ANOTHER ACTIVIST PROFESSOR UNDER SERIOUS ATTACK

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AK Press | AK Press | February 2005

After finding himself at the center of a media firestorm–and receiving a barrage of death threats–AK Press author, Ward Churchill, has stepped down from his position as Chair of the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Colorado. Not satisfied with this, Colorado Governor Bill Owens is demanding that Ward resign his position as a tenured professor as well.
The controversy is based on an essay Ward wrote soon after 9-11, which he later expanded into an AK Press book, On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Reflections on the Consequences of U.S. Imperial Arrogance and Criminality. Conservative protestors used the essay to force Hamilton College in New York to cancel a speaking engagement Ward had scheduled there. The mainstream media (including Bill O¹Reilly and Fox News) has picked up the story, distorting and misrepresenting the facts, as usual.
AK Press wishes to voice our support for Ward in this struggle–in terms of both his well-researched analysis of factors that contributed to the 9-11 attacks and his right to express that analysis in public without having his life and livelihood threatened. We also recommend that you read On the Justice of Roosting Chickens yourself, rather than relying on the media’s version on it. Individuals can order it here:
http://www.akpress.org/2003/items/onthejusticeofroostingchickens