Churchill, Ward - speeches and interviews

Activist, academic, intellectual, artist and defender of Native American rights, Ward Churchill has been active in the American Indian Movement for years and has chosen to publish his works almost exclusively with alternative publishers such as AKPress and City Lights Books.

Churchill is an expert on Native American history, activist and liberation struggles, government repression, domestic and international law, civil liberties, colonization and decolonization, Native American portrayal in popular culture, genocide, and he has published dozens of works regarding these subjects.

While he was a professor at the University of Colorado one of his works about Sep11 attracted the attention of Faux News' Bill O'Reilly -Rupert Murdoch's mouthpiece- four years after it was published. The 3 Bills -O'Reilly, Owens & Ritter (the latter Governors of Colorado)- began attacking Churchill's status as professor and used every bit of ammo (principally disinformation) they had at their disposal to get him fired from the University during the 3rd wave Bush II-era red scare that was sweeping universities. He was fired after an "Investigative" Committee at CU, composed entirely of Churchill opponents, combed his enormous body of heavily-cited work and decided that FIVE citations found within it all -which includes dozens of books and articles and over FIVE THOUSAND citations- did not have academic merit. Churchill took the University to court for unfair dismissal with the support of a large portion of the student body & faculty of CU, not to mention with the expressed support of N. Chomsky, H. Zinn, the ACLU, D. Jensen, B. Ayers, M. Abu-Jamal and many other intellectuals and dissidents. Churchill won the case when the jury found that no research misconduct had taken place; however, the judge decided not to reinstate him to his former position as university professor. Ward is currently appealing the judge's decision.

Some of his articles can be found at Michael Albert's site Zcommunications:

http://www.zcommunications.org/zspace/wardchurchill

Ward Churchill's Solidarity Network:

http://www.wardchurchill.net/

Support Ward by buying his books:

http://www.akpress.com/

http://www.citylights.com/

I was originally just going to post his Wikipedia biography as the torrent description before I read it and decided that most of it, and most other Churchill-related Wikipedia articles, were quite obviously written in the basement of some government building.  So I decided to write the above bio for OBT. Have a look at the Wiki bio if you dare:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Churchill

I'm in the process of trying to balance the Wikipedia articles out a bit. Anyone who has his books on hand willing to help me would be appreciated. I've just added and sourced some quotes from his book Kill the Indian, Save the Man on his WikiQuote page (as well as some minor edits to his bio):

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ward_Churchill

This torrent is an MP3 collection which I downloaded a while ago from http://www.radio4all.net/ - a radio project that I really recommend the OneBigTorrent.org crowd check out. MP3s include:

US Off The Planet - 6.17.01 Ward & Chellis in Eugene Celebrating 2 Local @ist Rebellions

Ward Churchill - Speech 4-16-2005

Ward Churchill - COINTELPRO Exposed - Activists Respond to Government Repression (2.24.02)

Ward Churchill - Indigenous vs. Nonindigenous Rights, Responsibilities & Relationships (4.28.01)

Ward Churchill - Interview (12.17.01)

Ward Churchill - M. Oyasin & E. Johnson Portland, OR interview on 9.11 Essay, US Imperialism, prisons, alienation, smallpox blanket genocide, radio4all.net (6.24.05)

Ward Churchill - Meet the New Boss Same as the Old Boss - Colonialism & Globalization Part I (2.2.02)

Ward Churchill - Meet the New Boss Same as the Old Boss - Colonialism & Globalization Part II (2.2.02)

Ward Churchill - mix - Natural enemies, Little Eichmanns comment explained

Ward Churchill - on the FBI Part I (7.26.99)

Ward Churchill - on the FBI Part II (7.26.99)

Ward Churchill - on the FBI Part III (7.26.99)

Ward Churchill - PDX IMC Radio 06.23.05

Ward Churchill - Seattle Radio-X First Prologue (8.10.03)

Ward Churchill - Seattle Radio-X Part 1 (8.10.03)

Ward Churchill - Seattle Radio-X Part 2 (8.10.03)

Ward Churchill - Sterilizing History The Fabrication of Innocent Americans (Dec. '06)

Ward Churchill - The History of Counter-Intelligence Part I (1.28.01)

Ward Churchill - The History of Counter-Intelligence Part II (1.28.01)

Ward Churchill - The History of Counter-Intelligence Part III (1.28.01)

Ward Churchill vs. David Horowitz debate on academic freedom (7.2.06)