[953] in peace2
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J Sam Arey)
Wed Sep 12 15:10:41 2001
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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 15:10:37 -0400
From: J Sam Arey <arey@MIT.EDU>
(1) i have notice from a friend currently heading a relief team in NYC
that there are blood shortages in both NYC and DC. If you can donate
blood today or tomorrow, it would be timely.
The student center blood drive is open until 6 pm tonight (2nd floor).
You may also go to:
Boston Donor Center Mondays: 11:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
25 Stuart Street, 02116 Tuesdays - Thursdays: 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
(617) 556-2200 Fridays: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
(2) i picked these out of "Calamitous Perspective," by Michael Albert.
(www.znet.org)
Sending a commentary on a topic other than todays horrific events has
seemed untenable..
... Good-hearted Americans will mourn these innocent and horrible
deaths with dignity and with respect. Media analysts and politicians,
however, will soon use pictures of the rubble to seek increased police
and military spending and greater state interventionary and
surveillance powers. They will intone that killing civilians is
cowardly and warrants swift and merciless punishment. They will
however ignore having themselves supported the recent assault on
Yugoslavia that terrorized that countrys civilian population to topple
its despised government. They will also ignore that the U.S.-led
embargo of Iraq has caused hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths,
again to destabilize a hated government. Todays terrorism was
horrendously vile. It arose in a terror-infected world...
... In coming weeks we may suffer a kind of celebration in America, a
celebration of security and of power, a celebration of surreptitious
information retrieval, a celebration of arms growth, and perhaps of
assassination, all described as virtuous goals rather than uncivil
abominations, all touted as if the terror victims will be honored
rather than defiled by our preparing to entomb still more innocent
people around the world. Normal good-hearted Americans will weep for
the suffering that todays events exacted and hope to create a world in
which such hate and callousness disappears. But I fear that America's
leaders will cynically bulk up their ammo belts while seeking to make
ubiquitous their listening devices trying to relegate public freedoms
to an incinerator.
