In addition
to the main presentations in the Herbst Theatre, there
were presentations, films shown, public dialogues with
speakers on topics raised in the program, tabling of resource
materials on the second floor of the building.
There were
also additional meeting rooms for Inquiry Participants/Speakers
engaged in deepening their understanding of 9-11. Truth
be told, we had so many film-makers at the event that
a few rooms were converted into studios for interviews
and over 50 hours of video was recorded from the main
presentations/interviews/actions/dialogues, and a Press
Conference that preceded the event and that continued
until 4 PM Friday Afternoon. Here is more information
about the processes we used Open
Space. Below are the main Presentations held in the
Herbst Theatre which were all recorded (audio and visual)
and the audiotapes are already available for purchase
via T.U.C. Radio,
We want to include links to where video and audio have
been posted on the web.(Let us know, if there are any
you know about which we might have missed.)
Jan
Hoyer's photo album of the event
Video
highlights of the Inquiry, including the Press Conference
are posted
HERE
March
26
Friday
Afternoon 3:00- 5:45
3:00-3:10
Welcome. (click on title - for text of the talk that should
have been given) Overview
of the 9-11 Truth Movement - Carol Brouillet,
Inquiry
Organizer, activist who organized the delegation on
Senator Feinstein's office demanding a Congressional Investigation
of 9-11 in January 2002, many marches, rallies, events,
and the publishing and distribution of over 3,000,000 Deception
Dollars.
3:10-3:25
Report on the Berlin September
11, 2003 Conference. The Questions they raised that
still need to be addressed.- Nicholas Levis (organizer
of the Berlin September 11, 2003 Conference), Co-Founder
of the 9-11 Truth Alliance.
3:25-3:35
Where we are now - Barrie Zwicker (producer of The
Great Deception/organizing the Toronto
Int'l Inquiry- Phase 2) (MC)
3:35- 4:20
FILM- The
Great Deception 44 minutes (latest version with
a new segment)
4:20 - 5:05 (click
on title - for the original text of Gray's talk.) The
Great Endarkenment: Placing 9-11 in the Historical Context
of "Barbarism vs. Civilization" The role of oil and
other resources that have long driven international relations
and covert operations. The monopolization of information
by the few to move the many. The Mexican-, Spanish-, and
Philippine-American Wars as the preludes to "Star Wars"
and the "conquest of space." The burning of the Baghdad
libraries and the erasure of humanity's memory.Gray
Brechin Author of "Imperial San Francisco: Urban
Power, Earthly Ruin," "Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from
the California Dream" (with Robert Dawson), and much more.
5:05 - 5:45 The
question of the links between the Bush family and the Nazis.
The neocons in the Bush administration -- Wolfowitz, Perle,
Feith, Luti, Shulsky, and so forth -- as the heirs to the
pro-Nazi philosophy of Leo Strauss. Webster
Tarpley, author of The
Unauthorized biography of George H. W. Bush.
DINNER BREAK
Friday
Evening 7:15- 9:30
7:15- 7:25 Reichstag
Fire, song by David Rovics (click
here for video clip posted at the indymedia site)
7:25 - 7:55 Film
Clip- The '93 WTC attacks- the men convicted- all Al
Qaeda/CIA Operatives under the direction of the FBI
The CIA connection
to the bombers of the World Trade Center in 1993----how
all of them, except the the FBI informant planted in the
group, had been on the CIA payroll in Afghanistan fighting
the Soviets before they settled in the New York area. Examining
events involving entrapment of FBI infiltrated groups where
then FBI informant planted on so-called terrorist groups
is actually the person who organises and is the key individual
in the commission of the crime. The CIA techniques on Psychological
Operations for Guerilla Warfare. In short how our government
creates "terrorists" and crimes for their political agenda.
Joseph A. Calhoun, broadcast journalist, (He contributed
to the Academy Award winning documentary "The Panama Deception")
7:55-8:25 The
history of false-flag operations and provocateurs to achieve
covert ends and the rise of the martial state. The Fingerprints
of a Special Operation- What Didn't Happen Mark Taylor.
