers at the Post, only seven were women. Proportionally, the Times > did slightly better, with eight female writers out of 79. > > When critics argue that U.S. news media have a duty to provide a broad > debate on war, a common response is to ask why-- after all, isn't there a > political and popular consensus in favor of war? > > Perhaps, but there's reason to believe that the extent and nature of that > consensus has been overstated and distorted. > > In polls that offered a choice between a military response or nothing, it's > true that overwhelming majorities chose war. But given the choice between a > either military assault or pressing for the extradition and trial of those > responsible (Christian Science Monitor, 9/27/01), a substantial minority > either chose extradition (30 percent) or were undecided (16 percent). These > people had next to no representation in the op-ed debate; in fact, it's > likely that many people asked to choose whether or not to go to war had > never seen an alternative to war articulated in a mainstream outlet. > > There is also a little-acknowledged gender gap in poll responses about > military action, a fact that lends new significance to the gender imbalance > in Washington Post and New York Times op-eds. In the final two paragraphs of > a 1,395-word story titled "Public Unyielding in War Against Terror " > (9/29/01), the Washington Post pointed out that women "were significantly > less likely to support a long and costly war." According to the Post, while > 44 percent of women would support a broad military effort, "48 percent said > they want a limited strike or no military action at all." > > Similarly, a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll (Gallup.com, 10/5/01) showed that 64 > percent of men think the U.S. "should mount a long-term war," while 24 > percent favored limiting retaliation to punishing the specific groups > responsible for the attacks. In contrast, "women are evenly divided-- with > 42 percent favoring each option." Noting that "women's support for war is > much more conditional than that of men," Gallup reports that though 88 > percent of women favored taking retaliatory military action, that number > dropped to 55 percent if 1,000 American troops would be killed (76 percent > of men would support a war under these circumstances). > > Of course, gender equity on the op-ed pages would not guarantee proportional > representation for dissenters-- some of the most virulently pro-war and > anti-Muslim columns have been written by female commentators (e.g., Mona > Charen, who called for mass expulsions based on ethnicity--Washington Times, > 10/18/01). But given the gender differences suggested by polling, more women > on the op-ed pages might well give the lie to the conventional wisdom that > all Americans have no-holds-barred enthusiasm for an open-ended war. > > Even, however, if one accepts the idea that the public overwhelmingly favors > war, the task of journalism is to remain independent and to ask tough > questions of policy makers. After all, American history includes many > official policies that were popular in their time, but which today are > viewed as disasters. Wouldn't the country have been better off if > journalists had provided a stronger, more abiding challenge to the consensus > that supported Vietnam, or the internment of Japanese-Americans? > > More than any other newspapers, the New York Times and the Washington Post-- > with their unmatched influence in the nation's capitol and in U.S. > newsrooms-- have a duty to provide readers with a wide range of views on how > to deal with terrorism, its causes and solutions. If the purpose of the > op-ed page is to provide a vigorous debate including critical opinions, both > papers failed their readers at a crucial time. > > ACTION: Please urge the Washington Post and the New York Times to broaden > the range of debate on their op-ed pages about the U.S. war in Afghanistan. > > CONTACT: > New York Times > Terry A. Tang, Op-Ed Page Editor > mailto:nytnews@nytimes.com > Toll free comment line: 1-888-NYT-NEWS > > Washington Post > Michael Getler, Ombudsman > mailto:ombudsman@washpost.com > (202) 334-7582 > > As always, please remember that your comments are taken more seriously if > you maintain a polite tone. Please cc fair@fair.org with your > correspondence. > >                                ---------- > >                                   FAIR >                              (212) 633-6700 > http://www.fair.org/ >                           E-mail: fair@fair.org > ====================================> > From: X > > 1) Afghan Casualty Image: > http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/28/stiusausa01004.html > > ****************************** > > 2) US attack kills Afghan children in Kabul > > Live television captures scenes of tragedy, and desperation > > by Ali Abunimah > > October 28, 2001 > > American warplanes struck civilian dwellings in the Makrurian neighborhood > of the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday morning killing a number of people > many of them children, Al-Jazeera [Qatar-based cable TV network] reported. > > In a live report from the city moments after the strike, at approximately > 9 AM in Kabul, the television showed residents desperately digging through > the rubble of destroyed houses with small shovels looking for bodies of > loved ones. The television showed several bodies being uncovered from > under rubble, including the bodies of two young sisters. The television > showed their father crying and utterly distraught as his daughters were > pulled from the rubble and laid out on the ground. As people dug for > bodies, American warplanes circled overhead, and some people ran for > cover, apparently in fear of more attacks. > > The television showed, in pictures which were extremely difficult to bear, > bodies of children being laid out inside a building. One of the bodies > visible was missing limbs. Adults gently laid the bodies out and covered > them with sheets. In another shot the camera showed a head being revealed > by a rescuers shovel from a pile of rubble. > > The television showed a teenage boy searching among rubble of a house > possibly for members of his family. > > As the report was live, and the events were still unfolding, it was > impossible to say exactly how many people were killed. The Al-Jazeera > correspondent Taysir Allouni said that one completely destroyed house had > had nine occupants, of whom only one had emerged alive. In addition to the > dead people, the television showed a neighborhood of very simple mud > houses, which are simply pulverized when bombed, and many dazed, injured > and distraught residents. > > These images, perhaps because they were live and unedited, showed in the > most direct and shocking way what high explosives do to human beings and > their homes. These were the most upsetting pictures I have yet seen from > the war, and at times I found myself having to turn away from the screen. > > In other news, Israeli occupation forces have killed at least four more > Palestinians over the weekend, bringing the number Israel has killed since > October 18 to near 50. The Israeli government has announced that it is > postponing indefinitely its announced withdrawal from the towns and cities > it reoccupied since October 18. > > Ali Abunimah > http://www.abunimah.org > ------------------------------------------------ > This article came from > naeem_news@yahoogroups.com > > News/op-eds from alternate/progressive sources-- focusing on South Asia, > Third World. > > http://www.shobak.org > ------------------------------------------------ > > (end) > > _______________________________________________ discuss@madpeace.org mailing list http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-discuss September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Sunday, November 04, 2001 9:16 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients discuss@madpeace.org September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Sit down.  Take a few deep breaths and relax.  Close your eyes and ask yourself... when is it right to take another person's life?  What did you discover when you listened to that quiet voice within you?  Perhaps vigilantism is as abhorent as the acts that catalyzed it.  Perhaps violence is not a good answer? >--- Original Message --- >From: X <X> >To: madpeace-discuss@madpeace.org >Date: 11/5/01 5:10:49 PM > >...tries to get Bin Ladin dead or alive, killing many more innocents in the >process.  