Afternoon Program
1:00- Remembrance Janette MacKinlay (20 minutes)

1:20- Hijacking Catastrophe- 9/11 Fear and the Selling of the American Empire (1 hour 4 minutes)

2:25- Mickey Huff Discussing Hijacking Catastrophe and the Media (20 minutes)

2:45 NYC- Ground Zero 9/11/2006, We Were Also Killed- First responders Speak, "HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE!" with William Pepper" (58 minutes)

4:05- Zeitgeist- Parts 2 & 3 ( 1 hour 29 minutes)

Evening Program

5:40- Let's Get Empirical

7:10- Film Maker Ken Jenkins Discussing Let's Get Empirical (20 minutes)

7:30- Special Preview Screening The Reflecting Pool (1 hour 50 minutes)

9:20- Followed by Discussion with filmmakers/writer/director/actors Jarek Kupsc and Joseph Culp

Tuesday, September 11, 2007-

Afternoon Program
1:00- Remembrance Janette MacKinlay (20 minutes)

1:20- 9/11 Press for Truth (1 hour 24 minutes)

2:45 - Paul Rea Discussing Press for Truth (15 minutes)

3:00- 9/11 Mysteries (1 hour 31 minutes)

4:31- Jim Hoffman Discussing 9/11 Mysteries (19 minutes)

4:50 - Special Preview Screening The Reflecting Pool (1 hour 50 minutes)

Followed by Discussion with filmmakers/writer/director/actors Jarek Kupsc and Joseph Culp 15 minutes

Evening Program
7:00- 9/11: Blueprint for Truth 130 Architects & Engineers Examine the Evidence with Richard Gage, AIA, Architect
Details and Links on the Speakers and Films-

Monday, September 10, 2007

Afternoon Program

• 1:00 pm - Remembrance Janette MacKinlay, a 9/11 survivor, artist, author, organizer of 9/11 A Call to Action, the February 23, 2006 Benefit
  Janette will recount her journey of healing through her Ikebana floral designs and her involvment as an activist with the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance. Janette’s personal story will include past and present images of Ground Zero, an Ikebana demonstration, and a tribute to the heroes she has encountered in the Truth movement.
  
  

• 1:20 pm - Hijacking Catastrophe- 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (64 minutes)
  Followed by Mickey Huff
  Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire examines how a radical fringe of the Republican Party used the trauma of the 9/11 terror attacks to advance a pre-existing agenda to radically transform American foreign policy while rolling back civil liberties and social programs at home. The documentary places the Bush administration’s false justifications for war in Iraq within the larger context of a two-decade struggle by neoconservatives to dramatically increase military spending in the wake of the cold war, and to expand American power globally by means of military force. At the same time, the documentary argues that the Bush administration has sold this radical and controversial plan for aggressive American military intervention by deliberately manipulating intelligence, political imagery, and the fears of the American people after 9/11.

  Narrated by Julian Bond, Hijacking Catastrophe features interviews with more than twenty prominent political observers, including Pentagon whistleblower Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, who witnessed first-hand how the Bush administration set up a sophisticated propaganda operation to link the anxieties generated by 9/11 to a pre-existing foreign policy agenda that included a preemptive war on Iraq.

  At its core, the film places the deceptions of the Bush administration within the larger frame of questions seldom posed in the mainstream: What, exactly, is the agenda that drove the administration's pre-war deceptions? How is 9/11 being used to sell this agenda? And what are the stakes for America, Americans, and the world if this agenda succeeds in being fully implemented during a second Bush term?

  Produced by the Media Education Foundation

  Mickey S. Huff, MA, is adjunct faculty in history and critical thinking at Berkeley City College, Chabot College, and Diablo Valley College where he has taught over 100 courses in the past 6 years. He was co-director of the alternative polling group Retropoll (www.retropoll.org) and is a Community Evaluator for Project Censored at Sonoma State University (www.projectcensored.org). He has been teaching the course “America, 9/11, and the War on Terror: Foreign/Domestic Policy, Media, and Propaganda” as part of critical thinking in history classes for the past 4 years as well as “History of U.S. Media” and other U.S. History courses. Most recently, he has organized and participated at a number of conferences on 9/11 issues including “Deconstructing Deceit: 9/11, the Media, and Misinformation” at Berkeley City College; "Lifting the Fog: The Scientific Method applied to the World Trade Center Disaster" at UC Berkeley; the Project Censored Annual Media Accountability Conference on “Suppression of Information and Post-9/11 Invasions;” the ACME Coalition Conference, Champlain College in Burlington, VT, "Facing the Media Crisis: Media Education for Reform, Justice, and Democracy" on “9/11 and Media Literacy in Critical Thinking Courses;” and at St. Mary's College public lecture series on “9/11, Propaganda, and the Culture of Fear.” He is currently planning a 9/11 lecture and debate series as part of his course at Berkeley City College this fall as well as working on an article on 9/11, collective memory, and the propaganda of grand historical narrative. He blogs at mythinfo.blogspot.com

