39. WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, September 15, 2021
9-11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
Susan Sontag on 9-11
9-11,
SEPTEMBER 11 FAMILIES FOR PEACEFUL TOMORROWS DAY
The
US War of Terror that intensified around the world after the 9-11 bombings did
not have to happen. Our leaders and the
public had a peaceful option, and it was chosen by some families of the
victims, calling themselves “9-11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows.” OMNI has remembered them in eight
newsletters. #8 follows.
OMNI
9-11,
SEPTEMBER 11 FAMILIES FOR PEACEFUL TOMORROWS DAY, NATIONAL DAY OF SERVICE
NEWSLETTER #8, September 11, 2015
(alternative to Patriot Day).
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2015/09/september-11-families-for-peaceful.html
COMPILED
BY Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace and Justice
What’s
at stake: Peace starts
in our communities with our rejection of the beliefs and structures of our
society that urge fear, hatred, and revenge. As we approach the 14th Commemoration
of 9/11, we seek to honor all of the victims of the plane bombs, not by upping
the violence ante, but by rejecting revenge and fostering peaceful
communities—local, national, and global--that embrace compassionate service
rather than violence. We would serve as practical ambassadors of nonviolent
peace. Building the peace and justice
movement.
Contents:
9/11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows DAY #8
9/11: What
Happened? The Bombing Controversy. Ben Laden’s Revenge….Revenge…..Revenge
Peaceful
Tomorrows Day 2015 against Savage Revenge and Lawlessness
Google
Searches: 9/11 and Revenge, 9/11 and US War of Revenge
Glennon,
National Security Obsession Produced Two US Governments: One Feebly
Constitutional,
the other Agressively Tyrannical
Imminent Threat, After 9/11 Documentary Film on War of
Terror and US Civil Liberties
Where did
Families for Peaceful Tomorrows Come From???
Yoder,
Christian Nonviolence
Islam and
Peace: 3 Books
Islam Means Peace
Crescent and Dove
Nonviolence
Dick, Tolstoy and Patriotism
The
9/11 Bombing Controversy
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DYSFUNCTIONS
OF USA DURING PANIC OF 9/11
Questions regarding the post-9/11 obsession with security
and revenge--the “war on terror” (become war of terror), the illegal invasions
of Afghanistan and Iraq, and of Pakistan and other Middle Eastern countries,
and regarding the devastating war on civil liberties at home by the expansion
of surveillance and secrecy (Homeland Security, NSA, destruction of the 4th
Amendment), I pursued by googling these two searches, with interesting
results. Many of the responses were not
to the point or trivial, but some do examine deeply. Our religious and philosophical traditions
repudiate revenge. From the perspective
of Peaceful Tomorrows, US behavior post-9-11 is a paroxysm of revenge inspiring
more revenge. From that of international
criminal law and law, US behavior is a convulsion of lawlessness: a few
criminals blew up the Trade Towers; Interpol and national police should have
been allowed to do its lawful duty.
Instead our leaders fed us immensely exaggerated fear-mongering and
unchecked slaughter. Who are we, ask the
authors of The Hidden Structure of
Violence? They reply: a people of
violence; especially military violence, war, in which people are displaced,
tortured, shot, bombed, burned; and economic violence, in which the necessities
for life are not provided or are taken from the people (10). MORE
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2015/09/september-11-families-for-peaceful.html
PEACEFUlL TOMORROWS
Day/National Day of Service is part of OMNI’s National Days Project. See
Newsletters 4 and 5 for extensive explanation of Peaceful Tomorrows.
Film:
All
Quiet on the Western Front
Sept 21 - An Intl Day
of Peace Event
7:00 pm - Faulkner
Performing Arts Center, UA
ADMISSION FREE
A Peace Week Event
Co-Sponsored by the UA
Dept of Communications Film Appreciation Society and Omni Center
9/11/01 Susan Sontag
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Three days after
the 9/11 attacks 20 years ago, Susan Sontag wrote the following in The New Yorker, for which she received
untold amounts of shit and was nearly driven out of the American cultural
establishment
The disconnect between
last Tuesday’s monstrous dose of reality and the self-righteous drivel and
outright deceptions being peddled by public figures and TV commentators is
startling, depressing. The voices licensed to follow the event seem to have
joined together in a campaign to infantilize the public. Where is the
acknowledgment that this was not a “cowardly” attack on “civilization” or
“liberty” or “humanity” or “the free world” but an attack on the world’s
self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American
alliances and actions? How many citizens are aware of the ongoing American bombing
of Iraq? And if the word “cowardly” is to be used, it might be more aptly
applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the
sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others. In the
matter of courage (a morally neutral virtue): whatever may be said of the
perpetrators of Tuesday’s slaughter, they were not cowards.
Our leaders are bent
on convincing us that everything is O.K. America is not afraid. Our spirit is
unbroken, although this was a day that will live in infamy and America is now
at war. But everything is not O.K. And this was not Pearl Harbor. We have a
robotic President who assures us that America still stands tall. A wide
spectrum of public figures, in and out of office, who are strongly opposed to
the policies being pursued abroad by this Administration apparently feel free
to say nothing more than that they stand united behind President Bush. A lot of
thinking needs to be done, and perhaps is being done in Washington and
elsewhere, about the ineptitude of American intelligence and
counter-intelligence, about options available to American foreign policy,
particularly in the Middle East, and about what constitutes a smart program of
military defense. But the public is not being asked to bear much of the burden
of reality. The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet
Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious,
reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media
commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy.
Those in public office
have let us know that they consider their task to be a manipulative one:
confidence-building and grief management. Politics, the politics of a
democracy—which entails disagreement, which promotes candor—has been replaced
by psychotherapy. Let’s by all means grieve together. But let’s not be stupid
together. A few shreds of historical awareness might help us understand what
has just happened, and what may continue to happen. “Our country is strong,” we
are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who
doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be.
—Susan Sontag
Don’t miss
Robert Weissman, Public Citizen, “In Memory of the Lives Lost”
In WWW #40, 9-22.
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