From Wil-Dog, of the band Ozomatli

September 14, 2001

Dear friends, family, and all the people affected by the tragic act that took place 9.11. 01,

First of all I hope that everybody's friends and family are safe and unharmed!!!!

When I first woke up from the front lounge of our tour bus I couldn't believe what I was seeing. The TV was already turned on to the news and it repeatedly showed this plane crashing into the World Trade Center. I couldn't believe this was happening. I first thought about all the friends and family I have in NY and immediately started calling them. Since all the cell phones were turned off it took 2 days to get ahold of everybody. In the mean time I was thinking about one particular friend of mine who is a messenger in NY AND WAS VERY worried about him. Then I started thinking "what if I were in that building". I used to work in the mail room in one of the high-rises downtown and I think about all the office workers, secretaries, janitors etc. affected by this and it saddens me. In no way should any innocent people should ever experience anything like this. I also feel bad for all the people of the Middle East and all the Muslims who live in this country that now have to face even more racist attacks on them.

As much as I'm sadden by this I'm not surprised one bit. Cause there's millions of people all over the world that hate the US for doing the exact same thing to them for centuries. Only the US calls it "NATIONAL DEFENSE" not "terrorism". Because of this, now the US can go and blow the fuck out of who ever they want and nobody's gonna say shit about it. Cause now "its our right".

Now I know that I and we(us) must fight that much harder to bring an end to all this. Meanwhile we must envision the world that we all want to live in and what that looks like. What's it gonna take?

I LOVE U ALL
EMBRACE THE CHAOS 911 01
WIL-DOG

[posted 9/14/01 U.S.A.]