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 Since 9/11 The fall of the World Trade Center in New York has been compared with the attack on Pearl Harbor as a defining moment in the history of our nation. ""Everything's different now,"" was the adage of the moment. But is everything really different? Pearl Harbor was an event that shattered our isolationist illusions and made us realize that what goes on outside of our borders matters, and can affect us. How has 9/11 altered our view of the world? It hasn't. Americans are still disinterested in anything that happens abroad, unless of course you count the flag-wavers and gunboat patriots whose only concern is which group of mud-people we get to bomb into oblivion for the sake of revenge. This is no surprise, considering the mindset of our current political leadership, the corporate oligarchy that supports it, and the media toadies who act more like cheerleaders for them both rather than journalists. Our attitudes on freedoms here at home have certainly changed. ""Americans need to watch what they say and watch what they do!"" thunders White House spokesman Ari Fleischer. ""There ought to be limits to freedom,"" retorts George W. Bush. What does it say about the American people that these statements, even on the rare occasions when they are reported, have no effect on us? Perhaps we're asking the wrong question. Rather than asking how our worldview has changed since 9/11, we should instead be asking how, since then, has the rest of the world viewed us? How did we go from the outpourings of grief and sympathy given to us worldwide to ""The US is now a threat to the rest of the world"" [1] ? Winston Churchill once asked the New World to save the Old. Will the Old World be called upon to return the favor? --------------------- [1] George Monbiot, The Logic Of Empire, The Guardian Tuesday August 6, 2002 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 tp221.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