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Colorado: Bill Ayers

February 20, 2009 - 02:53 pm
NEWS FEED: ColoradoPols.com

Ayers/Churchill Smackdown!

By Colorado Pols

Too entertaining to not mention, from the Colorado Daily:
Two of academia's most controversial left-wing figures - ex-Weatherman Bill Ayers and fired University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill - will share a stage on the Boulder campus next month.

Three CU student groups recruited Ayers, a lightning rod of controversy during the 2008 presidential election, to speak at an academic-freedom rally just days before Churchill's lawsuit against CU goes to trial.

"What we're trying to show with this event is that Ward Churchill is not alone in this," said Aaron Smith, a recent CU graduate and member of Students for True Academic Freedom.

The March 5 event, "Forbidden Education and the Rise of Neo-McCarthyism," will be held at the Glenn Miller Ballroom, and also will feature author and activist Derrick Jensen.

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Sat, 10/11/2008 - 19:13

Wadhams: McCain should directly invoke Obama's ties to Ayers and Wright

By Jeremy Pelzer, PolitickerCO.com Reporter

With Republican leaders across the country worried that John McCain's presidential chances are slipping, Colorado GOP Chair Dick Wadhams has urged McCain to highlight Democratic nominee Barack Obama's ties to controversial figures Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, the New York Times is reporting.

Wadhams told the Times that he was surprised McCain didn't mention either name during last week's presidential debate.

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