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Program May 25, 26
Ukrainian Cultural Centre
83 Christie St. (North
of Christie Subway)
Tuesday May
25
9:00 am – Inquiry Registration and mingle
10:00 – 10:15 Introduction and Welcome
Barrie Zwicker ‘Where are we and Where are We Going?
10:15 am - Jeremy Wright with Inquiry promo video,
excerpts from Cover-up or Complicity
Open
space break out to follow
11:00 am - GNN Aftermath: Unanswered Questions
of 9/11
With
the ongoing controversy over the federal probe into the September 11
terrorist attacks, GNN decided to pre-empt the government and produce
its own version of a 'truth commission' with:
AfterMath:
Unanswered Questions from 9/11
Narrated
by Hip Hop legend Paris and featuring interviews shot by GNN
syndicate producers in six cities, AfterMath features nine (9)
people answering eleven (11) of the most pressing questions that emanate
from the terrible and, as yet, unexplained, events of that day. As you
will see, these are questions that continue to overshadow and critically
challenge the official 'version' of the story.
http://www.guerrillanews.com/after_math/
11:36 – GNN ‘ The Most Dangerous Game’
The Most Dangerous Game traces the history of top-secret
CIA mind control operation MK-ULTRA: from the covert importation of
NAZI scientists at the end of WWII, to the illegal brainwashing experiments
conducted on the patients of world famous psychiatric researcher, Dr.
Ewen Cameron - cut to the pulsing hypnotica of Mitchell Akiyama.
http://www.guerrillanews.com/dangerous/
11:44 – GNN ‘S-11 Redux (Attack on America)
12:04 –
1:00 Lunch Break
1:00 pm - THE GREAT DECEPTION - The War on Terrorism
- An Alternative View. With live
introduction by Barrie Zwicker, followed by brief discussion.
Media critic Barrie Zwicker, the host of VisionTV
Insight: Mediafile, is one of the few North American journalists
to offer an alternative viewpoint on the Sept. 11 tragedy. In this provocative
six-part series of Mediafile commentaries, he challenges the
official explanation for the attacks and considers the troubling implications
of America’s new war.
Poring over
a wealth of published material, Zwicker finds much that has gone unexamined
– from the apparent breakdown of American air defenses on Sept. 11,
to the longstanding ties between U.S. intelligence and Osama bin Laden.
He also takes a hard look at the actions of President George W. Bush
in the midst of the crisis. And he ventures to ask what role U.S. oil
interests may have played in these events.
Zwicker’s
carefully researched analysis has prompted more e-mails, letters and
phone calls than any single program in the VisionTV’s history. Ultimately,
it compels the viewer to ponder the unanswered question: Whose interests
are really served by the “war on terrorism”?
http://www.viewerplus.com/product.asp?Stat=Vision&ID=12043
2:00 pm – video
Gray Brechin presentation from Phase 1.
‘9/11 in Historical Context’
2:30 pm - video
Catherine Austin Fitts in conversation with Kyle Hence, Sander Hicks
and Jason Eaton.
Focus on Solutions, shifting the power from the money
brokers to the people.
3:30 – 3:45 Break
3:45 pm – The End of Suburbia: Oil
Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream
Since World War II North Americans
have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised
a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As
the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years,
so too the suburban way of life has become embedded in the American
consciousness.
Suburbia, and all it promises, has
become the American Dream.
But as we enter the 21st century, serious
questions are beginning to emerge about the sustainability of this way
of life. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, The End of Suburbia
explores the American Way of Life and it's prospects as the planet approaches
a critical era, as global demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip
supply.
5:15 pm – Discussion with The End of Suburbia
filmmakers Greg Greene, Barry Silverthorne, and host Barrie Zwicker
5:45 – 7:00 pm – Dinner Break
7:00 pm – Bill Douglas ‘The 9/11 Visibility Project’
7:20 pm – Phase 1 video report back (30 min.
vid being cut in California)
8:00 pm – LIVE MUSIC and spoken word (Interspersed
with video collage, comedy and animation)
Natasha Kinne
The Dope Poet Society is one of the most
consistent and compelling groups ever to emerge from Toronto’s underground
hip hop scene. Their music is characterized by intelligent and witty
lyrics, set to innovative head-nodding beats. Lead vocalist, Professor
D, is the ultimate MC; able to grab any mic, anywhere and rock any crowd
over any beat, spitting from his seemingly unlimited arsenal of lyrics,
or just freestyling on any given topic. Vocalist Belladonna is equally
outstanding, delivering rhymes with a unique flavor that is hard hitting
yet immensely listenable. DJ Spinister rounds out the team, holding
down the crew by cutting, scratching and mixing self produced bangers,
classic and current hits; this is the way hip hop is meant to be.
http://www.justusleaguerecords.com/dpshome.htm
‘I'll start at the end, for people coming
here to find this "who is he" sort of stuff. I'm a songwriter.
