Campus Aftershocks

As a primary outlet for independent and student journalists and activists - and particularly because they make use of the Web and other new-media communications most accessible to students - IMCs are likely to play an influential role among the wave of new demonstrators emerging after the attacks on New York and Washington. Below are excerpts from the Seattle IMC's Web discussion board, beginning Sept. 11:

by ML 6:08 a.m. (Pacific time) Tues.

NPR is reporting that planes have crashed into both towers.

by A non e-mouse 6:24 a.m. Tues.

and demand that they stop re-playing the footage of the 2nd crash. DEMAND A STOP TO SENSATIONALIST MEDIA!!!!

by rollerdexter 7:29 a.m. Tues.

I can see from here the NYC skyline, and everything downtown is filled with smoke. I can only see one tower. One must have fallen!!!

by Spider Jerusalem 7:39 a.m. Tues.

"Sensationalist media"? If that were footage of Carlo being shot in Genoa, you'd be cheering for it getting so much air time. It's news. It's the 1st Amendment. If you don't like it, change the channel.

by mike 7:39 a.m. Tues.

From seeing on TV news here, both have now fallen.

by mrman 8:14 a.m. Tues.

shedloads of innocent people will be suffering, im only glad the towers collapsed downwards, and didnt fall over.

by guernica 9:39 a.m. Tues.

Yes, terrorism is a reality. U.S.A. and Israel do know it for they are terrorists themselves. But this is the solution: stop protecting official terrorists and you won't be the victim of organised terrorism.

by David, France 10:28 a.m. Tues.

I hate terrorism and violence, but a country which supports dictatorships worldwide can't do it endlessly.

by misternuvistor 6:40 p.m. Tues.

All the "violent" things that the US and Israel have done were small in magnitude compared with the disasters today, and necessary for keeping threat[s] at bay. I know you all don't want to hear this but YOU HAVE TO FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE.

by wage slave 7:25 p.m. Tues.

you are so right! "Fire with Fire" is just why it happened. The fire that the US and its allies have been breathing all over the world has itself reaped fire from those who agree that fire must be fought with fire.

by eyeswideopen 5:56 p.m. Thurs.

Did anybody else miss the national public debate as to whether or not we should immediately engage ourselves in WWIII? As the Presi-dolt [has] been careful to make clear, we will respond by "ending" any state who engages in and/or supports terrorism.

Luckily, [we] haven't bothered to include our own republic in that list. . yet.

Reported by staff writers Mary Wiltenburg, Stacy A. Teicher, Amelia Newcomb, and Mark Clayton in Boston, and Marjorie Coeyman in New York, and by contributors Patrik Jonsson in Raleigh, N.C., and Matthew MacLean in Berkeley, Calif.

Written by Amelia Newcomb.

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