Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:16:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Louis Epstein
Subject: WTC Rebuilding #95:Hearings,Message Boards,Archives,More


From now on I intend to number list emails...I have
now archived past ones at http://www.put.com/wtc/archive.html
and will continue to post messages to the archive with a deliberate
lag to prevent time-sensitive news for rebuilders being abused by
anti-rebuilders reading the web.

Tomorrow is the date of two events...The New York One meeting at
the Embassy Suites in Battery Park City,televised for an hour
from 8 PM,which is for Lower Manhattan residents and workers and
survivors and recovery workers from the disaster...the Queens
site plan hearing is at 6:30 PM at LaGuardia Community College
Performing Arts Center on Thomson Street in Long Island City.
I hope pro-rebuilding voices are strongly raised at each!

I got a query today about buildthetowers.org,is that site having
problems?

"Riffmaster" has now set up a new backup site,linked at
http://www.put.com/wtc/ as "NYCS Backup Site 2" right after
Izeklah's problem-plagued effort,in order to frustrate the
people who've caused trouble on the NYCS board proper.
Meanwhile,the Ikonboard forums on the NYSTC site seem to
have taken off,and the Gotham Gazette forums keep going...
I've tangled a bit with a "Ray Asimov" (no relation to Isaac
that I can trace,I have all of Isaac's auto-bio volumes) who
is curiously contradictory...he wants a new taller-than-ever
tower on the site,but he also embraces,feels up,and deep-kisses
mega-memorialism,saying any plan should treat the entire site
as a cemetery,not just the footprints.

Gotham Gazette doesn't seem to have any new Java-chats scheduled.

CNN will be airing a special on the site next week called "16 Acres"
that apparently will feature Monica Iken as someone they interview;
I don't know if they've spoken to anyone who's on our side!
Both CNN's WTC ideas page and Gotham Gazette's "Ground Zero Planner"
remain open,I encourage all to add their pro-tall-rebuilding input.

I anticipate going into Manhattan again next weekend to help with
the leafletting and petition-gathering...possibly starting Friday.
Next weekend is the one on which I have for years attended the
World Science Fiction Convention except when it's been in Australia;
though this has been my one reliable trip away each year,I'm
prepared to sacrifice this Worldcon for a cause that I couldn't
imagine would exist when I took the Acela Express homeward from
last year's in Philadelphia.

People outside the NY area,just MAKE SURE YOU'VE SENT IN
GOOD PRO-REBUILDING SITE PLAN COMMENTS,see http://www.put.com/wtc/
for the addresses to send them to...I will be done with mine soon
and will share them with the list in advance of the September 5th
Manhattan hearing at which we need to produce as many pro-rebuilding
warm bodies as possible!

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.