ISSN 2562-9948
As if oblivious to the significance of the victorious lawsuit brought by Ward Churchill against the University of Colorado (CU), failing to recognize that a jury has just found CU guilty of trying to stifle the freedom of speech of an academic, CU plans to “vigorously challenge” Ward Churchill’s effort to get his job back…the […]
Read More…“That was a grand slam. I got everything I wanted from them,” he [Ward Churchill] said Friday. “I wasn’t looking for money.” (source) While still celebrating the victory of Ward Churchill, and victory for academic freedom of speech, we can look forward to the prospect of Ward Churchill being reinstated at the University of Colorado. […]
Read More…In a group consisting of more than two dozen newspaper reports, plus about three dozen posts by different blogs, on Ward Churchill’s victory in court yesterday evening, (see The Ward Churchill Trial‘s list of newspaper reports, as a start, and the list of blog postings), four items in particular stood out for me. La haine […]
Read More…In connection with my post for yesterday, “Misunderstanding and Misrepresenting the Charges Against Ward Churchill,” I was delighted to get extra ammunition and free advertising from what appears to be a smear blog whose primary obsession is Ward Churchill, and whose intended aim seems to be the ceaseless production of libel and slander while sleeplessly […]
Read More…The main point of this post, following from the debate in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and following from the previous one for today, is very simple and straightforward, so much so that critics of Churchill either miss this point accidentally or intentionally in developing their critiques of Churchill (either possibility, the accidental or the […]
Read More…Issues of academic freedom have been very important on this blog, and current events continue to make them very relevant. Recently I have been writing about the case of Norman Finkelstein (here and here) and I have created an Academic Freedom channel in Open Anthropology TV, that heavily features Finkelstein. I have also written to […]
Read More…It will probably be a while before one sees an article in an anthropology journal with such a title, so this will have to do for now: and following from that Donald Rumsfeld, smiling at the looting of Baghdad, said something to the effect that “freedom can look messy.” Fox is a bit shocked by […]
Read More…These are some of the sites of those few remaining with any courage and honesty, that speak of democracy in terms of rule by the people, and that champion anti-racism and anti-imperialism, and who are out on the streets of Denver and hopefully will put at least a dent or two into the magical Obama PR war show: […]
Read More…
ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY 