Devastating Video, Obama talks about job Ayers gave him(Authors spelling :) )

nakedemperornews.com ^ | 9/14/2008 | nakedemperornews

[Danae]

Video of Obama in his own words from various interviews regarding Chicago Annenburg Challenge and who hired him. Bill Ayers, infact, Ayers built the foundation with a 50 Mill grant then hired Obama, the ACORN community Organization attorney (Obama) to run it. It was one of his only job resume points he pointed to while running for US Senate.

[Danae]

Needs to go Viral

[cw35]

He mentions Ayers?

[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 experiment in various methods to radicalize 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.

[popdonnelly]

So the old terrorist radical, Ayers, gets a grant from the Annanberg Foundation to radicalize Chicago youth. That foundation is evidently run by a bunch of left wingers.

[dcgard]

The video’s not devastating, what is devastating is the text that is edited into the video. The vid was poorly put together IMO.

[Fox_Mulder77]

Was that “Planet of the Apes” soundtrack music in the background?!? LOLOL!!

[Right Wing Assault]

This is a let-down. I thought he was going to say Ayers gave him the job. He just talks about the job and what he did. It’s all already out there.

[Rudder]

Ayers gave Obama a job. WHEN?

[Future Snake Eater]

Agreed. Hire a better editor and start over. Otherwise, some good points made. Don’t know if I would call it “devastating,” though.

[Canedawg]

Not every piece of evidence will be a smoking gun. Sometimes it is circumstantial evidence that requires connecting of the dots, and making a reasonable deduction.

[stubernx98]

“So the old terrorist radical, Ayers, gets a grant from the Annanberg Foundation to radicalize Chicago youth. That foundation is evidently run by a bunch of left wingers.”

Guess who funds Factcheck.

[ETL]

"This is a guy [Bill Ayers] who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis."

Source: ABC News - Transcript: Obama and Clinton Debate, April 16, 2008
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/DemocraticDebate/Story?id=4670271&page=2

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[Obama] is named Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge founded by Bill Ayers
(article typo has Ayers instead of Obama)

In late 1993, Bill Ayers, now an associate professor of education at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus, organized a team to put together a grant proposal to secure nearly $50 million from the Annenberg Challenge. The money was to be used by Ayers and co. to bolster the radical Local School Councils reform project that Ayers and Obama had championed back in 1988 through the ABCs.

The grant application was successful and in early 1995 Barack Obama was named chairman of the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Ayers was named co-chair of the Challenge’s operative and strategic body, the Chicago School Reform Collaborative. Ayers and Obama work together for the next five years on raising an additional $60 million in matching money from local foundations and corporations and using the money to intervene in the governance of the Chicago public schools.

The Challenge through a multi-million dollar Leadership Development Initiative intervened in the School Council elections in the middle of what was known as the Chicago School Wars. At the same time Chicago Mayor Richard Daley was pushing, successfully, to gut the power of the Councils.

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/08/12/the-obama-ayers-top-ten-highlights-of-the-20-year-obama-ayers-connection/

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"The Small Schools Workshop was founded in 1991 at the University of Illinois at Chicago to provide support for teachers who were trying to create new smaller learning environments. Its director is Michael Klonsky, a former professor of education at UIC."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Schools_Workshop

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Some background on Bill Ayers' SDS comrade, Michael Klonsky
(Chicago Annenberg Challenge-related)

"One of Bill Ayers’ and Bernardine Dohrn’s comrades in the late 60s Students for a Democratic Society was Mike Klonsky. When Dohrn and Ayers moved in one direction toward the violent tactics of the Weather Underground, Klonsky, in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, dropped the pro-Russian communist politics of his parents and became a committed Maoist. As leader of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) in 1977 [not to be confused with Communist Party USA. CPML no longer exists, CPUSA formed decades earlier and is still around-ETL], he travelled to Beijing and was toasted by the senior Beijing leadership.

When the crazy left of the 70s died in the 80s, Klonsky went to graduate school in education in Florida and then moved to Chicago.

