[News] Ward Churchill Sets the Record Straight! March 25, SF

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Friday, March 25th - 7 PM  - $10
AK Press, KPFA, Speak Out, and City Lights present:
Ward Churchill - On the Justice of Roosting Chickens
Empire, Resistance, and the New McCarthyism
AN OFFSITE EVENT - AT THE WOMEN'S BUILDING in San Francisco
3543 18th St., San Francisco, CA

Limited Seating Available
Advance tickets are available at http://www.akpress.org/ or by calling 
510.208.1700

Over the past month, author, activist and professor Ward Churchill has 
found himself at the center of a media firestorm. The controversy is based 
on an essay Churchill 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. Using inflammatory 
and distorted political attacks conservative protestors used the essay to 
force Hamilton College in New York to cancel a speaking engagement Ward had 
scheduled there.  Since then Mr. Churchill has stepped down 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 mainstream media (including 
Bill O'Reily and Fox News) has picked up the story, distorting and 
misrepresenting the facts, as usual.

Ward is appearing at select events to speak on the book that caused the 
media firestorm and the controversy surrounding it.  Friday, March 25th at 
the Women's Building in San Francisco, hear it straight from him, as Ward 
Churchill sets the record straight.

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About the book: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Reflections on the 
Consequences of U.S. Imperial Arrogance and Criminality (AK Press ): the 
book that caused a media firestorm.  An expanded and meticulously annotated 
version of Churchill's essay "Some People Push Back: On the Justice of 
Roosting Chickens," which had the honor of being attacked by both Bill 
O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh.

As far as Ward Churchill is concerned, the record speaks for itself. The 
"Most Peace-Loving of Nations" has been engaged in brutal military 
campaigns in every corner of the globe, unceasingly, since its inception. 
In attempting to forever alter Americans false self-concept, Ward Churchill 
contextualizes US aggression and the most effective response to it yet--the 
attacks of Sept. 11th-in a readable format. Churchill has meticulously 
chronicled both U.S. military campaigns-domestic and foreign-from 1776 to 
the present and U.S. attempts to violate, obstruct and/or subvert 
International Law from from1945 to the present. Drawing from US military 
and interventionist history, lessons from Nuremberg and the UN's own voting 
records, the two Chronologies, exhaustively researched and annotated, 
illustrate a heart-wrenching history of senseless butchery and democracy 
deterred. In this context, the only fitting question for a nation still 
reeling from the wake-up call of Sept. 11th is "How can they not hate us?" 
In his newest offering, Churchill demands that the American public shake 
off its collective unconscious and take responsibility for the criminality 
carried out in its name.

Ward Churchill (Keetoowah Cherokee) is professor of American Indian Studies 
at the University of Colorado/Boulder. A member of the leadership council 
of Colorado AIM (American Indian Movement), he is a past national 
spokesperson for the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee. A prolific writer 
and lecturer, he has authored, co-authored or edited more than 20 books and 
4 AK Press Audio CD's.
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Other AK Press events in March:
Thursday, March 3rd - Against the Empire: A Night of Radical Folk Legends
Friday, March 18th - The Abolition of White Democracy with Joel Olson

You can check out details at http://akpress.org/events/event2

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