9/11

9/11: Ten years later, who have we become?

September 2011
Tom Reifer

Ten years and two wars later, Americans face the monetary and psychological costs of both militarism and Wall Street materialism, effectively bankrupting the country; not to mention the casualties of war at home, and in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Ten years later, who have we become?

September 2011
Tom Reifer

A recommitment to King’s inspired vision might just be the best thing that could ever come out of the horrendous death and destruction of 9/11: a commitment to live, a commitment to love, and a commitment to peace and social justice.

9/11: a perfect pretext, a terrible legacy

September 2011
Mariano Aguirre

The tragedy of 11 September 2001 was used by authoritarian forces in the United States as a political opportunity.

9/11 did not start or end at midnight

September 2011
Richard Falk

All too often 9/11 is viewed from the perspective of the nation-state rather than from a global standpoint.

September 11th Didn't Change the World. September 12th Did

September 2011
Phyllis Bennis

It wasn’t the events of September 11th that changed the world, but the events of September 12th and beyond, when the Bush administration took the world to war in response; that changed the world, and continues to threaten U.S. and global security, and shred U.S. democracy.

Ten Years after 9/11

June 2011

The attacks of 11 September 2001 enabled western states to radically transform their counterterrorism practices. This conference aims to critically engage with this transformation; to map how the ‘war on terror’ is shaping new areas of our everyday lives and identify the challenges ahead for those fighting for human rights and social justice across the security field.