A native San Franciscan who graduated from San Francisco
State University with a BA in political science and American
history, Mark also has an MA in education from SFSU and
worked on his doctorate at the University of Kansas. He
has been a junior college instructor, an adjunct professor,
and a high school teacher for the last thirty years. Mark
has specialized as a researcher on the Kennedy assassination
and delivered the keynote address at the grassy knoll in
Dallas for JFK Lancer on the fortieth anniversary of the
President's assassination.
8:25 - 8:55 The
Failure of the Military to defend the U.S. and its own headquarters
on 9-11- A look at the timeline of the crime. Michael
C. Ruppert, From the Wilderness Publications, Since
9-11-01 he has been the point man in breaking major stories
involving government foreknowledge, corruption, and violations
of the Constitution.
8:55 - 9:05
Excerpt from the film- Arsenal of Hypocrisy
9:05 - 9:30 Blueprint
for World Domination: General Myers, Donald Rumsfeld and
their objectives (largest reorganisation of U.S. military
in history- militarization of space). Who had foreknowledge
of the attacks? How could specific forewarnings been given
to key people? Was this an "intelligence failure"? What
is wrong with the national command response to these attacks,
from Bush down to the key military and NORAD commands? Project
for a New American Century- perpetual war and the rise of
a militarized state. Because of computerization, robotics
and mechanization we now have superfluous populations around
the world. Rather than share the diminishing resources (oil,
water, etc) the power structure intends to impose a new
21st century form of feudalism that will insure maximum
corporate profits and minimum social progress for the people
of the Earth. In order to "control and dominate" the growing
legions of "have-nots," new high-tech space technologies
will be utilized and a fast moving military will be forward
deployed to new smaller "lilly pad" bases in global hot
spots. Key regions that have resources, yet under corporate
control, will also see new bases established. China and
Russia will be militarily surrounded and contained. In order
to pay for this perpetual war cut backs in human needs spending
will be necessary in all the "industrial" or "first world"
societies. Bruce Gagnon- Coordinator of the Global
Network Against Nuclear Weapons & and Nuclear Power in Space.
Between 1983 – 1998 Bruce was the State Coordinator of the
Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice and has worked on
space issues for over 20 years.
(9:30-? on the
second floor) Mini- Concert by David Rovics Musican,
the "heart and soul of the Global Justice movement," David
has sung at most of the major protests over the past several
years.
March
27
Saturday
Morning 9:00a.m.- 11:45a.m.
9:00
- 9:10 Update on the attack upon civil rights in this country,
and what people are doing against it. Riva Enteen
(National Lawyer's Guild), newly elected Chairman of the
Pacifica local Board (she has to chair a meeting this morning-
so will return for dialogue on Sunday morning). Currently
working on the National Campaign to Impeach Bush. She will
also introduce one of the key activist tools to raising
consciousness about 9-11-
9:10 - 9:48
FILM-Guerrilla News Network's
Aftermath-
Unanswered Questions from 9-11
9:48-10:18 Examining
the pattern of the post-9/11 'war on terror' and its continuity
with us foreign policies in the cold war and post-cold war
periods. This pattern is rooted in a particular conception
of national security which seeks to protect not the nation
and its people, but rather the transnational flows of us
capital and the functioning of the capitalist world economy.
National Security has provided a pretext for perpetual war,
war against 'communism' (cold war), war against rogue states
(post-cold war) and war against the transnational nexus
of wmd, rogue states and terror networks (post-9/11). In
reality this war is directed largely at crushing indigenous
development strategies around the world in order to impose
social, political and economic structures in accordance
with sustaining elite interests. Throughout this continuum,
the imperial strategic framework underpinning us foreign
policies has remained fundamentally static, while the nature
of the external 'security threats' has shifted in accordance
with major gepolitical transformations. The 'security threat',
ultimately, is largely an ideological projection designed
to legitimize perpetual war, and 9/11 provided the ideal
conditions by which to construct an 'endless enemy', thus
paving the way for the infinite 'war on freedom.' Nafeez
Ahmed (Author of The
War on Freedom- How and Why America was Attacked on September
11, 2001 and
Behind the War on Terror: Western Secret Strategy and the
Struggle for Iraq ).
10:18-10:40
Snowshoe Films- Disarming the War Agenda, with Professor
Michel Chossudovsky, author of War
and Globalization- The Truth behind September 11, 2001
and the author of the international best-seller "The Globalisation
of Poverty " published in eleven languages. He is Professor
of Economics at the University of Ottawa and Director of
the Center for Research on Globalization which hosts the
critically acclaimed website: www.globalresearch.ca.