Is such vigilantism better than nothing?  Perhaps. _______________________________________________ discuss@madpeace.org mailing list http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-discuss September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. A rare Chicago appearance of Tahmeena Faryal, a representative of RAWA-the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan-will take place on Friday, Nov. 9, 6 p.m. at Hot House 31 E. Balbo (between Wabash and State St.). The meeting is entitled: "The Other America Welcomes the Other Afghanistan: An Evening of International Solidarity with RAWA-the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan." The meeting is sponsored by News and Letters Committees(list of cosponsors is still in formation). For more information call: 312-236-0799; email: nandl@igc.org Can we oppose both the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 and the U.S. government's war on Afghanistan by turning  a different vision of the future into a reality-a future of freedom, human dignity, cooperation, and genuine safety?  Who are our allies in helping to realize this vision? Come listen to and speak with TAHMEENA FARYAL, representative of RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. RAWA is an independent, all-volunteer, non-violent organization that calls for multilateral disarmament and the establishment of a secular democracy in Afghanistan, where women may once again participate fully in public life. Since 1977, the women of RAWA have stood up to all native and foreigner oppressors with courage and principle. They opposed the Russian occupation of Afghanistan and today they oppose all Islamic fundamentalist forces, including both the Taliban and those in the Northern Alliance. On Sept. 14, RAWA condemned the Sept. 11 attacks as a barbaric act of violence and terror; opposed a U.S. military attack that would kill thousands of innocent Afghans for the crimes committed by the Taliban and Osama bin Laden; and expressed its "sincere hope that the great American people can differentiate between the people of Afghanistan and a handful of fundamentalist  terrorists." While the Taliban have outlawed education for women beyond the second grade, and deny them the few social services that exist in Afghanistan, RAWA secretly-and under the threat of death-provides schooling for girls and boys, as well as medical care and adult education for women. In neighboring Pakistan, it provides Afghan refugees with aid, runs orphanages, and sponsors income-generating projects. _______________________________________________ discuss@madpeace.org mailing list http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-discuss September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Wednesday, November 07, 2001 10:49 AM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients madpeace-discuss@madpeace.org September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. [MAPC-discuss] Friday, in Chicago - RAWA 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 Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Below find a marvelous piece, especially for anyone feeling a little beseiged by the swell on mile-long, inch-deep patriotism flooding the land.  BTW,  for those of you who haeven't done so, please send me an e-mail to alruff@execpc.com so that I can switch you address over to my NEW e-mail location. -X Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 00:56:00 -0600 > > > San Francisco Gate - Oct 19, 2001 > > > > >http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2001/10/19/not e > > s101901.DTL&amp;type=printable> > > > > Evil Evildoers Of Evil > > > > How to feel calmly patriotic and yet not the slightest bit reassured by >Bush > > & Co. > > > > By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist > > > > This much is true: It really is possible to love your country and > > value your freedoms and still believe the government is full of fools > > and prevaricators and BS artists and Dick Cheney. Really. > > > > It is still possible to feel warmly patriotic in personal and > > important ways and yet believe the military and the generals and the > > war machine do not have your best interests at heart and really > > couldn't care less what those interests are anyway but thank you for > > sharing now please sit down and do as we tell you and by the way, > > thanks for all the flags and the money. > > > > And it is still possible to feel unified and spiritually connected to > > all that is good and righteous about your generally nonviolent > > Americanism -- you know, wine and sex and good music, large dogs and > > literature and clean water and tongue kissing in the streets -- and > > still be depressed when our famously nonintellectual president talks > > to the country like we're all five years old and heavily dosed on > > Ritalin. > > > > When Bush employs phrases like "bring the evildoers to justice" over > > and over, 17 times in one speech alone, and he furrows his brow like > > a serious Muppet and offers carefully scripted reassurances > > deliberately lacking in polysyllabism and detailed explanation > > because that would be, you know, complicated.  When he repeats > > primitive little maxims like "There are no negotiations" and responds > > to press-conference questions about the vitriolic anti-US hatred that > > has blossomed around the globe by saying, "I'm amazed. I just can't > > believe it because I know how good we are," thus causing a giant > > global spasm of multinational cringing and openly insulting the > > intelligence of anyone who can walk and breathe at the same time. > > > > When he delivers very earnest speeches he had no part in writing, > > and when he is forced to speak extemporaneously, sans script or > > TelePrompTer, and is reduced to simplistic good-guy/bad-guy > > platitudes and flustered, rapid blinking, and who cannot for the life > > of him articulate a complex idea, some sort of nuanced elucidation of > > our nation's motives and positioning, that contains more than one > > possible level of meaning.  But perhaps that's too harsh. Unfair. > > He's the president, after all. He is a Good Man. He's our leader > > right now, he's doing his best and he's all we've got. This is our > > rallying cry, our motto: He's all we've got. There's your bumper > > sticker. And there he is. > > > > Except for Cheney, which isn't exactly reassuring. No one has ever > > seen this man's mouth actually move. No one can take one look at his > > oddly spiritless and wan figure and not think, oh dear God, that man > > is running on fumes. From a bunker. With ropes and pulleys. But > > you're not supposed to. In fact, you really aren't allowed to > > criticize the president or the veep right now, not supposed to feel > > strangely leaderless and adrift, not permitted to look upon the > > events of the past weeks with much wariness or bitterness or a > > disquieting sense that we're setting things in motion that have no > > predictable outcome -- ugly, subterranean, hateful things that could > > last years and will surely cost billions and will deeply entrench the > > nation in a bizarre and poisonous shell game with shadowy opponents > > of largely unknown capability and do you hear that? That soft > > roaring? > > > > That's the sound of the GOP-stroked military machine, quietly > > cheering. Never mind the staggering multibillion-dollar political > > mess in Saudi Arabia that fueled bin Laden's network for years, or > > the enormous oil fields that are desperately vulnerable to terrorist > > attack at any moment. Never mind the US government's outright > > rejection of new advancements in alternative fuels to get us away > > from oil and out of the Gulf entirely. Instead we get: Evildoers. Air > > strikes. Hundreds of dead civilians. Rumsfeld denials. And Bush, > > squinting, saying things only small children and GasMaskExpress.com > > shoppers find comforting and manly. It is, Bush tells us, a war on > > terrorism. We will eradicate terrorism through largely violent and > > aggressive means, because that is what we must do and what we always > > do and everything else takes too damn long. We have to do something. > > > > This is the common wisdom. Bush said so. Mr. Rumsfeld told him so, > > with his black and shiny hawk eyes all a-glimmer. Disagree? You > > traitorous whiner. This war, it will be just like the War on Drugs. > > It will be potent and effective and our objectives will be clear. The > > nation had a nasty