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[html document, 1199SEIU News, December 2001, www.1199seiu.org/articles/article.cfm?ID=4645] The widow and children of firefighter Shawn Edward Powell, Jean Powell, is a Certified Nursing Assistant and 1199 member. She recounts her struggle to…

More photos from 1999SEIU News As the WTC attacks unfolded and in the minutes and hours that followed, 1199 News photographer Jim Tynan covered the scene outside St. Vincent's Hospital. He has donated the photographs below to the archive.

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[html document, 1199SEIU News, October 2001, www.1199seiu.org/articles/article.cfm?ID=3964] The scene at NYU Downtown Hospital in the first hours of the WTC disaster.

[html document, 1199SEIU News, October 2001, www.1199seiu.org/articles/article.cfm?ID=3965] Profiles the experiences of 1199 members who were among the first to respond to the WTC disaster from their posts at St. Vincents Hospital and NYU Downtown…

[html document, Dennis Rivera, President, 1199SEIU News, November, 2001, www.1199seiu.org/articles/article.cfm?ID=4373] The President of 1199/SEIU recounts the funeral of 1199 member Kathy Nguyen who was killed by anthrax spores of unknown origin,…

[html document, Dennis Rivera, President, 1199SEIU News, October, 2001, www.1199seiu.org/articles/article.cfm?ID=3968] Comments from the President of the New York 1199/SEIU union on the meaning of the tragedy for 1199 workers.

[html document, 1199SEIU News, November 2001, www.1199seiu.org/articles/article.cfm?ID=4376] Co-workers of Cabrini EMT Marc Sullins, missing in the WTC disaster, recount his last day.

[html document, 1199SEIU News, April, 2002, www.1199seiu.org/articles/article.cfm?ID=5398] Follow-up with two 1199 members, Bill Amaniera, a St. Vincents Hospital EMT and Juana Lomi, a NYU Downtown Hospital paramedic, who helped rescue people at…

[html document, 1199SEIU News, October 2001, www.1199seiu.org/articles/article.cfm?ID=3966] One 1199 Emergency Medical Technician, David Marc Sullins, and 64 SEIU members, are listed among dead and missing from the WTC disaster.

Covering the War [Flash File, Mark Fiore, 10/25/0] Fiore contrasts the freedoms the press enjoyed during World War II with the limited information provided by the Pentagon during the military actions against the Taliban.

Bush Doctrine 2.0 [Flash File, Mark Fiore, 6/18/02] The animation satirically explores the global ramifications of the Bush Administrations articulated policy of pre-emptive attacks.

Hate Crime Primer [Flash File, Mark Fiore, 10/3/01] Fiore uses this animation to expose what he sees as the uselessness of racial profiling to ferret out terrorists, and the ways in which doing so may foster hate crimes.

Turf Wara [Flash File, Mark Fiore, 6/11/02] Here, Fiore implicitly compares the rivalries among ethnic factions in Afghanistan to bureaucracies in Washington, D.C.

Operators are Standing By [Flash File, Mark Fiore, 5/22/02] Fiore mocks what he sees as the hallow quality of the Republican Partys critique of Democratic-led inquiries into intelligence failures before 9/11.

Best Excuse Ever [Flash File, Mark Fiore, 11/20/01] Fiore here critiques what he perceives as the efforts of some individuals and organization to use the war on terrorism as political cover for the pursuit of their long-standing agendas.

Super-Smart Bomb [Flash File, Mark Fiore, 9/19/01] Fiore suggests that even our best military technology is useless in the bewilderingly complex environment in which America will have to defend herself.

Color Alert! [Flash File, Mark Fiore, 3/20/02] This animation imagines a color-coded warning system (akin to that employed for Homeland Security) for what Fiore sees as the Bush Administrations power grabs.

A Nation Remembers [Flash File, Mark Fiore, 9/11/ 02] In this minimally animated flash file, Fiore dissects the ways in which he perceives that the Bush Administration shifted public attention and anger away from Osama Bin Laden to Saddam Hussein.

On Guard [11/7/01, Flash File, Mark Fiore] Fiore puts forth an argument that our market economy fails to adequately invest in an essential public good: airport security.

Shockwaves [Flash File, Mark Fiore 10/18/01] Fiore predicts in this animation that the American bombing of targets in Afganistan is likely to unleash violent anti-American tumult throughout the Islamic world.