Weather Underground Bill Ayers in Fresno CA 4/22, and how Hate Radio controls the city

[annm4peace]

Because of the fallout from radio KMJ's interest in this week's screening of the film "The Weather Underground" which will be attended by Bill Ayers, the State of California Department of General Services revoked our permission to hold the event in the Hugh M Burns State Office Building. The event will now be held at the First Congregational Church, located at 2131 N. Van Ness Blvd. in Fresno, at the corner of Van Ness and Yale.

The date and time remain the same, April 22nd at 7 PM.

If you know anyone who is planning to attend, please advise them of this change.

This event is being widely publicized and criticized by radio KMJ, the Free Republic and the Tea Party. They plan to have a demonstration at 6 PM on the 22nd, presumably at the location of the event. If you attend, please remember that the first amendment still applies to us all and that these people have as much right to protest this event as interested persons have to attend it. Let's hold to the principles of tolerance and justice that we espouse and share this event peacefully. To quote Gandhi, "We must be the change we wish to see."

Sincerely,
John Maylone
Director, Creative Independent Activist Front

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KMJ had a news report on Ayers.. and then on the KMJ website I see they even wrote and article on the venue change of Ayers event.

So did KMJ did a hit piece on Ayers and then say " It is a mystery where his speaking event is going to be."

Here is the news announcement and interview with a neo-con christian conservative "accuracy in media"

http://www.kmj580.com/common/global_audio/174/18162.mp3

and new KMJ article on change of venue.

http://www.kmj580.com/pages/landing_news?60s-Radical-Ayers-To-Speak-in-Fresno=1&blockID=219138&feedID=806



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Dear Friends of the Center:



1) I’m repeating the venue change for the Thursday, April 22 showing of the film “The Weather Underground” and presentation by William Ayers:



Permission to use the Hugh M. Burns State Building Assembly Hall for the Bill Ayers’ presentation and film on Thursday, April 22nd has been revoked by the State Department of General Services.



Fortunately, another venue has been found and this is the First Congregational Church (Big Red Church), 2131 N. Van Ness Blvd., Fresno. The event will start at 7 p.m. Free admission and wheelchair accessible.





2) Now, there is a venue change for the CSUF presentations for Friday, April 23. See below.



Please note venue change for this presentation

The College of Arts and Humanities
and
the Kremen School of Education and Human Development
present



Dr. William Ayers
Distinguished Professor of Education
and
Senior University Scholar at University of Illinois at Chicago



Pay Attention and Be Astonished: Ethical Action and the Creation of the Public Square

Friday, April 23, 2010
2-3:30 PM, Alice Peters Auditorium, McLane 161
Open and free to the public

3:30-4:30 Reception and Book signing
Dean's Gallery
Old Music Building

4:30-7:00 PM Film Screening Central Station (1998) and Discussion by Dr. Ayers, McLane 121



Central Station (1998). Director Walter Salles tells a profoundly moving tale of the human spirit. Inside Rio de Janeiro’s bustling Central Station, two very unlikely souls are about to become inextricably linked. When a young boy witnesses his mother’s accidental death, a lonely retired schoolteacher reluctantly takes the child under her wing. Although initially distrustful of each other, the two form an uncommon bond as they venture from the bustling city to Brazil’s barren and remote northeast region in search of the boy’s father. Together, the two embark on a journey of the heart that restores the woman’s spirit and teaches the child precious life lessons. This highly acclaimed film received numerous awards, including a Golden Globe and two Academy Award nominations. In Portuguese with English subtitles. 113 min.



Dr. William Ayers is founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society, teaches courses in interpretive and qualitative research, urban school change, and teaching and the modern predicament. A graduate of the University of Michigan, the Bank Street College of Education, Bennington College, and Teachers College, Columbia University, Ayers has written extensively about social justice, democracy and education, the cultural contexts of schooling, and teaching as an essentially intellectual, ethical, and political enterprise. He is currently the vice-president of the curriculum division of the American Educational Research Association, and a member of the executive committee of the UIC Faculty Senate.

