Johnson: Churchill not alone in pointing accusatory finger February 2, 2005 Rocky Mountaion News I listened to the endless chatter about it on talk radio. I read the news stories, along with the editorials condemning Ward Churchill’s essay. I have just gotten around to reading what the professor actually wrote. …
Fighting the Next War, Not the Last One by Michael Novick It has been said that generals are always preparing to fight the last war. In this case, it looks like the generals and spy-masters are way out in front fighting the next one, while it is we on the …
Leftist Listening Points By Matt Meyer What would life be like if the left could actually learn to listen? In all of the current talk about the possibilities of this being a “teachable moment,” even those of us committed to a Freirian approach seem to have forgetten that the best …
From The Jericho Movement : The social and political pandemonium following the attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon is allowing many governmental policies to be implemented with virtually no scrutiny from the general public. The most drastic of these measures to date has been the ability for …
Circling their Wagons this text is found in the pamphlet S11: Truth and Consequences (Solidarity-Arm the Spirit 2001, ISBN 1-894820-35-5), available for $2.75 US from Kersplebedeb (email me for details ) Like Pavlov’s Dog, many White Americans have harkened back to their traditional cultural rituals in this time of crisis, …
Professor Under Fire For 9/11 Comments Free Speech Furor Roils Over Remarks By T.R. ReidWashington Post Staff WriterSaturday, February 5, 2005; Page C01 BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 4 — The University of Colorado staunchly defends its faculty’s rights of free speech and open academic inquiry. Most of the time. But Friday, …
Ward Churchill is Neocon Test Case for Academic Purges Emma Perez, Chair of Ethnic Studies, U of Colorado February 15, 2005 We’ve done some preliminary research and analysis and it’s become clear exactly what’s at stake and what we’re up against. CU-Boulder has been made the national frontline of the …
Statement by West London Anarchists and Radicals As the bombs fall on Afghanistan murdering the first civilians (only acknowledged in the bourgeois press when UN workers were amongst the dead), the war aims of capital become a little clearer. Ostensibly, this is a war against terrorism. Like the war on …
Before I begin this poem, I’d like to ask you to join me in a moment of silence in honor of those who died in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001. I would also like to ask you to offer up a moment of silence …
The termination and removal of Ward Churchill by Scott Richard Lyons Indian Country February 17, 2005 It’s been a bad couple of weeks for Ward Churchill. After being savaged by the corporate media for an essay he wrote over three years ago, then finding himself abandoned by an academic culture …