drug problem and we declared a war on drugs and > > spent billions over many years and now you can't buy drugs anymore. > > It will be just like that. > > > > There is more than one way to respond to the horror of Sept. 11. And > > there is more than one kind of patriotism. We forget this. You do not > > have to rally around Bush and tolerate Cheney's chthonic creepiness > > and wave a frantic flag and believe every scripted half-truth that > > drizzles out of the Pentagon, applaud the nonstop attacks on an > > already demolished nation. Pro-America does not mean pro-war. Or > > pro-Bush. Or anti- Afghanistan. Or pro-little-flags-on-SUV-antennas. > > It means thinking independently and getting better informed and > > filtering your news very carefully and realizing that just because > > one version of the American aggro attitude is currently being > > ramrodded down society's throat doesn't mean you have to swallow. > > > > It means you don't have to find Tomahawk missiles really cool or > > think all those tens of thousands of Europeans and Egyptians and > > world citizens protesting the US bombings must be commie jerks, or > > feel sad and morally depleted when you can't seem to draw any > > intellectual nourishment whatsoever when Bush declaims, "Terrorists > > want us to stop our lives, stop our flying, stop our buying. But this > > nation will not be intimidated by evildoers." You don't have to buy > > into that infantile hokum for a moment. After all, this is America. > > > > > > [Mark Morford's Notes & Errata column appears every Wednesday and > > Friday on SF Gate, unless it appears on Tuesday or Thursday, which it > > almost never does. He also writes the Morning Fix, a deeply skewed > > and very funny daily email newsletter.] _______________________________________________ discuss@madpeace.org mailing list http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-discuss September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Sunday, November 11, 2001 8:57 AM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients rwmcches@uiuc.edu September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. 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Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 20 VTMBH Article: Article Order 3 VTMBH Article: Title Khalistan rocks Capitol Hill again VTMBH Article: Author Sujeet Rajan VTMBH Article: Publication Indian Express (North American Edition) VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb In a startling disclosure of allegedly insidious lobbying, the self-styled president of the exiled Council of Khalistan for 16 years, Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh, has been accused by several Congressional aides of tricking them and in turn the Representatives into signing letters to support his cause. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Nearly a decade after Punjab returned to normalcy, and Kashmir became the topic of discussion on Indian geo-politics, the issue of Khalistan and self-determination for Sikhs has once again surfaced on Capitol Hill. In a startling disclosure of alleged insidious lobbying, the self-styled president of the exiled Council of Khalistan for 16 years, Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh, has been accused by several Congressional aides of tricking them and in turn the Representatives into signing letters to support his cause: the release of 52,000 Sikh political prisoners in India. Also, last month, the issue of Khalistan figured prominently in Congressional speeches by Rep. Dan Burton (R.-Ind.) and Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY), both long-time supports of Aulakh. Both raised the issue of self-determination for the Sikhs and said the Sikh community was living in oppression in Khalistan in India. In reply, last week the Indian ambassador, Lalit Mansingh, dashed separate letters to the two Congressmen, refuting the allegations. The suave, one-time Harvard don Aulakh, who is a trained virologist and has also worked at the National Institute of Health, was accused of a misinformation conspiracy by Courtney Anderson, the senior legislative assistant for Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.), who says that Aulakh duped a junior staffer in the office to believe that Shimkus had agreed to sign a letter to release political prisoners in India, reported The Hill. Since Shimkus name was already on the letter, the staff later got Shimkus to sign on the letter. The report also quoted other aides of Representatives as saying that Aulakh has been engaging in similar practices for several years. Hes sort of grandfatherly, an aide to a Congressman in the India Caucus is quoted as saying. He says in a soft voice, Im here for the congressmans signature on this letter. When we called up later, about a quarter of (foreign policy aides) genuinely did not have the foggiest clue they signed it, the aide said, referring to one of Aulakhs previous letters. (But) theyre reluctant (to have the signatures removed) because they dont want to be seen as flip-flopping. A legislative assistant to another Republican representative is also quoted as saying in the report that Aulakh tried to adopt similar measures at his office, coming in three times and saying the Congressman had agreed to sign the letter. But the office had been warned of the lobbyists tactics, and he refused. A former aide to Rep. Ken Bentson (D-Texas) said Aulakh had got another office to sign the letter in a similar way, says the report. The aide said Aulakh had put Bentsens name on the letter before anyone ever saw it. The only time that happens is when a member has (already) agreed to sign the letter, the aide is quoted as saying. Anderson complained to Aulakh and was able to get Shimkus signature taken off the letter, which was eventually sent to the President in February with 42 members of Congress signed on it. Burton and Towns had sponsored the letter. Anderson believes some of the signatures on the letter sent to the President may have also been the result of confusion and has asked the House Administration Committee to get involved. Shimkus, taking a hard line against Aulakhs tactics, in a March 22 letter to House Administration Chairman Bob Ney (R-Ohio), wanted stringent measure to be taken to stop further such unscrupulous lobbying. The Hill reported quotes another House Representative aide as saying: My relationship has been totally fine (with Aulakh); hes been really nice and informative. The legislative aide said his office chose not to sign the letter partly because of past links between the Sikh independence movement and terrorist activity. I understand he actually has a really good reputation on Capitol Hill, the aide is quoted as saying. Sources at the Indian Embassy, speaking to The Indian Express on condition of anonymity, said that the tactics adopted by Aulakh to get the letter on political prisoners signed is not surprising. He has for years tried to get a disinformation campaign going, the source said. Asked if the Embassy was going to try and press some charges, a source said that since Aulakh is a U.S. citizen, the American law will take its own course. Aulakh came to the United States in 1970. Its not for us to put in a complaint, the source added. In his defense, Aulakh, speaking to The Indian Express, said the allegations against him are incorrect. It is very clear that the staffer (Courtney) is a freshman and the Congressman too is a freshman, Aulakh said. They made a mistake. I dont mislead anybody. I have never misled anybody. If I misled anybody here, I would not be here for 16 years. It is their responsibility to see what they are signing just like I give them the letter in good faith. Aulakh condemned the communal disturbances in Gujarat, saying that it is akin to a repeat of 1984 and attributed the continuing incidents in Gujarat to a growing interest in the issue of Khalistan on Capitol Hill. When asked what he is doing for the Sikh cause in the United States, Aulakh said that he was making sure that Congressmen and Senators are more aware now of the Sikh identity in the country. It has helped the Sikh community tremendously (the cases of discrimination), he said. Everybody now knows who the Sikhs are. