Behind the Annenberg Gate: Inside the Chicago Annenberg Challenge Records (Obama and Ayers)

Global Labor and Politics ^ | 8/20/2008 | Steve Diamond

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Inside the Chicago Annenberg Challenge for a Closer Look

As Global Labor readers are now aware, the University of Illinois is blocking access to the records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, an Illinois non profit corporation, established in 1995.

However, several months ago I was able to obtain key records of the Challenge - including board minutes, annual and semi-annual reports and financial records - from Brown University's Annenberg Institute, which housed the national Annenberg Challenge program that was set up in 1993 by a gift of $500 million from Walter Annenberg.

Below is an analysis of what I found in those documents. They evidence

the leading role that Bill Ayers played in the Annenberg Challenge;

the equally important role played by Barack Obama; and

the intensely political nature of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.

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If this story get out, it might be the tipping point that ends any chance of Obama getting elected.

[AbeKrieger]

If this story get out, it might be the tipping point that ends any chance of Obama getting elected.

Oh, Denver. Denver, Denver, Denver. The Whole World's Watching.

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"The first chairman of the CAC Board was Barack Obama, at that point, 33 years old and a third year associate at Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a small Chicago law firm....

The co-chair of the CAC’s Collaborative from 1995 until 2000 was Bill Ayers. In 1997 Ayers was named Chicago's "Citizen of the Year" for his work on the CAC.

Thus, the leaders of the two operative arms of the CAC from its inception until 2000 were Bill Ayers and Barack Obama."

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The Center for Public Intellectuals & The University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC)
April 19th-20th, 2002, Conference
[Participants include: William/Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Sen Barack Obama]
http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl

For much more on the ObamaRats and the strong communist angle in all this, i.e. the one being largely ignored by both the left AND most of the right-wing media, particularly the more popular personalities like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingram, Bill O'Reilly, etc, please check out my FR Home page. Thanks.
http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl

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tipping point bump

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bump for later

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*thump* *thump* Obama is getting quartered..lol

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And BObama stated he’s just a “guy who lives in my neighborhood”.

BO is a liar.

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Oh, Denver. Denver, Denver, Denver. The Whole World's Watching.

"As the presidential conventions near, more and more discussion is focused on the DNC of 1968. Some say...

The Mood of '68 is Reviving..."

http://www.recreate68.us/

http://www.recreate68.com/

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Chicago Seven

"The Chicago Seven were seven (originally eight, when they were known as the Chicago Eight) defendants charged with conspiracy, inciting to riot, and other charges related to protests that took place in Chicago, Illinois on the occasion of the 1968 Democratic National Convention."

1968 poster

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I suspect Obama was able to procure money from the fund for his associates. Also, did the donor of these documents receive a federal tax credit? If so, if the documents are returned is the credit returned also?

I’m sure the documents show that there was a close working relationship between Ayers and Obama, esp if involved obtaining other people’s money.

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During the tenure of the Obama-Ayers years at Annenberg they worked together to funnel millions in grant money to “Local School Counsels,” or LSCs.

These LSCs were Ayers’ brainchild, and were designed to impose communist control of the classroom:

“Thus, it is not a surprise...that Bill Ayers has traveled several times in recent years to Venezuela where he has spoken in front of Hugo Chavez and has enthusiastically applauded that regime’s efforts to link education policy to the Chavez “revolution.”

Obama did not just work closely with Ayers, he supported his communist agenda.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization)

The Weathermen were initially part of the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) within the SDS, splitting from the RYM's Maoists by claiming there was no time to build a vanguard party and that revolutionary war against the United States government and the capitalist system should begin immediately. Their founding document called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."

The group's first public demonstration:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Rage

The Days of Rage riots in Chicago took place over a 4-day period beginning October 8, 1969, after members of the Weathermen, a militant offshoot of the Students for a Democratic Society, converged on the city to confront police in the streets in response to the trial of the group of anti-Vietnam War activists known as the "Chicago Eight".

Also good to read up on this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Left

Criticism of the legacy
As many of those who supported the New Left in the 1960s are now in charge of the kinds of institutions they once opposed, conservative opponents argue that their assumptions - which are sometimes described as politically correct multiculturalism - are now the establishment orthodoxy. In what has been described as the culture wars, conservative critics of this orthodoxy such as Allan Bloom and Roger Scruton assert that New Left radical egalitarianism is motivated by anti-Western nihilism.

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Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."

So Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn's Weather Underground (aka The Weathermen, or Weatherman), are actually allied with Reverend Wright's Black Liberation Movement. Both were/are revolutionary communist in nature. Yet that dope Sean Hannity NEVER wants to get in to these sorts of 'minor' details.

