On the Eleventh of Every Month - A Call to Action - truthaction.org

YT Tue, 02/06/2007 - 9:50pm

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On the Eleventh Day of Every Month

We Unite in Action for Truth

Polls demonstrate that 84% of the American public rejects the official account of what happened on September 11th 2001. Polls in Europe, Canada and the Islamic world have yielded similar results. Numerous prominent officials from around the world have gone on record expressing profound disbelief of the official narrative. Rapidly growing numbers are convinced that members of the Bush administration were not only grossly negligent in the days and months leading up to 9/11 but active participants in the attacks themselves.

We are in the midst of a mass awakening.

Like the Warren Commission before it, the Zelikow commission – appointed to investigate the pivotal event that “changed everything” – has proved a whitewash, a cover-up of a mass murder that reeks of official complicity. Millions of citizens have joined the family members of the victims in calling for a new investigation. Dying first responders - cynically exploited in the aftermath of the attacks and now cast aside as political liabilities - have pleaded for justice. Their pleas have fallen on deaf ears.

9/11 is the foundational myth upon which the entire neocon agenda is predicated. Every civil liberty curtailed, every passage hacked from the Bill of Rights, every torture camp built by Halliburton, every child murdered in Iraq – all of these have but one justification: 9/11.

Yet leaders of the peace movement have avoided the truth about 9/11, forfeiting the one issue capable of putting a stop to this madness.

And Democratic leaders, for their part, have not only assisted with the cover-up but embraced the War on Terror myth with vigor, threatening to outflank the neocons from the far right.

Our leaders have promised us a hundred year war.

We are promising them that they will not succeed.

In the absence of sane leadership, we intend to do what people have always done to effect positive change: we will mobilize in massive numbers.

On the Eleventh Day of Every Month, we call on activists everywhere to take to the streets in the name of truth.

In every town and every city - and by any nonviolent means necessary - we will reach out together to our fellow citizens and spread the word.

Observing the monthly anniversary of 9/11 with a united day of truth action will provide a regularly occurring focus for the movement, as well as an ongoing reminder to all media, elected representatives and people all over the world that the truth will out and we’re not going away. The 11th will be an ongoing symbol of our presence, our persistence and our growing numbers. As this campaign progresses our growing numbers will encourage more and more people to take action for truth every day until we reach critical mass.

As each month passes and this idea spreads - across the internet, through cafes and town halls and into the collective consciousness of the American public - the 11th will become a rite of passage. The movement will grow exponentially until it can no longer be contained. All that is required is participation by a small number of people already awake and willing to stand up and speak out for truth and justice. The laws of gravity - so absent from the NIST report - will take care of the rest.

Until now, the truth movement has limited itself to a strike-and-retreat approach. Although successful in waking up large numbers of people – no mean feat, considering the corporate media blackout – this strategy has not tapped into the movement’s revolutionary potential. As Clausewitz wrote of war, “The side that takes the initiative defines the terms of the struggle. As long as it keeps innovating, it also retains the element of surprise. Boldness is virtually a creative power… Whenever boldness meets hesitation it already has a significant advantage because the very state of hesitation implies a loss of equilibrium.”

We will stop playing according to their rules. Idleness is defeat. A thirty second haranguing on the O’Reilly Factor is not enough. Our success depends on massive, sustained growth backed by concrete action. Lacking coordination, meeting points and a nationwide plan of action, many have settled for solitary vigils, scattered protests, provocative T-shirts and tables at peace marches. All heroic in themselves, but we must do more – together - on a regular, ongoing basis. What is missing from the truth movement is not so much a widespread awareness of the cover-up but a real plan of action that people all over the country can get involved in.

Ongoing national days of truth action will fill this void.

In the beginning, our numbers will be small. But we remember the case of February 1, 1960 when four freshman at A & T College in Greensboro, North Carolina, sat down at a segregated lunch counter at a popular restaurant. As Howard Zinn writes, “In a matter of days, the idea leaped to other cities in North Carolina. During the next two weeks, sit-ins spread to fifteen cities in five Southern states. Within the following year, over 50,000 people in a hundred cities…”

So began the Civil Rights Movement. It did not begin with Martin Luther King. A great man did not appear from on high and lead the masses to victory. It began with regular people getting off the couch, getting together and standing up for truth and justice.

