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Martin Luther King III, Odetta, and Greg Palast On Terror Here at Home, Civil Rights, Patriotism, and the Stolen Election

Many people say this is the day terror came to the United States. But a number of communities in this country have known terror for a long time.

Rita Lasar Lost Her Brother in the World Trade Center: She Remembers September 11 and Callsfor Peace

Today is September 11, 2002. One year ago, at the time of this broadcast, 9:03 a.m. EST, the second hijacked planehit the second tower of the World Trade Center.

Rita Lasar Lost Her Brother in the World Trade Center: She Remembers September 11 and Callsfor Peace

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Rita Lasar Lost Her Brother in the World Trade Center: She Remembers September 11 and Callsfor Peace

Rita Lasar Lost Her Brother in the World Trade Center: She Remembers September 11 and Callsfor Peace

Sounds of September 11

Odetta Sings to Mark the Time United Airlines Flight 175 From Boston Crashed Into the Southtower of the Wtc One Year Ago

Considered the "Queen of American Folk Music," Odetta has introduced audiences worldwide to American roots music andespecially African-American folk, blues and gospel. As a major voice in the American Civil Rights Movement, shemarched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Selma, sang for the masses in Washington in 1963, and performed forPresident John F. Kennedy at a civil rights presentation on national television.

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Rita Lasar Meets Masuda Sultan, An Afghan-American Who Lost 19 Members of Her Family in Theus Bombing of Afghanistan

Within a month, the bombs started to fall on Afghanistan. A few months later, Rita Lasar, who lost her brother Abein the World Trade Center, decided to go to Afghanistan. In the midst of her deepest grief, Rita said the killing ofinnocent civilians should not be avenged by the killing of innocent civilians. We followed her on her trip.

Democracy Now! Asks the New York Times and CNN Why They Don’t Cover the Anti-War Movement

Dave Potorti is part of Peaceful Tomorrows, a group of family members who lost loved ones at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon They marched from Washington to New York last November to honor the dead and protest the bombing of Afghanistan. While the media covered them as family members of victims, it wasn’t as willing to convey their anti-war point of view.

Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark and Independent Filmmaker Jon Alpert Discuss Iraq

At the height of the Gulf War, newsman Jon Alpert, a long-time contributor to NBC News, shot the only footage of thewar’s impact not censored by either Iraq or the U.S. Traveling with former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Alpertcaptured on camera what it was like to be on the ground during the allied bombing. In dramatic and often graphicscenes, the film "Nowhere To Hide" shows a far different reality than what most Americans saw on the nightly news.Although several networks initially expressed strong interest in the footage, all declined to air it, and NBC endedits long affiliation with Alpert, a seven-time Emmy-winner.

Human Rights Lawyer Lynne Stewart Discusses Her Arrest

Lynne Stewart is a longtime radical human rights attorney from New York. She faces up to 20 years in prison on charges that she helped her client Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman deliver messages from his Minnesota prison cell to his followers in Egypt. In 1995, Sheik Rahman was accused of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Democracy Now! Archival Audio

We go now back to September 11, 2001. This is Democracy Now’s broadcast from the firehouse in the moments and hoursafter the towers were hit.