• 2:45 pm NYC- Ground Zero 9/11/2006, We Were Also Killed- First responders Speak, "HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE!" with William Pepper" produced by Snowshoe Films (58 minutes)
  WE WERE ALSO KILLED ON 9-11: FIRST RESPONDERS New York City 9-11 2006 Truth weekend, 1st responders speak out about the sick and dying in NYC due to the toxic cloud that the EPA refused to warn about, saying the air was safe to breathe. They covered up the dangers as they covered up the rogue elements of our government being involved in the attacks of September 11, 2001. Also shown are snips of Ralph Schoenman and Alex Jones. 9/11/2006.

  NYC- Ground Zero 9/11/2006 Several thousand 9-11 truth activists and official story skeptics came to New York for a series of lectures, public rallies and music. They were at Ground Zero on the 11th to expose the official mythology and the criminals responsible for the false flag terrorism conducted by “our” government and the cover-up by the corporate and gatekeeper press. Comments from Alex Jones, Gabriel Day www.911sharethetruth.com and Corey Rowe (of Loose Change). Music by Immortal Technique. Sponsors include www.wearechange.org & www.ny911truth.org

  "HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE!" with William Pepper" An international human rights lawyer and author now based in London, Pepper offers a political briefing of the highest order. He begins by calling for Bush's impeachment, describes the Five Elephants in the Room and declares "the time for speaking truth to power is over. Power doesn't listen when you speak to it." Pepper's address to the NYC September 11, 2006 weekend 9/11 event concludes with the words of Che Guevera, "for the poor people of the world."

  
  

• 4:05- Zeitgeist - Parts 2 and 3

  Zeitgeist was created as a not for profit expression to inspire people to start looking at the world from a more critical perspective and to understand that very often things are not what the population at large think they are. The information in Zeitgeist was established over a year long period of research and the website lists the sources used / referenced.

  The three parts look at Religion, 9/11, The Monetary System

  It's important to point out that there is a tendency to simply disbelieve things that are counter to our understanding, without the necessary research performed. For example, some information contained in Part 1 and Part 3, specifically, is not obtained by simple keyword searches on the Internet. You have to dig deeper. For instance, very often people who look up "Horus" or "The Federal Reserve" on the Internet draw their conclusions from very general or biased sources. Online encyclopedias or text book Encyclopedias often do not contain the information contained in Zeitgeist. However, if one takes the time to read the sources provided, they will find that what is being presented is based on documented evidence. Any corrections, clarifications & further points regarding the film are found on the Clarifications page. Downloadable formats are also now available.

  That being said, the film-maker's hope is that people will not take what is said in the film as the truth, but will find out for themselves, for truth is not told, it is realized.

Evening Program


• 5:40- Let's Get Empirical
  Followed by Film Maker Ken Jenkins Discussing Let's Get Empirical (20 minutes)
  Let's Get Empirical is the title of a lecture given by Professor David Ray Griffin, based on his new book Debunking 9/11 Debunking An Answer to Popular Mechanics and the Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory

  By virtue of his previous four books on the subject, David Ray Griffin is widely recognized as one of the leading spokespersons of the 9/11 truth movement, which rejects the official conspiracy theory about 9/11. Although this movement was long ignored by the US government and the mainstream media, recent polls have shown that (as Time magazine has acknowledged) the rejection of the official theory has become “a mainstream political phenomenon.” It is not surprising, therefore, that the government and the corporately controlled media have shifted tactics. No longer ignoring the 9/11 truth movement, they have released a flurry of stories and reports aimed at debunking it.

  In the most recent book, David Ray Griffin shows that these attempts can themselves be easily debunked. Besides demonstrating the pitiful failure of Debunking 9/11 Myths (published by Popular Mechanics and endorsed by Senator John McCain), Griffin riddles recent reports and stories put out by the US Department of State, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and Time magazine. He also responds to criticisms of these efforts by left-leaning and Christian publications— which one might have expected to be supportive.

  Griffin shows that the charge that is regularly leveled against critics of the official theory—that they employ irrational and unscientific methods to defend conclusions based on faith—actually applies more fully to those who defend the official theory.