He is the 2003 Recipient of the Human Rights Prize of the
Society for the Protection of Civil Rights and Human Dignity,
Berlin, Germany. His primary research on 9-11 has been crucial
to the entire 9-11 Truth movement. He will look at the larger
picture, the global economic forces behind war.
10:40-11:05 The
Role of Pakistan in 9/11 and Possible US Government Connections
There is ample evidence that the Pakistani intelligence
agency, the ISI, played a key role in the 9/11 plot. There
are even reports that the head of the ISI ordered money
to head hijacker Mohamed Atta. Yet media coverage and general
interest in this link has been piecemeal at best. What was
Pakistan's role, and how could it implicate elements of
the US government? It is widely acknowledged that the Taliban,
Afghanistan's hosts for al-Qaeda, were puppets of the ISI.
Less well known are the many direct links between the ISI
and al-Qaeda. But there are also important ties between
the ISI and CIA. The two agencies worked closely together
to aid the Afghan mujahedeen in the 1980's in their fight
against the Soviet Union. The two agencies became deeply
involved in the drug trade at the same time. Have these
ISI-CIA ties ever been broken? Could the CIA have known
what the ISI knew about 9/11 or even worked on the plot
together? Why was the head of the ISI in Washington, DC
and meeting with top US officials on the morning of 9/11,
and even discussing bin Laden at the very moment the World
Trade Center was first hit? Paul Thompson, is the
author of the 9/11
Timeline, an on-line database of mainstream articles
on 9/11 organized into a timeline format. A book based on
this timeline will be released later this year.
11:05-11:25 The
Role of Drugs in Covert Wars/the global economy. Sander
Hicks Founder, Former Publisher of Soft Skull Press,
Inc.(who published "Fortunate Son- George W. Bush and the
Making of an American President"), Founder/CEO of Drench
Kiss Media Corporation
11:25 - 11:45
Excerpt from new documentary- Liberty
Bound
11:45 - 1:15
Lunch Break
Saturday
Afternoon 1:15 p.m.- 5:15 p.m.
1:15 - 1:40 Excerpt
from documentary- The
End of Suburbia-Oil Depletion and The Collapse of The American
Dream
1:40 - 2:10 Examining
the Motives and the Means behind 9-11/ and the U.S. Response
to it. In a word "Oil..." and the implications Michael
Ruppert (From the
Wilderness), Since 9-11-01 he has been the point man
in breaking major stories involving government foreknowledge,
corruption, and violations of the Constitution.
2:10 -2:40 Oil,
Iraq, and the War on Terror. The events of 9-11 were facilitated
by persons highly placed within the US government. What
was their motive? This can best be discerned by looking
backward from the present: what have the governing elites
actually done since 9-11, based on the mandate of public
opinion that the events created? Answer: nations have been
invaded and numerous permanent military bases constructed—in
two regions crucial for global oil supply. All of this is
occurring as official petroleum reserves are coming under
question, and signs are appearing that world oil production
may reach its historic peak within the next one to five
years. Examining the most recent compelling evidence that
we are entering the beginning stages of a global energy
famine and resource war—of which 9-11 was merely the opening
salvo.Richard Heinberg Author of War,
Oil and the Fate of Industrial Societies, New Society
publishers 2003. He is a journalist, educator, editor, and
lecturer, and a Core Faculty member of New College of California,
where he teaches courses on "Energy and Society" and "Culture,
Ecology and Sustainable Community."
2:40 - 3:10 THE
9/11 COVER-UP COMMISSION: How the Foxes are Guarding the
Chicken Coop The "independent" commission and its commissioners
perpetuate the Bush administration's official story that
a guy with a long white beard living in a cave in Afghanistan
masterminded 9/11 surprising the $40 billion a year U.S.
intelligence community. The administration has abused the
9/11 families who fought for the commission to find the
truth about what happened on 9/11. The commissioners have
ties to the parties they are mandated to investigate including
the CIA, the bin Ladens, and the Bush administration. Since
cover-up is another way of saying obstruction of justice,
legal and popular action must now supplant the pseudo "official"
investigation. Joyce Lynn, Journalist, editor of
Political
Diary, an online newsletter, and founder of the Pink
Rose Society, committed to wedding truth and consciousness.