Most descriptions would hasten to add, a political one, since anyone
who writes about something other than their navel these days is generally
considered political (due to the entirely deleterious effect of a propagandistic,
evil corporate phenomenon known as the "music industry").
I believe music can be more than an escape. It can be that, yes, fine,
but it can also be a hammer, to paraphrase Bertoldt Brecht. It can be
a tool for selling products on the one hand, or part of the stockpile
of ammunition necessary to build and maintain a social movement….’
Jamey Hecht*
Jamey Hecht, PhD is a scholar and artist
living in Brooklyn. He is currently
Assistant Managing Editor at www.fromthewilderness.com.
His articles on politics, poetry, and the history of ideas have appeared
in a variety of scholarly, literary, and popular journals and periodicals
including From The Wilderness, The Progressive Populist, Counterpunch, Media Monitors Network, The
Kennedy Assassination Chronicles, American
Book Review, The Sycamore
Review, The Massachusetts
Review, The Cloverdale Review, Nerve, English Literary History (ELH), The
Sixteenth Century Journal, River
City, Sundry, Berlinerkunst, Poetry Calendar,
and Forschungen zur Frühen Neuzeit. His book, Plato’s Symposium: Eros and the Human Predicament, (Macmillan, 1999) is
about ancient Greek philosophy. Hecht’s
translation of Sophocles’ Three
Theban Plays will be published by Wordsworth Editions in early
2005. He
has created the first Hip-Hop tribute to Senator Robert Kennedy. Political audio, music, paintings, and a resume
are available at www.jameyhecht.com.
* also presenting on Wednesday May 26, 2:15
pm, ‘Examining the Terms; Conspiracy Theory, Conspiracy Theorist
This evening is MC’d by Xena Zwicker, Toronto musician and poet
Wednesday May
26
9:00 am – Inquiry Registration and mingle
10:05 am - In Whose Interest
COMMENT FROM THE DIRECTOR
- David Kaplowitz
The film is my reaction to September 11. In the 2 years
or so preceding the attacks, I had talked with friends quite a bit about
when something was going to happen against the States—but when
it actually happened, I was devastated.
It wasn't so much the action itself as the state we,
humanity had gotten to: I knew it, and I had known it—but the attack
brought it all home.
I also knew that the action was a fundamentalist reaction
to another type of fundamentalism espoused by Washington since World
War II.
I'm going to read you a less condensed excerpt of the
Kennan quote from the beginning of the film—remember, this is the guy
most consider to be the architect of post WWII U.S. foreign policy:
it's a bit long, but very telling, so bear with me:
"We have about 50% of the world's wealth but only
6.3% of its population. In this situation, we cannot fail to be the
object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is
to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain
this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national
security. To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality
and day-dreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere
on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves
that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world-benefaction.
We should dispense with the aspiration to "be liked"
or to be regarded as the repository of a high-minded international altruism.
We should stop putting ourselves in the position of being our brothers'
keeper and refrain from offering moral and ideological advice. We should
cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights,
the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is
not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts.
The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better."
Seems like Kennan's words have been followed pretty
much to the letter, no? So Id like you to keep these words in mind throughout
my short talk.
So just as Sept 11 happened, I was choosing my topic
for my thesis film, and I was consumed with it, astounded by the venomous
patriotism that arose in the statesÑwhat I thought would be a time to
reflect the "why" of the situation became a time for revenge.
It became a time to reflect the "why" for me...
In my original concept I wrote "The film will attempt
to elicit a step back and a step outside ourselves as Americans and
a move to see ourselves as human beings in a larger world context."
So I chose NOT to look at the current events for that
reason—in order to lay a historical background for current events—within
my 26 minute and 46 second time limit….
http://www.inwhoseinterest.org/about.html
10:30 am – Best of Alex Jones’ with excerpts from 9/11 Road to Tyranny
ALEX JONES
Featured on "Good
Morning America," "20/20 Downtown," "60 Minutes,"
The Discovery Channel, A&E, Court TV and more, Jones appears on multiple stations across the country, and has been called, "an absolutely riveting television
presence," by Patrick Beech of the Austin-American Statesman. Mike
Kelley, also of the Austin-American Statesman, said of Mr. Jones, "On
television, he exudes so much energy that a viewer might almost expect
bits of flesh to start flying from the screen."Alex Jones was recognized
as "Best Radio Host" in the 1999 Austin Chronicle Reader's
Poll, "Best TV Host" in the 2001 Austin Chronicle Reader's
Poll, "Best Mover and Shaker" in the 2002 Austin Chronicle
Reader's Poll. His website, www.infowars.com
was voted "Best Webzine" in that same poll.