Ayers' articles have appeared in many journals including the Harvard Educational Review, the Journal of Teacher Education, Teachers College Record, Rethinking Schools, The Nation, Educational Leadership, the New York Times and the Cambridge Journal of Education. His has authored and co-authored several books including To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher (Teachers College Press, 1993), which was named Book of the Year in 1993 by Kappa Delta Pi and won the Witten Award for Distinguished Work in Biography and Autobiography in 1995.





--
José A. Díaz, DMA
Associate Dean
College of Arts and Humanities
California State University Fresno

[annm4peace]

1. Here is more of KMJ hit piece Free Speech and their support of Tea Baggers

I have been told that a substitute host on the Ray Appleton show yesterday
brought up the issue of Bill Ayer’s Fresno appearances at CSUF on Friday and
the screening of the “Weather Underground” Thursday. Apparently, listeners
became angry and expressed displeasure at his being invited to speak. It seems
that his long-past association with the Weather Underground makes him
undesirable in their eyes, even though he is now a nationally prominent
educator and Senior University Scholar at University of Illinois at Chicago.
You can see a KMJ article that appeared today at the link below, and, below
that, an invitation to a Tea Party demonstration against Ayers on Thursday.

Link to an article that appeared on the KMJ website:
http://www.kmjnow.com/pages/landing_news?60s-Radical-Ayers-To-Speak-in-Fresno=1&blockID=219138&feedID=806


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my.CentralValleyTeaParty.com: Get Involved with the Central Valley Tea Party
Brad Roltgen has invited you to the event 'Fresno - Bill Ayers
Protest' on my.CentralValleyTeaParty.com!
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Location announced tomorrow on event page, sent by E-Mail and sent to
our Text Messaging list. If you aren't on our Text Messaging list,
please text CVTP to 68398 to sign up.

Time: April 22, 2010 from 6pm to 8pm
Location: To Be Announced
Organized By: Steve Brandau:

Event Description:
Bill Ayers, co-founder of Weather Underground, a self-described
communist revolutionary group that conducted a campaign of bombing
public buildings during the sixties and seventies will be in Fresno on
Thursday at an undisclosed location (they've already moved the event
once).

We want to let him know that he is not welcome!

Please join us in a protest on Thursday (4/22) at 6:00 pm.

The location will be announced after 3:00 pm on Thursday here on this
event page and on our Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=84509477549&ref=ts

[annm4peace]

2. this event is today 4/22

I'm sure the local news will make a big deal of the tea baggers who show up to protest.

Free Republic started by a man in Fresno. A sad little creature that is often given praise by KMJ so his group will probably be on air.

The majority of people are not like the Free Republic. But since many of the talk radio, like KMJ are owned by these conservative neo-con agenda corporations the fundamentalist groups like Free Republic get lots of attention.

I will try to post pictures later when I get home from work.

if any DU'rs go.. please take some pictures and post.

[annm4peace]

3. Update. Bill Ayers to be interviewed by Hate Radio KMJ today

Here is an update by Fresno Bee. Note how Bee doesn't report how many went to the movie or the lecture.

http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/04/22/1906953/ayers-speech-moved-to-larger-venue.html



7:52 p.m.: About 50 people, including members of the Central Valley Tea Party and a U.S. Marine, showed up to protest the viewing of the film “The Weather Underground” tonight at the First Congregational Church on Van Ness Boulevard near Yale Avenue.

The coordinator for the Tea Party’s protest, Steve Brandau, said the group showed up to show its opposition to progressive socialism.

Members of the Tea Party showed up around 6 p.m. and the viewing of the film was scheduled for 7 p.m. with a discussion with William Ayers after.

2:19 p.m.: The location of Friday's lecture by controversial professor William Ayers has been changed to accommodate a larger audience, Fresno State officials said this afternoon.

