3,000 Educators Sign Statement to Support William Ayers
More than 3,000 educators have signed a statement in support of William Ayers, the University of Illinois-Chicago professor who has found himself under attack as a "washed-up terrorist" by the McCain campaign of late, the Brown Daily Herald reports.
The "friends and supporters of Bill Ayers" have circulated the statement online to combat the "character assassination and slander" of the Weather Underground founder. "I think he's doing a lot of positive, progressive, constructive work right now," said one Brown professor of Ayers's current work in education.
Tags: presidential election 2008 | activism | University of Illinois | William Ayers
Tools: 
Share
|
| Comments (17) | Print
Reader Comments
On Locke essays
I've read excepts from Professor Ayers book on John Locke, and thought he might appreciate this quote: "...Whosoever in authority exceeds the power given him by the law, and makes use of the force he has under his command to compass that upon the subject which the law allow not, ceases in that to be a magistrate, and acting without authority may be opposed, as any other man who by force invades the right of another." --John Locke
Who are you calling a Terrorist?
Terrorist one who promotes terror? What do we call a government that performs terrorist acts on it own people. I am sure if we asked Native Americans, Mexican American, Japanese Americans, African Americans and several other subjugated classes of people to identify a terrorist, many historical and current political figures can be implicated. Support terrorism, we have supported domestic terrorism for years.
Bill Ayers
Here's one educator who is not supporting him.
advertisement