While driving a cab there he [Michael Klonsky] was recruited by his old friend Bill Ayers to head up a new project called the Small Schools Workshop in 1991. It’s offices were in the Department of Education building at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus where Ayers taught.

In 1995 the newly formed Chicago Annenberg Challenge headed by Ayers and Obama gave the Workshop a grant of $175,000.

The Annenberg Challenge also had its office space in the same building as Ayers Department and the Workshop, rent free courtesy of the University.

In 2008 Klonsky ran a blog on the official Obama campaign website on education policy and “social justice” teaching. When discussion of the Klonsky blog emerged in the blogosphere, it was promptly shut down by the campaign and all of the posts made by Klonsky were removed from the site."

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/08/12/the-obama-ayers-top-ten-highlights-of-the-20-year-obama-ayers-connection/

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In 1977, the October League was reorganized as the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) [again, not Communist Party USA (CPUSA) -ETL] and former SDS activist Michael Klonsky became party chairman. Also in 1977, Klonsky traveled to China and the CPML was recognized by the Chinese Communist Party as its official sister party in America.

(snip)

In January 1981, Michael Klonsky resigned as party chairman, and the CPML disbanded that same year.

The previous Red Encyclopedia description of the CPML was incorrectly combined with that of the Communist Party USA (Marxist-Leninist).

http://reds.linefeed.org/past.html

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From Investor's Business Daily (IBD), August 27, 2008:

"Ayers, now a tenured distinguished professor of education at UIC, works to educate teachers in socialist revolutionary ideology, urging that it be passed on to impressionable students.

One of Ayer's descriptions for a course called 'Improving Learning Environments' says prospective K-12 teachers need to 'be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and ... be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, teaching for social justice and liberation.

The Annenberg papers are quite extensive — 132 boxes containing 947 file folders with 70 linear feet of material. They undoubtedly contain more surprises regarding Obama's relationship with Ayers, one of many relationships Obama has sought to hide.'..."

Article: Annenberg Papers: Putting On Ayers?
http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=304729375940845

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From Sept 11, 2001, New York Times article/interview with Obama associate and friend, William/Bill Ayers.
Article title: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"

"Mr. Ayers, who in 1970 was said to have summed up the Weatherman philosophy as:

'Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at,' is today distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

New York Times, September 11, 2001:
"No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

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Bill Ayers TODAY (April 6, 2008), from his own red communist star-headed website, begging to debate communism vs capitalism with Sean Hannity and STILL calling for revolution!

"Imperialism. I’m against it, and if Sean Hannity and others were honest, this is the ground they would fight me on. Capitalism played its role historically and is exhausted as a force for progress: built on exploitation, theft, conquest, war, and racism, capitalism and imperialism must be defeated and a world revolution—a revolution against war and racism and materialism, a revolution based on human solidarity and love, cooperation and the common good —must win.

We begin by releasing our most hopeful dreams and our most radical imaginations: a better world is both possible and necessary.

Source: Bill Ayers' own website:
http://billayers.wordpress.com/2008/04/page/2/

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Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA [Maoist]
Revolution #63, October 1, 2006

Interview with Bill Ayers:
"On Progressive Education, Critical Thinking and the Cowardice of Some in Dangerous Times"
http://rwor.org/a/063/ayers-en.html

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Much more on the ObamaRat-commie connections at my FR Home/About page. Everything there is linked directly to its source. I've now added within-page links and a 'clickable' table of contents which makes it easy to hop around to the various sections:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl

[prolifefirst]

(We pray it’s) a devasting video.

[ckilmer]

From the National Review

Open this link to see a brilliant diagram of all of ACORN's work, and the Senators and presidential candidates who make it happen. Dodd, Frank, Schumer, and of course Barack Obama are stuck in the swamp of self-dealing, corruption, and politicial machinations, all masquerading as social justice and cheap real estate for the poor, at quite large taxpayer expense. This is a savvy Democrat web site. Follow the link for a really astonishing set of Democratic web sites which compete with each other in their exposition of Obama's perfidies, corruptions, and non-messianic attributes. Remember — former libs are much better at political knife fighting than those whose first instincts are, and remain, conservative.

