The Weather Underground carried out a series of illegal and symbolic attacks on property then, some 20 acts over its entire existence, and no one was killed or harmed; the goal was not to terrorize people, but to scream out the message that the US government and its military were committing acts of terrorism in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bill Ayers’
Bill Ayers, Ward Churchill speak at Colorado U
Denver Post
Ayers:
“We should always be developing a curriculum of questioning. As a teacher, your responsibility is to challenge dogma and orthodoxy, not to just accept it.”
“I don’t worry about Ward Churchill as much as I worry about the teacher in Denver who teaches social studies and can’t bring herself to raise questions because of what [...]
The real Bill Ayers
Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn spent ten years underground and did a number of bombings in opposition to the Vietnam War. It is important to realize that, no matter what you think of the bombings ethically or as a tactic, that no one was ever killed or even slightly injured by them, and [...]
Doug Henwood interviews Richard Seymour and Bill Ayers
Doug Henwood of Left Business Observer, major leftie listserv LBO-Talk, and WBAI “Behind the News” interviews “Richard Seymour, keeper of the Lenin’s Tomb blog and author of The Liberal Defense of Murder, on liberal imperialism. Bill Ayers, author of Fugitive Days and Barack Obama’s old pal, on revolution, education, and social change.”
You can get [...]
More on Bill Ayers
From Republicans for Obama: FBi Bill Ayers: funded by Republicans. Apparently the Annenberg Foundation has been hanging with terrorists too. Who knew?
The Bill Ayers I know. From a friend and colleague.
Obama didn’t lie about Bill Ayers, but McCain did
Chicago Sun Times: 10 things to know about Bill Ayers
10. Are all former alleged terrorists/radicals shunned?
No. Former [...]
Mayor Daley of Chicago has praised Ayers
WaPo. The quotes speak for themselves. Whoever Bill Ayers was then, he is not now. Like many of us forty years later.
Ayers is an informal adviser to Mayor Richard M. Daley and has been awarded more than $50 million in charitable grants for his promotion of small schools as a solution to a crisis in [...]
Obama and Bill Ayers
NY Times
[In 1996] at a luncheon meeting about school reform in a Chicago skyscraper, Barack Obama met Ayers, by then an education professor. Their paths have crossed sporadically since then, at a coffee Ayers hosted for Obama’s first run for office, on the schools project and a charitable board, and in casual encounters as Hyde [...]
Bill Ayers on his life now
Bill Ayers, former member of the Weather Underground and now a respected educator, blogs about those days, the hatred still continually directed towards him, and where he’s at now. In the recent presidential debate the moderators tried to slime Obama because he knows Ayers.
One thing most people don’t realize is that no one [...]
