San Francisco's historic Herbst Theatre and Palo Alto’s Spangenberg Theatre played host to two important screenings of the film which raises key questions about the official explanation of the events of September 11, 2001.

To the delight of organizers the showing at the Herbst was a huge success with a sellout crowd in attendance. In fact the response in San Francisco was so good that several hundred people had to be turned away at the door.

The event began with a reception in the Green Room, which gave the public the chance to meet the filmmakers and the people who would later be part of a discussion panel, including Mike Ruppert, Peter Dale Scott, Riva Enteen, and the evening's moderator Barrie Zwicker. Discussion during the reception was very lively as people had the opportunity to openly discuss their own questions about 9-11 and the issues they felt should be researched in the future.

Then , the main attraction ...AfterMath.

Some of the key questions about 9/11 raised in the film:

What did the Bush Administration know and when? Why wasn¹t the US military able to intercept the hijacked planes? How did the administration respond to the failures of the military and Intelligence agencies on 9/11? What ties, if any, did the US government and Intelligence agencies have with the terrorists or their supporters? Were there plans for a war in central Asia prior to September 11? Is there any historical evidence to suggest that the government may have used the 9/11 attacks to justify its war in Central Asia? How has the government¹s reaction to the terrorist attacks affected the rule of law in the United States? How has recent legislation like the PATRIOT ACT and the Homeland Security bill affected the lives of American people? What can we do?

After the film the audience burst into applause and gave GNN a well deserved standing ovation for their creation.

Then, Blaine Machan of DeceptionDollar.com introduced the evening's moderator Barrie Zwicker who quickly engaged the audience with a series of questions: “Who believed that elements of the U.S. government, not just knew , but actively participated in the highjackings of 9-11 , were in a word complicite?” More than 75% of the audience raised their hands. His third question- “How many believe, to condense the situation into two words, “Bush knew”? 50% of the audience raised their hands.

Members of the panel then had approximately ten minutes each to present their thoughts, after which the audience was given their chance to ask their own questions. The discussion was interesting and enlightening and spilled back into the Green Room where the evening ended.

In Palo Alto the following evening the procedings were very much the same except that the panel included Richard Heinberg, author of The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies.

The balance of moderator Barrie Zwicker's introductory remarks can be seen < HERE >

For more dicussion on these events and some audio files from the post-film panel visit these IndyMedia links:

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/1602964.php http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/1602883.php http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/1603425.php