911 - New Yorkers respond
In the week after the destruction of the World Trade Center towers and all the lives that perished with them, Academy Award film maker Barbara Trent spent hours interviewing ordinary people on the streets of New York, at a spontaneous Union Square vigil site, and near ground zero. For many the pain and shock were so intense they could not speak of their feelings. Others opened their hearts with simple, passionate words. Overwhelmingly people called for peace and recoiled at the thought of a US military response. Watch 911 - Turning Tragedy into War 9.11 listens to the voices of New York City in mourning, a city coming to terms with the aftermath of events on September 11th and the potential violence of a protracted war. NYC residents respond to the tragedy with spontaneous memorials, public sites of grief and discourse where the transformation of mourning into a mobilization for peace and justice begin to emerge. 9.11 culminates with the first NYC peace march as the voices of the emergent peace movement begins to coalesce with broader globalization movement seeking economic and social justice. 9.11 offers initial critical perspectives of U.S. policy leading up to the World Trade Center attack, necessary to constructing an informed and rationalized response. The video also documents the media treatment and racial backlash against Arab-Americans and how those communities are responding Watch 911 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows WTC victims' families host a press conference calling for peace.
They met on a peace march after their loved ones had died that horrible day. They were horrified at the way the government was using their loved ones to justify more civilian slaughter in Afghanistan. Several joined a Global Exchange delegation and went to Afghanistan to meet the families of pople killed by US bombs. On their return the formed Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. Here they explain why. Watch
America's Growing War in the Philippines The Next Vietnam?
The US is dramatically increasing it's military deployment. At first the rationale was to train Philippine troops to fight the Abu Sayaf, a bandit and kidnapping gang with ties to the Philippine military. But over the last several months the US advisors have gone from 160 to over 1000. And the US is putting a full court press on the government of President Gloria Arroyo to permit reopening of Clark and Subic bases, which the US was forced to abandon in the early 80s in response to massive popular pressure. We present two dramatic videos that show what is going on in that country now, and it's implications for further US involvement Basilan: The Next Afghanistan reports on the work of an International Peace Mission to that island, led by anti-globalization activist Waldon Bello. The second video, Basilan: Sparks of War exposes the war on the Abu Sayaf as a pretext for mounting a full fledged war against the peasant and urban movements fighting an elitist, neo-colonialist government in the Philippines. It examines the broader mass struggles for economic and social justice in this former US colony. Watch Basilan: The Next Afghanistan? Watch Basilan: Sparks of War
US Lies About Reasons for Iraq War
Rumsfeld visited and supported Iraq when it used poison gas against Iran
It isn't about "weapons of mass destruction." As President Ronald Reagan's Special Mideast Envoy in the early 1980s Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld cozied up to Hussein when Iraq was using poison gas in its war against Iran and against its own Kurdish population. War on Iraq is about bringing the non- conformist country's vast oil resouces under the control of the US. It's about empire.
FSTV presents a series of analysis of US destruction and strategic interests in Iraq. FSTV Iraq Resources The Sonic Memorial Project
A Nationalwide Public Radio Collaboration The public radio community across America is joining together to create a SONIC MEMORIAL to commemorate and chronicle the life & history of the World Trade Center and the events before, during and after September 11, 2001. View the Site
Palestine Notebooks
>From International Parliament of Writers
The eight Parliament writers record their impressions on the trip to Palestine. They provide interpretations and analyses of the current conflict. Contents: On Patience (Christian Salmon); An Open Letter to General Ariel Sharon (Breyten Breytenbach); The IPW's Journey to Israel/Palestine (Vincenzo Consolo); Some reflections on a journey to the Occupied territories (Russell Banks); The Isle Of Polyphemus (Wole Soyinka); From Netanya to Ramallah (Juan Goytisolo) Visit the Site