[ETL]

This 6-part video of last night's Hannity's America is far more devastating...

Obama & Friends: History of Radicalism:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9F8A48061A962CDD

[Danae]

Ayers created the CAC to give Obama the Chairmanship. Not the other way around.

[TruthWillWin]

Yep. I thought the video would show Obama saying Ayers hired him. It did not.

[Semper911]

Hardly devasting.

[maggief]

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SCHOOL REFORMERS GETTING WISH - UNITY, COMMITMENT LED TO $49.2 MILLION GIFT
Chicago Tribune - January 23, 1995
Author: Charles Storch, Tribune Staff Writer.

EXCERPT

(Theodore Sizer, director of Annenberg’s institute) Sizer also is the founder and chairman of the Coalition of Essential Schools, also at Brown. For the last decade, the coalition has provided technical support to and forged alliances among urban high schools involved in restructuring. The coalition has been active in Chicago since 1988.

That Annenberg decided to work with the coalition in establishing his program was encouraging to William Ayers , associate professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago . Ayers also is a leader of the Small Schools Workshop, which helps Chicago schools and teachers improve instruction.

“Here’s Annenberg , a very successful, national public citizen,” Ayers said. “He could have given his money to so-called reform projects, like privatized schools in public systems or vouchers. But he picked the coalition, which has a strong record turning around urban high schools.”

Last January, Ayers and Anne Hallett, executive director of the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform, began contacting local educators, school-system officials, politicians, foundation executives, teachers union leaders and community activists about the Annenberg Challenge . With Warren Chapman, a program officer for the Joyce Foundation, Ayers and Hallett assembled a group of about 30 people to write a proposal, with 70 more providing counsel.

After months of revisions and meetings with other interested parties, the group submitted its proposal to Annenberg ‘s advisers in November. The proposal was approved this month.

The proposal envisions as many as 150 schools working in concert with outside organizations to reduce class size and increase lesson-preparation time for teachers.

Sizer said he and other Annenberg advisers were impressed that many different organizations in Chicago coalesced around the grant proposal.

(snip)

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A BOOSTER SHOT FOR CHICAGO ‘S PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Chicago Tribune - January 31, 1995
Author: William Ayers , Warren Chapman and Anne Hallett . ; The writers are the authors of the city’s proposal to the Annenberg Foundation. William Ayers is a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago ; Warren Chapman is a program officer at the Joyce Foundation; and Anne Hallett is the executive director of the Cross-City Campaign for Urban School Reform

(snip)

The Chicago Challenge is the work of the Chicago School Reform Collaborative, a broad-based group of parents, teachers, citizens and reformers. The theme of the challenge rests on four legs: the professional development and empowerment of teachers; the reorganization of schools into smaller learning environments; community-school partnerships; and system-wide change

In order to improve teaching we need to rethink and reorganize the way teachers use their time to think and plan. We also need to address the unworkable size of large schools and classrooms.

The Annenberg Challenge is designed so that money goes directly to schools working with community partners. The reinvented schools we envision will be places that provide a personalized, more intense and flexible learning experience for students. They will be sites where teachers have the time, authority and encouragement to think and reflect, in essence where they are expected to take risks and get smart.

There will, of course, be failure as well as success. The only intolerable response is to fail to reach, because business-as-usual will result in failure-as-always.

Chicago is several years into the most dramatic and far-reaching reform ever attempted in a big-city school system. Every school now has a democratically-elected local school council made up of parents, teachers and community members who have the the authority to hire and evaluate principals, set school policy, develop and monitor a school improvement plan and approve the school budget. In other words, the councils can initiate many changes without having to ask permission.

Reform has meant that funds earmarked for poor children now flow directly to schools-$440,000 per elementary school on average and $850,000 per high school. Many of the councils have spent these discretionary monies wisely: They have hired more than 3,000 new teachers, brought large numbers of parents and community residents into schools to work with students, purchased needed books and material and strengthened school security.

On the negative ledger, test scores and student achievement in the aggregate remain few. It is important to note that in a massive system that spends more than $250 million a year in discretionary money, $10 million a year for five years will not produce miracles. Further Chicago faces a $300 million budget deficit and the Annenberg funds do not address that problem in any way.

