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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable web of mutuality." Martin Luther King, "Letter from Birmingham Jail" |
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable web of mutuality." Martin Luther King, "Letter from Birmingham Jail" |
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Dear Fellow Pro-democracy
Activists: These are doubly dark days
for us who know that this tragedy is the death of thousands, which is
beyond terrible, but also that truth lies reportedly dead under the
rubble, with our hopes of revival waning with each passing moment. But
I see a possibility coming out of this. And, I'm seeing the glimmer
of a vision coming through--a way of seeing and changing thoughts through
this tragedy to build not only a stronger movement, but a better world--to
change US policies forever for the good. What I see is going to require
a real collective and cohesive voice, and probably the foisting of that
collective voice into the fray, above the din, to deliver the message,
to deliver the message of an alternative view of the world to the one
being promulgated by the right and swallowed whole by the mediated.
This message will tell the truth, and the truth will be jarring, deeply
troubling, and that is why it will have an effect. This telling will
take enormous courage, for the tellers will run the risk of complete
disparagement, personal and political ruin. But this is what the message
requires. I know I'm sounding as if putting on a vatic air here, but
I'm lying in the refuse of a double disaster, crying out from beneath
the rocks, hoping someone with the power to hear, will hear. May we transform our coming
rallies into calls for the transformation of the US, and the vital part
the US must play to create a sane future, as opposed to a future of
reciprocal terror. Sincerely, Michael Rectenwald September 14, 2001
Founder and Chair
Citizens for Legitimate Government.
