Ward Churchill Speaks at Recreate 68 Rally, End the Occupations

Ward Churchill laying it down. Thanks to Tryworks for the link.

Upcoming Ward Churchill Lectures

For a second semester some fine students from CU-Boulder are hosting a lecture series by Ward Churchill. Class begins next Tuesday. Below is the tentative schedule with room numbers.

2/26/2008    7:00 PM  10:15 PM  Hellems Room 199  Confirmed
3/4/2008     7:00 PM  10:15 PM  Hellems Room 252  Confirmed
3/11/2008    7:00 PM  10:15 PM  Hellems Room 252  Confirmed
3/18/2008    7:00 PM  10:15 PM  Hellems Room 252  Confirmed
4/1/2008     7:00 PM  10:15 PM  Hellems Room 252  Confirmed
4/22/2008    7:00 PM  10:15 PM  Hellems Room 252  Confirmed
4/29/2008    7:00 PM  10:15 PM  Hellems Room 252  Confirmed

Outlaw Scholar tells it like it is

It’s alway entertaining to watch tryworks run circles around the three stooges of local blogdom. Although, it’s kind of like watching a schoolyard bully pick on the slow kids. One feels sorry for them. Out of their depth. No contest really.

Anyways, our favorite ass kickers at tryworks have found a video on youtube featuring one of our favorite outlaw scholars.

Seasons greetings, piggies

Here are two graphics from some international folks.

An image is worth a thousand words, eh?

Seasons greetings, Amerikkka

Nuff said.

Indigenous Survival Week

On 144th anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre ‘Indigenous Survival Week’ will be held at CU Boulder. All of these events are free.

WEDNESDAY, November 28th
Performances by: The Tortuga Project, REBEL DIAZ and SAVAGE FAMILY
Club 156 on the first floor of the UMC, 6:00 to 11:00

THURSDAY:
Panel on Hip Hop, indigenous resistance, and community self
determination and self-definition.
Glenn Miller Ballroom at the UMC,
6:00 to 8:00

Amerikkkans feast on oppressed nations

Source: Shubel Morgan

Tryworks posts a poem about Thanksgiving

Ward Churchill Fired for Calling Little Eichmanns Little Eichmanns

[reproduction of this picture is forbidden without prior consent from RAIM-Denver]

In an unclimatic event, the University of Colorado Board of Regents, in an 8-1 vote, officially fired Professor Ward Churchill. The two-year struggle over his employment was no surprise, as fascist elements of Amerikkka clamored to have him pay for his heresy. Now another chapter begins as Ward pursues this through court.

The official reasons for his termination were for plagiarism and academic misconduct. But for everyone paying attention, he was really fired for speaking uncomfortable truths about Amerikan foreign policy. In an essay written the day after the 9/11 attacks, Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens (later expanded into a book), he took a different tone from the crocodile-teared jingoism prevalent on that day. Far from the patriotic emotionalism of that day, he stated the facts about Amerikan foreign policy.

On 9/11, the chickens came home to roost. This was no surprise for those who knew the history of Amerikan imperialism. And many who died were in fact “little Eichmanns,” technocrats of a genocidal killing machine that has taken untold millions of lives around the world. Churchill, who has made a career in documenting the genocide of the First Nations and the repression of dissent, is all too familiar of this knowledge. His bluntness was welcoming.

In the beginning he was attacked not by the reactionary Right but by the so-called Left, people like Doug Henwood and Marc Cooper. (1) For all their professed radicalism, speaking truth on 9/11 was too much for them. On the other hand, it took the idiot Right Wing four years to find his essay and get outraged about it. When the University of Colorado admitted that what he said was protected by the first amendment they looked for other ways to fire him. The governor, right wing assholes, spineless liberals, white trash, and comprador Native Americans all clamored to have him hanged, and digging up any and all dirt they could on Churchill to add kindling to the witch hunt.

