Steve:
Stuck waiting for the trains to resume for a couple of hours in midtown, but that was the worst of it for me physically. Spiritually, looking down Broadway and seeing the plume of smoke and talking to people who saw different parts of the disaster still has me upset. Dozens if not hundreds of my co-workers in different State agencies are buried in the rubble as I write. Let those in our movement who think terror has anything to do with human freedom go down there and pick up the pieces and then tell me what they think.

Jeannette
...there are so many people out here who commute in and of course I worked with a lot of people in the WTC when I was at Merrill Lynch. It took a while for the reality to really strike home, it's just so incredibly shocking. The whole idea of taking over civilian aircrafts and now it has come out that several stewardesses were attacked with knives, it's all so horrible.

Anyway I couldn't get in to teach my electricians tonight. Hopefullytomorrow night we can get in, there is an immigrant workers meeting. I'm very concerned about how deeply demoralized the anti-globalization movement seems. We have to keep moving ahead.

David
I can only speak for myself and the building at 339 - all is well. But all isn't well for the workers who showed up on time at the Trade Center, or the rescue workers trapped in the building when it fell.

Great tragedy.

On Wed, 12 Sep 2001 11:11:50 +0300, Laure Akai wrote:

Speaking of "the revolution", all of my anarchist life I've been thinking that I'd never see a revolution in my lifetime but the other day I was literally overcome by some feeling that there would be major outbreaks, disturbances etc. before I croak; something rather irrational but very strong. Anyway, sometimes when I see things like this, I think about the acts of desperation people are driven too and the heights of passions found in the world now that it has reached a state of such alienation and conflict and wonder what this all will eventually bring. Although this was quite shocking, I think it was coming and we should start thinking about what response to this we should have and if anything we do could make even a slight difference in opinion.

I have to agree with Laure. I was getting the same feeling recently, even before this shit happened today. Being the current focus of the anti-capitalist movement, it really seemed that revolution was in the air.

I think it still is.

Where was I today? I walked around downtown D.C. as the authorities scrambled around, trying to get some sense of control. I walked with a few anarchist friends over to the Pentagon. It was pretty weird to watch that sight, for many reasons, including the fact that a person who was with me had been in Belgrade when the U.S. was dropping bombs. Needless to say, this person had little sympathy for the Army brass who were going up in smoke.

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INTERNATIONALISM IN PRACTICE

An American soldier in a hospital explained how he was wounded: He said, "I was told that the way to tell a hostile Vietnamese from a friendly Vietnamese was to shout "To hell with Ho Chi Minh!" If he shoots, he s unfriendly. So I saw this dude and yelled "To hell with Ho Chi Minh!" and he yelled back, "To hell with President Johnson!" "We were shaking hands when a truck hit us."