Ward Churchill Solidarity Network

Ward Speaks

Sorry, Bill O’Reilly and Bill Owens, but Ward Churchill has not been silenced.   He continues to be a popular speaker on campuses around the country and in Canada. 
 
In late October, Professor Churchill was the keynote speaker at the Fifth Annual New College Conference on Racism and National Consciousness at the University of Toronto.  He also spoke at Laurentian University and the University of Sudbury in Ontario, with organizers reporting strong positive responses in both locations.  

The event at Laurentian was sponsored by the Department of Native Studies, Native Human Services, the Departments of Sociology, Political Science, Geography and Women’s Studies, the Students General Association, the Laurentian University Faculty Association, and in the community by the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty.

The Sudbury Star reported:

Be very suspicious of anyone who uses the intellectual term “post-colonial” to describe the present state of Canadian society, a prominent North American indigenous scholar and activist told a packed lecture hall at Laurentian University on Monday. . . . read more

On November 15, Ward Churchill was the keynote speaker at an enormously successful commemoration for the late Vine Deloria, Jr., organized at the University of Victoria, in British Columbia, by “indigenous and settler students across disciplines at UVIC in the spirit of academic activism and freedom.”  Despite the now-familiar attempts to subvert such gatherings, students, faculty and community activists in Victoria created a stirring tribute to Vine Deloria, Jr.’s legacy, building on Ward Churchill’s 2003 statement: “If we as a species are to have a future, much less achieve liberation from the condition imposed by the collectivity of our blinders, it is because Deloria has forced us to see things in new ways, equipping us with the minds to free ourselves from a fate that had come to seem preordained.” 

Crossing the continent to Atlanta, two weeks later Professor Churchill joined King Downing, the ACLU’s National Director of the Campaign Against Racial Profiling, in a discussion about New York City’s “hip hop police,” the surveillance of hip hop and rap artists, and current attempts to undermine a new generation of activists.   Sponsored by the Sankofa Society, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and KTM Asen, students and faculty enthusiastically embraced this exposure to aspects of their history which, for the most part, has been suppressed.

Contact wardspeaks@gmail.com if you’d like to schedule an event.