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-05-10 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File v20_n3.pdf VTMBH Article: Hit Count 104 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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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 12 VTMBH Article: Article Order VTMBH Article: Title America's threat in Somalia VTMBH Article: Author VTMBH Article: Publication West African News VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb Business is flourishing, telephones and the internet are functioning, doctors are returning to provide medical care and financial services are booming in Somalia today. But the country still faces desperate problems, including the threat of U.S. strikes. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body "Gruesome, harrowing, intense." These words have been used to describe the movie "Black Hawk Down," which claims to depict events in 1993, when elite U.S. troops launched a doomed mission to capture a warlord in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. Some say this description could apply to the war-torn country itself, now reportedly facing the threat of U.S. attacks again. But, observers point out, the Somalia of today is not the Somalia of Black Hawk Down. By a twist of fate, the new movie Black Hawk Down is opening in theatres just as the United States is considering expanding the war on terrorism into Somalia, remarks Ken Menkhaus, a U.S. professor and former advisor to the United Nations on Somalia. Somalia and the United States are apparently doomed by fate to collide at critical moments in global politics. This collision has never brought anything but trouble to both parties. Since civil conflict erupted after the ouster of President Siad Barre in 1991, Somalia has been struggling to rise from the anarchy prevailing in the country. And, according to Somalia watchers, from the ashes of the civil war, there is a success story. Entrepreneurs are returning to the country; reconstruction is underway; business is booming (particularly in the provision of internet and financial services); the warlords of 1993 are either dead or their powerbases are weakened; and aid organizations have been able to operate again, mitigating some of the dire humanitarian needs. A report by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) says that while human development in Somalia is unacceptably poor, over the past decade there have been significant developments in communications technology and economic infrastructure. It noted, however, that the security situation could not be generalized. Regional analysts say that apart from uncertainty over the likelihood of U.S. strikes, one of the biggest destabilizing factors is the self-interest of the warlords and faction leaders, who keep changing sides depending on what they are offered. <i>Somalia is not Afghanistan</i> The lack of a stable central government and the chaos of civil war led to fears that radical groups might use Somalia as a safe haven and training ground. Observers note that Washington believes the country is a likely refuge for members of Osama bin Ladens al Qaeda network fleeing Afghanistan. The U.S. Treasury has accused the Mogadishu-based remittance and telephone company Al-Barakaat of funding terrorism, and seized its assets in various countries. Al-Barakaat has denied any links to terrorism, and offered to make its books available to U.S. investigators. Observers say that remittances sent to Somalia via institutions such as al-Barakaat constituted the greatest financial receipts in the country, and its closure hurt tens of thousands of people. Writing in Janes Defence Weekly, Hailes Janney, a specialist in African defense and security issues, says that despite its history, Somalia never became a bastion for terrorist groups as in Afghanistan due partly, he says, to the clan system. He says the Somali Islamist movement, al-Ittihad, widely believed by U.S. officials to have links with alQaeda, has lost much of its formal structure since it abandoned efforts to physically control territory. Menkhaus concurs. He describes al-Ittihad as a small, relatively weak organization with a mainly domestic agenda. Some individuals have had links to al-Qaeda that merit close scrutiny, but the group as a whole is in no way a subsidiary of al-Qaeda, Menkhaus says. Neither, he adds, should parallels be drawn between the Taliban of Afghanistan and Somalias Transitional National Government (TNG). It [TNG] is extremely weak, controlling only half of the city of Mogadishu, and while it has some al-Ittihad members in its parliament, it is by no means a front for Islamists. Menkhaus says any attack against the TNG would constitute a serious error. One of the costs of ignoring Somalia since 1994 is that now we [the United States] are caught trying to formulate policy about a country we know nothing about, he remarks. He believes that while concern about Somalia as a refuge has merit, in reality it is a lousy refuge for non-Somali radicals. Foreigners cannot operate in secrecy in Somalia; everyone knows who you are and what youre doing, he says. In the same vein, Janes Defence Weekly adds that Washington has been made dependent on its so-called friends by poor intelligence and will be manipulated and misled at every turn. <i>Rebuilding the Country</i> Humanitarian organizations point out that there has been noticeable progress in rebuilding the country since the events of 1993. The international community must recognize that he Somalia of today is not the Somalia of Black Hawk Down, a humanitarian worker with many years experience in Somalia told IRIN (United Nations Integrated Regional Information Networks). There have been many positive changes and much progress has been made. This must be recognized and taken into account when formulating policy. Somalia watchers say that in the ensuing years, faction leaders and warlords have been considerably weakened and Somalis themselvestired of fighting and insecurityare largely responsible for the development of their country. Business is flourishing, telephones and the internet are functioning, doctors are returning to provide medical care and financial services are booming. Name me an anarchy where you can build a house, start a business, make a telephone call or log onto the Internet, one observer pointed out. CARE International, one of the largest humanitarian organizations in Somalia, stresses that the country has desperate needs that must be addressedfood crises leading to serious malnutrition, a ban on livestock imports from Somalia imposed by Gulf States and the threat of U.S. strikes. The threat of strikes has disrupted peoples lives and is a disincentive for investment, warned Scott Faiia, CAREs country director for Somalia. Somalia has changed, he added, and the progress must be supported. He believes that life has gradually improved for the average person, and this process must be allowed to continue. Humanitarian workers have expressed concern that Black Hawk Down will reinforce the mistaken belief that Somalia is a still country of anarchy and chaos, and that it will sway public opinion in a negative way. As Black Hawk Down reminds us, snatching Somalis in the heavily-armed, clannish neighborhoods of Mogadishu is a very high risk, concludes Menkhaus. Chasing down minor players in the crowded dens of Mogadishu would be very unwise. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-03-25 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File v12n4.doc VTMBH Article: Hit Count 61 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 America's threat in Somalia 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 28 VTMBH Article: Article Order 1 VTMBH Article: Title Haitians demand justice for Georgy Louisgène VTMBH Article: Author VTMBH Article: Publication Haiti Progres VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb On July 15, the Georgy Louisgène Justice Committee rallied outside Brooklyn Distract Attorney Charles Hynes offices at 350 Jay Street to protest his decision to not file charges against two cops who fatally shot Georgy Louisgène. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body On July 15, the Georgy Louisgène Justice Committee rallied outside Brooklyn Distract Attorney Charles Hynes offices at 350 Jay Street to protest his decision to not file charges against two cops who fatally shot Georgy Louisgène, 23, in Brooklyn on Jan. 16. An autopsy report obtained by the family reveals that Louisgène was shot in the side and back, according to Abby Louis Jeune, the victims sister. They werent shooting to stop him, she said. They were shooting to kill. The shooting by New York City Police Officers James Muirhead and Joseph Thomposn was a justified use of force, Hynes said in a statement on June 28. Every killing that the NYPD does in Brooklyn, Charles Hynes just lets these officers go free, Louis Jeune replied. They know that Hynes will cover up for them for they just keep on killing. The Louisgène family and their lawyers now intend to take the case to the Federal courts. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-07-23 VTMBH Article: Thumb georgysmall.gif VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 75 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 Haitians demand justice for Georgy Louisgène 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. unknown 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. article Original Name The original name of this item. On July 15, the Georgy Louisgène Justice Committee rallied outside Brooklyn Distract Attorney Charle 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. 2002-07-23 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 "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 17 VTMBH Article: Article Order 2 VTMBH Article: Title Owner of Halal Pride Chicken says demand for Halal chicken skyrocketed after mad-cow disease in Europe VTMBH Article: Author VTMBH Article: Publication Bangla Patrika VTMBH Article: Original Language Bengali VTMBH Article: Translator Moinuddin Naser VTMBH Article: Section briefs VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body After the outbreak of mad cow disease in Europe, people of all religions in America became more interested in consuming Halal meat. (Halal is a process of breeding and slaughtering birds and animals in an Islamic way, similar to kosher meat.) Aslam Sheikh, the founder of Halal Pride Chicken Farm in Holmes County, Ohio, explained the upturn in demand to Bangla Patrika. Halal Pride Chicken recently entered the New York market, though the demand for chicken on his farm comes from the Midwest, Northeast and Southeast. Less than half the demand, Sheikh estimated, comes from Muslims. Most buyers are non-Muslims, Sheikh said. Members of other communities buy Halal chicken for health reasons, he speculated. The poultry cluster farm is under the supervision of 70 Amish families in Ohio. The families raise chickens in their family farms naturallyno artificial hormones or other additives are used. The chickens are free from animal byproducts like pork fat, intestines or any other unholy things. Only soybeans and vegetables are used to feed the chickens, making them more lean. Sheik said that his soft and tender fleshy chicken is unparalleled in taste and smell. Sheikh, who is more than sixty years old, long dreamt of a poultry farm where everything, from the laying of eggs to the slaughtering of chickens, is done in a Halal way, so that he can supply Halal products to all chicken lovers and especially Muslims. He said that today his dream has been realized. Born in Kenya, Sheikh and moved to London, where he worked at a Halal chicken supplier. He came to the United States in 1967. There were not so many Muslims in the United States at that time, he said. I used to go to Columbia University to say Eid prayer, and I found only 18 persons present offering prayer. So in the beginning of his life in United States, there was a delay in his dream of processing Halal chicken. At that time he opened the Curry in a Hurry restaurant on Lexington Avenue, which is now run by a Bangladeshi. He stayed in the restaurant business until 1971, when he imported garments for the Banroo company. After the recession in the late 1980s forced Banroo to close, Sheikh returned to chicken production. Meanwhile, the Muslim population had increased all over New York and other places. In Ohio, in 1988, he began a Halal chicken farm and started marketing Halal meat. Though trained as a textile engineer, this old man has spent most of his life pursuing his objective to produce Halal chicken. On one of many road trips, he discovered some Amish families and taught them how to raise and slaughter Halal chickens. I could not even find the time to get married. But I have 11 brothers and sisters, who all live in the United States, and my family is everything in my life. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-04-19 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File v_b1.pdf VTMBH Article: Hit Count 256 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 Owner of Halal Pride Chicken says demand for Halal chicken skyrocketed after mad-cow disease in Euro 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 41 VTMBH Article: Article Order 3 VTMBH Article: Title Chinese Americans pleased by Patakis landslide VTMBH Article: Author Xiaoqing Rong VTMBH Article: Publication Sing Tao Daily VTMBH Article: Original Language Chinese VTMBH Article: Translator Yik Kong VTMBH Article: Section elec02 VTMBH Article: Blurb In New York, the Republican Party is the minority party. However, its policies match the visions of many Chinese Americans, said Republican Hsieh Mei-Lin. Others disagree, saying that although Pataki has a good record of achievement, the governors failure to address workers problems after September 11th exposes his weakness. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Incumbent Republican George Pataki won the New York State gubernatorial election by a landslide, marking his third term as governor of New York State. The Chinese American community considers his re-election well-deserved since his polices have been successful and he has received support from outside of the Republican Party. Sun Zhao Qin, a Chinese American who is active in the Republican Party, believes that Pataki easily won the election because his record and achievement over the past eight years have been recognized by many people. Sun said, Because of Patakis promotion of Metrocards, suburban residents are able to save money and to have convenient access to transportation. In addition, Child and Family Health Plus provided services and benefits to people who have low incomes and previously had health care. Therefore, even people in the Democratic Party came out to support Pataki, giving him an easy re-election. Pauline Eng, director of the Chinatown Senior Center who is familiar with Gov. Pataki, thinks that Pataki has the vision, and not the attitude, of a politician. His policies have been inclusive of all classes of people. He visited P.S. 130 with the President and the Mayor. He also visited the Senior Center in Chinatown. After the events of September 11th, among all the candidates, he was the one who visited Chinatown the most. He is very concerned with the severe effects of the declining economy on Chinatown. She added, The most important things were that Pataki went to the Canal Street subway station in order to get the views of the public and that he fought for bus services. As a Republican governor, he has policies different from the Democratic Party. However, Pataki hopes to work with Zhao Wah to find common ground and to fight for more benefits for the people. His re-election will surely bring more benefits to the Chinese American community. Republican candidate Hsieh Mei-Lin, who got support from Pataki during her campaign, believes that the governors achievement over the past eight years has been very impressive, and that he protects the benefits of Chinese American community. She said, In New York, the Republican Party is the minority party. However, its policies match the visions of many Chinese Americans. Many of its policies meet the needs of Chinese Americans. Furthermore, he entrusts and employs Chinese Americans, including Chao Xiao-Mei and Tang Ku. Patakis re-election as the governor will not only give the Republican Party control of the state, but also will allow Pataki to work with Mayor Bloomberg to increase the political status and power of the Republican party in New York City. On the other hand, Wing Lam of the Chinese Staff and Workers Association, who was arrested in Albany last month, believes that Patakis re-election came from corporate funding and aggressive advertisement. He thinks that although Pataki has good record of achievement, the governors failure to address workers problems after September 11th exposes his weakness. Lam said that as part of the working class, they will continue to fight for more rights and to force the governor to pay attention to injured workers compensation and benefits. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-11-06 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 46 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 Chinese Americans pleased by Patakis landslide 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. unknown 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. article Original Name The original name of this item. In New York, the Republican Party is the minority party. However, its policies match the visions of 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. 2002-11-06 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 "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 6 VTMBH Article: Article Order 1 VTMBH Article: Title Competing factions misinform FBI and Anti-Terrorist Task Force, who raid Pakistani mosque and find nothing. VTMBH Article: Author Mohsin Zaheer VTMBH Article: Publication Sada-e-Pakistan NY VTMBH Article: Original Language Urdu VTMBH Article: Translator Salma Sabir Chaudhry VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb On Friday, January 4, the FBI and the Anti -Terrorist Task Force raided Masjid e Khizra mosque, in Queens, on a false tip of weapons possession. The mosques community is at odds, some supporting a fired imam. Some sources charge the imams opponents called in the false tip, but they deny the charge. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body On Friday, January 4, the FBI and the Anti -Terrorist Task Force raided Masjid e Khizra mosque, in Queens, on a false tip of weapons possession. The FBI received an anonymous tip that a few people planned to kill almost 400 people and hid dangerous weapons in the mosque. Federal agents, spy dogs and a bomb squad found nothing. Masjid e Khizra is run by a nonprofit organization Idara Tableeg-ul-Islam, which was in the process of firing the mosques imam, Mufti Abdul Rahman Qamar, when the FBI raided it. Sources suggest that supporters of Qamar provided the false tip, to cause trouble to Masjid e Khizra. Federal agents took Khalil-ur-Rahman, a son of the imam, into custody and interrogated him. The FBI went to the Imam Qamars house and raided the mosque, where they took four of the imams sonsincluding one who was praying at the timeinto custody. All of a sudden the FBI guys entered into the mosque and handcuffed all of us, laid us down on the floor of the mosque and searched almost all the parts of the mosque, said Ateeq ur Rahman, one of the imams sons who was arrested. Meanwhile, the other team of FBI brought the imam to the mosque and federal agents interrogated all of us. After completing the search, the federal agents declared the mosque as well as the detainees clear, Rahman said. He also said that federal agents took all of the imams sons to their home, searched portions of the house and checked their immigration status. The FBI also interrogated other members of the mosque, including taxi driver Saeed Mahmood. Mosque member Altaf Rana explained the complicated roots of the disagreements between the factions. The day after the raid, Imam Mufti Abdul Rahman Qamar left for Pakistan. His son, Ateeq, told this correspondent that his father left as previously scheduled, to see his mother who is seriously ill. After his fathers departure, Ateeq served as the acting imam. Idara Tableeg-ul-Islam, the non-profit, recently appointed a new imam for the mosque. The president of Idara Tableeg-ul-Islam, Ataf Hassan, and the secretary general Kausar Chishti denied any involvement with the FBI. They said at a press conference that the imams services were terminated because he failed to respond to a legal notice served him and for leaving for Pakistan without prior permission of the Idara. A local newspaper has published that I provided false information to the FBI, so I want to make it clear that its a totally baseless accusation, Chishti said. I can't even imagine doing such a stupid thing. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-01-22 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 71 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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On Friday, January 4, the FBI and the Anti -Terrorist Task Force raided Masjid e Khizra mosque, in Q 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. 2002-01-22 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 "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 19 VTMBH Article: Article Order 4 VTMBH Article: Title Evicted in Upper Manhattan VTMBH Article: Author José L. Llanes VTMBH Article: Publication Hoy VTMBH Article: Original Language Spanish VTMBH Article: Translator Erica Pearson VTMBH Article: Section briefs VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body If the six Hispanic businesses at 201 West 108th St, at Amsterdam Avenue, dont leave in a month they will be thrown out on the street. The ultimatum came from landlord Allan Garfield of the Strata Realty Corporation, who informed them that their leases would not be renewed, as he had promised three years earlier. They must now abandon the properties within 30 days. The battle promises to be anything but easy. The business owners formed a coalition with Cynthia Doty, NYC assistant to Assemblyman Edward C. Sullivan, Altagracia Hiraldo of the organization Dominican Sunday, and dozens of the building's residents. The coalition demands that Strata Realty honor its word as binding and renew the commercial leases, or at least give them more time to prepare for the costly move. If this isnt possible, the community will boycott the new businesses once they move in. The great demand for space in this zone on the Upper West Side is pushing small Hispanic businesses out. And apparently, they want to rent to large chain businesses. That is why they need all of the locations, said Gustavo Madero, owner of Ez Vision, one of the threatened businesses. Barely three years ago, in this largely Mexican, Puerto Rican and Dominican neighborhood known as Manhattan Valley, women were afraid to walk to the subway stations alone for fear of running into drunks and drug dealers who prowled the area. It is precisely interaction with the community by these now-threatened small businesses that has contributed to cleaning up the social atmosphere. The community cares for these six stores because they are a part of us. A chain store could destroy this relationship, Doty said. The only thing that you can do is use the power of money to boycott the new businesses. Who will want to open a store knowing full well that it will be boycotted? For Luis Feliz, owner of Popular Discount, the problem goes even further. It looks like it is a plan to kick out the Hispanic renters as well as business people. Barely 12 Hispanic families are left in the buildings 48 apartments, said Feliz. The conditions for the residents don't appear to be easy, either. Augusto Cuartas, a Colombian who is president of the buildings Tenants Association, said that while the neighbors support the proprietors demands, they also have their own complaints. The maintenance in this building is terrible; it is always dirty and has many leaks. My roof caved in and I am also bringing a complaint against the landlord, concluded Cuartas. Landlord Allan Garfield did not return our calls. Doty explained that the community recently boycotted large chain stores like CVS Pharmacy and Kentucky Fried Chicken that tried to open stores on 102nd and 106th Streets, at the cost of a local supermarket and a Cuban restaurant, both of which were of great importance to their neighbors. The community embargo has provoked the giant KFC to think again. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-05-07 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 194 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 Evicted in Upper Manhattan 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. unknown 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. article 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. 2002-05-07 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 "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 15 VTMBH Article: Article Order 3 VTMBH Article: Title United States establishment is wary of Pakistanis, equates them with fundamentalists and terrorists VTMBH Article: Author M. R. Farrukh VTMBH Article: Publication Pakistan Post VTMBH Article: Original Language Urdu VTMBH Article: Translator Rehan Ansari VTMBH Article: Section edits VTMBH Article: Blurb President Bush lauds General Musharrafs government, but his opinion of ordinary Pakistanis is very low, as can be seen from his reaction to the incident of four missing Pakistani sailors in Virginia. