Carol Brouillet & the 911 Truth Movement
The big question for activists these days is: "How can I make a real difference?". In all too many cases, we are left the with the conclusion that we must do "something", even if we don't imagine we'll change anything. Carol Brouillet is one activist who brings a sensible strategic perspective to her effective on-the-ground organizing. She looks for points of leverage, where her initiatives are most likely to bear fruit.
Out of her understanding of the power that finance holds over our lives, she became active in the community-currency movement. She saw that community currencies really worked: they enable useful economic exchange in communities, outside the matrix of elite financial control. This isn't a "do good" movement, but rather a "self-help" movement, and that provided the kind of leverage that makes sense to Carol. She maintains a website in support of community currencies:
"The Difference Between Money and Real Wealth:
Creating Community Currencies"
http://www.communitycurrency.org/
More recently, Carol has been focusing her considerable energy on exposing the lies and cover-ups surrounding the events of 911. And again, this choice is backed by a strategic perspective: the whole Bush program, with all of its excesses and failures, is supported entirely by the official story surrounding 911. If somehow the public could see through that myth, and realize who the real perpetrators are, then the whole Bush house of cards would come tumbling down.
Like many who have examined the extensive material available on 911, Carol finds the evidence for official complicity to be quite clear and beyond the shadow of doubt. The problem that remains is to get that evidence in front of the American people, and the people of the world. That's what the "911 Truth Movement" is about: creating public forums, and seeking media outlets, to get the evidence "out there".
The main home page of the movement is titled "911Truth.org", and their website (http://www.911truth.org/)provides links to the many sources of 911 information and research. The movement has a Northern California chapter (http://www.sf911truth.org/). Carol is very active in this chapter, and maintains her own web page in support (http://www.communitycurrency.org/Donate.html).
DVD documentaries seem to be one of the most effective tools for spreading the truth about 911. They can be used at community gatherings, in living rooms, on open-minded television channels, in local cinemas, etc. A well-produced documentary gets the information across in a way that the written word cannot match, and people recall images better than they recall verbal arguments. Some of the best of this DVD genre can be readily purchased on Amazon:
"Aftermath: Unanswered Questions from 9/11" (2003)
Guerilla News Network
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009ZBVPO
"Truth and Politics: Unanswered Questions About 9/11"
David Ray Griffin
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009XZIUA
Carol's own documentary, "Behind Every Terrorist is a Bush", is a celebration of this truth movement, and an inspiration to movement activists. The documentary shows us highlights from a 911 Inquiry that Carol organized in San Francisco, with gutsy entertainers and nationally-known speakers. We see an outline of the evidence - enough to whet our appetites for the other DVDs - but the real "message" of the documentary is about the movement itself: its human face, its wide variety, its dedication to exposing the lies, its
humor. A more detailed description, with a list of the presentations, can be found at:
http://www.communitycurrency.org/9-11oakland.html#BET
Once again with this DVD project, Carol shows that her activism is guided by a strategic compass. If the 911 myths are the foundation of the Bush regime, and if the 911 Truth Movement is the best means of shattering that oundation, then it makes sense to produce a documentary that promotes that movement, and shows how much energy and enthusiasm can be generated by presenting the available evidence in a public forum. More power to Carol, and to the movement!
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"Behind Every Terrorist is a Bush" (DVD documentary)
Edited by Ken Jenkins. Produced by Carol Brouillet and the
Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance. VHS video available
and DVD (DVD includes bonus documentary on the San Francisco
International Inquiry into 9-11, March 2004, 28 minutes),
Specify video or DVD, send $20 to The Northern California
9-11 Truth Alliance, PO Box 60511, Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA.
For large quantities, call Carol Brouillet 650-857-0927,
email: cbrouillet@igc.org. Or order online:
http://www.911truth.org/store/911truthstore.htm.
Description of this and other 911-related DVDs:
http://www.communitycurrency.org/9-11oakland.html
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