"Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country," he said. Chicago Magazine, No Regrets, Aug 2001.
Posted on 01/26/2009 1:33:12 PM PST by Jim Robinson
"Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country," he said. Chicago Magazine, No Regrets, Aug 2001. |
Bill Ayers, a professor of education at the University of Illinois-Chicago, became a focal point of the 2008 presidential campaign. Described by Republican nominee John McCain as “a washed up terrorist,” Ayers was a prominent figure with Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground in the late 1960s and 1970s.
After spending several years living underground as the U.S. government pursued charges against him that it later dropped, Ayers went on to become one of the nation’s leading voices on education reform. He will speak to Saint Mary’s students about his new book, Teaching toward Freedom: Moral Commitment and Ethical Action in the Classroom. Sponsored by Jan Term, the Social Justice Speaker Series and the Disney Forum.
When: Wed., Jan. 28 7:30 p.m.
Where: Soda Center, Saint Mary's College, 1928 Saint Mary's Rd., Moraga
Contact: Director of Scheduling and Promotion Bill Sullivan (925) 631-4322
I’m 90% sure I’ll be there.
St. Mary’s Contacts
St. Mary’s President, Brother Ronald Gallagher, F.S.C., Ph.D.
(925) 631-4203
(925) 376-2150
Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs
Bethami Dobkin, Ph.D.
(925) 631-4408
bethami.dobkin4@stmarys-ca.edu
Office of Alumni Relations
Phone: (800) 800-ALUM
Fax: (925) 631-0764
alumni@stMarys-ca.edu
Director of Media Relations, Michael McAlpin
(925) 631-4222
mdm5@stMarys-ca.edu
Chairman Board of Trustees, James Quandt
Co-founder, Thomas James Capital Incorporated
31501 Rancho Viejo Road Suite 101
San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
Phone: 949-481-7026
Phone: 800-692-2595
Fax: 949-481-7465
Secretary to Board of Trustees [second most senior officer], Pete Kelly
Partner, Heidrick & Struggles
Phone: 310 3213220
Dear Bro. This decision is going to cost St. Mary’s a lot of money. The January Term committee in their arrogance showed no regard for the community you take up space in. Your arrogance is a bit much as well.
E-newsletter for Saint Mary’s College of California: Jan. 21, 2009
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
*GOP*Dear Members of the Saint Mary’s College Community,
You’ve likely heard that some members of our College community and some beyond are concerned with the decision to invite Professor William Ayers to campus as part of the January Term speaker series for this year’s theme of Against the Grain. I’m writing to clarify the circumstances regarding Professor Ayers selection, to share the College’s official position on the matter and to provide additional information regarding his visit.
Professor Ayers was selected by the January Term committee, a group composed primarily of faculty members, to speak about “Trudging Toward Freedom: Building a Movement and Living Our Lives for Peace and Justice.” Professor Ayer’s selection in no way constitutes an endorsement by the College of any past actions, viewpoints or political opinions. Nor is his invitation an attempt on the part of the College to honor him in any way.
Some have called on me or the College to rescind or overrule the January Term leadership’s invitation to Professor Ayers. To do so would be to undermine the educational principles and values upon which our College is based. Institutions of higher education serve society and their local communities by providing a place for opinions and ideas of all types to be examined, questioned and discussed. It is in these “academic cities” that the arts of reason and of inquiry, the fruits of the liberal arts, are brought to bear on the controversial issues of today and of all time. For students, faculty members and the public, colleges provide a special opportunity to step away from the often overheated and polarized rhetoric of contemporary culture and examine difficult and controversial issues in the somewhat cooler light of reason.
As a College with a Great Books tradition, we have a responsibility to defend the rights of those with controversial viewpoints to speak. To live up to our great tradition, we must remain an academic community where the free and open discussion of ideas, even those with which we strongly disagree, is possible.