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body The fact that the world changed after September 11th is evident every day in newspapers around world. America has launched a worldwide campaign against terrorism, in which it has many allies and very few targets. All of the targets are Muslim. Now terrorism has a religion. This is a great injustice to Muslims everywhere. Islam is a peace- loving religion that preaches tolerance and humanity. It is terrible that the U.S. media takes the actions of a very few and dumps responsibility on all the followers of a religion. The attacks of September 11th have been condemned by every nation and by followers of every religion. All the countries that the United States approached to fight terrorism have joined the war. Pakistan has been a frontline ally. Officially, the Bush government is all praise for the government of Pakistan. The U.S media has followed suit and used every superlative to describe General Musharraf. On the other hand, within the Untied States, people of Pakistani origin have been the most harassed since September 11th. Most of the detainees, as well as most of those deported, are Pakistani. Sources claim that among those detained are U.S. citizens of Pakistani origin. The entire Muslim community in the United States feels suffocated, but Pakistanis in particular never thought they would suffer so in the United States. General Musharraf, after his trip to the United States, said that Pakistanis here are perfectly safe. It is Pakistans political legacy that the leaders of the countrywhether soldiers or civiliansself-interestedly mislead the people. For the first time Pakistani community has appeared in the headlines, but in such unfortunate ways. When the United States attacked Afghanistan, the protests on the streets in neighboring Pakistan became the face of extremism in the U.S. media. Nobody bothered to report how many Pakistanis were in those protests. Most of the protestors were Afghan, as three million of them have found refuge in Pakistan since the last Afghan war. The gruesome murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl again made all Pakistanis seem anti-American in the mainstream presss message. In the news, the Daniel Pearl murder was followed by an attack on the church in Islamabad in which two U.S citizens died. Pakistan is a nation of 140 million people, a handful of whom performed such terrible deeds. Blame should be placed correctly. Charged with the murder of Daniel Pearl is Sheikh Omar and his organization, The Army of Muhammad. Sheikh Omar was freed from an Indian jail in 1999, in exchange for hostages taken in a hijacking of an Indian plane. Why did the government of Pakistan allow Omar to live in Pakistan and allow his organization to continue? It is well known that the Pakistani Armys interests and those of the militants are wedded to similar goals: for example, the Kashmir cause. This is true even in these times. General Musharraf, in some of his statements, has indicated as much. On one hand General Musharraf shows his liberal credentials to the Americans. On the other, he makes stirring statements about Kashmir that could well come from the mouth of a militant. Today President Bush lauds General Musharrafs government, but his opinion of ordinary Pakistanis is very low, as can be seen from his reaction to the incident of four missing Pakistani sailors in Virginia. Nineteen of the 27 sailors were Pakistani. Four of them have disappeared. The fact that the sailors were given permission to land though they did not possess visas created a furor. President Bush himself ordered their arrests. The FBI, the CIA and Interpol are all involved. None of the four has any links to a terrorist organization. They are of four of the hundreds of thousands of poor Pakistanis who dream of a better life and come to the United States through legal or illegal means. With the U.S. president sounding tough and the law enforcement agencies acting tough, its no surprise the media shows no compassion in their reporting on this story. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-04-03 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File v15e3.doc VTMBH Article: Hit Count 127 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 United States establishment is wary of Pakistanis, equates them with fundamentalists and terrorists 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. unknown 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. article Original Name The original name of this item. President Bush lauds General Musharrafs government, but his opinion of ordinary Pakistanis is very l 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. 2002-04-03 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 "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 18 VTMBH Article: Article Order 2 VTMBH Article: Title New York, Mexican Style VTMBH Article: Author Santiago Bonilla VTMBH Article: Publication Hoy VTMBH Article: Original Language Spanish VTMBH Article: Translator Hannah Emmerich VTMBH Article: Section briefs VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body With faces painted red, white and green, and waving matching Mexican flags, thousands of Mexican-Americans took to the streets of New York yesterday to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. On 116th Street in Spanish Harlem, in Flushing Meadows Park, in Astoria, and at the South Street Seaport, the sounds of mariachis and the smells of guacamole, tacos, tortillas, burritos, and corn on the cob filled the air. There was even a hot jalapeno chili-eating contest. The 116th Street festival was marked by the presence of several famous musicians, such as Yamil (the pride of Mexico), the group Tales from the Crypt, and Julia Palma, a mariachi singer who came from Mexico to attend the festival. These and other musical groups entertained the public all day and into the night. Im very happy to have been invited to participate in this festival. I am thankful to my fans who have welcomed me so warmly, said Yamil. Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión, Governor George Pataki, and Health Plus Director of Communications and External Affairs Selma Betancourt, who was named Godmother of the festivities, also attended the 116th Street festival. Governor Pataki addressed the crowd and shouted in Spanish, Viva Puebla. (Long live Puebla.) Being Puerto Rican, I feel very honored to have been named Godmother to the Mexican community. It is important to support all of the Latino community and to spread our culture, said Betancourt. For the children who attended the festival on 116th Street there were gifts, hats, clowns, and balloons of all colors. They also had the opportunity to pet sheep, llamas, horses, and other animals brought to the festival. I feel very proud to be Mexican and to be able to spend Cinco de Mayo just like we do in Puebla, said Luisa Hernández, pushing a baby carriage. Events like this are important keeping Mexican culture alive, said Julio Fernández of Upper Manhattan. The festival has been a complete success. Due to the publics enthusiastic response we are planning to hold the Mexican parade on Fifth Avenue, said Juan Cáceres, festival organizer. At the festival in Flushing, many Mexican families celebrated with picnics of hot sauce, tortillas, tacos, burritos, and other traditional dishes. The entertainment included Banbini, a group of four beautiful little girls aged 6 to 11, who delighted the public with renditions of classic songs by the late Mexican-American singer Selena. Later, there was traditional Aztec music and folk dancing, and the rhythm of the drums could be heard into the night. