[Discussion] UPDATE: Operation Education: A Response to September 11th (2/5/02; collection)

[Gonul Pultar]

OPERATION EDUCATION: INTO THE REAL TERRORIST MIND

Peace be upon you,

Update: information about format, cv, etc.


Perhaps, some may have missed our original call for papers in the the 
pre-holiday crunch, so we have moved up our deadline by a few weeks.   
Below is also the original call for papers along with information about 
our organization.

Final Call for Papers

9/11 Interdisciplinary Anthology

Deadline for FULL papers: February 5, 2002  
Paper length: 300 to 5100 words
Acceptable formats: Word, RTF, TXT, or text in body of email
Please submit paragraph length curriculum vitae or pertinent 
biographical information with your entry.  
If you have already sent your article, please send a brief CV as well.
If your work has been published elsewhere, please provide us with 
contact information for the publisher or editor, so we can obtain 
written permission to reprint the work.

Thank you ever so much.


Nadia Ahmad
Students for International Peace and Justice, Inc.
PO Box 150695 
Altamonte Springs, FL 32715
Email nadia@sipj911.com
Website www.sipj911.com

ORIGINAL MESSAGE


Please feel free to submit your work for consideration for publication 
to nadia@sipj911.com by Feb. 5,  2002. Remember paper length is 300 to 
5100 words.  You may submit it as an RTF, TXT, or Word document. Once 
again, we appreciate your interest.  Please do not hesitate to contact 
us with any inquiries.

Regards, 
Nadia Ahmad
www.sipj911.com

PS Related disciplines include, but are not limited to medicine, law, 
economics, finance, political science, international relations, 
computer science, linguistics, journalism, etc.  Please let me know 
about your selected paper topic at your earliest convenience.

Topic examples

The Bush Presidency as Defined by 9-11
The Impact of Islam on the West
The Emergence of the Islamic Jihad
How Wall Street Reacted to Sept. 11th
Philanthrophy: The Relief Effort at Home and Abroad
The Growth of the Peace Movement
Anthrax: Biological Warfare on the Home Front
State Terrorism in the Name of National Security
The FBI and Justice Department's Witch Hunt for "Muslim Terrorists"
Bin Laden: Is He the Real Menance and Mastermind Behind It All?
Racial-Profiling and War Tribunals: Do We Still have Rights?
How Muslims Reacted to 9-11
The Perception of Islam and Muslims in the West
Will We Ever Be Free of Terrorism?
America Foreign Policy as it Shapes Global Politics
War Against Terrorism as Crusade and Jihad
How the Dollar Reacted to 9-11
Al-Qaeda: The Tentacles of a Terrorist Network
Refugees in Afghanistan
Islam as it Accords Rights and Responsibilities to the Sexes
Racism and Sexism in the Name of Justice
Torture as a Questioning Tactic
The Failure of the International Intelligence Forces in Weeding out 
Terrorism
How Should We Respond and Protect Ourselves from Terrorism?
Islamic Terrorism: The Oxymoran of the Millenium

Please do not hesitate to suggest anything because we are open to free 
thought.
	

PUBLISHING OFFER


I am writing to offer you a chance to publish in our interdisciplinary 
anthology in response to 9/11.  Into the Real Terrorist Mind is an 
attempt to grapple with some of the difficult issues that face us.  I 
would love to see you submit an article to us.  Present contributers 
include Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Molefi Kete Asante, Ishmael Reed, 
Hatem Bazian, Michael Parenti, Marjorie Cohn, John Esposito, Phil 
Gasper, Charley Reese, John Catalinotto, and more.

It can be anything from 300 to 5100 words in the form of an scholarly 
article, text of a 
delivered speech, and even something already published because our is 
an edited anthology.  Deadline for submission is February 5, 2002.  
Please also encourage students and faculty to submit as well.  We would 
also appreciate it if you could forward us the names and emails of 
others to submit.

So far, we have received over 120 submissions from professors and 
students from six continents.  The effort is a part of a global 
education campaign sponsored by Students for International Peace and 
Justice, Inc., which is a youth movement formed in response to 9/11. 

The work looks quite promising already.  I have received submissions 
from literally all over the world: China, Australia, Palestine, Jordan, 
India, Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, Kosovo, Pakistan, Russia, and 
elsewhere.   A similar anthology, edited by two Berkeley grad students, 
received international interest as well.  I feel this work also has 
such potential if done properly.  

At this point, I would like to bring you up to speed with the efforts 
of Students for International Peace and Justice. The aim of the student 
coalition is to educate ourselves and our communities that we can, 
indeed, have peace on Earth.  As all youth-driven movements, this 
initiative is fueled by ground work on campuses in the form of teach-
ins and rallies.  By shaking the intellectual currents of ivory towers 
is where any lasting and credible impact is possible and happened in 
the past, like the Vietnam War era.  Our representatives have made 
speeches in colleges, schools, churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, 
libraries, and other places.  

Moreover, we have organized two large peace symposiums with limited 
time, funds, and means.  The first conference was a statewide meeting 
for youth leaders and community activists on September 22, 2001, at the 
Holiday Inn in Altamonte Springs, Florida.  Nationally syndicated 
columnist, Charley Reese; trial lawyer and professor, Daniel Vaughen; 
FBI agent, Ron Rothwell; US Justice Department spokesman, Tom Battles; 
local law enforcement, and other distinguished speakers addressed 
topics like hate crimes, foreign policy, and civil rights.  Almost 200 
people attended that event, which set the stage for our next program, 
Operation Education: Security through Peace, on October 27th in the TD 
Waterhouse Centre, arena for NBA's Orlando Magic.  Bob Bowman, 2000 
American Presidential candidate; Reverend Markel Hutchins of the 
National Youth Connection; Sara Flounders, co-director of the 
International Action Center, which was founded by former US Attorney 
General Ramsey Clark; Mark NeJame, a prominent criminal defense 
attorney; Imam Tariq Rasheed of the Islamic Center of Orlando; UC 
Berkeley's Hatem Bazian; Harvard University's Faiz Shakir; Altaf 
Hussain, National President of Muslim Students' Association, and other 
notables spoke.  The second event coincided with the International Day 
of Action: 75 US cities and over 20 foreign countries participated.  
Sara Flounders said of our efforts, "What you were able to accomplish 
on October 27 in Orlando still stands out as one of the most important 
actions nationally.  As the war and the bombing continues, we continue 
to plan protests and rallies.  The movement for peace is growing."   

Our volunteers are also busy making presentations about our civil 
rights and peaceful alternatives to war.  Future lectures include 
Georgia Southern University, UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, Santa 
Clara University, Stanford University, Rutgers University, Harvard 
University, University of Florida, University of Miami, University of 
Michigan, University of Chicago, Cambridge University, Oxford 
University, and more.

May all of us become vehicles to establish an enduring peace on Earth.  
We appreciate your consideration in the matter.


Truly yours,


Nadia Batool Ahmad, President and Founder
Students for International Peace and Justice, Inc.
Website www.sipj911.com
Email nadia@sipj911.com



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