9/11 Families To March On City Hall As City Seeks To Stop Fresh Probe Of Attacks From Going On November Ballot

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 24, 2009

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Ted Walter, 917-627-8467
tedwalter@nyccan.org

9/11 Families To March on City Hall As City Seeks to Stop Fresh Probe of Attacks From Going On November Ballot

New York City – On Sunday, September 27 at 2pm, The New York City Coalition for Accountability Now (NYC CAN), a group comprising 9/11 family members, first responders and survivors, will march from Battery Park to City Hall in protest of the City’s attempt to block the referendum for a fresh probe of the 9/11 attacks from going on the November ballot.

The effort to establish a local commission to pick up where the 9/11 Commission left off comes just as the 9/11 Commission’s Chief Counsel John Farmer released a book entitled “The Ground Truth” in which he claims “at some level of government, at some point in time… there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened.”

80,000 New Yorkers have signed the petition as it has won the endorsement of 2002 TIME magazine person of the year, and former FBI agent, Coleen Rowley, as well as outspoken 9/11 victims’ family members including Bill Doyle, who lost his son Joey, and Lorie Van Auken, who lost her husband Kenneth. Van Auken is one of the esteemed ‘Jersey Girls’ who successfully lobbied the federal government to set up the 9/11 Commission only to have 70% of her group’s questions to the Commission go unanswered.

Speakers for the Battery Park rally include 9/11 family members Bob McIlvaine and Manny Badillo, New York University’s Professor of Media Studies, Mark Crispin Miller, and actor Daniel Sunjata of the Emmy-winning Fox Television series “Rescue Me” which depicts post-9/11 life in a FDNY firehouse. After a half-hour speakers’ program, 9/11 family members and first responders will lead thousands of supporters in a march past Ground Zero, The City Clerk’s Office and The State Supreme Court, all the way to the steps of City Hall.

This week NYC CAN submitted a memorandum of law in response to the City’s challenge of the petition’s legality. The Court-appointed referee is scheduled to submit his report and recommendations to the Court on Monday, September 28. The Court will decide whether or not to adopt the referee’s recommendations and then issue a decision, after which appeals will likely follow immediately. ”The arguments are strong on both sides, so the judges will have some thinking and analyzing to do,” said Dennis McMahon, the Petitioners’ attorney. “No other case pending in the New York courts has a higher priority on the calendars than this one, so we should have a definitive answer by next week.”

If the Court decides in NYC CAN’s favor and 15,000 of the 28,000 additional signatures submitted on September 4 are deemed valid by the City Clerk, the referendum will go on this November’s ballot.

If the referendum passes, it would lead to the creation of a local, independent commission with subpoena power that would be tasked with comprehensively reinvestigating the attacks. For more info: http://www.nyccan.org

What is the legal issue?

Is there information available on the precise legal issue that is to be resolved?

Thanks

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http://www.911blogger.com/node/20789


Do these people deserve to know how and why their loved ones were murdered? Do we deserve to know how and why 9/11 happened?

Referee against truth

Breaking News: Court Referee Recommends Ruling in Favor of City;
NYC CAN To File Motion To Reject Referee's Recommendation

Rather than waiting until the scheduled decision date of Monday, September 28, Referee Louis Crespo issued his "report and recommendations" on Friday, September 25, and recommended that the Court rule in favor of the City.

After reviewing the referee's report, we feel he did not give adequate consideration to the extensive arguments presented in our memorandum of law submitted on Monday, September 21. The report seemed more a cut and paste from the City's original motion papers than a balanced weighing of the arguments. In particular, the referee's report failed to analyze the vast majority of NYC CAN's legal points as to why the City's claims were unfounded and its reliance on certain case law wholly inapplicable.
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20090926210041742

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Besides that it's to late for a rec' in favor of truth by Hon. Louis Crespo, I think we should tell him what we think about his advise to just don't ask for the peoples will.

Hon. Louis Crespo
NY County Supreme Court, Special Referee
71 Thomas St., R - 203
New York, NY 10013

Phone: 646-386-3794
Fax: 212-374-8417
LCRESPO@courts.state.ny.us

I just listened to NYCCAN's lawyer...

On the radio, and he is GOOD.

Oh, and NYC conceded the 15,000 additional signatures today.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

I am going to post this archive when it's available... I was also on the radio tonight for a good hour, I'll post that as well.


Do these people deserve to know how and why their loved ones were murdered? Do we deserve to know how and why 9/11 happened?

If you are going to the march tomorrow...

And if you are within traveling distance, i sure hope you are, bring an umbrella. They are calling for "Heavy Rain."


Do these people deserve to know how and why their loved ones were murdered? Do we deserve to know how and why 9/11 happened?