[NYTr] South End Press Author Ward Churchill Under Attack Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:26:45 -0600 (CST) Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit sent by Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) - Feb 26, 2005 South End Press | 7 Brookline Street | Cambridge | MA | 02139 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE South End Press Author Under Attack CAMBRIDGE, MA: After finding himself at the center of a media firestormand receiving a barrage of death threatsSouth End Press author Ward Churchill has stepped down from his position as Chair of the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Colorado. Not satisfied with this, Colorado Governor Bill Owens is demanding that Churchill resign his position as a tenured professor as well. The controversy is based on an essay Churchill wrote soon after 9-11, which he later expanded into an AK Press book, On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Reflections on the Consequences of U.S. Imperial Arrogance and Criminality. Conservative protestors used the essay to force Hamilton College in New York to cancel a speaking engagement Churchill had scheduled there. The mainstream media (including Bill OReilly and Fox News) has picked up the story, distorting and misrepresenting the facts, as usual. South End Press wishes to voice our support for Ward Churchill in this strugglein terms of both his well-researched analysis of factors that contributed to the 9-11 attacks and his right to express that analysis in public without having his life and livelihood threatened. We also recommend that you read On the Justice of Roosting Chickens yourself, rather than rely on the medias version of it. Individuals can order it here: http://www.akpress.org/2003/items/onthejusticeofroostingchickens On the Justice of Roosting Chickens and other books by Ward Churchill are available to bookstores and the trade from Consortium Book Sales and Distribution. To order please visit http://www.cbsd.com/ or call 1-800-283-3572. Ward Churchill titles published by South End Press include: Islands in Captivity: The International Tribunal on the Rights of Indigenous Hawaiians (coedited with Sharon H. Venne; forthcoming); From a Native Son: Selected Essays on Indigenism, 1985-1995; Agents of Repression: The FBIs Secret War Against the American Indian Movement and the Black Panther Party (with Jim Vander Wall); and The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents From the FBIs Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States (with Jim Vander Wall). South End Press | 7 Brookline Street | Cambridge | MA | 02139 toplab@toplab.org http://www.toplab.org Democratizing technology: TOPLAB runs the GNU/Linux OS on its computers and is 100% free of proprietary software. ***** "There is not the slightest notion of ethics, credibility, standards of justice, humanitarian feelings, nor of the elementary principles of solidarity and generosity in the world you seek to impose on us today. Billions of human beings live in subhuman conditions--starving, without enough food, medicine, clothes, shoes or shelter and without even a minimum amount of knowledge or enough information to understand their tragedy and that of the world in which they live." -Fidel Castro, in a letter to George W. Bush -30- * Search the NYTr Archives at: http://olm.blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/ To subscribe or unsubscribe or change your settings via the web, visit: http://olm.blythe-systems.com/mailman/listinfo/nytr ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org =================================================================