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Rally draws hundreds for Ward Churchill By Thomas Coghlan, News Assistant March 28, 2005 EWU's community rally March 10in support of controversial speakerWard Churchill's appearance April 5.(Photos by Tom Peacock/Easterner) Over 300 students and faculty gathered in the Mall on March 10 to attend the rally in support of Ward Churchill and academic free speech. Martha Toolie, a Native American Student Association member said, “I invite every single one of you to our April 5 keynote speaking address that will be delivered by Mr. Ward Churchill. We are brining him here, and I encourage every one of you, if you...

Just announced on KOA 850 am radio news by Gloria Neal... a live 5pm ET news conference by CU Chancelor Phil DiStefano to announce the fate of Ward Churchill. It will be carried live on their website. (Click on Listen Live link on the left side of the page) http://www.850koa.com/ === Also KCNC News 4 Colorado is planning to carry the news conference via live web stream if their satelite truck gets setup in time at: http://www.news4colorado.com/ Not exactly sure where the link will be posted on their page.

Report: CU May Offer Churchill Early Retirement 200 CU Teachers Ask That Inquiry Into Churchill Be Dropped POSTED: 3:49 pm MST February 26, 2005 UPDATED: 4:58 pm MST February 26, 2005 BOULDER, Colo. -- Officials with the University of Colorado are reportedly considering offering controversial professor Ward Churchill an early retirement package.The Denver Post reports the deal is in the very early stages.A three person panel is scheduled to deliver a report on Churchill's tenure. Churchill became the center of a national uproar after people started reading one of his essays, comparing some victims of the Sept. 11, 2001,...

"Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech." Last August, I wrote a column suggesting the First Amendment be voided. I was being facetious. My real point was that few journalists have done anything to deserve freedom of speech. (Excepting us at The Star, naturally.) It's unearned privilege. Journalists are not defenders of the Constitution; they are defenders of Bill Clinton and John Kerry. Also, they are defenders of their meal ticket. That's about it. Reading e-mail responses, however, I realized I had confused some. They thought I was serious about killing the First Amendment. My fault....

The American Indian Movement Grand Governing Council representing the National and International leadership of the American Indian Movement once again is vehemently and emphatically repudiating and condemning the outrageous statements made by academic literary and Indian fraud, Ward Churchill in relationship to the 9-11 tragedy in New York City that claimed thousands of innocent people’s lives. Churchill’s statement that these people deserved what happened to them, and calling them little Eichmanns, comparing them to Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who implemented Adolf Hitler’s plan to exterminate European Jews and others, should be condemned by all. The sorry part of this...

Controversial prof set to make speech at Wisconsin school By Charlie Brennan And Laura Frank, Rocky Mountain News February 11, 2005 This is not the first time Ward Churchill has disagreed with the U.S. government's idea of who is, and is not, a terrorist. In April 1983, Churchill went to Libya to meet with Col. Moammar Gadhafi. The U.S. government had banned travel to Libya two years earlier, saying Gadhafi supported terrorism. Churchill traveled to Tripoli and Benghazi as a representative of the International Indian Treaty Council and the American Indian Movement. He went with Dace Means, brother of AIM...