A day after the strike on the Pentagon and New York City's World Trade Center, an NYU student began a project of healing for survivors in New York City's Union Square. He began by providing paper and marking pens and asking people just to write down whatever they liked.

Over the next two weeks, Union Square became a 24-hour gathering place for all New Yorkers to share their grief and express their horror and deep opposition to the US Government's primitive, destructive and jingoistic reaction.

See: Michael Moore's "Tears Down the West Side Highway" and Bill Koehnlein's "In Union Square" in NY Transfer's NY Metro Politics newsfeed for more descriptions of the site.

On Saturday, September 29, the NYC Parks Department moved in to "clean up" the area.

We hope these photos will help to memorialize the dead, and serve to witness New Yorkers' statement: We do NOT seek vengeance for the attacks. We demand a peaceful response that works to remove the causes of terrorism, for which we hold the US Government responsible.

Love & Rage
      from NY Transfer
      at Ground Zero