Another sick individual with a similar plan was Charles Manson. His 'Helter Skelter' was about setting off a race-based revolutionary overthrow of the American government. In fact, Manson was actually an idol of Bill Ayers' co-revolutionary/"domestic terrorist" wife, Bernardine Dohrn.

Allies in War
By David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001:

ON THE MORNING OF THE ATTACKS on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, along with a million other readers of the New York Times including many who would never be able to read the paper again, I opened its pages to be confronted by a color photo showing a middle-aged couple holding hands and affecting a defiant look at the camera. The article was headlined in an irony that could not have been more poignant, "No Regrets For A Love Of Explosives."

The couple pictured were Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, former leaders of the 1960s’ Weather Underground, America’s first terrorist cult. One of their bombing targets, as it happened, was the Pentagon.

"I don’t regret setting bombs," Ayers was quoted in the opening line of the Times profile; "I feel we didn’t do enough."

In 1969, Ayers and his wife convened a "War Council" in Flint Michigan, whose purpose was to launch a military front inside the United States with the purpose of helping Third World revolutionaries conquer and destroy it.

Taking charge of the podium, dressed in high-heeled boots and a leather mini-skirt – her signature uniform – Dorhn incited the assembled radicals to join the war against "Amerikkka" and create chaos and destruction in the "belly of the beast."

Her voice rising to a fevered pitch, Dohrn raised three fingers in a "fork salute" to mass murderer Charles Manson whom she proposed as a symbol to her troops. Referring to the helpless victims of the Manson Family as the "Tate Eight" (the most famous was actress Sharon Tate) Dohrn shouted:

"Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"

(big snip)

Today William Ayers is not merely an author favored by the New York Times, but a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

His Lady Macbeth [Bernardine Dohrn] is not merely a lawyer, but a member of the American Bar Association’s governing elite, as well as the director of Northwestern University’s Children and Family Justice Center.
[it's true! see: http://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/profiles/BernardineDohrn/]

Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09

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When I did a google search I got this name many times.

Alexander Russo

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/thisweekineducation/2007/03/obama_and_annenberg.html

Disgruntled Teachers Union in District 299 Chicago.
http://district299.typepad.com/district299/2007/03/did_obama_reall.html

Other Articles of interest?

http://www.slate.com/id/2188010

http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/07/wither-teachers-unions-obamaayers-link.html

http://theunionnews.blogspot.com/2008_05_16_archive.html

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Man Oh Man !!!Hillarhea’s been gettin’ her money’s worth outa somebody!!!!!

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What a homepage, Wow!
Love hearing Jimmy from Brooklyn.
Welcome to FReeRepublic.

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Hannity covering this now!

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Interesting.

Another name that comes up often is Linda Darling-Hammond, Obama’s education adviser.

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What a homepage, Wow! Love hearing Jimmy from Brooklyn. Welcome to FReeRepublic.

Thanks x 3! Unfortunately, Jimmy doesn't own or know how to operate a computer, or else he could put together one hell of a blog. He has little patience for understanding electronic gadgets. Yet I don't know 1/100th of what he does about the commie left, particularly on the international front. In any case, we basically do our own thing without too much collaboration, although he totally motivated me to look into these things further myself, once I finally got around to getting a computer around 4 years ago. He does it *without* the help of a computer! Anyway, I'll tell him what you said. I know he will greatly appreciate it.

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So Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn's Weather Underground (aka The Weathermen, or Weatherman), are actually allied with Reverend Wright's Black Liberation Movement. Both were/are revolutionary communist in nature. Yet that dope Sean Hannity NEVER wants to get in to these sorts of 'minor' details.

Yep and the Weathermen were upper class brats who got rebellion. Same as the Yippies.

It wasn't called radical chic for nothing.

I watched a period made documentary about the Weathermen (interviews with them while they were still on the run for the bombings they'd done).

The ties between their "insurgency" militia and the Black Liberation Movement are well known. I watched the film so I could get my own "education" on Bill Ayers' fellow travellers.

These quotes I cited from wiki were very concise and offered a nice summation.

Wikipedia is not usual for a whole lot but in brevity, it can still address the basics.

That weathermen underground documentary (from 1975?) is available from Netflix and was made by a friendly filmmaker so they can't proclaim that they were "taken out of context".

Yes, there has been too much media blackout on just how violent and radical the "new left" was in the 1960s and 1970s. THOSE are the people running the DNC these days. And they are mobilized like they were then. Get ready for the flash mob phone list when the useful idiots sign up for Obama's "texting" announcement of the VP nominee.