Our sisters and brothers at the World Trade Center
Like millions of others who live in New York City, the staff
of Workers World newspaper has been directly affected by the
attack on the World Trade Center. Alongside our sisters and
brothers, the workers and oppressed people who make up the vast
majority of this city's population and who make this city run,
we are deeply pained by the magnitude of death and
suffering.
We are workers. We get up every morning, ride the subways,
clock in at jobs around the city, and when we finish working
for the bosses we volunteer our labor to produce this
newspaper. As New York workers, we have been touched by these
events.
One of Workers World's editors worked at the World Trade
Center. We are so glad that he left for his job late on Sept.
11. He was relieved when he finally learned that his co-workers
had gotten out alive.
The niece of another of our editors worked on the 80th floor
of one of the twin towers. She ran down 80 flights with
hundreds of others, barely making it out of the building before
it collapsed.
Among Workers World Party's members and friends is a United
Airlines flight attendant whose union sisters and brothers are
among the dead.
Others of us are still waiting for word of missing friends
and relatives.
Along with all this, the events have caused logistical and
technological problems in producing the newspaper this week.
DSL Internet lines in lower Manhattan are not functioning.
Phone lines have worked intermittently. Transportation is
difficult.
We will get this newspaper out, as we do every week. We will
use our voices to resist the flood of chauvinist propaganda and
calls for military strikes against the people of oppressed
nations. But we do so not just as writers and editors,
activists and fighters. We do it as an authentic part of the
working class of New York City. We feel the pain.
--Shelley Ettinger
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