Our actions will be diverse, creative, colorful and groundbreaking. We will document our actions to inspire and encourage others to join us. Civil disobedience is encouraged but violent actions will not be tolerated. Should such actions occur, we will assume the culprits to be provacateurs, participating in the time-honored tactic of breaking up positive forces that threaten elite power.

There will be no centralized, hierarchical base but rather a horizontal nexus where activists can devise their own tactics for their own communities and coordinate these activities nationwide. The key is a unified and ongoing effort.

There is no greater joy in life than coming together with people of conscience and standing up for what’s right. As Ken Knabb wrote of such situations, “… people become much more open to new perspectives, readier to question previous assumptions, quicker to see through the usual cons. Every day some people go through experiences that lead them to question the meaning of their lives; but during a radical situation practically everyone does so all at once. When the machine grinds to a halt, the cogs themselves begin wondering about their function.”

We will not stop until the September 11th criminals are exposed and brought to justice. Until then, the eleventh day of every month will be observed in honor of all those who were murdered on that day and the many who have lost their lives in the name of that day since.

Our grandchildren will not be designated as cannon fodder before they are even born.

We will not submit to a techno-fascist police state built on a big lie.

Slavery is not an option.

The truth will out.

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In Memory of Dan Wallace

1984 - 2007

One of our most prominent, courageous and dedicated young members of NY911Truth and CHANGE, Dan Wallace, is no longer with us. Dan's father Robert Wallace gave his life on 9/11/01, leaving Dan with many unanswered questions about 9/11. Dan was an ardent activist who showed no fear when confronted by police at street actions at WTC Building 7 and at the New York Stock Exchange. Dan was an eloquent speaker, both on videos of the street actions and at St. Mark's Church, where he gave a moving oration before a packed crowd in a recent Sunday night presentation. Dan Wallace, 23, was found dead early Monday morning in his bed. The exact cause of death is yet to be determined.

He was a young man of great conviction and conscience, and his heart was as big as his smile. Dan will be sorely missed by myself and the members of "We Are Change," as well as all of us in the New York 911 Truth organization. Our hearts go out to his family, especially his mother who must endure the deaths of a husband and child in the span of only a few years.

We carry on the fight in the memory of Dan Wallace. He is in our hearts now, as his Dad has been in our hearts already. We continue the mission that Dan felt so strongly about: to strive to expose the truth of 911, and to bring the real 911 criminals to justice. Dan, you are with us, we'll never forget you and we promise to make you proud.

We as NY911Truth and CHANGE have been doing street actions every Saturday and several weekdays, Dan was a huge part of these street actions and the only way I can think of remembering Dan is with the continuation of these street actions nationally and globally. On the 11th day of every month stand up for the truth and do a street action in your community. Do it for Dan! Do it for Dan’s father Robert Wallace. Do it because the victims of 9/11 deserve the truth. This is the only way I can remember and respect Dan, by fighting for the truth. Me and Dan fought together shoulder to shoulder for the truth. This is what he would want.

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This is it folks.

I embraced this campaign from the moment I heard about it because I truly believe that this is our one big chance to transform 911 truth from internet phenomenon to nation-wide resistance movement.

Gatekeepers such as Chomsky have one and only one compelling argument with respect 911 truth: they argue that it will never produce profound institutional change and is therefore – potentially – a waste of time and energy. According to this line of thinking, we should devote ourselves to other forms of activism.

This is our chance to prove the Chomskys, Monbiots and Alex Cockburns of the world wrong.

The JFK assassination provides empirical evidence of Chomsky’s theory. Investigation of so-called “conspiracy theories” – while obviously an essential form of intellectual inquiry – must by their very nature be relegated to “hobby” status, so the theory goes.

We can dissect the minutiae of how the CIA pulled it of; we can devote countless hours debating which anti-Castro Cuban was involved; we can go out and fire old-fashioned rifles and prove that Oswald could never have killed JFK in the manner the Warren Commission (absurdly) suggested.

But at the end of the day, we will not have affected the power structure one whit.

Applying this historical pattern to 911 truth: we can wait for whistleblowers and deep throats who may never emerge; we can argue endlessly on internet message boards about whether Flight 77 hit the Pentagon (I doubt it, personally); we can engage in localized protests which may – if we’re lucky – be covered in some backwoods newspaper with a readership approaching zero; we can harangue and embarrass officials at public functions and post these small triumphs on youtube; we can beg politicians to take up our cause.

We can do all of this and more, but at the end of the day our efforts will amount to a pin-prick in the side of a whale. The wars will continue. The repression will continue. The steady march toward Armageddon will continue.

