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As Thousands Protest IMF in Argentina, WTO Meetings Open
in Cancun
9/11 TWO YEARS LATER (pt. 1 of 3) - Victims’ Families
Call For Peaceful Tomorrows
8:01-8:06 Headlines
As Thousands Protest IMF in Argentina, WTO Meetings Open
in Cancun
INTRO: We go to Cancun for a video report prepared by Rick
Rowley of Big Noise Films capturing the opening protests against
the World Trade Organization's 5th Ministerial Meeting.
8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break
8:07-8:58
DEMOCRACY NOW! SPECIAL:
9/11 TWO YEARS LATER (pt. 1 of 3)
Victims’ Families Call For Peaceful Tomorrows
Tomorrow is the 2nd anniversary of the attacks on the World
Trade Center and Pentagon and the plane crash in Pennsylvania.
In these 2 years, the Bush administration has used the events
of September 11 to push ahead with a massive scale war, that
it has dubbed the “war on terror.”
First, the U.S. bombed Afghanistan, killing thousands of
civilians. The country remains a war zone with U.S. and other
foreign troops occupying large parts of the country. Last
March, despite no evidence linking the government of Iraq
to the September 11 attacks, President Bush launched a massive
“Shock and Awe” campaign against Iraq followed
by an invasion of some 140,000 U.S. troops. Like Afghanistan,
thousands of innocent civilians were killed and as the U.S.
occupation of the country drags on, and many U.S. soldiers
die, the situation is boiling into a civil war.
The corporate media and U.S. officials seized on the tragedy
of September 11 to whip up a frenzy of what was called patriotism.
Bush told the world: You are with us or you are with the terrorists.
But a small group of families who lost loved ones in the attacks
of September 11 have raised their voices over the past 2 years
under the banner: “Peaceful Tomorrows.”
We spend the hour hearing the stories of these people and
looking at their individual journeys over the 2 years since
they lost their brothers, sisters, children, husbands or wives.
For some of them, these journeys have brought them into the
homes of ordinary Afghans who had family members killed by
U.S. missiles, others to the homes of Iraqis whose families
were killed in the U.S. attacks over the past decade. Some
of these people have traveled across this country promoting
peace and opposing the use of the loss of their loved ones
to justify war. Others have campaigned internationally. Some
just spoke with their family and friends. A new book tells
their story. It is called “September 11th Families for
Peaceful Tomorrows: Turning Our Grief Into Action for Peace.”
- Bob McIlvaine, his 26 year-old son Bob died in the World
Trade Center.
- Adele Welty, her son, Tim was a firefighter who died
in the World Trade Center.
- Megan Bartlett, she founded Ground Zero for Peace - First
Responders Against the War. She is a former Emergency Medical
Technician. Many of her co-workers died in the World Trade
Center.
- Fekkak Mamdouh, he worked at Windows on the World, the
restaurant on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center
where 73 of his co-workers died. He co-founded ROC-NY a
membership-based workers center for immigrants.
Link: www.rocny.org
- Jeremy Glick, his father, Barry, died in the World Trade
Center. He was interviewed by Bill O’Reilly on The
O’Reilly Factor February, 4 2003.
- The O'Reilly Factor, Jeremy Glick interviewed by Bill
O’Reilly on February, 4 2003.
- Andrew Rice, his brother, David, died in the World Trade
Center.
8:58-8:59 Outro and Credits
For a copy of today’s program, call 1 (800) 881 2359.
Our website is www.democracynow.org.
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Democracy Now! is produced by Mike Burke, Jeremy Scahill,
Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Parvez Sharma, Ana Nogueira, and Elizabeth
Press. Mike Di Filippo is our engineer.
[Thanks also to Uri Galed, Angela Alston, Orlando Richards,
Simba Russeau, Rafael delaUz, Gabriel Weiss, Johnny Sender,
Rich Kim, Chris Zucker, Karen Ranucci, Denis Moynihan, Jenny
Filipazzo and Ionnis Mookas.]
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