jim submits:

"Reframing 9/11: Alternatives to Endless War"

September 11, 12, 13, 14

The Riverside Church & Cathedral of Saint John the Divine



Join over 40 local, national and global grassroots activists, scholars, journalists in New York on this second anniversary of September 11 to firmly extract the tragic day from the cynical and deadly embrace of the Neo-Cons and imprint it with the Peace and Justice Agenda emerging globally from the grassroots people's movements.

Corporate Globalization by any name -- be it "War on Terror" or "Homeland Security" -- is recognizable by its tell-tale marks: double-speak and propaganda; war; militarization of police function, domestic budgets and educational opportunities; and expansion of corporate privatization of all resources through attacks (characteristically race, class and gender based), on human beings and the environment which sustains human society.



YOU WONT FIND THE CORPORATE MASS MEDIA TELLING IT LIKE IT IS.

THAT IS WHEN THE PEOPLE TURN TO WBAI 99.5 FM - PACIFICA, THE PEOPLE'S RADIO



Tickets (and flyers) for September 12,13,14 - call 212-209-2869. To see program details, go to: http://www.wbai.org/about/wbai_events.php#911_9-11 -03



September 11 THURSDAY: 9-11 UNANSWERED QUESTIONS-FILMS & PANEL DISCUSSIONS 6pm -11pm with former congresswoman CYNTHIA McKINNEY, former CIA analyst RAY McGOVERN, publisher From The Wilderness MICHAEL RUPPERT and others.



September 12, FRIDAY : 9-11 UNLEASHING THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY PROJECT OF ENDLESS WAR ON THE WORLD; RESPONSE OF THE PEACE MOVEMENT One Panel 6.30-10.30pm followed by a play.



September 13 SATURDAY : 9-11 'WAR ON TERROR' OR CORPORATE GLOBALIZATION? MOBILIZING STRATEGIES TO BUILD DEMOCRATIC ECONOMICS Three Panels 10am -10.30pm with breaks



September 14 SUNDAY: 9-11-UNLEASHING OF THE PATRIOT ACT-WAGING HOMELAND INSECURITY; PEOPLE BUILDING RESISTENCE & WINNING Three Panels 10am-9pm with breaks



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September 12 PROGRAM



Evening: Moderator: AMY GOODMAN producer of Democracy Now; Speakers : ARJUN MAKHIJANI, USA Monetary Imperialism, The War On Iraq, the Structure of Global Apartheid and the Struggle for Democracy; WILLIAM RIVERS PITT How the Post 9-11 "War On Terror" mirrors the Pre-911 New American Century Bid For US Empire; WAYNE MADSEN, Pre-911 and Post-911 USA Policy In Africa Different in Degree Only: Aggression, Covert Operations, Corporate Military Expansion, Genocide and Terror; DAVID BOOKBINDER, How 911 Heightened the Bush Administration Attack On The Environment: More Secrecy, More Unaccountability, More Fuel for Climate Change ; CYNTHIA MCKINNEY , 9-11 Unanswered; KELLY CAMPBELL: 911 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows Say War is Not The Answer; MAX UHLENBECK, The Anti-war Movement's Response to 911 and the "War On Terror; PERFORMANCE: I WILL BEAR WITNESS: THE DIARIES OF VICTOR KLEMPERER 1933-1938 By Obie Award winning actor GEORGE BARTENIEFF. The play is adapted from the diaries of Victor Klemperer member of a well known European Jewish family who remained in Hitler's Germany and bore witness to the terrible rise of Nazi power and the rapid erosion of civil liberties. Actor Bartenieff is himself a child refugee from Nazi Germany. 60 minutes



September 13 PROGRAM



Morning: UNMASKING THE CORPORATE ECONOMY: HIBAAQ OSMAN, Race, Gender and Class oppression at the root of Corporate enterprise; DANNY SCHECHTER, How the Corporate Mass Media Builds Terror for the Corporate State"War On Terror"; WALTER A. DAVIS, Living in Death's Dream Kingdom: Exposing the Aggressive Roots of Capitalist.



