Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story Toward A More Perfect Union We Are Not Alone Stephen Sondheims "Into the Woods", like the best traditional fairy tales and myths, deeply resonates in reality. In the Winter issue of the Sondheim Review, comments attached the events of 9/11 to the song ""No One Is Alone"". The thought was that Americans had been brought together for comfort after the experience of terror, and that is a plausible use of half the song. There is, however, a more important implication for the present unease, and that seems not to have been noticed. In the song, the phrase ""you are not alone"" also insists that what one does has consequences, and there is another relevant sense in which Americans are not alone. Since World War Two, our fundamentalism- economic rather than religious- has led us to kill perhaps six million people, directly or through sanctions and surrogates. Several hundred thousand of these victims have been Muslims, beginning with our replacement of the socialist government of Iran with the hereditary Shah through our recent restoration of the feudal monarchy in Kuwait and our first Afghan war in which we replaced another socialist government with primitive fundamentalists. The 9/11 perpetrators were "our" Saudi fundamentalists left over from our first Afghan war, but now our self-appointed leaders have killed again in Afghanistan, perhaps because of all the countries in the world it is least able to fight back, and our masters feel impelled to kill somebody in retaliation for 9/11. Adding absurdity to homicide, our leaders and press tell us that we are hated because we are so good. It is because we are not alone, and we are not careful of the things we do. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource tp202.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2003-03-10