7/24/2007: CU Campus, Boulder CO: Judgment Day

On July 24th at the Boulder campus security was all around. The media sharks circled too. Metal detectors and armed guards were at the entrance to the building where the regents would decide the fate of Churchill. Signs posted stated that any disturbance inside would be met by force and arrest.

Churchill arrived with his lawyer and a handful of colleagues. Later some of his supporters rallied before the regents met, with signs, buttons, and T-shirts. A few white trash bloggers were present with cameras, some heckling Churchill and supporters. Pigs with badges photographed the event.

The meeting was supposed to start after 3:30 but was delayed for a couple of hours. Finally the regents came into the auditorium and voted to accept CU President Hank Brown’s recommendation that Churchill be canned. The vote was 8-1, with the regent from Boulder giving the lone nay vote. People booed, and the regents left.

Members of the American Indian Movement of Colorado then began a drum circle with chanting. They and their supporters proceeded outside. A press conference was held immediately after.

There was a problem when the room that was reserved was too small for the conference. Only the press was allowed in. The supporters listened outside through a window. Two cracker-assed College Republicans arrived after, attempting to disrupt the press conference, carrying signs to allegedly honor those Amerikans killed on 9/11. But they ended up doing nothing. The two reactionaries got into heated discussions with Churchill supporters, and then the news clamored to interview them because they opposed Churchill. They were heckled due to the amerikkan media’s obvious bias.

Churchill plans to initiate a lawsuit against the University. RAIM-Denver wishes him success.

The overwhelming issue from supporters was one of academic freedom. Many stood by Churchill while making sure to say that they didn’t agree with what he said. RAIM-D on the other hand says that not only does Churchill have a right to say what he said, but was right in what he said. Amerikkkans are not innocent of the crimes committed by their parasite imperialist nation. Plus they shouldn’t be surprised when those angered by its atrocities decide to hit back. The truth hurts, but Amerikkka has been in its luxury dugout too long.

Of course the issue of academic freedom for dissident intellectuals is all too real. At the present time Norman Finkelstein is under attack for his criticism of Israel and the Zionist Lobby in the United States. With cracker right-wingers like ACTA and David Horowitz salivating over academics that don’t kneel over to praise Amerikkka, Churchill’s is unlikely to be the end of this kind of attack.

Postscript:

The day after Churchill was sacked, CU President Hank Brown met with wealthy bourgeois donors. He assured them that their money, gained from super exploitation of the oppressed nations of the world, would be spent wisely defending that system (2).

1. http://www.counterpunch.org/frank07122007.html

2. http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_6464850

Ward Churchill Fired

Ward Churchill was officially fired from his position as tenured professor and head of the CU Ethnic Studies Department yesterday.

Members of RAIM-Denver made the trip up to Boulder to distribute flyers supporting Ward Churchill. The flyers that we got out pointed to the real reason that Ward has come under fire: because he dared to speak the truth- he dared to point out that amerikans are an imperial citizenry that have for the last 500 years shit on the world and now can’t seem to figure out why everyone hates them.

Ward Churchill truly is a revolutionary academic, one who is an anomaly in oppressor amerikkka. It comes as no surprise to RAIM-Denver that pigmerikkka is now bending over backwards to silence and discredit someone who has taken such a bold stand for those oppressed by amerikkkan imperialism.

In the coming days we will post a full report as well as pictures from the day’s events.

Ward Churchill Update

It was released that CU President Hank Brown intends to fire Ward Churchill. Colorado governor Bill Ritter made these statements revealing the oppressor-politics behind the CU witchhunt, “The character of his conduct is different than those things that are protected by the First Amendment, and I really do think in an academic institution, we need to pay attention to what we’re telling our kids and what our professors are writing about.”

What a load of shit. First, it’s not like Ward Churchill teaches to or writes his books for an audience of 10 year olds (though perhaps that’s not a bad idea). In amerikkka, children, at the age of 5, are forced to begin 13 years of “formal” oppressor “education”. There isn’t a student at CU Boulder that hasn’t already gone through this process.

