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DESCRIPTION:Help build this rally, or get your organization to endorse it:  Defend Ward 
 Churchill! Prosecute the real civil rights violators!  Rally, Saturday 
 April 16, noon 16th street and Mission (16th Street Bart Station) San 
 Francisco  At the request of the Colorado governor, the University of 
 Colorado's tenured professor Ward Churchill faces firing for a speech he 
 made about 9/11 in which he called out the Amerikan people's complicity in 
 this country's imperialist attacks on the world. Churchill compared at 
 least some World Trade Center victims to a Nazi named Eichmann who was a 
 bureaucratic cog in the fascist wheel.  The firestorm set off by the lynch 
 mob has resulted in threats of violence and over 100 death threats to Ward 
 Churchill. This is intolerable, Ward Churchill must not be attacked for 
 speaking out against imperialism. The people on government payroll involved 
 in this witch-hunt should be prosecuted for conspiring to deprive Ward 
 Churchill of his civil rights.  The bureaucratic witch-hunt against 
 Churchill should come as no surprise. Ward Churchill had badly hurt the 
 u.$. imperialists with his past books on government documents related to 
 FBI repression of the American Indian Movement and the Black Panther Party. 
  Churchill's speech was titled "Some People Push Back" from the quote: 
 "You've got to learn, that when you push people around, some people push 
 back." Amerika pushes around most of the world, invading countries, aiding 
 brutal military regimes, murdering key politicians, and destroying 
 economies, all in the interests of making a profit. Some of those people 
 being pushed around by Amerikan imperialism are going to push back.  The 
 real issue above all others is that Ward Churchill told Amerikans they have 
 to take responsibility for their own actions. What he said about World 
 Trade Center victims being little Eichmanns was in fact less extreme than 
 what Amerikans told German civilians after World War II in 1945 and 1946, 
 when there was a collective responsibility movement, the likes of which 
 still present themselves in the commemorations of the Allied bombings of 
 German civilians in Dresden in World War II.  The governor of Colorado 
 should have been impeached by now for organizing for Ward Churchill's 
 firing. It's a violation of civil rights. The governor of Colorado is not 
 protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. He is part of the 
 government and the First Amendment contrasts between the "government" and 
 the "people." The governor along with his collaborators on government 
 payroll are organizing this civil rights violation. The Governor proclaims 
 that taxpayer money is funding Churchill and so he must be fired, but the 
 legislature only provides 7% of the University of Colorado's money. What a 
 bunch of cheapskate, posing windbags trying to create the impression that 
 they actually do anything for education by lynching Ward Churchill.   MIM 
 calls on all who want to defend civil rights to defend Ward Churchill. 
 Instead of attacking the messenger (who tells it like it is about Amerikan 
 imperialism) we call for prosecution of the real civil rights violators, 
 starting with the Colorado governor and the leadership of the University of 
 Colorado. We call for prosecution of the U.$. government for violating the 
 civil rights of unknown numbers of Arab and Muslim prisoners held in secret 
 without evidence. Prosecute the U.$. government for violating the civil 
 rights of the more than one million Black and Latino prisoners held in 
 Amerika who never got a trial of their peers and who face discrimination 
 and disproportionate sentencing simply because of their nationality. 
 Prosecute the U.$. government for slowly eroding even the facade of 
 protection of civil rights by passing the Patriot Act and related bills. 
 The Amerikan government is the real civil rights violator.  For more 
 information or to sponsor this rally contact us at mim124@mim.org 
 http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/mn/sept112001/index.html   \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/03/27/61483.php
SUMMARY:Defend Ward Churchill!
LOCATION:16th Street and Mission Street
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/03/27/61483.php
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