Let me be clear, I strongly disagree with many of Professor Ayers past actions, statements and viewpoints; nevertheless, I support the January Term Committee’s right to invite him to the College, and will insist that he is treated with the respect and courtesy all of our invited academic speakers deserve. Professor Ayers has indicated that he will take questions after his address. I am certain that our students, faculty and staff members will raise probing, difficult and thoughtful questions.
While I regret that some are disappointed in the January Term’s decision to invite Professor Ayers, I am aware of the provocative conversation that the announcement of his talk has already engendered and anticipate the vigorous discourse that his remarks and visit are likely to elicit. Those who wish to protest Professor Ayers presence on campus will be given the opportunity, within reasonable limits, to do so as long as their activities do not interfere with or harm the academic work of the college or the access of students and faculty to Professor Ayers’s address.
I am also grateful for the input and engagement by many of our College constituents in this issue. Offering a forum for an exchange of diverse opinions is essential to fulfilling our mission. We are a community committed to conversations focused on essential questions, which ignite a lifelong passion for learning.
Sincerely,
Brother Ronald Gallagher, FSC
President
I need a little help with something. I had lunch today with someone who said that Obama did not launch his political career in Ayers’ living room. Where does that info come from? If it’s true that he did, I’d like to send her the proof. She also didn’t believe that that top 1% of wage earners pay 40% of all the taxes. The data to support that was pretty easy to find...I’m not sure about the Ayers thing, though.
Our recent election, and blatant campus leftism, prove that Ayers and his ilk are the new mainstream. If they really want someone controversial, how about Rush...or our own dear Jim Robinson. THAT would be controversial.
Obama once visited ‘60s radicals
(excerpt)
In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
While Ayers and Dohrn may be thought of in Hyde Park as local activists, they’re better known nationally as two of the most notorious — and unrepentant — figures from the violent fringe of the 1960s anti-war movement.
Now, as Obama runs for president, what two guests recall as an unremarkable gathering on the road to a minor elected office stands as a symbol of how swiftly he has risen from a man in the Hyde Park left to one closing in fast on the Democratic nomination for president.
“I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers’ house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,” said Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payer health care, of the informal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, Dohrn. “[Palmer] identified [Obama] as her successor.”
Obama and Palmer “were both there,” he said.
Obama’s connections to Ayers and Dorhn have been noted in some fleeting news coverage in the past. But the visit by Obama to their home — part of a campaign courtship — reflects more extensive interaction than has been previously reported.
link- http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8630.html
Would Brother Gallagher invite neo-NAZI or anti-Muslim or anti-Homosexualist speakers, in the interest of presenting different viewpoints? No? Why not? Because “controversial” viewpoints must still be politically correct, that’s why. Which renders them uncontroversial.
Chairman Board of Trustees,
James Quandt Co-founder, Thomas James Capital Incorporated
31501 Rancho Viejo Road Suite 101
San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
Phone: 949-481-7026
Phone: 800-692-2595
Fax: 949-481-7465
Please see my FR Home/About page for a ton of ammo on this revolutionary communist POS.
http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/
“Glad you’ll be there. Personally, I think Ayers and his evil ideas are probably the brains behind the empty suit.”
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I agree. This guy is making policy.
Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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"Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, referring to the Manson murders
Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09
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The Center for Public Intellectuals & The University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC)
April 19th-20th, 2002, Conference
[Participants include: William/Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Sen Barack Obama]
April 19th-20th, 2002
Chicago Illini Union
828 S. Wolcott
This conference is part of the Center's mission of helping to create a more engaged civil society, working towards social change, fostering coalitions between theorists and activists, and combating anti-intellectualism in contemporary culture. It will be both a celebration of ideas and a rigorous examination of the roles and responsibilities that intellectuals play in society.
I. Why Do Ideas Matter? (a keynote panel)
We introduce the “meta” theme of the conference by hearing “success stories” from diverse voices discussing their experiences intervening intellectually.
Timuel Black, Chicago activist; Prof. Emeritus, City Colleges of Chicago
Lonnie Bunch, President, Chicago Historical Society
Bernardine Dohrn, Northwestern University Law School, Children and Family Justice Center
Gerald Graff, UIC, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Richard Rorty, Stanford University, Philosophy
III. Lunch and Public Encounters
Alternative breakout tours led by Chicago activists. Tours of Bronzeville and other communities, and visits to organizations that are working on partnering theorists with activists.
