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Pelican Bay Prisoners Go On Hunger Strike to Protest Grave Conditions: Lawyers, Advocates, Organizations Hold Press Conference, Voice Prisoner Demands

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEā€”June 29, 2011 Press Contact: Isaac OntiverosCommunications Director, Critical ResistanceOffice:Ā 510 444 0484Cell:Ā 510 517 6612 What:Ā Press ConferenceWhen: Thursday, June 30, 2011, 11:00amWhere:Ā ElihuĀ M.Ā HarrisĀ StateĀ ofĀ CaliforniaĀ OfficeĀ Building,Ā 1515 Clay St.,Ā Oakland,Ā CA Oaklandā€”Prisoners at the notorious Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, CA will initiate an indefinite hunger strike on July 1st, 2011 to protest condition …

N.Y. Professor Loses Post Over Churchill Controversy

N.Y. professor loses post over Churchill controversy The Associated PressFebruary 11, 2005 Clinton, N.Y. – A professor at a small New York state college has stepped down as a program director after igniting a furor by inviting Ward Churchill, a University of Colorado professor who compared Sept. 11 victims to …

Thousands Attend Churchill Speech

Thousands Attend Churchill Speech By Erin Gartner, Associated PressFebruary 8, 2005 A University of Colorado professor who ignited a firestorm by likening the World Trade Center victims to Nazis received a standing ovation Tuesday from a crowd of more than a thousand who packed a ballroom to hear him speak. …

Churchill: I Do Not Work For Bill Owens

Churchill speaks: ‘I do not work for Bill Owens’ Feb 9, 2005News4Colorado BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4) A defiant Ward Churchill told a standing-room-only crowd he will not back down from his views. Tuesday night the controversial University of Colorado professor spoke to a full crowd inside CU’s Glenn Miller ballroom about …

House of Representatives Resolution

Resolution of Colorado House of Representatives February 2nd 2005 WHEREAS, The tragedy of September 11, 2001, marked one of the darkest days in American history; and WHEREAS, The terrorist attacks cost more than 3,000 innocent people their lives; and WHEREAS, The pain of the families who lost loved ones in …

Bill Owens

Governor Bill Owens’ Calls on Churchill to Resign February 2, 2005 The below letter was writtem yesterday – February 1st – by colorado’s right-wing governor Bill Owens. This guy has a history of attacking queer rights, affirmative action, reproductive freedom, and the left in general. In fact, for some time …

Churchill gets support at forum

Churchill gets support at forum Crowd: Legislature should ‘stay out of it’ by Brittany AnasBoulder Daily CameraFebruary 18, 2005 Professor Ward Churchill should not be ousted from the University of Colorado, and the controversy he has stirred has challenged his students intellectually, many people told a pair of legislators at …

American Association of University Professors on Professor Ward Churchill Controversy

American Association of University Professors Statement on Professor Ward Churchill Controversy February 3rd, 2005 We have witnessed an extraordinary outpouring of criticism aimed both at Professor Ward Churchill of the University of Colorado at Boulder, for his written remarks describing victims of the attacks on September 11, 2001, as “little …

Students, Faculty at Hamilton College Back Controversial Discussion

Students, faculty at Hamilton College back controversial discussion Fri, Feb 4, 2005 MARSHAND BOONE Observer-Dispatch Ā  CLINTON — The cancellation of Ward Churchill’s appearance at Hamilton College didn’t prevent students from gathering on campus Thursday night to discuss the larger issues that placed the liberal arts college in the national …