9/11 Tribute Center programs are offered throughout the year. Lectures, educational workshops and support programs are available to unite family members who lost loved ones, survivors, Lower Manhattan residents, rescue and recovery workers and volunteers who assisted in the aftermath of 9/11. Visit tributewtc.org for a schedule of upcoming programs and events.
Join our friends at Tuesday’s Children this Veterans Day to give back to our military. Projects for a variety of military organizations will need help from 11:00am to 3:00pm on Wednesday, November 11, 2015. Organizations to be helped will include the American Widow Project, Building Homes for Heroes, The Hugs Project, Operation Gratitude, and others to […]
Illuminating Courage, a huge, candle-like memorial to the military personnel of Washington State who have been killed since September 11, 2001 will be dedicated on Wednesday, November 11, 2015, Veterans Day, at 11:30am. The public is welcome. To learn more about the dedication or about the memorial, please visit their website. Illuminating Courage Spokane Veterans […]
On Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 10:00am, at the 68th Precinct in Brooklyn, please join members of the NYPD, other World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers and local politicians in a rally in support of the permanent extension of the Zadroga Act. For more details, please click here. 68 Precinct 333 65th Street Brooklyn, […]
There will be a screening of the new documentary, Back from the Brink: Countering Violent Extremism, on Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 6:30pm at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs at Georgetown University in Washington. Back from the Brink: Countering Violent Extremism examines questions such as Why do marginalized youth join violent […]
The 2015 World Pancreatic Cancer Day is November 13, 2015. Worldwide there are around 280,000 new cases of pancreatic cancer each year and it is the seventh biggest cancer killer. Rates of pancreatic cancer are abnormally high among World Trade Center recovery workers. Yet the disease barely gets attention. This cancer is chronically underfunded and has […]
Will Jimeno, a Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department (PAPD) officer who was trapped in rubble during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, will speak and donate a piece of steel from the World Trade Center to the Auburn University Veterans Resource Center on Friday, November 13, 2015. The donation of […]