Father of 9/11 Victim, and Activist for Peace Dies

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Thursday September 22, 2005 · 10:21 AM PDT

2005/09/22 · 10:21

Dear Fellow Kossacks,

I am sad to share that one of the founding members of SEPTEMBER 11th FAMILIES FOR PEACEFUL TOMORROWS, Derrill Bodley, has died an untimely death.

He was a strong opponent of the Bush Administration's divisive response to 9/11 from the beginning, after his daughter Deora was killed on Flight #93. I remember Derrill telling me about meeting President Bush at the 1st Anniversary of 9/11 in Shanksville, PA. He told Bush he hoped he would listen to the voices of dissent that were against the U.S. rush to war in Iraq and the Administration's inaccurate claims that invading Iraq was a just response to 9/11. Bush looked him in the eye and said, "We know what we are doing."

Please read below the fold to learn more about Derrill's life. Read More

Mother of 9/11 Victim Joins Cindy Sheehan

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Wednesday August 17, 2005 · 11:55 AM PDT

2005/08/17 · 11:55

One of my fellow members on the Steering Committee for Sept. 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows is in Crawford with Cindy at CAMP CASEY.

Honoring Hiroshima-Ideas for Preventing Extremism?

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Saturday August 06, 2005 · 10:41 AM PDT

2005/08/06 · 10:41

Today is a sad anniversary, particularly because Nuclear weapons are still a major danger to innocent lives.

I have friends from my 9/11 group, Sept. 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows in Japan pushing the Stonewalk granite memorial to Hiroshima, they arrived today.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/235318_bombed.asp Read More

Bush the Flip-Flopper: No Longer "War on Terror"

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Friday July 29, 2005 · 5:41 AM PDT

2005/07/29 · 05:41

Much has been written this week about the Bush Administration's obvious re-manuvering away from "war on terror" to "a struggle against violent extremism". I agree, and have agreed for some time, that the "war on terror" worldview and solution (mostly military) was myopic and idealistic, and that a broad based understanding of "political extremism" was needed to best understand the real threats we face and protect ourselves. Of course, professing this perspective from 9/12/01 up through last year's election (remember Kerry getting attacked for his "more sensitive" war against terrorism?) brought accusations of naiveté, idealism and of being sympathetic with the enemy. I found myself the subject of these accusations and even worse, and I lost my older brother on 9/11. Of course, the neocon approach that they are now seemingly moving away from is the actual naive and idealistic perspective, but in post-9/11 American politics such up-side down reality is irrelevant and unfortunately par for the course.
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9/11 Family Member: Why I'm Running for Office

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Friday June 24, 2005 · 6:20 AM PDT

2005/06/24 · 06:20

I was asked by two people to post a new diary about my decision to run for public office. I wrote a long diary last night, and then I lost the entry by inadvertently hitting the back button.

For brevity, I'll say that 4 years ago I never imagined I'd be doing something like this, but I also never imagined my brother would be killed in a terrorist attack with nearly 3,000 other people, and then the Republican Party would exploit it for a dramatic, un-American agenda- and be so arrogant about it.

I went to D.C. in late Sept. 2002 with about 9 other 9/11 relatives to lobby members of Congress to vote against the war authorization vote. We were invited by the Rep. Kucinich and the Progressive Caucus (the biggest caucus in the House by the way). Kucinich and about 20 members of Congress arranged a press conference with us on the steps of the Capitol. One Congressman told us that they "needed us" to help them stop the drive to war. That gives you an idea of how bad the climate was leading up to the mid-term elections of 2002. Rove was brilliant then, not so much this week (which I'll get to in a minute). Read More

9/11 Family Member Running for Office

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Thursday June 23, 2005 · 12:53 PM PDT

2005/06/23 · 12:53

...I'm tired of getting angry at the vitriolic noise from the far-right of the GOP. Rove's comments are the words of a desperate, dying beast. No more petitions and angry calls to your GOP members of Congress asking them to distance themselves from the likes of Rove. Most of them will not do it, and it does not accomplish anything. There are limits to our advocacy from the outside. Instead, give to the DNC, give to the DCCC, give to moveon.org....... (more below) Read More

My Experience with Lila Lipscomb in OHIO

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Friday November 12, 2004 · 8:12 AM PST

2004/11/12 · 08:12

The last week before the election I traveled around Ohio with Lila Lipscomb (the mother from Fahrenheit 9/11), to speak to college kids about the war and the election.

I lost my brother on 9/11 in the WTC. Lila and I acted as a "one-two punch" on how the Bush administration policy was reckless, dangerous, and counterproductive in dealing with our very real national security problems.

When I spoke, I focused exclusively on the Bush campaign's decision to "run on 9/11"-- which I believe won him the election, and not the "values" factor. Read More

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