Still Chicago reform unleashed enormous civic energy around education that is paying off. Foundation and corporate grants to improve public education have quadrupled in six years. A strong and growing infrastructure of resources to support schools has been created by community groups, neighborhood organizations, civic agencies, business associations and universities. New ideas and fresh air have flowed freely into our schools.

(snip)

[ETL]

"It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that Obama, then an up-and-coming 'community organizer,' had his political coming out party in 1995. Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World — where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working 'only to educate' — both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers."
Article: The Company He Keeps:
Meet Obama’s circle: The same old America-hating Left
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=&w=MA==

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From WorldNetDaily:
Obama was a director of the Woods Fund board from 1999 to Dec. 11, 2002, according to the Fund's website. Obama served on the board with [Bill] Ayers, who was a Weathermen leader and has written about his involvement with the group's bombings of the New York City Police headquarters in 1970, the Capitol in 1971 and the Pentagon in 1972.
Article: Obama worked with terrorist
Senator helped fund organization that rejects 'racist' Israel's existence:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=57231

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"They're certainly friendly" -quote from 'Obama's chief strategist (and reigning expert on Chicago's political tribes), David Axelrod,' on the Bill Ayers, Obama relationship.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Ax_on_Ayers.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

[maggief]

Ping ... see my post #19.

http://www.muckety.com/Joyce-Foundation/5021503.muckety

Joyce Foundation:
Valerie B. Jarrett - director

[word_warrior_bob]

Add this gem to your pile.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QcpdUtxNQ

How about Obama openly campaigning for his communist cousin Odinga who signed a pact with Muslims to enact Sharia Law if elected and started riots when he lost. Obama campaigned for an openly Anti-American candidate in a foreign country in 2006.

[Colonial Warrior]

zerobama backers and voters...time to exit!!!!

[stylin19a]

What doesn’t pass he laff\smell test is...

Ayers starts Annenberg in Chicago and he makes OBama chairman.

Did Ayers pick OBama’s name out of a hat ?

You don’t give the chairmanship of anything to someone you don’t know.

Someone splain to me how does Ayers give Obama the chair without them knowing each other ?

[maggief]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/us/politics/04ayers.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

In fact, according to several people involved, Mr. Ayers played no role in Mr. Obama’s appointment. Instead, it was suggested by Deborah Leff, then president of the Joyce Foundation, a Chicago-based group whose board Mr. Obama, a young lawyer, had joined the previous year. At a lunch with two other foundation heads, Patricia A. Graham of the Spencer Foundation and Adele Simmons of the MacArthur Foundation, Ms. Leff suggested that Mr. Obama would make a good board chairman, she said in an interview. Mr. Ayers was not present and had not suggested Mr. Obama, she said.

http://www.muckety.com/Joyce-Foundation/5021503.muckety

Joyce Foundation:
Valerie B. Jarrett - director

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A BOOSTER SHOT FOR CHICAGO ‘S PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Chicago Tribune - January 31, 1995
Author: William Ayers , Warren Chapman and Anne Hallett . ; The writers are the authors of the city’s proposal to the Annenberg Foundation. William Ayers is a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago ; Warren Chapman is a program officer at the Joyce Foundation; and Anne Hallett is the executive director of the Cross-City Campaign for Urban School Reform

[Deetes]

BOOM

[penelopesire]

Ayers ‘coalition’ was ‘in biz’ since 1988....ehh? Same time Obama was doing his community organizing in Chicago.

Yet..we are suppose to believe that all that time, Obama never met Ayers or Bernadine once while he was doing his ‘community organizing’....until 1995?

BS!!

You must be using Lexus/Nexus...is that why you can’t link?

Keep up the great work btw!

[maggief]

http://www.lakeforest.edu/about/news/mediareleases/2001_2002/200204292.html

From 1992 to 1999, Leff was President of the Chicago-based Joyce Foundation, which grants $30 million annually to groups involved in public policy. During much of the 1980’s and early 1990’s she was a senior producer at ABC News NIGHTLINE, ABC News WORLD NEWS TONIGHT, and ABC News 20/20. Leff graduated from Princeton in 1973 and earned a J.D. in 1977 from the University of Chicago Law School.

