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This is my response to Joan and then her response to that. Very interesting.
Are you aware of any of this? --------- Inline attachment follows --------- From: <kingfisher@humboldt1.com< To: Sandyteb@aol.com Date: Thursday, September 20, 2001 4:32:49 GMT Subject: on 9/19/01 5:06 PM, Sandyteb@aol.com at Sandyteb@aol.com wrote: < Hi, Joan: < So good to hear from you and learn that you have a children's book agent. < That's terrific!! Any books in the works? Thanks for sending the Letter from < Ghana, but I found it troubling. Lots of general statements, I thought, but < perhaps I just don't know enough about U.S. actions around the world. < < You sound lots better than last time we talked/emailed. So glad. Let's try to < stay in touch. I'm renting the apt. again, after having it to myself all < summer. My friend Deb Navas (she was at Mother and Benny's < wedding--short/petite, dark, curly hair) is moving in in October. I welcome < having a good friend that close by. < < I keep losing my connection with AOL so will sign off quickly. This is the < second time I've had to type this email. < < Hope all is well with you and your family and that you didn't lose anyone in < the events of last week. < Love, < Sandy < Hi Sandy, Yes, indeed, that letter is troubling but no news to me. Unfortunately, I was shown a life-changing movie by a friend about a year ago called Panama Deception. It shows a typical action by the CIA, the invasion of Panama. What is most important to me is the word "deception," because the movie goes on to show how our news media covered the "event." There is Dan Rather sitting at his news desk saying somberly, "Two American lives were lost." He neglects to mention that our unprovoked attack on the neighborhoods of Panama City killed 3-4000 Panamanians. Hardly anyone I talk to is aware of this incident. In the process of trying to find my own copy of Panama Deception, which I now know can be ordered through Amazon Books or from the Empowerment Project (just do a search for Panama Deception on your computer) I encountered another film called "Everything I Have Learned About US Foreign Policy" or something like that. It is available just for the cost of copying the video from a man named Frank Dorrel. He is just a delivery man in So Cal who put together this video from exerpts from a bunch of movies including Panama Deception, a film with Bill Moyers, and others. Ramsay Clark is on the film and other people who have intimate knowledge of the CIA. It is excellent. He will send it to you for free or for a donation of any amount. I believe that we all need to know what is going on so that we can offer information in our daily conversations that will slow down this ultra-patriotism and cause people to consider the whole picture. Just as I wrote From the Redwood Forest to serve as a tool for people to pass on to other people, I am viewing the passing on of word about Frank Dorrel's film as one small thing I can do to make a difference. Since I began this effort, I have gotten two people, including a busy orthopedic surgeon in Virginia, to join my efforts and make people aware of this powerful film. One thing I do when I load out my two copies is to fast forward the tape to the exerpt from Panama Deception. Then I suggest that people, after the have watched PD, rewind and watch the video from the beginning. Panama Deception won an Academy Award in 1993 for Best Documentary, yet it has been virtually banned in the US. Even PBS will not show it. I just got a call from a friend who has one of my Frank Dorrel movies on loan. She watched it last night and said, simply, "Scathing!" She is going to order her own copies and start promoting the film. Frank Dorrel's email address is fdorrel@hotmail.com. Mention my name so that he will realize that the very generous package of material that he sent me is going to good use. I'm so thrilled that you are so settled back in your house in New Hampshire and relieved to know that you will now have a friend right next door. What a comfort this will be. Community, no matter how small, is so important. Be well, Love, Joan
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