  David Ray Griffin is professor of philosophy of religion and theology, emeritus, at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California, where he remains a co-director of the Center for Process Studies. His 30 books include The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 (2004), The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions (2005), and 9/11 and American Empire (2006, with Peter Dale Scott).

• 7:10- Film Maker Ken Jenkins Discussing Let's Get Empirical
  Film Maker Ken Jenkins has produced a large number of the early 9/11 Truth documentaries, and most of the David Ray Griffin videos. He helped to organize the San Francisco International Inquiry into 9/11 and publicly speaks about the psychological aspects of 9/11. He also helped found the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance (sf911truth.org) and 911TV.org, which sends 9/11 truth documentaries to be shown on community access television stations across the country.
  
  

• 7:30-Special Preview Screening The Reflecting Pool (1 hour 50 minutes)

  The Reflecting Pool (synopsis)

  An investigation of the 9/11 events by a Russian-American journalist and a father of a 9/11 victim implicates the US government in the attacks.

  ALEX PROKOP (JK Baltazar), a successful journalist, receives a rare 9/11 video tape revealing missile-like bursts of light on the hijacked planes as they hit the Twin Towers. The footage was sent by PAUL COOPER (Joseph Culp), a driven researcher, whose daughter died on 9/11. Sensing a good story, Prokop travels with Cooper to New York and Washington, DC, where they uncover suppressed information implicating the US Government in the attacks. As Cooper introduces Prokop to key eye-witnesses, the façade of the "official story" begins to crumble. Prokop hears accounts of underground explosions in the Twin Towers moments before their collapse, and learns of mysterious "engineers” who rendered the WTC security systems inoperative the weekend before 9/11. To his astonishment, he discovers that the firm providing WTC security was run by immediate family members of the President.

  We follow Alex and Cooper as they investigate the inexplicable collapse of the 47-story WTC Building Seven, disprove the implausible airliner "attack" on the Pentagon, and uncover the illegal destruction of physical evidence from Ground Zero.

  The pressure builds as the FBI intimidates Alex's editor, McGUIRE, (Lisa Black) to reveal key sources – while the magazine's corporate investors threaten to kill the entire story. Plagued by the ghosts of his Communist childhood and trying to uphold the independence of American journalism, Alex's search for the truth leads to a dangerous and shocking realization!

  THE REFLECTING POOL is an intense, sobering investigation into the most controversial tragedy of our time. Drawn from established sources and based on verifiable facts, THE REFLECTING POOL is a thought-provoking study of a search for truth and the profound consequences of not looking for it any further than the nightly news.

  (View the new trailer at- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32b-e-xwuB8)

• 9:20- Followed by Discussion with filmmakers/writer/director/actors Jarek Kupsc and Joseph Culp

  Jarek Kupsc- Born in Warsaw, Poland, Jarek has been involved in independent film production since 1983. He studied art and history in his native Warsaw, Poland, learned Byzantine Icon painting techniques in Greece, and received his BA in Film Writing/Directing from San Francisco State University. He authored and illustrated "The History of Cinema for Beginners," a comic film history textbook in 1980.

  As a writer/director/producer, Jarek completed numerous short films, including the Rosebud Award-winning "Dog." He debuted in 2001 with "Recoil" in the feature film category, following with "Slumberland" in 2005 (Winner of Special Jury Prize, 2006 Gdynia Film Festival, Poland; First Prize, 2007 Oskariada FF, Poland; Best Screenwriter, 2007 Young Film Festival, Poland. "The Reflecting Pool" is his latest project.

  He was interviewed on August 6th, 2007 on the Questioning War- Organizing Resistance Radio Show. The archive is here an article was posted here.

  Joseph Culp Joseph's film credits include leading roles in Alan J. Pakula’s "Dream Lover," Monte Hellman’s "Iguana," "The Secret Life Of Houses" on PBS, and Maria Novaro’s "El Jardin del Eden." Joseph won critical acclaim at the San Francisco Film Festival for his performance in "Hunger," an adaptation of Nobel winner Knut Hamsun’s novel, which he produced with director Maria Giese and which featured his father, veteran actor Robert Culp. He recently starred in the New York stage premiere of "Foul Shots" by Raymond J. Barry. Joseph is a founder of the L.A.-based Walking Theatre Group, integrating theatre and transpersonal work for actors, writers, and directors.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007-
Afternoon Program
• 1:00 pm - Remembrance Janette MacKinlay, a 9/11 survivor, artist, author, organizer of 9/11 A Call to Action, the February 23, 2006 Benefit

  Janette will recount her journey of healing through her Ikebana floral designs and her involvment as an activist with the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance. Janette’s personal story will include past and present images of Ground Zero, and a tribute to the heroes she has encountered in the Truth movement.