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SCHOOLS GET READY FOR ANNENBERG CHALLENGE ON INNOVATIVE EDUCATION
Chicago Tribune - June 23, 1995
Author: V. Dion Haynes, Tribune Education Writer.

Chicago principals and local school councils interested in innovative education are now invited to apply for a chunk of a $147 million award to make their ideas reality.

Officials of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge announced Thursday that they are accepting proposals from schools that want to make radical changes in the way teachers teach and students learn

“This is about the children of Chicago. This is about making the lives of the children of Chicago better,” said Annenberg Challenge board member Patricia Albjerg Graham , who is also president of the Spencer Foundation, a Chicago-based organization offering grants for educational research.

Barack Obama, a Chicago lawyer and chairman of the Annenberg Challenge board, added, “If we’re really going to change things in this city, it’s going to start at the grass-roots level and with our children.”

(snip)

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SCHOOLS GO AFTER WINDFALL - MILLIONS FOR REFORM COULD BE HOLIDAY GIFT
Chicago Tribune - October 23, 1994

Author: Charles Storch and V. Dion Haynes, Tribune Staff Writers.

(snip)

A group of Chicago educators, foundation officials, community activists and others, including an assistant to Chicago Public Schools Supt. Argie Johnson, have worked this year on a grant proposal, which they hope to complete and submit by Nov. 1 to the Annenberg National Institute for School Reform at Brown University in Rhode Island.

(snip)

Although only 150 of the city’s 550 public schools might be involved, the plan’s drafters believe the Annenberg schools would demonstrate benefits that could be adopted throughout the system within five years.

“We don’t want there to be a couple of schools that are shining lights and the rest a mess,” said Anne Hallett, executive director of the Chicago-based Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform and a longtime force in the local reform movement.

Hallett and William Ayers , an associate professor of education at University of Illinois at Chicago, began the campaign here for an Annenberg grant last December.

Ayers would like to see plans “addressing the huge number of kids in factory-like environments. We need to see creative ways of scheduling kids so they can learn in a smaller (classroom) environment and so teachers can have fewer students.”

He acknowledged that for such plans to work, administrators and the teachers union would have to waive rules establishing hours worked by teachers.

(snip)

[penelopesire]

“During much of the 1980’s and early 1990’s she was a senior producer at ABC News NIGHTLINE, ABC News WORLD NEWS TONIGHT, and ABC News 20/20. Leff graduated from Princeton in 1973 and earned a J.D. in 1977 from the University of Chicago Law School.”

CBS at it again! This is starting to remind me of that CBS gal involved in RATHERGATE!! It is just a nest of marxist vipers over there!

GREAT FIND!! (haven’t gotten through the rest of this latest find of yours yet...but this part just lept off the page!!)

I will get back to you later tonight. We need to get this info on her media background into in the hands of some other bloggers working on this. Do you have anyone in mind or are your working with anyone yet?

[maggief]

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Rev. Stanley J. Hallett- led fight for civil rights
Chicago Sun-Times - November 26, 1998
Author: MICHAEL GILLIS
In Jackson, Miss., in 1963, the Rev. Stanley J. Hallett stood on the steps of an all-white Methodist church and chastised six ushers who refused to admit a group that included two black Chicago women.

“Do you realize that in doing this you are challenging the whole structure and discipline of the Methodist Church?” asked Mr. Hallett , who was a white Methodist minister from Chicago .

(snip)

He worked alongside other prominent leaders, including the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Saul Alinsky, said Mr. Hallett ‘s son Mark. He remembers frequent visitors to his home when he was growing up.

(snip)

In the 1960s, as an officer with the Church Federation of Greater Chicago , Mr. Hallett made several trips to the South to aid the civil rights movement. He also blew the whistle on Chicago ‘s political machine, helped churches adjust to changes in the urban landscape and helped neighborhood leaders solve problems in their communities.

