Our goal in creating this site is open a conversation about the role of media, language, and symbols in shaping our response to the tragic events of September 11 2001 and their aftermath. We are posting new material as it arrives but we also wanted you to share your reflections with us. Here are some questions you might consider addressing:

• What symbols, images or texts have most fully expressed your own reaction to what has occurred?
• How should you assess the role which communications media has played in the past week?
• What channels of information have you found most valuable in putting these events into perspective?
• What can be done to expand global communications during an era of international crisis?

Trespass is an AlternaNews forum hosted by CMS. Anita Jean Chan, a graduate student of Comparative Media Studies, has retooled her political-issue discussion system specifically for discussion on the issues raised in re:constructions.