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 The profile image of a neatly dressed young New York businessman giving his reaction to the first 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center is permanently trapped in the world mind. Hunching forward, he frames the lower left edge of the astounding video of the second attack. For a few seconds he is everyone on the planet as he stops talking, sits up, and turns to look in perfect astonishment. The world paused on 9/11, like a pendulum poised at the top of its swing. The towers went down, a crumbling hole appeared in the Pentagon, and the irrefutable pictures shot around the globe again and again and again. People said, Everythings changed?. But the change was hard to define, inward and eerie, like a crisis of faith. Everything had changed for everyone. The world had suddenly and collectively lost its faith in an earthly superpower. Just as the explosion of the first atomic bomb showed that a barely imaginable technology was real, the destruction of 9/11 showed that the United States itself was not inviolable. What the United States does next makes a great deal of practical difference to the planet, but the central myth is dead. And not a moment too soon. The world has real problems, starting with racism and climate change, Durban and Kyoto. The world can solve its problems by working together, without superpowers. Let us not grope around for the next one. We all entered the world naked, unable even to speak our own languages. We will all leave it dead. Meanwhile, we have unprecedented access to thousands of years of collected thought and instant communications. We can make peace. We can end hunger. We can learn if we will. Lets do it. 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 tp209.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