Mr. Hallett was a vice president of South Shore Bank's holding company, helping the bank become a model for community-development banking. For 20 years he played a leadership role in the Woodstock Institute, which studies investment issues in poor communities.

(snip)

Mr. Hallett was born in Iowa and starting preaching by 14. He was educated at Dakota Wesleyan University in South Dakota and the Boston University School of Theology. He did additional graduate studies at Cambridge University and Harvard University.

He moved to Chicago from Newark, N.J., in 1962 to work in the civil rights movement.

Mr. Hallett also is survived by his wife, Anne ; ...

(snip)

[penelopesire]

oops...I mean ABC.

Loved this part:

“Officials of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge announced Thursday that they are accepting proposals from schools that want to make radical changes in the way teachers teach and students learn...”

‘Radical’ being the operative word....(eye roll)

[maggief]

“Do you have anyone in mind or are your working with anyone yet?”

Ping or FReepmail those with blog connections, please. :)

[maggief]

http://www.muckety.com/Chicago-Public-Education-Fund/5000416.muckety

Anne Hallett - leadership council member
...
Penny S. Pritzker - director

[penelopesire]

Will do. Which connections/people from your research do you think are the most important to note right now?

I certainly think the connections to the MSM with this cover-up of the Ayers/Obama nexus are very important. Kurtz and many others(Freepers included) have done alot of work bringing out the connections between Ayers/Annenberg/Obama and the radical programs they were pushing in Chicago.

Just my opinion, but we might want to focus on the MSM people with connections to Ayers and Obama. When this election is over...no matter who wins...the American people need to put the American press on trial and expose all of the conflicts of interest and possible pay-offs made to them by the democrats and the Obama Campaign!

[penelopesire]

What a nest of self-serving..self dealing vipers!! Ponzi Penny is starting to loook like the head of the medusa...lol..she keeps popping up everywhere!!

[PhilDragoo]

[maggief]

Of note ... recap

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Rev. Stanley J. Hallett- led fight for civil rights
Chicago Sun-Times - November 26, 1998
Author: MICHAEL GILLIS

EXCERPT

He worked alongside other prominent leaders, including the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Saul Alinsky, said Mr. Hallett ‘s son Mark. He remembers frequent visitors to his home when he was growing up.

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SCHOOLS GO AFTER WINDFALL - MILLIONS FOR REFORM COULD BE HOLIDAY GIFT
Chicago Tribune - October 23, 1994

Author: Charles Storch and V. Dion Haynes, Tribune Staff Writers.

EXCERPT

Hallett and William Ayers , an associate professor of education at University of Illinois at Chicago, began the campaign here for an Annenberg grant last December.

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A BOOSTER SHOT FOR CHICAGO ‘S PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Chicago Tribune - January 31, 1995

Author: William Ayers , Warren Chapman and Anne Hallett . ; The writers are the authors of the city’s proposal to the Annenberg Foundation. William Ayers is a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago ; Warren Chapman is a program officer at the Joyce Foundation; and Anne Hallett is the executive director of the Cross-City Campaign for Urban School Reform.

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Some familiar links:

Alinsky, Hallett, Ayers, Pritzker, Jarrett, Michelle Obama, Leff, Chapman, Joyce Fund, CAC, University of Chicago, Princeton, Harvard, Columbia

[maggief]

DEGREES OF HATRED - CAN WE END RACIAL HOSTILITY ON AMERICA’S CAMPUSES?
Washington Post - June 16, 1991
Author: Emma Coleman Jordan

EXCERPT

Barack

Obama , the first black president of the prestigious Harvard Law Review,

is representative of a younger generation of black achievers who feel

that “people like myself are learning a certain language of mainstream

society, of power and decisionmaking. We have an obligation to go back

to the black community, to listen and learn and help give our people a

voice.”

[maggief]

Sorry, no link to post #38.

