[GPSCC-chat] Satyagraha - Truth Force - September 11, 2010

[Carol Brouillet]

Details on the Truth Rally/March/Poetry 
Celebration 
<http://www.communitycurrency.org/satyagraha.html>http://www.communitycurrency.org/satyagraha.html
Details on the Film Festival- 
<http://www.sf911truth.org/>http://www.sf911truth.org

Satyagraha - Truth Force – September 11, 2010

      In San Francisco, the 9th Annual 9/11 Truth 
Rally will begin at 10 am in the Panhandle at 
Ashbury, Saturday, September 11, 2010, parading 
at 11 am to the 12th Annual Power to the Peaceful 
Festival, followed at 6 pm in the evening by 
poetry and music at the Gandhi Statue, at the 
foot of Market Street behind the San Francisco 
Ferry Building, to “Take back 9/11 as a worldwide 
celebration of peace and love” and “not endless 
American war readiness” according to 
poet/organizer Arnie Passman. On September 11th 
the 6th Annual 9/11 Truth Film Festival will run 
from 2:45 pm to 10 pm in San Francisco and in San 
Leandro, with film makers, speakers, premiering 
Hypothesis and War Promises, and including 
Satyagraha – One Hundred Years of Nonviolence.

      Satyagraha - Truth Force was born when 
people gathered together, in their struggle 
against empire and racism in South Africa. On 
September 11, 1906, at a public meeting attended 
by 3000 people where Gandhi spoke, Sheth haji 
Habib, an old Muslim resident of South Africa, 
was inspired to consciously speak out and state 
his decision to act in defiance of an unjust law, 
that targeted the Indian population of South 
Africa. Habib declared his willingness to suffer 
the consequences in a spiritually-endowed fight 
for justice in the name of God. The theory of 
satyagraha sees means and ends as inseparable. 
The means used to obtain an end are wrapped up in 
and attached to that end. Therefore, it is 
contradictory to try to use unjust means to 
obtain justice or to try to use violence to 
obtain peace. Satyagraha is a synthesis of the 
Sanskrit words satya (meaning "truth") and Agraha 
("pursuit of"). Gandhi believed that life itself 
is a pursuit of truth. For Gandhi, satyagraha 
became strength in practicing non-violent 
methods, or in his words "the Force which is born 
of Truth and Love or non-violence." Martin Luther 
King Jr. defined it as "Love in Action."

      The Power to the Peaceful Festival 
celebrates satyagraha bringing together over 
50,000 people annually, to sing, dance, organize, 
speak, and raise consciousness.  This September 
11th 2010 in London, Brussels, Canada, Australia, 
New York City, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Ames, 
Flagstaff with music, art, film, speakers, 
conferences, rallies people are peacefully 
challenging the 9/11 lies that have been used to justify 9/11 wars.

      The Bay Area is home to many of the 9/11 
Truth groups that have catalyzed the global truth 
movement, including Architects and Engineers for 
9/11 Truth who are asking for a new investigation 
of 9/11, particularly of the destruction of the 
World Trade Center buildings, citing the hard 
evidence of explosive material in the dust, 
amongst other evidence, that the 9/11 Commission and NIST has ignored.

      This year the 9/11 Truth Film Festival will 
also be held in Oakland at the Grand Lake Theater 
beginning on September 9th and concluding 
September 12th at the VIZ Cinema in San 
Francisco, Professor Steven Jones, physicist, 
whose research on the WTC dust is threatening to 
the 9/11 cover-up is featured in two of the 
films, including Hypothesis.  Film maker Brett 
Smith captured a damning interview of C. Martin 
Hinckley in his documentary; Hinckley first 
threatened Jones and then tried to bribe him to 
redirect his research.  The film shows one method 
used to corrupt scientists to serve political 
ends.  Professor Jones has persisted in his 
pursuit of truth, despite media attacks and the 
loss of his teaching position; he and other 
scientists co-authored Active Thermitic Material 
Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade 
Center Catastrophe which was published in the 
peer-reviewed Bentham Open Chemical Physics 
Journal and received media attention outside the 
US, particularly in Denmark, where co-author 
Chemistry Professor Neils Harrit resides.  David 
Chandler, a high school physics teacher, whose 
videos and talks, simply refute and challenge 
NIST, will also speak at the film festivals and the 9/11 Truth Rally.

PS...Project Censored! Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips Speak Out
Listen to 
<http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com>Progressive 
Radio Network from 2 pm -3 pm to the Community 
Currency Radio Show to hear about Project 
Censored with Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips 
(Speaking live from the 
<http://www.sf911truth.org>6th Annual 9/11 Truth Film Festival).

