A series of conversations and informational conversations,radio,tv and film showings ect about 911 hosted by SC Libraries thur sept 12
TONIGHT Unanswerd Questions at Branciforte library 7pm!!
Branciforte Library:TONIGHT 9-10-04
Film showings from 7-9:00 pm: "Aftermath: Unanswered Questions from 9/11" produced by the Guerrilla News Network, and "Looking for Answers," discuss the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, the roots of hatred found in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, radical Islam, and the failure of U.S. intelligence. Conversation will follow
Saturday, September 11
Santa Cruz Central Library:
Conversation hosted by Assemblyman John Laird 10:30-12:30 pm. A second conversation hosted by the Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries Board of Directors and the Patriot Day Committee will be held from 2:30-4:30 pm.
Aptos Library:
Conversation hosted by Congressman Sam Farr from 1-3:00 pm. Anne M. Turner, Director of the Libraries will welcome Congressman Farr.
Watsonville Library:
Conversation at 2:00 pm. Participants include Tony Hill, Rachel Mayo, and Mas Hashimoto.
Boulder Creek Library:
Conversation hosted by Supervisor Mark Stone from 3-6:00 pm. Sponsored by the Valley Women's Club.
Radio:
KSCO 1080AM - On-air conversation co-hosted by Charles Freedman and Neal Coonerty, 10:00 am-12 noon. Call in to participate.
Television:
Community Television of Santa Cruz County will host "Let's Talk! A Community Conversation" live on Channel 26 at 7:00 pm with Geoff Dunn. Featuring Tom Honig, Editor of the Santa Cruz Sentinel; Diane Siri, Santa Cruz County Superintendent of Schools; the Rev. Deborah L. Johnson of Inner Light Ministries; and David Sweet, retired UCSC Professor and member of the Patriot Day Committee.
Capitola City Council:
Conversation co-hosted by Capitola Mayor Stephanie Harlan and resident Paul Halula from 11:00 am-1:00 pm in the Capitola City Council Chambers.
Everyday Dharma:
Meditation period at Everyday Dharma to remember victims of September 11 in New York, Afghanistan, and Iraq from 11-11:40 am (113 New Street, Santa Cruz).
Mindful Communication:
Making Peace With Conflict Using Nonviolent Communication. Help create a world based on peaceful communication and understanding. 9:00 am-12 noon, Inner Light Ministries (5630 Soquel Drive, Soquel). Requested donation $45-0. Call 425-3055 to register.
Del Mar Theater:
Lecture at the Del Mar Theater: "Dissent is Patriotic" from 12 noon-2:00 pm with activists David Harris, Bettina Aptheker, Noura Erakat, and Paul Ortiz. Sponsored by the Resource Center for Non-Violence. Entrance fee on a sliding scale, 423-1626 for more info.
Louden Nelson Community Center:
Conversation hosted by Nicolette Czarrunchick in Room #1, Louden Nelson Community Center (301 Center Street, Santa Cruz), 3:00-5:00 pm.
Live Oak Family Resource Center:
Conversation hosted by Bernard Bricmont at the Live Oak Family Resource Center, 1438 Capitola Road, Santa Cruz, at 12 noon.
Oak Tree Villa Retirement Community:
Conversation hosted by Kathleen Rose Hughes of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) at the Oak Tree Villa Retirement Community at 1:30 pm (100 Lockwood Lane, Scotts Valley). Call 457-8924 for more information.
Quaker Community:
Conversation hosted by the Quaker Community at 2:00 pm, 225 Rooney St., Santa Cruz. Please call 423-2605 to RSVP.
WomanRise, San Lorenzo Park:
"September Project in the Park" - WomanRise for Global Peace present an afternoon at San Lorenzo Park Duck Pond area from 2:30-4:30 pm. Featuring Anne Marie Sayer, Ohlone Elder, and Terry Bradford, The Ultimate Human Music Experience, Youth Spoken Word and much more.
