Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 22:56:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Louis Epstein Subject: WTC Rebuilding #359:Keep Writing,Play Hardball!! LOTS of things going on. TOMORROW,TUESDAY,MAY 10 the Hardball show on MSNBC will see Ken Gardner's tower model and also an interview with Donald Trump (who we hope will reiterate a preference for new Twins). It's at 7 PM Eastern...I regret I have to be out then. Watch it if you can,and check relevant webpages and comment opportunities at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/ . I note that in responding to a recent email from list member Mark Mace I discovered a list email from before I began numbering them that should have been counted...I'm not changing numbers now but have added it as "77a" (dated Aug 5 2002) at the http://www.put.com/wtc/archive.html archive page. The Port Authority has released the final EIS for the permanent WTC PATH terminal and are accepting comments until JUNE 15th. The EIS is available through the http://www.panynj.gov/pathrestoration page and comments should be sent to WTC PATH Terminal - Environmental The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey 115 Broadway,10th Floor New York,New York 10006 Talking points I'd recommend involve restoring pre-2001 uses wherever possible and not accomodating the Libeskind site plan in any way that can be avoided. Beyond that...WE NEED TO KEEP WRITING AND MAKING OUR VOICES HEARD. Our opponents have NOT been silent. The Daily News has on two consecutive days had commentary demanding the memorial be emphasized more. Jack Lynch and Anthony Gardner,two of the most outspoken family-group people,vented at Pataki: http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/307324p-262874c.html A friend of Lynch's,Michael Goodwin,followed up with this plea to "get it right" by which he meant less Tower-oriented and more grave-oriented: http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/307671p-263093c.html The Daily News needs expressions of OUR concern, and as many of them as we can deliver.The above columns are RIGHT that the site should not be carved up with streets...but the "monument to the people" is a failure unless it brings back the Towers whose destruction was part of the mass murder.Any plan that amounts to the Towers staying gone honors the killers more than anyone else. Their email is voicers@edit.nydailynews.com and I believe they prefer postal addresses and phone numbers.(The NY Times requires them while the Post doesn't care). The Times printed a BAD editorial on Saturday and some mixed-bag letters on Sunday.The editorial called for the FT to be made smaller and opposes redoing the full site plan.The best letter printed was the shortest,from Bill Hough...but they gave the first word to someone who said people didn't want something tall because they wanted to mourn more,and the last word to someone who demanded the site be regarded as a cemetery.PLEASE send contrary opinions to letters@nytimes.com soon! The Post has continued to remain registration-free, so I have some links from there: http://nypost.com/news/regionalnews/46123.htm Pataki heaped praise on the hideous Libescheme and sneered at Trump's preference for new Twin Towers,and Schumer favored minimizing changes to the Libescheme as well. According to http://nypost.com/news/regionalnews/43739.htm Gifford Miller,retreading the old idea of giving the city government control of the site,doesn't mind the Libescheme,but Times articles say he's more open to changes (though perhaps for the worse). On their editorial page http://nypost.com/postopinion/editorial/46060.htm they express admiration for Trump,say new Towers won't happen,and attack Libeskind. Their op-ed page has a column by former PA executive director George Marlin for total privatization, http://nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/43623.htm not what we want but the mismanagement he mentions is to be avoided.(He proposes carving the big memorial site out and selling the rest). Two straight letter columns have been unanimously pro-Towers: http://nypost.com/postopinion/letters/43624.htm http://nypost.com/postopinion/letters/43767.htm The Post is letters@nypost.com but as noted the others seem more in need of our side right now! After you've written the others,send them another pro-Towers letter if you have time. Joe Wright noted a blog section at http://www.cbsnewyork.com/kirtzman/ (like Shuster,a broadcast journalist who has mentioned the Towers recently). Every place we can chime in helps. Joy Goldberg's been looking for suggestions on the best way to approach Donald Trump...we need to do something coordinated and reasoned,but we need to do it soon. See you on the 111th floor on 9-11-11! -=-=- The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again, at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.