Bill Ayers [defended by Barbara Ransby, Graduate of Columbia same year as Obama]

http://billayers.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/february-29-2008/ ^ | February 29, 2008 | Barbara Ransby, et al.

[syriacus]

February 29, 2008

Chicago Tribune Editors:

We write to voice our support for our colleague, Bill Ayers, who was the target yesterday of Jonah Goldberg’s mean-spirited muckraking journalism.

Goldberg asks why Bill Ayers is allowed to have a job as a college professor, despite his leftist views and political activities from some forty years ago? The answer is simple.

Professor Ayers has degrees from University of Michigan and Columbia University’s Teachers College.

Over the past twenty plus years he has earned the reputation of a cutting edge scholar of education, and made major contributions to our understanding of schools and the institutions impacting children.

Ayers has authored, co-authored or edited 14 books and dozens of scholarly articles and book chapters, some of them award-winning. His books have received praise from the likes of Jonathan Kozol, Studs Turkel and Scott Turow.

He has been invited to lecture around the country and internationally on pedagogy, curriculum, the politics of education, and the small schools strategy for educational excellence. He has served on numerous university and community-based committees.

During the McCarthy era of the 1950s one could be fired simply for the hint of left of center views or association with people who held those views. Perhaps Mr. Goldberg is nostalgic for an earlier time. We are not.

Sincerely,

Barbara Ransby, Associate Professor of African American Studies and History, UIC

Beth E. Richie, Professor of Criminology. Law and Justice and African American Studies, UIC

Lisa Yun Lee, Director, Jane Addams Hull House Museum at UIC

[syriacus]

If Ransby knew Ayers when she was at Columbia, doesn't it seem obvious that OBAMA KNEW AYERS IN EXACTLY THE SAME SITUATION?

I think they might have ALL known each other.

[syriacus]

Boggs, Grace Lee
Michigan Citizen
01-31-2004

Last week I went to Chicago for two days with four Detroit Summer young
people and ***Rick Feldman***, a veteran of the 60s who organized the trip and
drove the van.

The purpose of the trip was to participate in three events:

- A celebration of MLK’s 75th birthday at the University of
Illinois-Chicago.

- A dialogue at The Public Square with ***Barbara Ransby facilitated by
Bernardine Dohrn***.

- An Intergenerational Dialogue on Youth Organizing.

Our host was ***Bill Ayers***, Rick’s friend from the old SDS days. Bill has
lived in Chicago most of his life and been a part of its historic
struggles.

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-92996582.html

[word_warrior_bob]

Speaking of political murderers. Obama CAMPAIGNS for them!

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.

[driftless2]

degrees in gender and women’s studies. In short, Ransby has degrees in worthless, intellectually deadend pursuits.