Subject: [fem-women2000 708] A FOLLOW-UP NOTE OF THANKS
From: iwtc <iwtc@iwtc.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 21:49:37 +0000
Seq: 708
A NOTE OF THANKS TO WOMEN'S GLOBALNET READERS To the hundreds of people from every world region who have written to us with their support and concern, all of us at IWTC extend our heartfelt thanks. To see on television the global surge of support for New York, Washington and the US in general has been overwhelming. In this age of instant communications, the experience has been a revelation as to how the world can think and feel together as one. Imagine what could be done if we harnessed some of this energy and strategized for peace? Here in New York, the traumatic events of Tuesday September 11, 2001 continue to reverberate through all of the activities and routines of each day. The morning commute takes each of us by thousands of photos of missing family members that paper the outside walls of hospitals, the interiors of bus-stands, the sides of phone booths, lamp poles, tree trunks and even some trucks and vans of this city. Fathers search desperately for sons and daughters, daughters and sons search for mothers and/or fathers, brothers search for sisters, friends search for friends. The names of the missing speak of Asian, African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, European, Pacific, Caribbean origins. They represent Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu and many other religious groups. Most of them show smiling, happy faces, many are family group shots. Some represent company workers from the many financial firms that rented space in the World Trade Center. A huge number are waitresses, security guards, janitors, cleaners, floor managers, shopkeepers, cooks, dishwashers, teachers, and firefighters, police officers, chaplains, medics, workers that were first on the scene to help trapped people get out. I looked in awe last night at the mountains of flowers, letters and candles that now cover Union Square. It apparently began with a poem taped to a tree by a New York University (NYU) student. Another student stood up on a soap-box and began shouting out a list if things needed by rescue workers. Other students rushed off to the shops and came back with bags of goods that were loaded into vans and raced downtown. The power of one is palpable. 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