IV. Intellectuals in Times of Crisis
Experiences and applications of intellectual work in urgent situations.
William Ayers, UIC, College of Education; author of Fugitive Days
Douglass Cassel, Northwestern University, Center for International Human Rights
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago, Political Science
Salim Muwakkil, Chicago Tribune; In These Times
Barack Obama, Illinois State Senator
Barbara Ransby, UIC, African-American Studies (moderator)
The Center for Public Intellectuals
University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC):
http://www.uic.edu/classes/las/las400/conferencealt.htm
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From American Thinker, September 16, 2008
Article: Obama's Foul Weather Friends
By Scott Swett and Roger Canfield
"As a gesture of solidarity, the Vietnamese who [Bernardine] Dohrn met in Budapest presented her with a ring made from an American aircraft shot down over North Vietnam. Bill Ayers would receive a similar ring while meeting with Vietnamese communists in Toronto. He later recalled being so moved by the gesture that he 'left the room to cry.' He said, 'I realized...America was an evil... and that I was... living inside the belly of the beast...' "
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/obamas_foul_weather_friends.html
Conservative Protest Against Domestic Terrorist Begins Wednesday!Note the bolded area.
Written by Melanie Morgan Monday, 26 January 2009 A late afternoon meeting between St. Mary's College officials in Moraga, Calif. resulted in a negotiated access settlement, but no "diss-invitation" of sixties radical underground former Weatherman Bill Ayers.
"Simple Justice, Not Social Justice" coalition consisting of Move America Forward, Contra Costa County Republicans,Patriot Guard Riders, San Francisco College Republicans, KSFO radio listeners and St. Mary's students and alumn are preparing for a sixties style teach-in during the day on the secluded East Bay campus.
Larry Grathwohl, a former FBI informant who penetrated the Weather Underground at the time the group attempted three mass murders, will try to confront domestic terrorist (and Obama family friend) Bill Ayers at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, CA on January 28.
Grathwohl will be a featured speaker at a protest against Ayers organized by Move America Forward.Ayers is presently on a book tour promoting a book on "social justice" that more than likely skips over how must justice can be found in the elimination of 25 million in concentration camps once hoped for by the leadership of the Weather Underground.
The protest rally begins at 6:00 in the evening, but protestors are encouraged to come earlier for TV live shots.
The university is not reversing course despite intense lobbying by thousands of citizens from across the Bay, and around the country.
The coalition is pleased to announce, however, that we will have unfettered access to the front of the Soda Center where Bill Ayers will be speaking 48 hours from now.
Bring your flags, signs, kids, grandma and grandpa - wear your love of our great country for everyone to see!
Go to our protest website for details, maps, times and directions.
I have been invited to appear on the Fox News Network with Bill O'Reilly to discuss the protest action tomorrow night. Check your local listings.
Let's show St. Mary's that we do not support radical activist bombers - no matter which decade in which they operate.
Melanie Morgan will be on O'Reilly's show tomorrow nite on The Fox News Network.
For those of you in the Nothern California Area it will probably air at 5PM and repeated at 8.
Ask Ayers how many police his wife and movement slut Bernadine Dohrn, killed while in the Weather Underground.
That should get a reaction.
Or, ask him who funded his wife’s many trips to communist countries (Cuba, No. Vietnam, Soviet Union, etc) during her illustrious career as a traitor.
Ask Ayers how many police his wife and movement slut Bernadine Dohrn, killed while in the Weather Underground.
That should get a reaction.
Or, ask him who funded his wife’s many trips to communist countries (Cuba, No. Vietnam, Soviet Union, etc) during her illustrious career as a traitor.
Ayers ghost wrote all Hussein Obama’s books. I theenk!
Ayers ghost wrote all Hussein Obama’s books. I theenk!
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