Santa Cruz Neighborhood:
Conversation hosted by Joyce Brodsky of the ACLU at 420 Columbia St., Santa Cruz, from 7-9:00 pm. Call 457-8924 for more info.
Rio Theatre:
"Poets Against War" poetry reading at the Rio Theatre at 7:00 pm ($3 suggested donation).
Peace Sing-Along:
Peace Sing-Along with Valerie Promise and Friends. 7:30-9:30 pm, Lighthouse Point, Santa Cruz.
Fire Dance on West Cliff:
Santa Cruz Fire Dance Troupe, Nocturnal Sunshine, Patriot Day performance at the Lighthouse on West Cliff Dr., 8:30 pm.
Comments
The Way It Should Have Been / 9-11 Tribute
by Bob Wallace
June 17, 2004
Hijacker: This is a hijacking! I have a boxcutter!
Grandma: I have a .45! Now reach for the sky, or I'll put a hole
in that diaper-hat on top of your pointy little head!
Hijacker: What?! I did not know Americans were allowed to carry
handguns on airplanes! I thought the liberals took away your firearms
and your gonads!
Grandma: What alternate universe do you live in? This is America,
land of the free and home of the brave! And the armed!
Bureaucrat: Everyone put away your handguns and surrender! Do what
they tell you! There won't be any trouble if you just act like sheep!
Grandma: Shut up you, you worthless idjit! (Smacks bureaucrat on top
of his head, which causes him to cry like a girl.) Anyone who listens to
anything said by anyone from the government deserves exactly what they get!
Hijacker: Surrender! We are going to fly these planes into the
World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the White House!
Grandma: Bringing a knife to a gunfight, huh?
Hijacker: My faith will protect me!
Grandma: Oh yeah? (BLAM!)
Hijacker: AIEEEE!! The 72 virgins await me! (Topples over, exits.)
Other hijackers: Look! Everyone on the plane has handguns pointed
at us! We surrender!
Passengers: (chorus): Oh, really?
Osama bin Laden: Dang. My plan to draw the US into a war so the entire
Islamic world will hate them just fell apart! Now I'll have to find another
way to get America to bleed itself dry of blood and treasure! Drats! My
nefarious plans foiled! (Looks pensive.) But then, on the other hand, I'm
not going to end up a pile of squashed bones under a mountain in
Afghanistan!
George Bush: Ah, shoot. Now I'll go down in history as a mediocre
president who presided over a miniscule tax cut and some minor deregulation.
(Looks pensive.) Well, I guess that's better than being known as a
stumble-tongued fool who fell into Osama bin Laden's trap and started
World War III!
Neocons: Dang! Our insane leftist plans to conquer the Middle East
just went up in smoke! (Looks pensive.) On the other hand, at least we're
not going to be exposed as the deluded, traitorous, crackpot, chickenhawk
armchair-general cowards that all of us really are!
800+ Americans: Yay! Now we don't have to die before our time in a
worthless effort to impose our values and way of life on people who don't
want them!
1000+ Americans: Yay! Now I won't lose my eyes, arms, legs, brain
and all kinds of body parts!
10,000+ Iraqis: Yay! Same with us!
Father: Hi, honey! I'm home from my job at the World Trade Center!
Wife: Thank goodness! A bunch of nuts tried to hijack four planes and
fly them right into the building where you work! The passengers shot a
bunch of them and the rest surrendered!
Father: Wow! I might have been killed! Good thing those passengers
were armed! Why, 3000 people could have been killed had the hijackers
succeeded!
Daughter: Daddy! You're home!
Father: Yep, honey, safe and sound, thanks to the brave citizens of
this wonderful country, who understand how utterly foolish and worthless
the government really is. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,
right honey?
(A reader sent in this "correction")
Daughter: It sure is, daddy! Yay for the real America, and real
Americans! Now can we please run over to the shooting range so I can get
in my practice rounds with the rest of my Advanced Shooting Team? Please
please please???