By now you may have forgotten about Ward Churchill. He is the angry professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado whose perspective on the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, was so cruel and grotesque that school officials immediately tried to fire him when they learned of his published writings on the topic. In a rambling, often incomprehensible 2002 article entitled “On the Justice of Roosting Chicken,” Churchill called the victims who died at the World Trade Center “little Eichmanns” complicit in their own murders by virtue of their support for America’s military and diplomatic policies going back to the Persian Gulf war in 1991. He wrote: “True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire—the ‘mighty engine of profit’ to which the military dimension of U.S. policy has always been...
- 7/9/2009
- Vanity Fair
Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech explores free speech in America by addressing contemporary cases in which the First Amendment has played a very significant role. The documentary not only looks at how free speech has been challenged in our country, but also how willing or unwilling Americans are to give up civil liberties in exchange for national security in a post-9/11 era. Filmmaker Liz Garbus speaks with her father, First Amendment attorney Martin Garbus as part of the narrative for the film. Garbus takes us through the era of McCarthyism as well as other pivotal times in our nation's history when the First Amendment was put to the test, using his own personal experiences as well as other historical references to lay out the story. The film also cites various cases from recent years, including Ward Churchill being fired from his job as a professor at...
- 1/18/2009
- cinemablend.com
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