Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 23:55:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Louis Epstein
Subject: WTC...NEW HEARINGS ANNOUNCED!


In their continuing efforts to wrong-foot those of us
who are determined to see full-scale reconstruction at the
World Trade Center site,the powers-that-shouldn't-be have,
while presumably deferring the promised Lower Manhattan
hearing on the entire Phase I plans,now scheduled a series
of hearings in each borough of NYC that deal PRIMARILY
with the memorial.I will call tomorrow to clarify whether
this is supposed to REPLACE the Phase I hearing,since the
six site plans will be presented at the hearings.

Staten Island,August 20th,at the Michael Petrides School Auditorium
(715 Ocean Terrace,Sunnyside)
Brooklyn,August 21st,at CUNY's Klitgord Auditorium,250 Jay Street
Bronx,August 22nd,Lehman College Concert Hall,250 Bedford Park Boulevard
West
Queens,August 29th [yes,conflicting with the New York One meeting in
Battery Park City] at LaGuardia Community College Performing Arts Center
(31-10 Thomson Avenue)
and finally Manhattan,September 5th,at the Pace University Schimmel
Center Auditorium(site of the May 23rd hearing),on Spruce Street
near Gold Street,downhill from Park Row.

The Queens hearing is at 6:30 PM and the others all at 6:00...all
are scheduled to last for three hours.

This information was provided me by Tom Auchterlonie,who spotted
it on the website of the anti-rebuilding survivors' group Give
Your Voice (www.giveyourvoice.com).

This will give them plenty of time to make promises about the
memorial that they will be able to point to afterward as blocking
the construction of tall towers,I expect.

I will attend the Manhattan hearing,I expect those of you who
are closer to various hearings can attend those instead or in
addition...the petition/literature volunteers can perhaps steer
sympathetic people to the respective hearings over the next couple
of weeks.WE NEED WARM BODIES AT THESE HEARINGS TO PRESENT A
NON-MEGA-MEMORIALIST VIEWPOINT!

EVERYBODY,WHEREVER YOU LIVE,send in comments on the site
plan options to the addresses given at http://www.put.com/wtc/ !

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