I thought this was an eloquent description of my life and work. And for once, I didn't even write it.. My new friends in Bloomington Indiana wrote this for the upcoming Aug 4 gig there....
The 9/11 Working Group is pleased to invite author and activist Sander Hicks to Boxcar Books, 408 East 6th Street, Bloomington, Indiana 47408, Saturday, August 4th from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm to discuss his latest book – Slingshot to the Juggernaut, Total Resistance to the Death Machine Means Complete Love of the Truth.
The book covers a range of topics dealing with issues of peace, nonviolence, spiritualism, 9/11 truth, and the Occupy Movement.
Sander Hicks first achieved national prominence in 2000 with his publication of J. H. Hatfield’s book Fortunate Son.
The book originally was to have been published by St. Martin’s Press.
It was recalled by the publisher following pressure from Bush family
operatives in the lead up to the 2000 presidential race. In Nazi-like
fashion, 25,000 copies of the book were burned. Fortunately, for Fortunate Son, Sander Hicks’s newly formed publishing company, Soft Skull Press, rescued the book from oblivion.
The
book revealed, among other things, George W. Bush’s 1972 cocaine arrest
and conviction that Bush Senior would get expunged from the record in
return for community service from Junior. Fortunate Son’s author would
later die allegedly by suicide, under suspicious circumstances shortly
before 9/11. Was he silenced because he knew too much about the Bush
Family’s connections to Osama bin Laden?
Sander’s first book dealing with 9/11 was in 2005 with publication of The Big Wedding.
Since then he has written numerous articles for numerous publications
such as Alternet, GNN, Long Island Press, New York Press, and Catholic
Worker.
Perhaps
his greatest contribution to the field of 9/11 research has been his
relentless investigation and expose concerning the mysterious death of
9/11 witness, Dr. David Graham. Dr. Graham had met two of the 9/11
hijackers in Shreveport, Louisiana one year before the attacks of
September 11th, 2001. Concerned with their suspicious
behavior and fearing that they might be planning sabotage at nearby
Barksdale Air Force base, a nuclear armed facility, he had reported his
sighting to the FBI and Secret Service, only to be rebuffed by both
agencies. Later, after 9/11, when he recognized the pictures of two of
the hijackers he had met, he contacted the FBI, Justice Department and
members of Congress and told them about what he had seen. Strangely, no
one in authority seemed interested in what he had to say. The FBI agents
with whom he spoke even intimated that if he persisted in publishing a
book about what he had seen, it might be harmful to his health.
Before
he got a chance, he was poisoned with ethylene glycol, a toxic
ingredient in anti-freeze, while traveling through East Texas. As with
J. H. Hatfield, the authorities ruled his death a suicide. Had he too
paid the ultimate price for attempting to tell the truth?
Sander
will be talking about these and other matters concerning peace,
nonviolence, spiritualism, and the Occupy Movement and what we can do to
reclaim our society. We hope you will join us. Attached is a flyer for
the event.
For more information about Sander Hicks, visit his website: http://www.sanderhicks.com/
Bob Baldwin
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