This is clearly an attempt by reactionary white amerikkka to squelch any sort of academia that is in service of the oppressed. It also has to be understood that cases like Ward Churchill are not isolated. A professor named Norman Finkelstein was denied tenure because of his pro-Hezzbollah views. White-amerikkka, in its expectable fascistic frenzy, is now trying to further consolidate its oppressor indoctrination all the way up through its institutions of “higher learning”.

Ward Churchill Speaking Monday

Stealing Children for God and Country
April 16, 2007 | 05:30 PM

Description: The U.S. Government and Christian Plan for American Indian Genocide and How that Affects Us Now – A panel discussion at the Iliff School of Theology.

Panel participants are:

• Ward Churchill, Keetowah Band Cherokee, Professor at The University of Colorado
• Tink Tinker, Osage, Professor at The Iliff School of Theology
• Kim Cameron, Ojibwe, President of the Rocky Mountain Indian Chamber of Commerce

Flyer : stealing-children-for-god-and-country.pdf

Date: Monday, April 16, 2007
Time: 5:30 p.m. (Dinner), 6 p.m. (Discussion)
Location: Great Hall
Cost: Free

Ward Churchill Teach-In

Ward Churchill was a professor at the University of Kolorado-Denver; in fact, he was the head of the Ethnic Studies Department. One would think that Ward would have a pretty good understanding of First Nation histories seeing as that was his area of academic expertise, right? Well, since Ward didn’t want to chime on about how this ‘Indian’ invented so and so and how this ‘Indian’ is important because of yada yada -because he told the truth about how 97-99% of North Americans were murdered by European settlers and their settler states and how to this day Amerikkka commits similar crimes, he has come under the attacks of both the school administration and the more fascistic white-nationalist elements of Amerikkkan SSociety.
Learn more about Ward Churchill’s case and how white fascism is attempting to discredit and silence one of the most radical voices in academia..

WARD CHURCHILL TEACH-IN: A dialogue and lecture about Ward’s case and its local and nationwide impact.

When: Tuesday, March 6, 2007 at 5 pm.

Where: CU Boulder, Benson Earth Science room 180

Who: Panel including Natsu Saito, Tom Mayer, and Benjamin Whitmer

Why: To clear up misconceptions and rumors about Ward Churchill’s case and establish a safe place for a dialogue between people involved in his case and interested students and community members.

If you support academic freedom or even if you just want to express your opinions, please come out for this event!! Free and open to the public.

Brought to you by Students and Faculty for Academic Freedom.

Turn The World Upside-Down!!

 

 

The Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement- Denver is a loosely organized local network of dedicated radicals. RAIM-Denver fights for a world free of oppression by nations over nations, groups over groups and people over people. We fight to end imperialism, national oppression, patriarchy youth and class oppression.

We fight against those with power in the interest of those with none. Smashing imperialism is the starting point for ending all oppression. We concentrate our fight against a handful of rich First World nations which live off the exploitation of the majority of peoples in the Third World.

We want to turn the world upside-down. We advocate stripping power from the oppressors and uplifting the oppressed. We advocate overthrowing amerika’s domination of the world and distributing that power amongst the community of poor nations, which make up the vast majority of the world.

The main task of RAIM-Denver is to help build a counterculture of radicalism within imperialist amerika. We use written word, speech, art and action to promote revolutionary thought and practice. We promote a social climate of radicalism as a way to combat and organize against amerika’s empire-driven oppressor culture.

We work outside of typical activist scenes to build a revolutionary undercurrent of anti-imperialism and anti-amerikanism. We intend to lay the foundation for a broad radical underground within amerika. Don’t sit there while the everything gets tipped over and smashed. Join the movement of revolutionary anti-imperialism and help turn the world upside down!

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