Ward Churchill Solidarity Network

Ward Churchill on Parallels: The Coming War at Home

Fundraiser for WBAI in NYC

Presented by WBAI 99.5fm and The New York Society for Ethical Culture

Featuring WARD CHURCHILL
Plus, Lynne Stewart, Bernard White, Amy Goodman (Invited)

Performance By M ATOU = Soni Moreno (Ulali)
Attahua Papa, Tiokasin Ghosthorse

Saturday March 31,2007
New York Society for Ethical Culture
West 64th Street at Central Park West
7 to 9 PM

Ward Churchill, author of a mountain of books on the FBI and Cointelpro, is standing at Ground Zero in a raging firestorm over academic freedom.

For more information: www.wbai.org

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.

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.

Ward Churchill On Democracy Now

Ward Churchill was interviewed by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now this morning, discussing the latest developments in his case. Audio and a transcript can be found here.

Ward Churchill vs. Sean Hannity

Video of Ward Churchill on Hannity and Colmes can be downloaded or viewed here.

Also, don’t forget to visit our extensive collection of Ward Churchill audio here.