Close-up on juvenile justice (Golden Oldie Obama / Ayres)

University of Chicago ^ | 9/6/1997 | Jennifer Vanasco

[BigEdLB]

(Golden Oldie HT Matt Drudge)

William Ayers, author of A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court (Beacon Press, 1997), says "We should call a child a child. A 13-year-old who picks up a gun isn't suddenly an adult. We have to ask other questions: How did he get the gun? Where did it come from?"

Ayers, who spent a year observing the Cook County Temporary Juvenile Detention Center in Chicago, is one of four panelists who will speak on juvenile justice at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, in the C-Shop. The panel, which marks the 100th anniversary of the juvenile justice system in the United States, is part of the Community Service Center's monthly discussion series on issues affecting the city of Chicago. The event is free and open to the public.

Ayers will be joined by Sen. Barack Obama, Senior Lecturer in the Law School, who is working to combat legislation that would put more juvenile offenders into the adult system; Randolph Stone, Director of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic; Alex Correa, a reformed juvenile offender who spent seven years in Cook County Temporary Detention Center; Frank Tobin, a former priest and teacher at the Detention Center who helped Correa; and Willy Baldwin, who grew up in public housing and is currently a teacher at the Detention Center.

[BigEdLB]

Thank you Matt Drudge for finding this... GET THE WORD OUT!

[unspun]

For insight into the Obama-Ayers relationship, one has to understand the goal of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. And it took Jon Voight on the Huckabee show last night to give us the point:

The essential goal of Barack Obama's collaboration with William Ayers in the CAC was to test for effective ways of radicalizing public school children, using the inner city Chicago schools as a test bed.

It was not about the three R's. Radicalizing schoolkids (especially black kids) was their R.

Please tell it how it is, conservative media.

[buridan]

This is important! Because Michelle Obama was Director of the University Community Service Center, the sponsor of the panel, she very likely invited Ayres, probably because the families were close after Obama’s work with Ayres on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge program. Again, Michelle Obama very likely invited Ayres, perhaps at her husband’s suggestion.

[stylin19a]

Plus...look who set it up...yet nobody knows nobody

"Michelle Obama, Associate Dean of Student Services and Director of the University Community Service Center, hopes bringing issues like this to campus will open a dialogue between members of the University community and the broader community."

Another coincidence.

[Texas4ever]

but I was only 8, I was only 8....Im tall....and my father he is from Kenay...we are tall...I mean they are, because I am totally “American”

but I was only 8 ask my cousin Odinga...shoot..look hes not really my cousin...well he is but I dont know him

ask my pastor Rev. Wrighhhhhhhhhhtttt....uh look I unequibocly...i say that because I am 8...i dont know him...i sat in the pew with my fingers in my ears....

I usually didnt even go to church ask my mentor and advisor
uh..Frank...no no....Kuwam....no uh...

I was 8 damn it!

[Williams]

I woulden’t vote for Obama just because he wanted to prevent trying juvenile murderers as adults!

Folks, Obama is an avowed enemy of law enforcement. He is going to give felons the vote and he supports every pro criminal measure you can think of.

Go back to his “race speech” in which he identified whites fearing crime as racism and ultimately the result of corporate manipulation. This guy is left wing hell.

[weegee]

"We should call a child a child. A 13-year-old who picks up a gun isn't suddenly an adult. We have to ask other questions: How did he get the gun? Where did it come from?"

And what of the young adult just out of college who learns to build bombs and that manages to acquire munitions while hiding from police in an array of safehouses?

[weegee]

Only Obama could defend the actions of the Weather Underground (who have ENDORSED him in 2008) while at the same time pushing to grab the guns of Americans who have committed no crimes against the state.

[TexasCajun]

Author Jack Cashill wrote on World Net Daily that he believes William Ayers wrote both of Obamah’s books for him.

[EdReform]

"Ayers...is one of four panelists who will speak on juvenile justice at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, in the C-Shop... Ayers will be joined by Sen. Barack Obama, Senior Lecturer in the Law School..."

[ETL]

From American Thinker, September 16, 2008
Article: Obama's Foul Weather Friends
By Scott Swett and Roger Canfield

"As a gesture of solidarity, the Vietnamese who [Bernardine] Dohrn met in Budapest presented her with a ring made from an American aircraft shot down over North Vietnam. Bill Ayers would receive a similar ring while meeting with Vietnamese communists in Toronto. He later recalled being so moved by the gesture that he 'left the room to cry.' He said, 'I realized...America was an evil... and that I was... living inside the belly of the beast...' "

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/obamas_foul_weather_friends.html

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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]

April 19th-20th, 2002
Chicago Illini Union
828 S. Wolcott

This conference is part of the Center's mission of helping to create a more engaged civil society, working towards social change, fostering coalitions between theorists and activists, and combating anti-intellectualism in contemporary culture. It will be both a celebration of ideas and a rigorous examination of the roles and responsibilities that intellectuals play in society.

I. Why Do Ideas Matter? (a keynote panel)

We introduce the “meta” theme of the conference by hearing “success stories” from diverse voices discussing their experiences intervening intellectually.

Timuel Black, Chicago activist; Prof. Emeritus, City Colleges of Chicago
Lonnie Bunch, President, Chicago Historical Society
Bernardine Dohrn, Northwestern University Law School, Children and Family Justice Center
Gerald Graff, UIC, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Richard Rorty, Stanford University, Philosophy

III. Lunch and Public Encounters

Alternative breakout tours led by Chicago activists. Tours of Bronzeville and other communities, and visits to organizations that are working on partnering theorists with activists.

IV. Intellectuals in Times of Crisis
Experiences and applications of intellectual work in urgent situations.

William Ayers, UIC, College of Education; author of Fugitive Days
Douglass Cassel, Northwestern University, Center for International Human Rights
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago, Political Science
Salim Muwakkil, Chicago Tribune; In These Times
Barack Obama, Illinois State Senator
Barbara Ransby, UIC, African-American Studies (moderator)

The Center for Public Intellectuals
University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC):
http://www.uic.edu/classes/las/las400/conferencealt.htm

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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."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410

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From the New York Times, August 24, 2003

"they [the Weather Underground] employed revolutionary jargon, advocated armed struggle and black liberation and began bombing buildings, taking responsibility for at least 20 attacks. Estimates of their number ranged at times from several dozen to several hundred."

Article: Quieter Lives for 60's Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn't Faded
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E4DE1539F937A1575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2