<http://www.projectcensored.org>Project 
Censored's mission is to teach students and the 
public about the role of a free press in a free 
society – and to tell the News That Didn’t Make 
the News and Why. Project Censored began over 30 
years ago, in 1976, as an epiphany within the 
mind of Carl Jensen, now Professor Emeritus, 
Communications Studies, Sonoma State University, 
California (SSU). Carl realized that vital 
information was being continuously and 
systematically filtered by a news media industry 
owned by fewer and fewer corporations. The idea 
was to have a group of respected scholars find 
and select 25 under-reported, misrepresented, or 
frankly censored news stories over the preceding 
year that were of maximal importance to the 
public. This effort gradually evolved into formal 
courses of study at SSU. This month 
<http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/censored-2011-new-book-release-on-915/>Censored 
2011, edited by Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips, 
chronicling the 
<http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/category/top-stories/top-25-of-2010/>25 
most censored stories of 2009/2010 will be released.

When Dr. Carl Jensen retired in 1996, the project 
was passed to Dr. Peter Phillips, award winning 
Professor of Sociology at SSU where he teaches on 
Media Censorship, Power, Class Statification, and 
Social Welfare. Peter has authored, or 
co-authored several books including 
<http://www.sevenstories.com/book/?GCOI=58322100667540>Impeach 
the President; The case Against Bush and Cheney, 
and 
<http://www.sevenstories.com/book/?GCOI=58322100602900>Project 
Censored Guide to Independent Media and Activism, 
along with the Project Censored yearbooks dating 
from 1997. Peter Phillips, Phd. is now director 
emeritus of Project Censored, and president of 
the 
<http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/>Media 
Freedom Foundation. He is known for his op-ed 
pieces in the alternative press and independent 
newspapers nationwide, and the winner of the 2009 
Dallas Smythe Award, presented by the Union for Democratic Communication.

After completing thirteen Censored books, Peter 
has passed the mantle to Mickey Huff, Associate 
Professor of History at Diablo Valley College, 
former Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology at Sonoma 
State University, and the previous Co-Director of 
the alternative public opinion research agency 
<http://retropoll.org>Retropoll, in Berkeley. 
Mickey now serves as the Director of 
<http://www.projectcensored.org>Project Censored, 
and is a fellow board member of 
<http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/>Media 
Freedom Foundation, working with Professor 
Phillips. Mickey teaches courses in U.S. Media 
History, Sociology of Media and Censorship, 
Propaganda and Media Studies, Critical Thinking 
concerning 9/11 and American Empire, and Popular 
Culture. He designed and taught classes on 
“History of U.S. Media” at Berkeley City College, 
Critical Reasoning in History, “America, 9/11, 
and the War on Terror: Media Myth Making and the 
Propaganda of Historical Construction,” and 
“American Popular Culture and Mass Media in 
Historical Perspectives” at Diablo Valley College.

The new Censored 2010 introduces a Truth 
Emergency section which showcases the work of 
scholars and independent journalists including 
Dr. Lance de Haven Smith, Dr. David Ray Griffin, 
Nora Barrows-Friedman, Dr. Robert Abele, and Dr. 
Andrew Roth addressing State Crimes Against 
Democracy (SCADs), WTC Building 7 (The third 
building destroyed on 9/11, which was not hit by 
an airplane and sustained less damage than other 
buildings that did not fall. The most plausible 
explanation, controlled demolition, has been 
attacked or ignored by government scientists in 
what seems to be violation of the scientific 
method itself. Nearly half the US population 
still has no knowledge of this building and the 
9/11 Commission did not even mention it in its 
report- a testimony to the ongoing censorship of 
this topic), the plight of Palestinian peoples, 
the failures of corporate media to report on 
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), and just war 
theory, how corporate media and the military 
industrial complex merge to generate pro military propaganda.

They will both be speaking at the 
<http://www.sf911truth.org>6th Annual 9/11 Truth 
Film Festival Thursday, September 9, 2010 at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland.

The weekly 
<http://www.communitycurrency.org/radioshow.html>Community 
Currency Radio Show is hosted by Carol Brouillet, 
a longtime activist who organized three 
conferences on Strategies to Transform the Global 
Economy and (the first) marches on her Senators 
and Congresswoman in January 2002 to Demand a 
Congressional Investigation of 9-11. She 
publishes the 
<http://www.deceptiondollar.com>Deception 
Dollars, 
<http://www.communitycurrency.org>Perception 
Dollars, and Co-Founded the 9-11 Truth Alliance, 
and the 
<http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/08/sf911truth.org>Northern 
California 9-11 Truth Alliance . She organized 
premieres of films, educational events, marches, 
rallies for 9-11 Truth, the San Francisco 
International Inquiry into 9-11, and produced the 
film Behind Every Terrorist- There is a Bush. She 
is currently organizing the 
<http://www.communitycurrency.org/satyagraha.html>9th 
Annual 9/11 Truth Rally/March- Theme - Satyagraha 
- Truth Force beginning at the panhandle @10 am 
(between Oak and Fell @ Ashbury), marching @11 am 
to the 12th Annual Power to the Peaceful Festival.
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