
9/11 Families March on City Hall As City Seeks to Stop Fresh
Probe of Attacks from Going on November Ballot
NY Supreme Court Hearing 9:30AM Tuesday Will Determine Fate of Referendum
[September 28, 2009, New York City] On Sunday, September 27, The New York City Coalition
for Accountability Now (NYC CAN), a group comprising 9/11 family members, first responders
and survivors, led 300 New Yorkers 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 getting on the November ballot.
Today, the New York State Supreme Court ordered litigants to present arguments before Judge
Edward Lehner at a hearing scheduled for September 29.
On Sunday, 9/11 family member Manny Badillo welcomed the crowd at Battery Park: "Today we
are marching peaceably to let the world know that the City of NY is defying the will of the people
to have one question on the ballot, the question to have a proper independent investigation to
answer 100% of the questions raised by the 9/11 families."
Mark Crispin Miller, author and professor of Media Studies at NYU, spoke of the lack of
accountability. He noted that after 9/11 "no heads rolled" until recently, when Obama adviser
Van Jones was forced to resign because he signed the "9/11 Truth Statement" in 2004.
[See: http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041026093059633] Miller said he too signed
the statement and would sign it again "in ten seconds."
At City Hall, Daniel Sunjata, star of Fox's "Rescue Me", gave a rousing speech challenging the
integrity of the 9/11 Commission. Specifically, he cited the fact that 60% of the Commissioners
have admitted deficiencies in their own investigation. Speaking about the City's challenge to
NYC CAN's ballot initiative, Sunjata said, "Although 80,000 New Yorkers have voiced their
desire in writing to include on November's mayoral ballot the referendum for a new
investigation. The City has responded by saying it has no jurisdiction into the murder of 3,000
of its own citizens. Look at the lengths to which they have gone to evade allowing the
residents of this city a chance to vote for answers and accountability." Bob McIlvaine
wrapped up the rally emotionally, saying, "I have one job in life until the day I die…
to find out who murdered my son."
On Friday, the Court-appointed Referee submitted his recommendations, in which he sided with
the City. This morning, the Petitioners' attorney, Dennis McMahon, filed a motion requesting a
hearing to allow for arguments challenging the Referee's "fatally flawed" report. According to
McMahon, "No other case pending in the New York courts has a higher priority, so we expect a
judgement this Wednesday." 9/11 family members, first responders and survivors will be
attendance at the hearing tomorrow morning.
If the Petition overcomes all legal challenges, goes to the November ballot and passes, it would
lead to the creation of a local, independent commission with subpoena power that would be
tasked with comprehensively reinvestigating the attacks of September 11, 2001.
ALL SUPPORTERS ARE ASKED TO ATTEND THE HEARING: Tuesday, September 29, 2009,
9:30am at 60 Centre Street, in Room 252
Thinkers think and talkers talk. Patriots ACT.
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