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Sherman Alexie- different style of expression about WTC towers
Some other writers do share the same sentiment, if not style of expression as Ward Churchill for his controversial Roosting Chickens book...
Posted: Sun, Feb 6, 2005 4:58pm PST
Community control vs. state control: Stopping the occupation and privatization of OUSD
The second, and perhaps most crucial, phase of the colonial occupation and transformation of the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) was initiated in December 2004. Administrator Randy Ward, the neo-colonial operative executing the dismantling of OUSD on behalf of big business and the government, proclaiming that 13 schools are slated for closure and charter conversion, initiated it. The aim of this phase of the occupation is to destroy the unions and create the necessary preconditions to ...
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 9:58pm PST
Free speech issue bigger than Churchill
She then pointed to two moments where CU presidents have faced similar challenges. In the first case, a legislature dominated by the Ku Klux Klan went after the CU faculty. The second came during the Red scare when faculty were fired....
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 4:09pm PST
The Right has a License to Write Anything: Ward Churchill and the Mad Dogs
When it comes to left and right, meaning the respective voices of sanity and dementia, we're meant to keep two sets of books....
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 12:09pm PST
O'Reilly Show Poll on Whether Churchill Should Be Fired
If you happen to have any extra time on your hands to make a visit to O'Reilly's website, please visit the site and vote against the Fox news witchhunt against Ward Churchill....
Posted: Fri, Feb 4, 2005 5:26pm PST
Documents on the Ward Churchill Academic Freedom Controversy
1 Prof quits chair over 9/11 (News Story)
2 Text of Ward Churchill's statement
3 Text of Colorado House of Representatives Resolution
4 Text of Governor Owens' letter on Churchill
5 N.Y. college cancels talk (News Story)
6 AAUP Statement on Professor Ward Churchill
Controversy...
Posted: Thu, Feb 3, 2005 10:40pm PST
February 16! Defend Public Education in Oakland: Endorse and Attend
Organize to Defend Public Education in Oakland!
Community Meeting: Wednesday, Feb. 16 – 5-8 PM
Cox Elementary School – Cafeterium
(9860 Sunnyside Street at 98th Avenue – Take I-580 to
98th Ave)
Dinner and Childcare will be provided...
Posted: Thu, Feb 3, 2005 11:51am PST
10th Annual San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair
March 26th is almost upon us. Better book your flights soon....
Posted: Tue, Feb 1, 2005 8:44pm PST
Ward Churchill Speaking Event Cancelled
Credible threats of violence have been directed at the College and members of the panel. These threats have been turned over to the police....
Posted: Tue, Feb 1, 2005 12:28pm PST
Ward Churchill Comes Under Fire as He Prepares to Speak at College in New York
Prof. Churchill is scheduled to speak at Hamilton College in New York this Thursday, and family members of people who died in the 911 incidents have been protesting his right to speak....
Posted: Tue, Feb 1, 2005 11:27am PST
David Horowitz at UC Berkeley Feb 3
Well, I have modest mouse tickets that night, and I saw him the last time. There should be some good people watching dynamics if you can sit through this. Horowitz typically delivers an uncontroversial talk on free speech, and the crappy set of people he worked with in Berkeley during the early 1970s who murdered people....
Posted: Mon, Jan 31, 2005 9:17pm PST
Ward Churchill's statement regarding Roosting Chickens
January 31, 2005
The following is a statement from Ward Churchill:
In the last few days there has been widespread and grossly inaccurate media coverage concerning my analysis of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, coverage that has resulted in defamation of my character and threats against my life. What I actually said has been lost, indeed turned into the opposite of itself, and I hope the following facts will be reported at least to the same exte...
Posted: Mon, Jan 31, 2005 8:18pm PST
Ward Churchill resigns as head of department at U.Colorado
Embattled University of Colorado ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill today released a lengthy statement defending his controversial essay concerning the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States....
Posted: Mon, Jan 31, 2005 4:24pm PST
2/5: Military Out of Our Schools Training
THE COUNTER-RECRUITING TRAINING SEMINAR will be held
on:
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2005
CHABOT COLLEGE in ROOM 916
10AM and lasting till about 2PM...
Posted: Mon, Jan 31, 2005 12:43am PST
Adolescent Psych at St. Mary's (SF): Be afraid
Adolescent Psych at St. Mary's (SF): Be afraid
this thread describes persistent systematic problems which lead to dangerous lapses in quality of care at St. Mary's ("McAuley Institute") adolescent psych unit*.
On the other hand, if you want your child to be warehoused in a unit where they are at risk from the following, have at it......
Posted: Thu, Jan 27, 2005 11:39pm PST
Breaking news in the campaign to repeal the HEA Drug Provision
Congressionally-Appointed Committee Calls for
Repeal of Anti-Education Policy...
Posted: Wed, Jan 26, 2005 11:48pm PST
Bay Area Communities for Health Education
Bay Area Communities for Health Education opposes irresponsible abstinence only programs such as "Teen Esteem" and "AWAIT & FIND." We work to ensure that teens receive comprehensive, medically accurate, age appropriate and bias free sexuality education in our public schools....
Posted: Sat, Jan 22, 2005 6:20pm PST
Guns on State University campuses
There are guns at San Francisco State University....
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 10:06am PST
OK Reformists...
please email this to your reformist friends...
Posted: Wed, Jan 19, 2005 10:38pm PST