http://www.infowars.com/alexjones.html
9/11 Road to Tyranny
The Government needed
a crisis to convince the people to willingly give up their liberty in
exchange for safety. Now the painful facts are in. The dark forces of
global government are funding, training and protecting terrorist networks
worldwide. 911: The Road to Tyranny documents the ruthless history of
governments orchestrating terrorist attacks against their own people
to scare them into total submission. In this brutal expose you will
witness the birth of a global police state that surpasses Orwell's nighmarish
vision. It's all here: the history of government-sponsored terrorism,
the modern implementation of fear-based control and, most frightening
of all, the New World Order's future plans. This is one film you cannot
afford to ignore. The future of free people everywhere is at stake.
http://www.infowars.com/videos.html
11:00 am – Painful Deceptions (excerpt on WTC
Building 7 collapse)
plus footage from ‘Blast Force’
http://www.erichufschmid.net/ThePainfulDeceptionsVideo.html
11:30 am – video presentation from Phase 1 by Nafeez Ahmed ‘The War on Freedom’
A speaker at the Intl. Inquiry into 9-11 in San Francisco, London-based Ahmed is the author of two books: The War On Freedom (How and Why America was Attacked Sept. 11, 2001) and Behind the War on Terror (Western Secret Strategy and the Struggle for Iraq).
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch Break
1:00 pm – Liberty Bound ( with Christine Rose,
filmmaker )
Liberty Bound takes an entertaining look at America’s ongoing struggle
to keep a comfortable balance between democracy, capitalism, and fascism.
This is a film about historic events that shape history. It is a film
about courage and fear; ignorance and knowledge; propaganda and rhetoric.
Christine set out to answer these questions on her quest
across America:
·
What
is fascism and why does that word increasingly appear in the alternative
and foreign media when referencing the United States?
·
Are
we losing our civil liberties?
·
Is
our very constitution and Bill of Rights in jeopardy?
·
Do
Americans know what their government is doing?
·
How
much of the daily news is well-disguised propaganda?
Through original footage, archived footage, and interviews
with people such as Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, and Michael Ruppert,
Liberty Bound explores the state of the union and its
ostensible move toward fascism. We talk with people who have been interrogated
by the Secret Service and threatened with arrest for doing such benign
things as sending an email, turning around during a Bush speech, and
having a philosophical discussion on a train.
Christine also explores the unanswered questions surrounding
the attacks of 9/11, and she takes a closer look at the timeline of
that terrible day. She examines the US Government’s reasons for going
to war with Afghanistan and Iraq. She also delves into the accusations
that the Bush Administration knew about the 9/11 attacks and their warlike
agenda is actually centered on oil.
Finally, she studies the elements of previous empires
and fascist states as compared to recent occurrences in the United States:
the loss of civil liberties, police brutality, homeland security, etc.
Liberty Bound leaves us with the question: “Is the United States
bound for liberty – or does it just have liberty bound?
2:45 pm – Live presentation by Jamey
Hecht, ‘Examining the Terms; Conspiracy Theory, Conspiracy Theorist’
3:45 pm – 4:00 Break
4:00 pm - Live Presentation by Ken Fernandez,
‘9/11 and Canada a Case Study in Takeover’
Ken Fernandez was one of a handful of students admitted
to McGill University's internationally acclaimed Faculty of Law after
having completed junior college -without having first obtained a Bachelor's
degree - in 1989. He was awarded
Dawson College's most highly regarded scholarship upon admission to
law school. He obtained his Bachelor of Civil Law in 1993,
and completed the LL.B. one year later, while expanding
H O R I Z O N S.
In addition to being Foreign Affairs Advisor to the
Canadian Action Party as well as President of its Quebec Wing (positions
which have enabled him to undertake petitioning the U.N. Secretary General
with respect to Palestine and Colombia, in a bid to unite significant
sectors of the international community in averting world and regional
war)
Here is the outline of his presentation
KEN FERNANDEZ
9/11 & CANADA -
A CASE STUDY IN TAKEOVER
I Overview of U.S. gov't's strategic
global objectives in 9/11:
A) Control over energy
B) Arms spending & save collapse
of stock market
C) Sowing of fear among the masses
D) Clamping down on civil liberties
E) Inducing other countries to accept U.S.
