Ward Churchill Solidarity Network

Ward Speaks Again … To an Enthusiastic Crowd, Despite Paid Provocateurs

Students at the University of Colorado – whose tuition dollars pay his salary – may not get to take classes from Professor Churchill, but students around the U.S. and Canada are flocking to hear him speak.

After rousing talks at a rally for political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal in Philadelphia and an evening of solidarity with attorney Lynne Stewart in New York City on December 9, Ward Churchill spoke at the New School on December 11.

As reported by the New York Sun:

An ethnic studies professor from the University of Colorado, Ward Churchill, received a standing ovation last night from a crowd of more than 200 New School students after blaming the 2001 World Trade Center attacks on America’s support of Israel and its sanctions against Iraq in 1996.

In a two-hour speech at the New School titled “Sterilizing History: The Fabrication of Innocent Americans,” delivered without notes, Mr. Churchill traced what he called a pattern of mass murder as American foreign policy from the time of the country’s inception to the events of September 11, 2001. . . . read more.

Sponsored by the Women of Color student organization, the event was packed and over 100 people were turned away for lack of space. As usual, the crowd included a few provocateurs – in this case, solicited by Grant Crowell, who claims to be making a “documentary” and who recruited on craigslist, offering payment for illicit recordings and for asking pre-scripted questions. For details, see here.

Professor Churchill’s New School talk, preceded by a prayer and songs by Tiokasin Ghosthorse of First Voices Indigenous Radio, was recorded in full (with permission) by WBAI radio, and can also be heard here.