Afternoon: UPROOTING THE CORPORATE ECONOMY : Moderator DAVID KUBIAK, co-producer Aint That Good News, founder/director BIG MEDICINE, grass-roots organizer with years of experience in Japan, India, USA & Maine; SEYMOUR MELMAN, The Imperative to Build A Civilian Economy Before The War Economy Leads Us Into A Permanent State of War; RANIA MASRI, The Hidden Costs of War; MIKE FERNER, Dismantling The Mechanisms of Corporate Rule



Evening: FROM CORPORATE ECONOMICS TO ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS : Moderator ETHAN MILLER author of a pamphlet, "Solidarity Economics Building a New Economy In Maine From The Bottom Up and Inside-out", singer song-writer, Jed Collective ME; DAVID MORRIS, Policy Options for the Ecological Revolution: Why New Rules; CATHERINE AUSTIN FITZ, The Solaris Idea; SUSAN WITT, Land Trusts and Local Currencies:How they Can Help YOUR Community; We are still awaiting confirmation on a speaker form Latin America



September 14 PROGRAM



Morning THE CORPORATE STATE : Moderator MARY LOU GREENBERG Co-Founder of Not In Our Name the grass-roots anti-war, social justice mobilization. BOB FITRAKIS, War on Drugs: Prelude to the War On Terror; MICHAEL RATNER, Patriot Act & Executive Orders: Attack On Immigrants, Human Rights and International Law; MICHAEL LETWIN, Patriot Act :Attack on Labor and the Growing Resistance; UDI OFER, Report From the Grass-roots-Mobilizing for Peoples Rights ,Rejecting The Patriot Act and Unconstitutional Executive Usurpation of Power; STEVEN STAPLES, Post 911 Global Conflagration of "National Security" legislation; From Corporate Globalization to Global Corporate Militarization



Afternoon LAWLESS GOVERNMENT MAKING LAWLESSNESS LAW : ELLEN SCHRECKR, Civil Rights are Of the People, For the People, By the People, Use It or Lose It; Reverend PETER LAARMAN, The Accountability Project; ALICE SLATER, Repressing Dissent At Home; Breaking International Law Abroad & Expanding the Nuclear Threat ; SARAH ZAIDI, USA : Bringing Democracy and 'Civilization' or Global Lawlessness? Violating some International Law & Undermining Others



Evening: AGE OF THE GLOBAL CORPORATE STATE OR TRIUMPH OF THE INVIOLABLE HUMAN RIGHT OF HUMAN BEINGS: MODERATOR: MEDEA BENJAMIN Co-founder of Global Exchange and Code Pink, advisory board member of Iraq Occupation Watch, C. WILLIAM MICHAELS: Patriot Act and Twelve Common Characteristics of a National Security State; GREG PALAST: Elections for the people of the people by the people. Mobilizing for what lies ahead; VANDANA SHIVA: Challenging The Patriarchy, Speaking from The World Court Of Women: Peace Justice & Sustainable Living For Our Children's Children's Children; Considering Security Council Resolution CORNELL WEST: (not confirmed) American Democracy After 9-11: Is There Hope for the World?



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LOCATIONS



Friday, September 12, at The Riverside Church NAVE , 490 Riverside Drive , between 120 & 122 Streets. Take 1 or 9 trains to 116 Street and Broadway, walk short blocks to Riverside Drive.



Saturday, September 13, at The Riverside Church ASSEMBLY HALL, 91 Clermont Avenue Entrance (all one building).On weekend, be sure the 1 or 9 train will stop at 116 Street & Broadway. Walk to 120 Street, turn left on 120th. find Clermont Avenue a short block up



Sunday, September 14, 10am- 5pm at the SYNOD HOUSE, Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, 110 Amsterdam Avenue. Take local 1 or 9 to 110 Street. Walk short distance to Amsterdam Ave.



Sunday September 14, 5pm- 9pm The Riverside Church NAVE. Follow directions given above.



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To PRE-REGISTER, call WBAI at 212-209-2869



Registration for All 3 Days: $ 15 Students, Seniors, Low Income; $25 All Others; $10 Per Day



To PAY BY CREDIT CARD: Call 212-209-2842, 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday



To PAY BY CHECK: Sign Check to WBAI Pacifica Radio, earmarked for REFRAMING 911, and mail to:

Indra Hardt, WBAI Radio, 10th Floor, 120 Wall Street, NY, NY 10005.



To PAY IN CASH: See Shirley Irons in Bernard White's office at WBAI, 10th Floor, 120 Wall Street, New York, NY