  
  
  
• 1:20- 9/11 Press for Truth (1 hour 24 minutes)

  9/11 Press for Truth The story-

  Out of the grieving thousands left behind on September 11th, a small group of activist families emerged to demand answers. In 9/11 Press For Truth, six of them (including three of the famous "Jersey Girls") tell for the first time the powerful story of how they took on the powers in Washington—and won!—compelling an investigation, only to subsequently watch the 9/11 Commission fail in answering most of their questions.

  The families eventually found an ally in Paul Thompson. Dissatisfied with the incomplete picture of September 11th presented in most news reports, Thompson became a citizen journalist of sorts. He stitched together thousands of rare overlooked news clips, buried stories, and government press conferences into a definitive Complete 9/11 Timeline (published by Harper Collins as The Terror Timeline). Press For Truth is adapted in part from his acclaimed work, which revealed to the families a very different picture of the road that led to the attacks and the resulting War on Terror, one that still today raises important and pressing questions.

  Press For Truth premiered theatrically in September 2006 in New York City and the San Francisco Bay area. With the help of Robert Greenwald's Brave New Theaters, it was rolled out for a limited release in over fifty cities across America as well as Canada, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Australia, and Japan.

  The movie was immediately hailed by critics and enthusiastically embraced by a groundswell of concerned people worldwide who felt that the 9/11 Commission and the western news media had failed to account for many important issues.

  On the fifth anniversary of the attacks, Press For Truth aired throughout the Middle East on the Al Jazeera television network. It was soon purchased by TV stations in Spain, Norway, Poland, and all of South America.

  • 2:45 - Paul Rea Discussing Press for Truth (15 minutes)
    Paul Rea, researcher/writer, author of Still Seeking the Truth about 9/11. He has taught "The Politics of Age" and "Science, Technology, and Human Values" at St. Mary's College in Moraga, CA. Paul is working on an updated, much-expanded overview of the issues surrounding 9/11."
  
  
  
• 3:00- 9/11 Mysteries (1 hour 31 minutes)
  9/11 Mysteries 90 minutes of pure demolition evidence and analysis, laced with eye-opening witness testimonials. Moving from "the myth" through "the analysis" and into "the players," careful deconstruction of the official story set right alongside clean, clear science. The 9/11 picture is not one of politics or nationalism or loyalty, but one of strict and simple physics. How do you get a 10-second 110-story pancake collapse?

  A movie that might actually reach our complacent mainstream. No agenda. No finger-pointing. Just the facts and the "mysteries." Look at that. Think about this. A story of people: Willie Rodriguez's strange recollection of noises on the 34th floor. Who was up there, bumping around? Scott Forbes' similar story, weeks before the towers fell. A story of blasting itself. Here's how shaped charges slice through steel beams to control the way they fall.

  • 4:31- Jim Hoffman Discussing 9/11 Mysteries (19 minutes)
    Jim Hoffman created www.WTC7.net, www.911Research.WTC7.net, and www.911Review.com. The focus of his work has been to disprove the official account that the total collapses of the Twin Towers and Building 7 were the result of the plane crashes and fires. He believes the core of the crime were the explosive demolitions of the Twin Towers.

  
  

• 4:50 - Special Preview Screening The Reflecting Pool (1 hour 50 minutes)
  Followed by Discussion with Jarek Kupsc and Joseph Culp
  The Reflecting Pool (synopsis)
  An investigation of the 9/11 events by a Russian-American journalist and a father of a 9/11 victim implicates the US government in the attacks.

  ALEX PROKOP (JK Baltazar), a successful journalist, receives a rare 9/11 video tape revealing missile-like bursts of light on the hijacked planes as they hit the Twin Towers. The footage was sent by PAUL COOPER (Joseph Culp), a driven researcher, whose daughter died on 9/11. Sensing a good story, Prokop travels with Cooper to New York and Washington, DC, where they uncover suppressed information implicating the US Government in the attacks. As Cooper introduces Prokop to key eye-witnesses, the façade of the "official story" begins to crumble. Prokop hears accounts of underground explosions in the Twin Towers moments before their collapse, and learns of mysterious "engineers” who rendered the WTC security systems inoperative the weekend before 9/11. To his astonishment, he discovers that the firm providing WTC security was run by immediate family members of the President.

  We follow Alex and Cooper as they investigate the inexplicable collapse of the 47-story WTC Building Seven, disprove the implausible airliner "attack" on the Pentagon, and uncover the illegal destruction of physical evidence from Ground Zero.

