Re: 9/11 families march on NYC City Hall, 9/27

On Sep 24, 7:29�pm, "Mark Graffis" <mgraf...@gmail.com> wrote:

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* September 24, 2009

*CONTACT* Ted Walter, 917-627-8467 tedwal...@nyccan.org

9/11 Families To March on City Hall As City Seeks to Stop Fresh
Probe of Attacks From Going On November Ballot

New York City - On Sunday, September 27 at 2pm, The New York City
Coalition for Accountability Now (NYC CAN), a group comprising 9/11
family members, first responders and survivors, will march from
Battery Park to City Hall in protest of the City's attempt to block
the referendum for a fresh probe of the 9/11 attacks from going on
the November ballot.

The effort to establish a local commission to pick up where the
9/11 Commission left off comes just as the 9/11 Commission's Chief
Counsel John Farmer released a book entitled "The Ground Truthhttp://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/news-releases/2009/09/new-book-by-dean...
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in which he claims "at some level of government, at some point in
timeE �there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what
happened."

80,000 New Yorkers have signed the petition as it has won the
endorsement of 2002 TIME magazine person of the year, and former
FBI agent, Coleen Rowley, as well as outspoken 9/11 victims' family
members including Bill Doyle, who lost his son Joey, and Lorie Van
Auken, who lost her husband Kenneth. Van Auken is one of the esteemed
'Jersey Girls' who successfully lobbied the federal government to
set up the 9/11 Commission only to have 70% of her group's questions
to the Commission go unanswered.

Speakers for the Battery Park rally include 9/11 family members Bob
McIlvaine and Manny Badillo, New York University's Professor of
Media Studies, Mark Crispin Miller, and actor Daniel Sunjata of the
Emmy-winning Fox Television series "Rescue Me" which depicts post-9/11
life in a FDNY firehouse. After a half-hour speakers' program, 9/11
family members and first responders will lead thousands of supporters
in a march past Ground Zero, The City Clerk's Office and The State
Supreme Court, all=2 0the way to the steps of City Hall.

This week NYC CAN submitted a memorandum of law in response to the
City's challenge of the petition's legality. The Court-appointed
referee is scheduled to submit his report and recommendations to
the Court on Monday, September 28.

The Court will decide whether or not to adopt the referee's
recommendations and then issue a decision, after which appeals will
likely follow immediately.

"The arguments are strong on both sides, so the judges will have
some thinking and analyzing to do," said Dennis McMahon, the
Petitioners' attorney. "No other case pending in the New York courts
has a higher priority on the calendars than this one, so we should
have a definitive answer by next week."

If the Court decides that more than 15,000 of the 28,000 additional
signatures submitted on September 4 are deemed valid by the City
Clerk, the referendum will go on November's ballot. In case the
clerk finds that fewer than 15,000 signatures are valid, NYCCAN has
a team of volunteers standing by ready to perform another line-by-line
review and challenge the Clerk's findings. If the referendum passes,
it would lead to the creation of a local, independent commission
with subpoena power that would be tasked with comprehensively
reinvestigating the attacks. For more info:http://www.nyccan.org

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