Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 09:49:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Louis Epstein
Subject: WTC Rebuilding Notes:CNN,Rejection by Online Dialogue,Gelinas


A New York Post story today on Pataki's raising the issue of using
eminent domain to spread office space better concentrated in
very tall towers on the WTC site into surrounding blocks to
make it easier to build shorter,repeats the claim that the
LTTC event criticized the offered plan for being too dense,
not mentioning that the BIGGEST criticism was that the buildings
were too SHORT.

Reminders of this to letters@nypost.com might be appropriate.

I've been criticized in the past for emailing the list too often,
I sent nothing yesterday and got an expression of concern from someone
afraid he'd been removed!

Yesterday I was mainly trying to coordinate the efforts to set
up petition/literature tables in Manhattan,for which we NEED MORE
VOLUNTEERS...if you can help please let me know and I'll put you in
touch with that group.

One thing I learned of right after the last mailing,
http://www.cnn.com/US/wtc.ideas/directions.html is CNN's
appeal for people's designs...they want ILLUSTRATIONS submitted...
for the WTC site.So everybody pile in favorite shots/drawings of the
WTC or taller designs with commentary,this is a larger profile
soapbox than buildthetowers.org!

(I already mentioned the "Ground Zero Planner" at gothamgazette.com).

Just minutes ago,as I had suspected,I received confirmation that
the online Listening To The City had rejected me...and Argus Sventon
confirmed that he had been rejected also.I was at the July 20th
Listening To the City meeting,Argus was not...but they decided
to reject anyone who was at the July 20th meeting,AND,at the
request of the change-advocate-driven Civic Alliance and the
Whitehead clique,to reject anyone from outside a 17-county
metropolitan area.(Metro-North sends fifty commuter trains into
New York from my county every weekday,but it's not in that
metropolitan area).

We got SOME friends in,you can follow the debate at
http://dialogues.listeningtothecity.org/ to see how things
are going...Lakerskid and Niteowl were accepted at least.
I will be updating the resource link list/timeline at
http://www.put.com/wtc/ to reflect the situation.
The NYCS board has some commentary from enrolled pro-rebuilders.

Nicole Gelinas (my apologies for calling her Gelineau!!) reports
that her NY Post op-ed urging the Towers be rebuilt has drawn
hundreds of sympathetic emails and only two hostile ones...I hope
she'll be bringing more people to this email list soon,we need
to keep up the pressure through every open window!

See you on the 111th floor on 9-11-11!!

-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.