control
F) Attempt to hem Russia in
G) Position for atttack on China
H) Advance the drug trade
I) Absorption of Canada
II. CANADA"S STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE
A) Historical overview
1) manifest destiny
2) US policy paper
a) public relations camapaign against NEP
b)
Rise of Brian Mulroney
i. why Brian mulroney
ii. links to U.S. corporations & power structure
iii. Quebec Separatism, Western alienation & p.r. campaign
c) Free Trade & importance thereof
d) the [Canadian] media &
US agenda
e) Propaganda
f)
Opposition parties
i. Jean Chretien and Paul Martin's role in US takeover of Canada
ii. Reform Party/Alliance/ Conservative Party
iii. NDP
iv. Bloc Quebecois
g) think
tanks & 'grassroots movements'
B) Canada in aftermath of 9/11
1) Government's
Reaction
a) Enactment of laws appearing to be U.S.-inspired & effects on
constitution
b)
Administrative Agreements whereby key institutions report to US
counterparts
c) Support for, and participation in, invasion of Afghanistan
d) Canada and drug trade
e) Promotion of all U.S..-led subversive campaigns directed
at other countries
i. Afghanistan
ii. Iraq
iii.Israel
iv.
Colombia
v. Haiti
vi.
Central Africa
vii. Central Europe
f) Placing
of Canadian troops under U.S command
g)
Star Wars programme, and de facto occupation of Canada
i.
Official Acceptance of world as US strategic importance
ii. Enlargement of St-Lawrence river
iii. Other instances
h)
Census & Lockheed Martin
2) Media's
reaction
a) Parroting and propagating the party line
b)
Playing vital supporting role in U.S. government's design
c)
Silencing serious dissent
d)
Refusal to expose the reality
3) Public's reaction
a) Acceptance of U.S. agenda, propaganda, and push to Canada's absorption
b) confusion & demoralization
5:00 pm – LIVE, Ian Woods ‘ Top 26 Anomalies
of 9/11 ‘ with discussion to follow
This presentation is an excellent tool for people to
take and show in their own communities.
Ian Woods is the Editor of Global Outlook Magazine
6:00 – 7:30 pm - Dinner
Break
7:30 pm -
The Arsenal of Hypocrisy: The Space Program
and the Military Industrial Complex
The glory days of NASA are over! Today the Military Industrial
Complex is marching towards world dominance through Space technology
on behalf of global corporate interest. To understand how and why the
space program will be used to fight all future wars on earth from space,
it's important to understand how the public has been misled about the
origins and true purpose of the Space Program.
http://www.arsenalofhypocrisy.com/
8:30 pm - ‘Blueprint for World Domination’, Live Presentation and Discussion with Bruce
Gagnon,
Global Network Against Weapons
and Nuclear Power in Space
Click
here to see a video clip of Bruce speaking at Phase 1 of the Inquiry
Bruce Gagnon is the Coordinator of the Global Network
Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space.
He was the organizer of the Cancel Cassini Campaign (launched
72 pounds of plutonium into space in 1997) that drew enormous support
and media coverage around the world and was featured on the TV program
60 Minutes.
Between 1983 – 1998 Bruce was the State Coordinator
of the Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice and has worked on space
issues for over 20 years. In
1987 he organized the largest peace protest in Florida history when
over 5,000 people marched on Cape Canaveral in opposition to the first
flight test of the Trident II nuclear missile.
Project Censored (from Sonoma State University, CA)
named a story on space weaponization by Bruce as the 8th
Most Censored story in 1999.
Bruce has traveled to and spoken in England, Germany,
Mexico, Canada, France, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Japan, Australia, Greece and throughout the U.S.
He has also spoken on many college campuses including:
Loyola University, Drake University, Syracuse University, Cornell University,
University of Michigan, Cal Poly Institute, University of Pittsburgh,
California Institute of Technology, University of Oregon, University
of Alaska Anchorage, Marquette University, Brown University, Hunter
College, University of Arkansas, and the University of Florida.
In 2003 Bruce was appointed by Dr. Helen Caldicott as
a Senior Fellow at her Nuclear Policy Research Institute where he also
serves on her Advisory Board.
Bruce has led campaigns in Gainesville, Florida and
Brunswick, Maine around civil liberties and was successful in getting
the Alachua County (Fl.) Commission to pass a resolution opposing the
Patriot Act.
His articles have appeared in publications like: Earth
Island Journal, National Catholic Reporter, Fellowship, Albuquerque
Journal, CounterPunch, Space News, Z Magazine, and Red Pepper (UK).
In 1968 Bruce was Vice-chair of the Okaloosa County
(Florida) Young Republican Club while working on the Nixon campaign
for president.
Bruce is a Vietnam-era veteran and began his career
by working for the United Farmworkers Union in Florida organizing fruit
pickers.
.