World Trade Center Restoration Movement

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 8, 2002

		  RALLY OCTOBER 11 TO REBUILD THE WTC

NEW YORK CITY - On Friday, October 11, hundreds of people are expected
to rally at City Hall Park in New York City for rebuilding the World
Trade Center as tall or taller than the previous towers. 

Advocates for rebuilding will speak. The keynote speaker will be
Johathan Hakala, head of Threshold Capital Management and a 77th floor
survivor from the North Tower. Another highlight will be the reading
of a statement by Philippe Petit, the high wire artist who surprised
the world in 1974 by performing on a cable between the twin towers of
the World Trade Center. 

Flyers and other materials will be distributed. Visitors will be asked
to sign petitions in support of rebuilding the WTC as tall or taller.

While advocates for rebuilding differ on some issues, we are united in
calling for new WTC towers to be built as tall or taller.
Additionally, we call for the restoration of all commercial office and
retail space that was destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001.

No development plan that grants the killers' wishes that gigantic
landmark towers will no longer dominate the Lower Manhattan skyline
can honor the victims more than it does the killers. . . any memorial
in the context of such a surrender will inevitably be just evidence of
America's defeat. The terrorists will have been the architects,
Mohammad Atta the urban planner. We will have been cut down and
commanded by the LMDC to forever remain in that abject state. 

We need a victory of our own, we need something to look forward to
that will invoke pride and perseverance rather than sorrow and defeat.
We need the towers back, as tall or taller than before or New York
City will never be right again.

Wherever landmark sites or entire cities have been destroyed, they
have been  rebuilt. The Pentagon, Hiroshima, The White House, London
and Tokyo were rebuilt. But the Lower Manhattan (construction) Delay
Corporation is standing in the way of rebuilding the WTC.

We want our towers back! We want our skyline restored!

Tell the Leave Manhattan Destroyed Corporation to get out of the way.
Free the site owners and leaseholders to exercise their right to
rebuild.  Don't let the economy of Lower Manhattan be destroyed by
inaction. Let's put the shovel in the ground and start construction
NOW!

Location: South End of City Hall Park at Broadway and Park Row. 
Time: 10:00 AM until 2:00 PM

Contacts: Joe Wright			Louis Epstein
Phone: 212-244-5488 x4WTC (4982)	Phone: 845-225-4848
E-mail: 4joewright@att.net		E-mail: le@put.com

For more information about rebuilding goto:
WTCRM website: put.com/wtc		teamtwintowers.org
soaringtowers.org			buildthetowers.org
geocities.com/rebuild_twin_towers	buildanewwtc.org


	The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again, at least as tall
                    as before...or terror has triumphed.