3:10 - 3:20
Film clip of- An interview with Mohammed Atta's girlfriend
3:20 - 3:50 Deconstructing
the official myth- A critical look at - Mohammed Atta, who
was this guy? and who funded him? Daniel
Hopsicker , Investigative Journalist- Author of
Adventures
in Terrorland - Mohamed Atta & the 9-11 Cover-up &
Florida , producer of the Mohammed Atta and The Flying
Circus video, author of Barry and the Boys- a damning look
at the involvement of the government with drug smuggling.
3:50 - 4:30 What
happened at Building#7 and to the WTC Towers? Jim Hoffman,
Webmaster of www.wtc7.net
4:30 - 5:00 What
did hit the Pentagon? Does it matter? Does it help us to
answer the big questions- Who was responsible? and Why?
Jerry Russell (Computer Scientist, Webmaster of www.911-strike.com)
Saturday
Evening 6:30 p.m.- 9:30 p.m.
6:30
- 6:50
Guerrilla
News Network's new film- an excerpt focused on
Flight #93
6:50 - 7:15 Top
9-11 Anomalies altogether… Ian Woods Editor of Global
Outlook
7:15 - 7:30 FILM-Clip-Guerrilla
News Network's The
Most Dangerous Game- Mind Control
7:30 - 8:00 Skull
and Bones- The Power of Secret Societies-The meta-message/psychological
impact of 9-11 Kris Millegan (publisher of Trine
Day Books, Editor of Fleshing
Out Skull and Bones-Investigations into America's Most Powerful
Secret Society)
8:00 - 8:45 9-11-State
of Terror-
The creation
of demonic figures;9-11 as a false flag Operation;the inevitable
next attacks;the critical role of Israel and the Mossad;
the abiding hand of US Intelligence; the state as a class
instrument. Ralph Shoenman Producer of Taking
Aim- WBAI Radio Program. Ralph was Secretary General
of the International Tribunal on U.S. War Crimes in Indochina.
He spent seven months in Bolivia in 1967 and was imprisoned
there after the death of Che Guevara. He worked with Malcolm
X with respect to the battle for the Congo and in the anti-imperialist
struggle in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa. He negotiated
the release of political prisoners in many countries. He
has been actively involved in the international resistance
to imperialism and the worker's movement in the U.S. (click
here to hear audio from the event posted at indymedia)
8:45 - 9:30
Militarizing domestic rule; Operation Garden Plot and the
Northern Command; Control of hospitals and forced vaccination;Setting
the stage for military rule. Mya Shone Co-Producer
of Taking Aim,
an economist with a long history as an activist involved
in political, community and labor issues. She worked closely
with both Casa Nicaragua and Casa El Salvador during the
struggles taking place in Central America, was the coordinator
of the Tri-County (Santa Barbara, Ventura, San Luis Obispo)
Labor Party chapter, was a founder of and on the steering
committee of Health Care for All-California, a member of
an international steering committee organizing campaigns
against exploitation and in defense of workers' rights,
and was a co-coordinator of the International Conference
for Trade Union Independence and Democratic Rights that
took place in San Francisco in 2000.
March
28
Sunday
Morning 10:00 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.
Breaking the
Media Myths- the Truth about Afghanistan- 9/11 was the pretext
for the world's richest nation to attack one of the world's
poorest nations...
10:00 - 10:20
a clip from- the Woman in Exile Returns
The film features
Sima Wali, President of Refugee Women in Development- (RefWID),
Inc. She is an Afghan living in exile in the United States.
10:20 - 11:00
Afghanistan was the largest covert CIA operation in history.
