Activists gather to remember Graeme MacQueen

IC911 Board Members Elizabeth Woodworth and Marilyn Langlois, Executive Director Ted Walter, and several other colleagues of the late Dr. Graeme MacQueen spoke at a moving online memorial held yesterday for the beloved scholar and leader, who passed away on April 25, 2023.

Below is a video of the event. For more on our dear friend Graeme MacQueen, who helped form the new International Center for 9/11 Justice, we invite you to read this article, “Remembering Graeme MacQueen,” by Graeme’s close colleague and IC911 board member Kevin Ryan.

The International Center for 9/11 Justice is pleased to announce that the Journal of 9/11 Studies, which is now the Center’s flagship publication, has published a new paper on the destruction of the 47-story World Trade Center Building 7 on September 11, 2001.

The paper, entitled “The Instantaneous Free Fall of World Trade Center Building 7 and NIST’s Attempt to Hide It,” is co-authored by David Chandler, Ted Walter, and Tony Szamboti. Each of them has produced highly influential work on Building 7 over the past decade and a half.

The analysis presented in this paper is the culmination of research that began almost 15 years ago, after the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued its August 2008 draft report on the destruction of Building 7.

NIST claimed in that draft report and in related FAQs that Building 7 did not undergo free fall, contradicting the readily observable fact that it did.

At the time, David Chandler challenged NIST’s claim and compelled NIST to acknowledge in its final report that Building 7 did in fact undergo free fall.

However, even while admitting that Building 7 underwent free fall, NIST still claimed there was a short period of slower downward motion prior to the building entering free fall. NIST was apparently trying to give the impression that a natural sequence of structural failures led up to the building’s free fall.

Now, in the most comprehensive measurements of Building 7’s downward motion to date, Chandler, Walter, and Szamboti show that — contrary to NIST’s claim of a gradual transition to free fall — the transition to free fall was instantaneous and simultaneous across the entire measurable width of the building’s roofline. They then show how this observed behavior is incompatible with NIST’s explanation of the building’s destruction.

This is the first paper the Journal has published in nearly four years. We intend to publish on a regular basis from this point forward on the subjects listed here — until the goal of 9/11 justice has been realized.

We at the International Center for 9/11 Justice are thrilled to announce the release of the official trailer for Peace, War and 9/11.

This feature-length documentary, now in post-production and set for release in September 2023, features the late Dr. Graeme MacQueen sharing his final words on 9/11 and the anthrax attacks and his vision of a world without war.

MacQueen was a professor of religious studies and peace studies at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, for 30 years. He then went on to become a prominent scholar and widely respected leader in the 9/11 truth movement from 2006 until his passing in April 2023.

He is best known for his analysis of eyewitness accounts of the World Trade Center’s destruction and for his highly influential 2013 book The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy. Also, in his final months, he was instrumental in forming the new International Center for 9/11 Justice, which launched earlier this week.

MacQueen’s contributions to the 9/11 truth movement are beautifully memorialized in this article by his close colleague, IC911 board member Kevin Ryan.

The film is being co-directed by Ted Walter, the executive director of the Center, and by Rich Heap of Slackjaw Film. Cinematography is by Ryan O’Hara and music is by Andrew Swarbrick. Ted Walter and IC911 board member Marilyn Langlois are executive producers. The film is being distributed by Questar Entertainment.

We hope you enjoy the trailer and share it widely!

To the 9/11 truth community and the world:

It is with great hope and a deep commitment to achieving truth and justice regarding the events of 9/11 that we are announcing the launch of the International Center for 9/11 Justice.

The Center is a new iteration of the former International Center for 9/11 Studies, founded in 2008 by attorney James Gourley. It is being relaunched in partnership with two other cornerstone organizations of the 9/11 truth movement: the Journal of 9/11 Studies and the 9/11 Consensus Panel.

The goal of the newly formed International Center for 9/11 Justice is to organize, preserve, and present the best 9/11 research of the past two decades, conduct groundbreaking new research, and provide renewed direction, energy, and unity to the worldwide pursuit of 9/11 justice as it moves into its third decade.

As we all know, 9/11 was a turning point in our history. Present-day developments — including perpetual war and colossal military spending, the continued curtailment of civil liberties, far-reaching digital surveillance, and an increasingly propagandistic news media — flow largely from that turning point, which makes getting to the bottom of what happened that day more urgent than ever.

In addition to conducting research and carrying out educational activities, the Center will spearhead all types of initiatives aimed at raising mass public awareness and sparking broad-based demand for justice for the millions of people affected by 9/11.

Chief among those initiatives right now is helping the family of British 9/11 victim Geoff Campbell open a new inquest into his death in the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The Campbell family submitted a petition for a new inquest to the UK attorney general in August 2021 and nearly two years later is still awaiting a determination. If the inquest goes forward, it will be the first ever real government investigation into the events of 9/11.

The Center’s other major initiative in the short term is producing the feature-length documentary Peace, War and 9/11, set for release in September 2023. The documentary features the late Dr. Graeme MacQueen — a widely beloved leader in the 9/11 truth movement who in his final months was instrumental in building the new Center — presenting his analysis of 9/11 and the related 2001 anthrax attacks.

We were moved to form this organization following the passing of eminent 9/11 scholar Dr. David Ray Griffin late last year. As we contemplated where the 9/11 truth movement stood, we had a shared sense that the best evidence of the movement needed to be consolidated, that more potentially game-changing research needed to be undertaken, and that new impetus needed to be instilled in order for the pursuit of 9/11 justice to continue forward.

We invite you to visit the Center’s website at IC911.org, to subscribe to our email list, and to please make a generous donation or become a monthly giver today so that the Center can take flight. Your generosity will support the research, education, and action needed to catalyze a global 9/11 awakening.

Our dear friend Graeme MacQueen once said: “The story of 9/11 is not over yet. It’s up to us to construct a humane ending to this story — an ending which has justice and truth in it. That’s our job, and let’s do it.”

Onward toward truth and justice,

Ted Walter, Executive Director
James Gourley, Founder
David Chandler, Board Member
Marilyn Langlois, Board Member
Piers Robinson, Board Member
Kevin Ryan, Board Member
Elizabeth Woodworth, Board Member