[maggief]

http://www.sesp.northwestern.edu/abcd/faculty/annehallett/

Anne Hallett

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2005 - present Director, Grow Your Own Illinois

2004 - 2005 Consultant: Education, Community, Philanthropy
• Illinois ACORN
• National ACORN
• Paterson Education Fund
• Portland Schools Foundation
• Leadership for a Changing World
• Ford Foundation: Feasibility Study, Fund for Education Organizing

1993 – 2003 Executive Director, Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform
Founding director of national network of urban school reform leaders. Responsible for organizational and program development, fundraising, strategic direction, and support for Board of Directors.

1986 - 1993 Executive Director, Wieboldt Foundation

1983 – 1986 Executive Director, Citizens Education Center Northwest

1982 – 1983 Executive Director, Chicago Panel on Public School Policy

1979 – 1981 Project Director, Chandler/Corcoran, Inc.

1976 – 1979 Founder, Lobbyist, Citizens for Fair School Funding
Organized statewide grassroots coalition for school finance reform in Washington State. Developed and passed legislation resulting in state support of K-12 education that was fourth highest in the nation.

1975 – 1976 Editor, Puget Soundings Magazine

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
2005 - present Board of Directors
Center for Neighborhood Technology
Community Organizing and Family Issues
Interfaith Youth Core, Chair

Between 1994 – 2004, selected
Chicago Public Education Fund
Consortium on Chicago School Research, Steering Committee
National High School Alliance, Steering Committee
Chicago Annenberg Challenge grant; $49.2 million: writer, organizer
Chicago School Reform Collaborative, Annenberg Challenge
The Algebra Project, Board of Directors
Citywide Coalition for School Reform, Board of Directors
Catalyst, Board of Directors

1993 and earlier, selected
National Committee for Citizens in Education, Board Chair
Neighborhood Funders Group, co-chair
Women in Charge, chair
Council on Community-based Development, Board of Directors
Citizens Education Center, Board of Advisors
Mayor’s Energy Task Force, Co-Chair (mayoral appointee, Chicago)
Chicago Women in Philanthropy, Chair
National Coalition of Advocates for Students, Board of Directors
Advisory Council on Education Funding (gubernatorial appointee, Washington State)
Allied Arts of Seattle, Board of Directors
CityFair, Chair, Executive Committee
Seattle Urban League, Board of Directors

PUBLICATIONS

1998 Beyond Finger-Pointing and Test Scores, Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform, Co-author
Reinventing Central Office: A Primer for Successful Schools, Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform, Editor
Improving Schools One by One, Citizens Education Center, Editor
Funding Schools in Washington, Citizens Education Center

HONORS

Crossing the River Jordan award, Public Education Network

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See also:

http://www.muckety.com/Catalist/5024587.muckety

[penelopesire]

Why am I not surprised that she was involved with ACORN...where most of the CAC money went? (eye roll)

“1975 – 1976 Editor, Puget Soundings Magazine”

Looks like she too...has a background in journalism as an editor. Do we know where she went to college or if she has a degree? Wonder if she believed in the same things as Ayers or went to school with him! She looks about the same age. 1975 seems like a strange place to start your resume. Wierd.

[maggief]

(no link)

People power: Chicago’s real clout
Chicago Sun-Times - April 8, 1990
Author: M. W. Newman ; Lillian Williams

The name was Saul Alinsky . Title: hell-raiser, and proud of it. He began stirring up poor people in the slums Back of the Yards half a century ago.

EXCERPTS

Chicago has generated a Who’s Who of top-rank community organizers and strategists: Gale Cincotta, Heather Booth, Msgr. John J. Egan, Ed Chambers, Tom Gaudette, Mary Gonzales, Nancy Jefferson, Jean Mayer, Mary Nelson, Bob Lucas.

(snip)

The grass-roots partisans are all Alinsky ‘s heirs. They fight, lead, talk, listen, coddle, toil, dicker, deal and live to do it another day.

But they almost never get the Chicago spotlight reserved for big-shot politicians or downtown wheels. They lose a lot of fights. They can’t count on an inside seat when business and political heavies make major decisions here.

It’s a tough scuffle for them, this Chicago Sun-Times report shows. The community groups are real Chicago - perhaps the real Chicago. They draw factory workers, teachers, businessmen, homemakers into an extra life as somebodies in the community. Thousands of people have come into their own that way.

