Subject: [fem-women2000 706] Special Note from IWTC, New York
From: iwtc <iwtc@iwtc.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 20:50:58 +0000
Seq: 706
SPECIAL NOTE TO READERS OF IWTC WOMEN'S GLOBALNET By Anne S. Walker September 12, 2001 THE DAY AFTER NEW YORK AND THE US WERE ATTACKED Firstly, our heartfelt thanks to all of you who have written or called with your thoughts and concern since the surprise attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) and surrounding buildings in downtown Manhattan Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001. It was to have been not only the UN World Day of Peace but also a day of voting by the people of New York City for the Democrat and Republican candidates for the next Mayor. That event was soon postponed until a later date. Everyone here at IWTC is fine though shaken. Our building was evacuated soon after the planes crashed into the WTC twin towers, with officials worried that the United Nations (UN) building would be the next target. As many of you know, IWTC is in a building that is opposite the UN. And our acronym of IWTC for International Women's Tribune Centre sometimes gets confused with 1WTC (One World Trade Center), further concerning those who thought we might be housed in one of the WTC towers. At 8.45am yesterday however, the two towers were filled with working people just like us, all of whom had done nothing wrong that day except to turn up for work. This city is now filled with families of all kinds whose lives have been changed irrevocably by the loss of parents, wives, husbands, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, partners and more. I walked with thousands of New Yorkers down Second Avenue on my way home yesterday, the sky ahead of us filled with massive clouds of billowing smoke, fighter aircraft and helicopters. The only sound in a stunned and silent city was the scream of piercing sirens on ambulances, fire engines, police cars and buses. It was a surrealistic and frightening scene. Yet New York rose to the occasion and there were countless instances of people going out of their way to help others. With all tunnels and bridges closed, the famed Circle Line cancelled all tours and ferried thousands of people from Manhattan to New Jersey. Anyone with a boat, big or small, ferried people across to Queens, Brooklyn, New Jersey. And at the call for blood donations, city hospitals and clinics were jammed with thousands of people lining up to give blood. New York is still a shocked, stunned, and unnaturally quiet city today. It feels a bit like the day after a nuclear holocaust except those of us out of the line of fire are not physically injured. New York will survive, the towers will be rebuilt, and life will go on. But it will be a different city and country in many ways with many questions to answer and many solutions to find. It behooves us all to think through the ramifications of this event and to work a little harder at conflict resolution and peace in our time and in all of our countries and regions. Again, our thanks for your thoughts and concern. It is deeply appreciated. IWTC Women's GlobalNet is a production of: International Women's Tribune Centre 777 United Nations Plaza 3rd Floor New York, NY 10017, USA Tel: (1-212) 687-8633 Fax: (1-212) 661-2704 Email: <iwtc@iwtc.org> Web: <http://www.iwtc.org> PLEASE NOTE: For back issues of IWTC Women's GlobalNet, go to our website at <www.iwtc.org> and click on Women's GlobalNet under IWTC Resources. You can subscribe to this list at any time by sending a blank message to: <iwtc-womensglobalnet-subscribe@igc.topica.com> You can unsubscribe to this list at any time by sending a blank message to: <iwtc-womensglobalnet-unsubscribe@igc.topica.com> WOMEN, INK. For quality, cutting-edge publications on women and development by, for and about women worldwide, see Women, Ink's 2001 catalogue at : <http://www.womenink.org>. Or contact Women, Ink. at 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA. Tel: Yasna Uberoi (1-212) 687-8633 ext 212 or Mary Wong (1-212) 687-8633 ext 204. Fax: (1-212) 661-2704. E-mail: <wink@womenink.org> To subscribe to the Women, Ink. monthly bulletin "BookLink", which features new titles added to the Women, Ink. collection, write to: <wink@womenink.org> WOMEN, INK. IS A SERVICE OF IWTC ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://igc.topica.com/u/?aVxinV.aVF16V Or send an email To: iwtc-womensglobalnet-unsubscribe@igc.topica.com This email was sent to: fem-women2000@jca.apc.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================ _________________________________________________________________________ fem-Women2000@jca.apc.org for Women 2000, UN Special Session on Beijing+5 Searcheable Archive http://www.jca.apc.org/fem/news/women2000/index.shtml visit fem-net HomePage for other mailing lists http://www.jca.apc.org/fem