With confusion, pain and anxiety ringing over North America, it will be useful to provide some framework for understanding what has happened. Here are links to websites so people can move past the mainstream media analysis that has inadequately (and not accidentally) treated this incident in the following ways:
1) blamed Arab groups for the bombing; thus scapegoating an entire group of people without any analysis of where such anti-American sentiment stems from or how many others might share the same sentiment in the world;
2) set the stage for an unprecedented clamp-down of civil liberties in exchange for more security—a promise that has proved hollow;
3) rolled out the carpet for an all-out war against an enemy that is still unidentified. Our hearts are aching for the people who have died in the World Trade Center attacks, and for their families. That Americans have never had to endure such a terrorist attack on our soil before should open our eyes and hearts to people who live with such threats every day.
Please consult these sites for reliable information that broadens the analysis of this horrible event and helps us make sense of it intellectually and responsibly.
Z Magazine: www.zmag.org
LiP Magazine: www.lipmagazine.org
Indy Media: www.indymedia.org
BBC online: www.bbc.co.uk
The Independent: www.independent.co.uk
Common Dreams: www.commondreams.org
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“Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
—Thomas Jefferson