Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- FREE SPEECH TV NEWSLETTER September 19, 2001 THE PROGRESSIVE TV AND INTERNET CHANNEL ========================================================= ON TV Dish Network Channel 9415 ========================================================= A WORLD IN CRISIS: LIVE COVERAGE ON FREE SPEECH TV Free Speech TV is preparing to broadcast live news coverage and analysis of the unfolding events that have shaken the world since Sept. 11th. We'll begin with top of the hour 10 minute news bulletins on our Dish Network Channel 9415. Later this week we'll send out more information. We need your support. You can make a tax deductible donation at: https://www.freespeech.org/cgi-bin/donations_dc_frameset.cgi?membership_type=n ewsletter09182001 ========================================================= ON THE WEB - SPECIAL REPORT http://www.freespeech.org ========================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------- NEW YORK - THE DAY AFTER THE HORROR Interviews from New York City's Union Square on the day after the attack that destroyed the twin towers of the World Trade Center and killed at least 5000 people. "If this is worse than Pearl Harbor, will we do something worse than Hiroshima?" http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/ramfiles/NY912.ram ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------- OUR GRIEF IS NOT A CRY FOR WAR! Haunting images of horror, pain, disbelief, incomprehension. An ocean of smoke, ash, waves of concrete, metal, flattened cars, ambulances, trucks, desks. Waves of stone and shards of steel washing up narrow streets with the energy force of thousand ton bombs. A rain of corpses and human body parts. Who could do this? (New York) A young mother, her four year old still sleepy at home with grandma, stuffs her sweat band into her purse before sitting down at her desk on the 89th floor of the South Tower. A middle age waiter at Windows on the World glances out at the beautiful, crisp blue morning as he cleans a coffee cup and piece of hardening toast from the table. A 70 year old, white-hair tourist grins, giddy from the stomach rush of the elevator A young computer system administrator luxuriates in the lingering warmth of a night of lovemaking. A stern-faced security guard examines passes, seeking a feel of casual authority. A pot bellied, muscular man guides his wheel chair off the elevator, aware of the balance of a briefcase resting across his legs. An electrician picks up a work order for a damaged switch in an office on the 34th floor, momentarily aware of the blood blister on his finger. A trader fantasizes about her year end bonus. A blinding jolt and their thoughts and dreams and memories along with their bodies are melted, broken, shredded. Who could have done this? What was in their brains as they plotted this destruction for years? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------ WHO IS OSAMA BIN LADEN? Pakistani writer Eqbal Ahmed met Bin Laden in 1986. He reported: "When the Soviet Union intervened in AfghanistanŠthe U.S. saw a God-sent opportunity to mobilize one billion Muslims against what Reagan called the Evil Empire. CIA agents starting going all over the Muslim world recruiting people to fight in the great jihad. Bin Laden was one of the early prize recruits http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/ramfiles/Eqbal_on_Osman.ram ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------- (Belgrade) Two old women huddle together, babushkas framing their wrinkled faces. At their feet a young women envelops a baby, seeking a bit of privacy in the crowded dark basement. Terror throbs in their hearts as they wait and hope against unheard planes, unleashing payloads of destruction from 50,000 feet. In the middle of town the horror strikes the television station. Reporters, technicians, secretaries are crushed and dismembered by the percussion. Who did this? Who can slaughter innocents in the name of just war? Who can kill children in the name of freedom? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------ TERRORISM: THEIRS AND OURS A little over a year before he died in 1999, Eqbal Ahmed gave this talk exploring the use of terrorism as a political tool by states, powerful and weak http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/ramfiles/eqbal.ram (Audio) http://www.sangam.org/ANALYSIS/Ahmad.htm (Text) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------ (Baghdad) A civil engineer picks helplessly among the rubble of the water treatment plant he helped construct between the two rivers in a land once called the cradle of civilization. Emergency crews had already removed the bodies. He'd been at home. His colleagues were not. In a bunker shelter across the smoldering city, oily shadows on a cement wall mark the evaporated lives of dozens of women and children who had crowded silently together in a grisly game of hide and seek with a smart bomb hurtling from some unseen source. They lost. Ten years later the water system is barely functioning. Half a million children are dead because of an embargo on essentials of life. Who could have done this? What are they thinking? How can they kill with such clear conscience? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------ GRIEF AND GRIEVANCE An interview with Ali Abunimah, Director of the Arab Action Network http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/ramfiles/ar_abunimah.ram ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------ STICKERS FOR DOWNLOAD: "Our Grief is Not a Cry for War!" and "ISLAM is not the enemy WAR is not the Answer Let's break the cycleŠpass it on." http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/html/stickers.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------ (The West Bank) The young mother felt the painful contractions coming more swiftly as the car raced towards the hospital. The car came to a halt at an Israeli check point. The car waited endlessly in line. Soldiers slowly examined papers. The woman screamed, plead to be allowed to get to the hospital. She delivered the baby in the back seat of the car. The soldiers ordered her out, the umbilical cord still strung to the infant. The mother collapsed on the ground. The soldiers laughed. July 2001 another baby born at an Israeli checkpoint died before reaching the hospital. What kind of men wantonly kill civilians, women, children? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------ JUNE JORDAN: OUT OF THE VIOLENCE - A PATH TO PEACE http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/ramfiles/Barsamian_Jordan_20010813.ram ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------ New York, DC, Baghdad, Belgrade, My Lai Cambodia, Vietnam, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, "We had to destroy the city in order to save it." "Collateral damage...acceptable casualties." The explanations are as monstrous as the deed. "Through my tears I see opportunity," said the President on September 12th. For what we ask? Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Pinochet, the list goes on. Frankenstein's creations, turned on their masters. They maraud destructively through villages and towns. Now their creators threaten to destroy those villages and towns themselves "to end the states that harbor them." The Dr. Frankensteins come into the street now, sanctimonious, posing as saviors amidst the fresh carnage they disown. They call on us to join another Holy War against their own creations. The people in the villages and towns, in New York and Washington and Baghdad and Kabul and Grozny will pay, with liberty and life. 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