  The pressure builds as the FBI intimidates Alex's editor, McGUIRE, (Lisa Black) to reveal key sources – while the magazine's corporate investors threaten to kill the entire story. Plagued by the ghosts of his Communist childhood and trying to uphold the independence of American journalism, Alex's search for the truth leads to a dangerous and shocking realization!

  THE REFLECTING POOL is an intense, sobering investigation into the most controversial tragedy of our time. Drawn from established sources and based on verifiable facts, THE REFLECTING POOL is a thought-provoking study of a search for truth and the profound consequences of not looking for it any further than the nightly news.

  (View the new trailer at- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32b-e-xwuB8)
  • 6:40- Followed by Discussion with filmmakers/writer/director/actors Jarek Kupsc and Joseph Culp

    Jarek Kupsc- Born in Warsaw, Poland, Jarek has been involved in independent film production since 1983. He studied art and history in his native Warsaw, Poland, learned Byzantine Icon painting techniques in Greece, and received his BA in Film Writing/Directing from San Francisco State University. He authored and illustrated "The History of Cinema for Beginners," a comic film history textbook in 1980.

    As a writer/director/producer, Jarek completed numerous short films, including the Rosebud Award-winning "Dog." He debuted in 2001 with "Recoil" in the feature film category, following with "Slumberland" in 2005 (Winner of Special Jury Prize, 2006 Gdynia Film Festival, Poland; First Prize, 2007 Oskariada FF, Poland; Best Screenwriter, 2007 Young Film Festival, Poland. "The Reflecting Pool" is his latest project.

    He was interviewed on August 6th, 2007 on the Questioning War- Organizing Resistance Radio Show. The archive is here an article was posted here.

    Joseph Culp Joseph's film credits include leading roles in Alan J. Pakula’s "Dream Lover," Monte Hellman’s "Iguana," "The Secret Life Of Houses" on PBS, and Maria Novaro’s "El Jardin del Eden." Joseph won critical acclaim at the San Francisco Film Festival for his performance in "Hunger," an adaptation of Nobel winner Knut Hamsun’s novel, which he produced with director Maria Giese and which featured his father, veteran actor Robert Culp. He recently starred in the New York stage premiere of "Foul Shots" by Raymond J. Barry. Joseph is a founder of the L.A.-based Walking Theatre Group, integrating theatre and transpersonal work for actors, writers, and directors.

  Evening Program

  
  
  • 7:00- 9/11: Blueprint for Truth 130 Architects & Engineers Examine the Evidence with Richard Gage, AIA, Architect

    Bay Area Architect Richard Gage, AIA, will discuss the features of all 3 World Trade Center building collapses. Not only the Twin Towers, but also 47-story World Trade Center Building #7, not hit by an airplane, completely "collapsed" on September 11, 2001 at nearly free-fall speed.

    Architects and engineers are especially invited to attend this event.

    "The tall, strong Twin Towers were broken into very small pieces and massive clouds of dust long before anything hit the ground," Gage observes. "We did not see them 'collapse' that morning – we saw them explode into dust and individual steel components. Watch the videos for yourself – they are widely available on the Internet (including ours at

    www.AE911Truth.org) and they all show the same essential features. Flashes of light and sounds of explosions were witnessed by 118 first responders – recorded by the FDNY. Huge rubble clouds formed immediately and symmetrically outside the buildings as they fell. The destruction was of amazing speed, evenness, and thoroughness, that it could only have been very carefully engineered and planned in advance."

    Tons of molten iron "flowing like lava" was found by demolition crews and by Leslie Robertson, the World Trade Center structural engineer. This observation can only be explained by the use of thermite, an incendiary used by the military to cut through steel. Chemical analysis on the steel and the dust performed by physicist Steven Jones, Ph.D., and 3 other scientists found the classic signature traces of thermite.

    Gage has been joined by more than 130 architects and engineers who have signed an online petition to the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate demanding a truly independent investigation with subpoena power.

    Gage has made his presentation to several California architectural firms, colleges, and universities. At the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, he and author Barrie Zwicker spoke to over 500 people at two events. More than 90% of those in attendance agreed with his conclusions.

    This event was very successful, and we filled the Theater on Tuesday night. An article with photos of the event was posted at Indymedia.org entitled:

    9/11 Truth Festival presents the case for an "unimpeachable" investigation into 9/11 Another article was posted at 911blogger.com entitled:
    Grand Lake Theatre 9/11 Truth Film Festival A Huge Success!

    

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