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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 …

The Distortions of Acumen Continued: More Liberal Trashing of Ward Churchill By Joshua Frank Press Action, February 7th 2005   The continued trashing of radical professor Ward Churchill from the left end of the political spectrum is ever-increasing. Take Marc Cooper, contributing editor to The Nation magazine, and columnist for …

Raise Your Voice but Keep Your Head Down  By Michael Albert ZNet, February 5th 2005 I first met Ward Churchill when I was working at South End Press twenty five years ago and Ward submitted his first book which was about Marxism and Native Americans. It was a collection of …

Why Is Ward Churchill’s Article On This Site? by Kersplebedeb, Feb. 1st 2005 As part of a campaign to stop him from being allowed to speak at a small college in New York, right-wing student groups latched onto Ward Churchill’s essay “Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting …

Ward Churchill and 911 by Robert Jensen February 23rd 2005published by The Progressive Trail Ward Churchill has a right to speak about 9/11. And Ward Churchill is right about 9/11. I state that bluntly, even though I disagree with some aspects of the University of Colorado professor’s now-infamous essay, because …

Killing the Messenger: Ward Churchill’s Sins Against the Empire By Steven Best February 10th 2005 Press Action “The gross distortions of what I actually said can only be viewed as an attempt to distract the public from the real issues at hand and to further stifle freedom of speech and …

The Witch Hunt Against Ward Churchill Revolutionary Worker #1268, February 20th, 2005 posted at http://www.rwor.org “We’re a tolerant society here, but some things cannot be tolerated.” — Bill O’Reilly, Fox News discussing University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill, February 11 2005 An intense battle is being fought out right now …

The Man in the Maelstrom Ward Churchill speaks out on his controversial essay, the media frenzy and what the U.S. can do if it really wants to halt terrorism By Pamela White Boulder Weekly Feb. 10, 2005 It started when a group of conservative students from Hamilton College in New …

  When queried by reporters concerning his views on the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963, Malcolm X famously – and quite charitably, all things considered – replied that it was merely a case of “chickens coming home to roost.” On the morning of September 11, 2001, a …