Ward Churchill Solidarity Network

Emergency Summit: The Latest Indian Wars; The “War on Terror” Targets Critical Thinking

Scholars and activists will gather in Lawrence, Kansas, September 29-30 to

(1) examine the targeting of Ward Churchill and other academics in the context of the national and international movements to silence and discredit scholars and activists who think critically about the manifestations of colonialism and contemporary expansions of empire;

(2) assess the impact that these attacks on scholar/activists, the disciplines of Indigenous, American Indian, African American, Latina/o, Chicana/o, Asian American, Middle Eastern and gender studies, the people of these communities, and on the next generation of intellectuals, academics, and students; and

(3) develop a plan of action to counter the attacks on the scholars who, and programs which, after much struggle have managed to make counterhegemonic perspectives accessible within mainstream education.

A tentative summit schedule is here.

Partial list of endorsers (affiliations listed for identification purposes only):

• Hatem Bazian, activist and Lecturer, Near Eastern Studies and Ethnic Studies, University of California at Berkeley
• Kathleen Cleaver, Senior Research Fellow, Emory Law School; Lecturer, African American Studies, Yale University
• Sumi Cho, Professor, DePaul University College of Law
• Noam Chomsky, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Jim Craven (Blackfoot), Professor of Economics and Chair, Business Division, Clark College
• Carrie Dann (Western Shoshone), elder and activist
• Elisa Facio, Assoc. Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado-Boulder
• Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law and Practice, Princeton University; Distinguished Visiting Professor, Univ.of California at Santa Barbara
• Julie Fishel, attorney, Western Shoshone Defense Project
• Gil Gott, Assoc. Professor and Graduate Director, International Studies, DePaul University
• Jennifer Harbury, attorney, author and human rights activist
• Evelyn Hu-Dehart, Professor of History and Director, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University
• Abdeen Jabara, civil rights attorney, past president of American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
• Moana Jackson (Maori), attorney and professor, Auckland, New Zealand
• Kevin Johnson, Assoc. Dean, University of California at Davis Law School
• Yuri Kochiyama, activist
• Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe), activist and author
• Charles Lawrence, Professor, Georgetown Law Center
• Holly Maguigan, Professor, New York University Law School
• Barbara Mann (Seneca), author and lecturer, University of Toledo
• Eric Mann, author and Director, Labor/Community Strategy Center, Los Angeles
• Mari Matsuda, Professor, Georgetown Law Center
• Dr. Russell Means, Esq., Oglala Lakota Patriot, activist, author and attorney
• Glenn T. Morris (Shawnee), Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado – Denver
• Robert Perkinson, Asst. Professor, American Studies, University of Hawai’i
• Natsu Taylor Saito, Professor, Georgia State University College of Law
• David E. Stannard, Professor of American Studies, University of Hawai’i
• Tink Tinker (Osage), Professor, Iliff Seminary
• Haunani-Kay Trask (Kanaka Maoli), Professor, Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawai’i
• Sharon Venne (Cree), attorney and author, Edmonton, Alberta
• Ling-chi Wang, Professor, Asian American & Ethnic Studies, University of California at Berkeley
• Robert A. Williams, Jr. (Lumbee), Professor, University of Arizona Law School
• Michael Yellow Bird (Arikara-Hidatsa), Assoc. Professor, Indigenous Nations Studies, University of Kansas ; Director, Center for Indigenous Peoples’ Critical and Intuitive Thinking
• Eric Yamamoto, Professor, University of Hawai’i School of Law