Left to right: Matt (v911t), Jim Fetzer, Kevin Barrett

Veterans for 9/11 Truth Delivers check for $8,472.00 on Oct. 1, 2006

From Matt at v911t;

Members, Truthseekers, Truthtellers and Patriots
It was a great day in Madison, Wisconsin. The sun was shining and
the trees were just starting to change colors. The 9/11
Lecture "Fact and Folklore" with Kevin Barrett and Jim Fetzer was
well attended and the speakers did a superb job. The BBC was there
to cover the event along with some local media. Veterans for 9/11
Truth was there and we passed out a couple hundred DVD's, numerous
flyers and we even had a 100 copies to pass out of the ACTA letter
sent to the President of the Board of Regents of the University of
Wisconsin Madison that addressed the Kevin Barrett controversy. You
can find it here: http://www.goacta.org/press/Press%20Releases/walshletter7-17.pdf

Jim Fetzer presented the v911t check to Kevin Barett in the amount
of over $8,400.00. Again, I want to thank our hard working member
Cait for the website she created to help raise some of the money and
for her generosity towards this important cause of Free Speech. This
check represented Kevin Barrett's right to free speech. The Ozaukee
County Board in Wisconsin decided to reduce the amount they
contribute to the University of Wisconsin Madison in the exact
amount of Kevin Barrett's wages to punish the university for their
decision to keep Kevin Barrett in his teaching position. This was a
great day for free speech... - Take Care, Matt.

http://v911t.org/

Donna Marsh O'Connor lost her daughter Vanessa Lang Langer on 9/11/2001. She recently appeared at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on 9/11/2006. The purpose of her appearance was to call for a new investigation into the attacks of 9/11. I thought it would be prudent for people to know a little bit about Mrs. O'Connor, and her story.

1. I understand you taught writing and rhetoric at Syracuse University for 20+ years. What was the average day like in your classroom, and what kinds of topics did you cover? How did you become involved in that track, and why did you retire?

I did not retire, I stepped down. There were very few average days in my classroom. For 20 years, I taught students to describe what they see before their eyes, what the smell, what they touch before they came to the point of judgement. My focus in teaching writing was always to ask students to think of themselves as individual agents in the center of a public text, to think about the way pronouns work to mask their agency (I, We You, etc...) and the way those pronouns obviate questions a writer needs to have in order not to simply replicate ideas in the collective air. In short, I taught my students to be more conscious as American writers and to begin to sort through American discursive polarities and to try to account for more sophisticated nuances and differences. Most of my years in the classroom were life changing for me and (my students often reported) for them, too. I never taught or suggested students believe what I said. I simply helped them to understand in complex ways that writers must come to a deep understaning of "others" before coming to judgements. My courses were difficult, but (I was told) worth it. Increasingly, after 9/11, I saw that my own individual agency as a teacher and a creator of text in the classroom was changing. At the same time, the American public texts were becoming more explosive. Students (not all of them) wanted to back away. The media always feature into my teaching. Now, increasingly, the media was becoming more and more about covering up the key details of issues. I saw that if I stayed I would become less able to postpone judgement myself. Rather than teatching students processes of questioning and understanding, I would have been (perhaps rightly (interesting word!)) accused of putting forward an anti-administration agenda. For me, that meant time to step down.

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On Thursday, October 5th, get a posse and infiltrate your local WCW march/demo with 9/11 Truth.

Here's a list of cities/actions in the US:

http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2418&_event=14

In San Francisco, the group (a front for the RCP - I have no qualms about highjacking their agenda) has a 24 hour permit for Justin Herman Plaza. That's a lot of bullhorning time...

9/11 TRUTH NOW!