(snip)

“The businessmen found they could only go so far,” said Anne C. Hallett , executive director of Chicago’s Wieboldt Foundation. “But their eyes opened when they talked to community people and saw how bright they were.”

The two sides, both wanting the same basic changes, found a common cause. The politicians chose to go along and hundreds of little government councils were created. It’s still hard to believe, but it happened.

Some of Chicago’s best-known foundations help keep the community movement afloat. The wealthy MacArthur Foundation set up an $11.3 million fund to help Chicago communities develop business and housing.

“Neighborhood groups are lifelines to the people,” said Ken Rolling, program director of the Woods Charitable Fund and a onetime organizer himself.

“Our aim is to get them to the negotiating table. There’s a place for confrontation and protest, but then you sit down and talk.”

(snip)

[Euker]

Dick Morris just said this is the only Obama-Ayres connection that matters

[Calpernia]

Bill Ayers esta Abu Zayd.

[penelopesire]

Hmmmmm..the usual suspects that Kurtz has said need to answer a few questions:

http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=NTM4ZmU1NGFkODJlMjhmYjkxMjg4Y2Q0NTVlYjAzMmY=

“The Obama campaign’s initial response to this issue notwithstanding, the question of how a young and inexperienced lawyer like Obama was chosen to head a foundation created by Bill Ayers in 1995 is still very much open. Ken Rolling, Warren Chapman, Anne Hallett, and indeed, Barack Obama and Bill Ayers must now provide some answers.”

We need to find out Hatlett’s background before 1975-76...something tells me she might have been involved or sympathetic to ‘The Weathermen’ and Bill Ayers back in ‘the day’. Will see what I can find later and will ping you. Can’t work on it until late tonight without having too many distractions in the house..:)

Thanks for all of your great work! Lots of angles/people to pursue here.

[maggief]

http://www.muckety.com/Woods-Fund-of-Chicago/5021630.muckety

Woods Fund of Chicago
People related to Woods Fund of Chicago:
William C. Ayers - director
Lee Bey - director
Doris Salomon Chagin - director
Jesus G. Garcia - director
Lucia Woods Lindley - director emeritus
Ricardo A. Millett - president
Beth E. Richie - director
Laura S. Washington - director
Charles N. Wheatley - director

Woods Fund of Chicago past relationships:
Barack Obama - director

[maggief]

Can you elaborate, please?

[Euker]

Sorry, Morris was referring to what is stated at the top of this thread (copied below).

Video of Obama in his own words from various interviews regarding Chicago Annenburg Challenge and who hired him. Bill Ayers, infact, Ayers built the foundation with a 50 Mill grant then hired Obama, the ACORN community Organization attorney (Obama) to run it. It was one of his only job resume points he pointed to while running for US Senate.

[maggief]

Thank you!

It’s important to know to whom Ayers was associated, and behind Obama.

[ETL]

The name was Saul Alinsky . Title: hell-raiser, and proud of it. He began stirring up poor people in the slums Back of the Yards half a century ago.

From Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing, writing:

"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution."[2]

[2] Saul Alinsky, The Latter Rain
http://latter-rain.com/ltrain/alinski.htm

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From the Boston Globe, August 31, 2008:

[Saul Alinsky's] Son sees father's handiwork in [2008 democrat] convention

ALL THE elements were present: the individual stories told by real people of their situations and hardships, the packed-to-the rafters crowd, the crowd's chanting of key phrases and names, the action on the spot of texting and phoning to show instant support and commitment to jump into the political battle, the rallying selections of music, the setting of the agenda by the power people.

The Democratic National Convention had all the elements of the perfectly organized event, Saul Alinsky style. Barack Obama's training in Chicago by the great community organizers is showing its effectiveness.

It is an amazingly powerful format, and the method of my late father always works to get the message out and get the supporters on board. When executed meticulously and thoughtfully, it is a powerful strategy for initiating change and making it really happen. Obama learned his lesson well.

I am proud to see that my father's model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday.

L. DAVID ALINSKY
Medfield

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2008/08/31/son_sees_fathers_handiwork_in_convention