Posted on 10/21/2008 12:07:03 PM PDT by cgk
Intellectuals: Who Needs Them?
A public gathering
sponsored by
The Center for Public Intellectuals
&
the University of Illinois-Chicago
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. We will engage the public in the following ways:
The participants will draw from many different kinds of intellectual work, including journalism, activism, academics, public policy, business, and the arts.
Please click here to register.
For further information, please call 312.413.2518. |
Dr. Patricia Williams Keynote Speaker Friday, April 19th, 6:00 Harold Washington Library Center (Wintergarden) 400 S. State St. Free and open to the public! Co-sponsored by the Chicago Public Library. Interdisciplinary legal scholar, public intellectual, and MacArthur "genius" award-winner, Williams is the author of Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race. Conference Schedule April 19th 2:00-3:30 p.m., Chicago Illini Union, 828 S. Wolcott 3:30-5:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. Patricia Williams (Columbia University Law School) Harold Washington Library Center Saturday, April 20th 9:00-11:00 a.m.
11:15-2:00 p.m.
4:00-6:00 p.m.
6:00-6:45 p.m. End of conference reception. |
Partially funded by the Illinois Humanities Council |
Saturday, April 19th, 3:30pm-5pm: Bernardine Dorhn spoke as a member of the Keynote panel "Why do Ideas Matter?"
Sunday, April 20th, 2:15-3:45pm: William Ayers & Barack Obama speak as members of the panel "Intellectuals in Times of Crisis"
Seven months after 9/11. Seven months after William Ayers posed for photos dancing a jig & stomping on the American flag & made his now-notorious comments 'I don't regret setting bombs,'' Bill Ayers said. ''I feel we didn't do enough.''
William Ayers and Bernardine Dorhn are well-known violent radicals who were welcomed into the "intellectual" circle of Chicago & embraced by that community for their very radical view, especially those espousing revolution in education. Ayers, co-founder with Dorhn of the Weatherman Underground terrorist group was not just a speaker at this conference.
According to a letter written by Professor of Education & Scholar William H Schubert "The Bill Ayers I Know" and posted 10/11/08 on former SDS member & ex-head of the American Communist Party Michael Klonsky's blog: Ayers was one of the founding members of the board for the event's sponsor "The Center for Public Intellectuals", which later changed its name to "The Public Square".
Maoist Michael Klonsky's personal blog used to be posted on Barack Obama's own campaign website here until it was scrubbed.
Screen grab by Caosblog:
Klonsky himself was hand-picked by Ayers to run his Small Schools Workshop as a part of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge that Obama chaired. Klonsky's previous experience had been as a taxi driver in Florida and a distinguised and welcome guest to state dinners in Communist China.
More details reveal that Obama & Dohrn spoke on a previous UIC panel together in 1997 called "Should a child ever be called a 'Super' predator?".
Ayers replied, "We were young... we made some mistakes...", and then he and Dohrn both laughingly said, "And we'd do it again!" Then they tossed in the comment that they wish they had done more.
"You don't need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows
Part I: The lowdown on ACORN
Part II: The lowdown on the Weathermen (William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn)
Part III: Barack Obama, William Ayers & ACORN
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
Don’t think Hitler, think Pol Pot.
The MSM won’t care.
Full 6 part video series can be viewed as a playlist here, courtesy of Seahorse1776.
Good catch.
I guess it was a panel of random guys from the neighborhood.
Who is going to spread this fact around, along with the 3 years of having their offices on the same floor of a small building???
This conference was held 7 months after 9/11 and on the 7th anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing.
What kinds of crises do you think the intellectuals Ayers & Obama discussed on their ‘Intellectuals in Times of Crisis’ panel?
BUMP
So they were celebrating Hitler’s birthday together.
Did he talk to Dohrn and Ayers' victims to ask them? Or was it all about the unfortunate, peace-loving Palestinians and Libyans?
It was a weekend event. They got to celebrate Hitler and Lenin’s birthdays.
I’m sure there were cake and party hats.
Center for Public Intellectuals, eh?
My favorite saying (which I’m proud to have come up with myself) is:
Don’t confuse someone intelligence with intellectualism.
Intelligence is something you can see and often measure. It comes through on its own. Your typical intellectual as we see them nowadays defines himself/herself as better, smarter, more brilliant than everyone else. They force you to accept their “greatness” whether it’s true or not.
*-someone
Bombard Drudge with this thing. Make him run it...ask for sirens.
RACIST!!!!
:-p
BTT!
Øbama prefers to play hide-n-seek behind the Ayers relationship, to exposing what his relation to Dohrn is
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