Unravelling the roots of Afghanistan's terrible travail,
and revealing its awesome significance for the world at
large. The Bush administration's ideological approach and
support for hated warlords, has positioned the American
effort as a virtual enemy of civil society in the eyes of
the Afghan people. By day the extremist warlords function
as allies of the US’s war on terror while leaving the majority
of Afghans terrorized by these same brutish forces who rape
and pillage by night. From Alexander the Great to the British
Empire, to the Soviet Union, Afghanistan's roads are maps
of the rise and fall of empires and the path of Western
Civilization. And now, the United States has been added
to the list. Elizabeth
Gould and Paul Fitzgerald A husband and wife team,
Liz and Paul began their experience in Afghanistan when
they were the first American journalists to acquire permission
to enter behind Soviet lines in 1981. They covered that
story first for CBS News and produced a one hour documentary,
Afghanistan Between Three Worlds, for PBS. In 1983 they
returned to Kabul with Harvard Negotiation project leader
Roger Fisher for ABC Nightline and contributed to the MacNeil/Lehrer
News Hour. Since 1998 they have collaborated with Afghan
human rights expert Sima Wali on Afghan focused projects
including articles and lectures. Most recently they contributed
along with Wali to the Women
for Afghan Women: Shattering Myths and Claiming the Future
book project published by Palgrave October, 2002. As the
first Americans journalists to get deeply inside the story
they not only got a view of an unappreciated Afghan life,
but a revelatory look at how the US defined itself against
the veil of Superpower confrontation. This led to understanding
the Zoroastrian war of the light against the dark and how
its origins in Afghanistan still permeate Washington's official
policy. They published Afghanistan the End of Illusion September
2001, detailing the American political back story that lead
to the Soviet invasion. A book they are researching, the
Apostle's Diary, describes their evolution from journalists
to Apostles of Afghanistan. It will explain why it was inevitable
that the U.S. should end up in Afghanistan, the ancient
home of the Western Dream. Another book they are researching,
A Clockwork Afghanistan, will map out the basics from ancient
history to current geo-politics.
11:00 - 11:30
"The 9/11 Conspiracies--A Familiar Pattern"
Unveiling discoveries
detailed in "Inside Job: Unmasking the 9-11 Conspiracies,
"a comprehensive journalistic account that features encyclopedic
research into US black ops, cabals, and conspiracies in
historical context. The book which was written under contract
for HarperCollins, passed legal review (under a different
title), and received extensive editorial support, but was
cancelled suddenly in early 2003 with little explanation
by the publisher. A small publishing House, Origin Press,
will bring it out in June. Jim
Marrs is the NYT best-selling author of "Rule By
Secrecy" and "Crossfire:The Plot That Killed Kennedy"--a
key source for Oliver Stone's movie "JFK."
11:30 - 12:00
Making a case in the Court of Law-
Ellen Mariani
(wife of 9-11 victim suing President Bush and other officials
under the RICO Act for their prior knowledge, failure to
act, prevent or warn of 9-11; and ongoing obstruction of
justice by covering up the truth of 9-11 in violation of
the laws of the United States). Her attorney - Phil Berg,
former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania www.forthetruth.com.
Sunday
Afternoon 2:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
2:00 - 2:30 Psychological
Aspects of 9-11-
9-11 was a psychological
operation to achieve maximum mind control impact. The challenges
to the 9-11 Truth movement are also psychological- people
do not WANT to believe the truth. The mass media are complicit
and an obstacle to reaching large numbers of people- solutions
will be explored. Ken Jenkins With a background in
engineering and psychology, Ken wisely applies his knowledge
to unraveling the mysteries of 9-11. He works as a video
producer, editor and graphics creator, and aspires to create
the definitive 9-11 video.
2:30 - 5:15
Findings from the 9-11
International Inquiry- moderated by Carol
Brouillet (speakers/lines of Inquiry to be determined
by the participants)
Proposed Action
Plan-(to be determined by Participants of the Inquiry)
5:15 - 6:00 International
Inquiry into 9-11 Phase Two- Barrie Zwicker, Ian
Woods and Blaine Machan
Event
Sponsored by:
The
San Francisco Bay Guardian - KPFA
94.1 Free Speech Radio
Veterans
for Peace: American Legion Post 315 - Guns
and Butter
From
the Wilderness Publications - Global
Outlook Magazine
New
Society Publishers - Origin
Press - 911sharethetruth.com
DeceptionDollar.com
- Marin
Peace and Justice Coalition
Global
Network Against Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
WING
TV - Blue Moose
Films - National
911Visibilty.org Project
The
Meridian News - SnowShoeFilms
- CareerInRadio.com
The
9-11 Truth Alliance
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