First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. — Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.. — Victor Hugo

With 2WTC “postponed” indefinitely and 3WTC still very iffy, how can anyone seriously
suggest that we are “rebuilding” the World Trade Center? Where is the center?

When someone dies it is impossible to bring them back to life, but we are given a unique opportunity to do just that in this case; bring the Twin Towers back to life instead of being haunted by their absence. — Matt Franzblau | All Other NY & NJ Residents

Follow our progress at The Twin Towers Alliance Facebook page.
When we post a new page or a bulletin below, we will often post an alert there.

The Twin Towers Alliance on Twitter
The link above brings up a digest of many of our key bulletins.

There are also Facebook pages being run by supporters independently, including the sites below.
Friends of the Twin Towers | Twin Towers Alliance | One Million Strong for New Twin Towers

We regret not being able to respond to the many emails of encouragement we receive, but every one is read when it arrives. The situation at the World Trade Center is challenging and demands all our attention. Thank you for your understanding and your support.

Please note: The following bulletin and all the bulletins before it were corrupted and vanished while working on the “Freedom Tower Folly” bulletin. We hope the earlier bulletins will be restored soon. The one for the 28th shared the information that although his studio was destroyed by fire, Ken Gardner is determined to rebuild his life and his business. The “Twin Towers II” models were at a different location and there are multiple backups of the plans. But his loss was otherwise total and it will be a tough recovery. More information will be posted soon. As for the original “Freedom Tower Folly,” it is recreated below as much as possible:

1/29/2012 — “Freedom Tower Folly…” The assumption that it is too late for the Twin Towers because the Freedom Tower keeps rising is a classic case of not being able to see the forest for the trees. To begin with, the location of the Freedom Tower (FT) has no bearing at all on rebuilding the Twin Towers. It was situated at the least defensible place on Ground Zero — but now, with its bunker base, it would function as a giant bollard on West Street. And while the concrete lobby will never have the high-end appeal that the site-protected Twins would offer, the building would be perfect for the city’s Command Center, as well as other government offices.

Even if the FT reaches its full height, new 120-story Twins Towers would tower over it. And with the 400-foot spire on top of Twin Tower One, the claim to being the tallest tower in North America would no longer be phony baloney — because, even without the spire, they would far surpass the roof height of the Willis/Sears Tower in Chicago — while the Freedom Tower is a full fifty feet shorter. Converting the rest of the site would present more logistical problems than the Freedom Tower and getting it ready would be labor-intensive, but that would not be the obstacle that opponents of the Twin Towers would like it to be.

Before looking further into what it would take to put dazzling new Twin Towers into America’s greatest skyline, it is important to discuss why it is still so relevant now… Simple: Because that is what the people have wanted since the first tower crumbled. That is the only reason we need. If there were superior reasons why elected representatives overruled the public’s wishes in this tremendously important matter then they owed it to all of us to explain the reason or reasons. Commentary and debate would then have followed — the way it does with every other matter of national import — and whether their reasons were good enough for the rest of us — or not — would have been established. That is how self-government operates. The people were cheated at Ground Zero.

That is why we decided in April of 2005, to launch Rebuild-the-Towers.org. And that is why we invited the founders of Team Twin Towers, the World Trade Center Restoration Movement, and the citizens on their mailing lists, to join us when we started the Twin Towers Alliance early in 2006. We hoped that a fresh effort to encourage officials to look and listen and journalists to report would change the dynamics. We have written hundreds of thousands of words since then and approached the problem from every angle. But realizing what a tight lock a tiny minority has had on the process was an eye-opener. What would happen if an election were handled that way? It would be called a fix.

Less than a year before the massacre at the World Trade Center we had a razor-thin presidential election that plunged us into a Constitutional crisis. If the margin of support for stronger, safer, 21st-century Twin Towers, were overturned in a national election — here or anywhere — it would be called a coup. A powerful clique felt free to marginalize the recovery a majority of Americans wanted, replace it with what they decided to give us instead, and make the public pay for it. They did it by feeding the public phony information and suppressing what the public needed to know. We would be crazy to let them get away with it. That would make us pathetic — a word that we hear often on the petition. This is everybody’s fight.

We have asked a lot of questions since 2005 and even the non-answers are telling. When The Swindle At Ground Zero is released it will only be a beginning. For that reason, we have decided to start a dedicated news site that will be separate from the Twin Towers Alliance, so that the facts can be presented independent of our advocacy. Too much has gone unreported for too long. Readers will be free to leave comments, the way they can on other news sites. For now, we will post articles at the new “Journal” tab in the navigation above. Once the new site is launched, the tab above will link to it.

The journal site will run parallel to the advocacy site. We firmly believe that the Twin Towers still can, and for the good of our society, still must rise to restore our country’s most cherished skyline. What the Twin Towers Alliance will do more forcefully than ever is explain why it should and how it could still happen. At the same time, the Twin Towers Journal will conduct an honest inquiry into the corruption and abuse of power that have been compounding at the site for ten years. Why does it matter now, with all the problems we face? Because it is a big part of the solution. The World Trade Center is ground the American people cannot afford to lose twice.