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-05-06 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 220 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 New York, Mexican Style 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 46 VTMBH Article: Article Order 4 VTMBH Article: Title Emergency Medical Services battle rages between private and public VTMBH Article: Author Chris Burch VTMBH Article: Publication Highbridge Horizon VTMBH Article: Original Language English VTMBH Article: Translator VTMBH Article: Section briefs VTMBH Article: Blurb VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body There is a war between public and private Emergency Medical Service (EMS) units in the city of New York. For-profit ambulances are companies which are loyal to a hospital, not to the public, says Patrick Bahnken, president of the emergency medical technicians and paramedics of Local Union 2507. Bahnken says, Emergency medical services are loyal to the city. For-profit ambulances companies are loyal to profit. He says that for-profit ambulance services were launched in February of this year. Bahnken claims that this is against the City Charter. There was a study conducted on this issue under the watch of former Mayor Lindsey. Several private ambulance companies were unavailable for comment. The public EMS units are required to take a written examination along with extensive training, but private paramedics do not. Private EMS personnel earn more and do not have to physically train for their position. All private ambulance companies are sanctioned by the state of New York. It is not fair to us, says New York Fire Department EMS employee Edward Ortiz. Privatizing ambulance service means that the public is at risk while (EMS) employees suffer because we are not getting the pay we should be getting. Ortiz has been with a FDNY EMS unit for seven years and is a delegate for Local Union 2507. In order to drive a city-owned ambulance, there is an exam that one must pass, then there is the academy. Just like the police and fire department, we must go into the academy, says Ortiz. This academy is Fort Totten Academy in Queens, New York. Private ambulance companies do not put their employees through an academy. Gerod Allas, a public affairs representative at the Fire Department says, The EMS unit has a high volume in calls. The privates, if anything, are helpful. Mr. Ortiz does not deny his heavy workload. We get a lot of calls and we cannot be everywhere at once, but private ambulances may come to your aid without proper training. In which case, your life in is danger. Chris Log, Ortizs partner, says, It is unfair that the privates pay more without physical training. Log has been in the EMS unit for a year. Log continues, The advantage of being with the public (EMS) is that there are good benefits, I will earn civil service status and we will always be here. When we pick up someone we take em to the nearest hospital, says Bahnken. These (private) ambulance drivers take people to the hospital that is going to pay their check, and it does not necessarily mean to the nearest hospital. Mr. Ortiz is dedicated to his job and to the people of New York City. I just want what should be fair. If the privates get more money and are state supported then we want more pay. And privates should attend Fort Totten as a state requirement. Bahnken concludes, There are certain essential services the city must have control over. When you are talking about lives you need one cohesive emergency response system. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-12-11 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 122 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 "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 35 VTMBH Article: Article Order 1 VTMBH Article: Title Reflections on pseudo-Chinese culture and cultural introduction prompted by Amy Tans book signing at FAO Schwartz VTMBH Article: Author Xiaoqing Rong VTMBH Article: Publication Sing Tao Daily VTMBH Article: Original Language Chinese VTMBH Article: Translator Xiaoqing Rong VTMBH Article: Section news VTMBH Article: Blurb Amy Tans appearance at FAO Schwartz to sign her childrens book Sagwa, crated some controversy and reflection within the Chinese-American community here. Tan, who speaks only a little Chinese, claims that she does not mean to be a representative of the culture, only of her own experiences. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body On Sept. 14, on the world-renowned author Amy Tan made an appearance to sign her childrens book Sagwa at FAO Schwartz. One Chinese father was unhappy, when he saw Tan only signing her name in English. This book is about Chinese culture, why doesnt she sign in Chinese? asked the father, who would like to be identified only by his last name, Chang. People say shes a banana: yellow skin, white heart. It seems they are right, Xu said. Xu took his two kids away without waiting for the authors signature. Sagwa was published in 1994, but last year, PBS premiered a cartoon of the same name, based on this book. The program keeps it a hot book among children. The story is about the adventures of a Chinese Siamese cat named Sagwa, who lives in ancient China. Although Sagwas parents have a magic skillthey can write with their tailsTan herself can hardly write or speak Chinese. I can only write my Chinese name poorly and slowly, said Tan, who is the only one of her six brothers and sisters born in the United States. (They were born in China.) Therefore, she is the only one in her family who is not proficient in Chinese. Tans special family background is a special theme in her books. The theme has also made her a controversial author in Chinese community. From her 1989 debut The Joy Luck Club to the latest novel, The Bonesetters Daughter, almost all of Tans books are about the cultural conflict in Chinese immigrant families, mostly between the Chinese-born mom and American-born daughter. The mother-daughter storylines, plus the special cultural background style, has won Tan worldwide fame. Almost all her books have been bestsellers so far. However, some Chinese scholars criticize her for creating a Chinese culture with her Western perspective, and therefore, affecting the purity of the real Chinese culture. I dont like her books, said Weijun Chen, a comparative drama Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She writes about Chinese culture, but she doesnt really understand it. The way she interprets Chinese culture is misleading to her readers. I never mean to be a representative of Chinese culture, or even write about this culture. My books are based on my familys personal experience, Tan said. She confessed that all her knowledge about Chinese culture comes from her moms descriptions or from library research. China is so big, and there are 56 minorities and a Han majority. Nobody can really represent Chinese culture, Tan added. But for a lot of Westerners, Tans books are a means of getting to know China. Even these days, some Western readers still think China is the same as it is in The Joy Luck Club. Sagwa also became a fundamental introduction to Chinese culture for children. Jamie Dixon, a white mom from Indiana, brought her adopted Chinese daughter, seven-year-old Annie, to the book signing. Annie was born in Anhui Province in southeastern China, Dixon said. As a mom, Dixon wanted Annie to keep a connection with her original culture and to be proud to be Chinese. However, Annie wasnt interested in studying Chinese or talking about it at all, until she started to watch Sagwa on PBS. She watches it everyday, and likes it very much, said Dixon. And she started to ask me questions about China. She doesnt refuse to study Chinese now. Dixon added that, Indiana is not like New York, which has so many different cultural events. Sagwa one of the very few ways Annie has to get close to Chinese culture. I really appreciate that Ms. Tan wrote such a great book. Dixon said. As for the authenticity of culture in the book, Dixon said, Only real Chinese people can tell the delicate difference. For Westerners who are interested in Chinese culture, the basic points are enough. Louise Weiyi Zhu, a membership outreach consultant with the Girl Scouts of the America, agrees with Dixon. Zhu has been working on introducing Americans to Chinese culture for the last 20 years that she has been in American. I have organized a lot of cultural events. They attracted a lot American people. But sometimes they just came for fun, and didnt think seriously about the culture. Sometimes, the events were too Chinese, and Americans found them hard to understand, said Zhu. I think cultural introduction is like food. Chinese food from Chinese restaurants in American is not authentic. It has been more or less changed to cater to American tastes. But it attracts customers. To introduce Chinese culture in America, you have to find some vehicle, which could wrap the cultural essence and is easy to be accepted by American people. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-09-15 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 175 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 Reflections on pseudo-Chinese culture and cultural introduction prompted by Amy Tans book signing at 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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