I can see it now: the stereotypical “smoky room” wherein sit Dick Cheney, Henry Kissinger, Poppy Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Dov Zackheim, Benyamin Netanyahu, Andrew Marshall and a man closely resembling the antichrist;)

They are safely ensconced in lion-footed Chippendale chairs, Cuban cigars clenched in their teeth, drinking aged whisky from Steuben Crystal. In the corner is an eleven-year-old Monarch, naked save a maid’s outfit, standing beneath a painting by George Stubbs. How do these creatures view us? As cattle. As entertainment. I have no doubt that the highlight of Bill Kristol’s day is reading 911blogger and chuckling at our current level of impotence.

They fully understand that unless we take this thing to the streets we will never affect the power structure in any meaningful way.

Here we have the solution to the problem we all face.

The only way to reverse the historical trend with respect “conspiracy” is to treat 911 as do the architects of the event themselves: not as yet another “conspiracy theory” but as the “event that changed everything”.

Read Clausewitz on war. We must take bold action or be relegated to an historical footnote, assuming that in the late 21st century there remain any books at all, let alone some semblance of “civilization”.

To be honest, I never really believed that 911 activism would accomplish much. My assumption was that 911 truth would go the way of the countless other “conspiracies” revealed (albeit piece-meal and incomplete) to the public: good fodder for dinner party conversations and book sales – yet more proof that powerful states in general and the United States (government) in particular have all the characteristics of the cosa nostra – but ultimately a non-starter when it comes to actually changing the social and political arrangements that allow these monstrous operations (as well as the less spectacular, but equally villainous institutional monstrosities) to continue.

Millions of people die in Africa every year from easily treatable diseases. This is not incompetence. This is by design.

I became involved in this movement only because I wanted people to become aware of false flag operations; this, I hoped, would cast light on the overall absurdity of the “war on terror”. I wanted to make people aware of the cynical and brutal operations employed by states to whipsaw populations into supporting imperial plunder. I wanted to make people aware that wars do not serve the interests of ordinary people; rather they are invariably used as a pretext to repress dissident elements in the “homeland”. Read Randolph Bourne circa 1914. “War is health of the State”. I thought 911 truth would help people understand how states actually function. I wanted to empower people and arm them with knowledge rather than sitting on the sidelines and pretending the official story made a modicum of sense. But I never thought the movement would do anything but educate.

I never imagined we would go supernova.

The only thing missing is a concrete, NATION-WIDE plan of action that people can get involved in and sink their teeth into.

Well, here it is. Live on your feet or die on your knees.

Do we have the mettle to take this thing to the streets en-masse? I think we do. If there’s one thing NOT lacking from the 911 truth movement, it is courage.

The truth is on our side. Newton smiles on us from heaven. We CAN beat them and we WILL beat them.

I cannot stress enough how important I feel this campaign is.

Seize the day. Get involved. Get in the streets. Let us make 911 truth a force to be reckoned with. Let us reach out to our fellow citizens in non-violent direct action. Let us do this NATION-WIDE in a rational, intelligent, coordinated effort. Let us maximize exposure. We can force their hand. We can have a new investigation. We can ensure that the new investigation does not descend into the classic limited hangout. We can dismantle the institutions of unjust power and coercion that enslave us.

This campaign has the potential to explode, not like the bombs of September but like a revelation in the collective consciousness of the American pubilc. The eleventh of every month should become a right of passage. Every action initiated can serve as a force-multiplier, bringing more and more people to our cause.

I do not live in the United States, but rather an hours drive from the border. I live in Vancouver, British Colombia. Canada. But 911 affects all countries, each government embracing the “terra” myth to cement their own power structures and curtail civil rights. Even though I do not hail from the US, I will be participating in the first, historical call to action on the 11th of February.

I would like to end with a passage from the official announcement:

“In the beginning, our numbers will be small. But we remember the case of February 1, 1960 when four freshman at A & T College in Greensboro, North Carolina, sat down at a segregated lunch counter at a popular restaurant. As Howard Zinn writes, “In a matter of days, the idea leaped to other cities in North Carolina. During the next two weeks, sit-ins spread to fifteen cities in five Southern states. Within the following year, over 50,000 people in a hundred cities…”

And finally:

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

Godspeed my friends.

P.S.: DZ, Reprehensor, GW, SBG, please post this in the main news section and let it stand at the top of the page all day tomorrow.

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