The 2 p.m. speech -- "Pay Attention and Be Astonished: Ethical Action and the Creation of the Public Square" -- has been moved from the Alice Peters Auditorium to the Satellite Student Union. A reception and book-signing will follow at 3:30 p.m.

At 4:30 p.m., a screening of the film "Central Station" will be offered in McLane Hall Room 121. Ayers will lead a discussion.

All events are free and open to the public.

Ayers' visit has attracted controversy because of his connection to the anti-war Weather Underground movement, which claimed responsibility for bombings around the country in the early 1970s. Ayers also was a polarizing figure in the 2008 election because of questions over his relationship with now-President Obama. Obama opponents said the two were closely associated, which Obama's camp denied.

Read more: http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/04/22/1906953/ayers-speech-moved-to-larger-venue.html#ixzz0ltmrxWFO

[annm4peace]

4. Same thing with local Fox News. They report # of Teabag protesters but not who attended

http://www.kmph.com/Global/story.asp?S=12361417

Controversial Figure Screens Film In Fresno

Posted: April 22, 2010 11:28 PM

A controversial political activist is making some stops in the Central Valley.

Bill Ayers, co–founder of the radical 70's organization "The Weathermen" is in Fresno this week.

On Thursday Ayers spoke at the First Congregational Church in Fresno and held a screening of the film "The Weather Underground."

The film features Ayers and the Communist Revolutionary Group which claimed responsibility for Vietnam–era bombings in protest to the war

"The message that he's trying to give today is take a stand against oppression, take a stand against the war, because the things that went on in the late 60's and early 70's and through history are still going on to this day," said Chad Rodriguez of the Brown Berets.

Not everyone gave Ayers a warm welcome; members of the local Tea Party protested Ayers visit saying he should not be allowed to teach his message at a church.

Ayers will be speaking at Fresno State on Friday.

Stay with KMPH and KMPH.com as we continue to follow this story.

[EFerrari]

5. I just read this. If you have an update on the event

would love to read it. One of these days, I hope Ayers comes here. He's a brilliant speaker and educator.

[annm4peace]

6. I hope the progressive's have a write up and I will post.

I can't post from work so it will be later.

Also 580AM KMJ will have an interview with him. check out their website if you can. Otherwise I'm sure they will have a podcast as they will be interviewing a communist terrorist.

[annm4peace]

7. Here is what the Fresno Bee had to report on Bill Ayers speaking in Fresno

I have to say it makes me look even more forward to reading what my friends have to report.

http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/04/23/1908417/about-12-protest-outside-ayers.html


About 12 protest outside Ayers speech
Posted at 03:11 PM on Friday, Apr. 23, 2010
By Tracy Correa and Paula Lloyd/The Fresno Bee


About 50 people, including members of the Central Valley Tea Party and a U.S. Marine, showed up Thursday night to protest the viewing of the film "The Weather Underground" and a discussion led by William Ayers at the First Congregational Church.

Ayers is also scheduled to lecture today at Fresno State.

The coordinator for the Tea Party's protest, Steve Brandau, said the group wanted to show its opposition to progressive socialism.


Some University of Wyoming students and faculty are denouncing the college's refusal to let former 1960s radical William Ayers speak on campus.

About 80 people attended a rally Thursday organized by a group calling itself Wyoming Students for Free Speech. UW student Meg Lanker says the university should be a place where ideas can be heard and debated.

Lanker and Ayers are suing the university for not allowing the University of Illinois at Chicago professor speak on campus next Wednesday. Lanker invited Ayers for the event after the university canceled a previous lecture he was to give on education issues.

Bill Ayers and a University of Wyoming student are suing the school after it banned the former 1960s radical from speaking on campus.

Ayers, who is a professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago, makes college speeches and is routinely picketed, but the University of Wyoming last week banned him from using any university venue for a planned April 28 lecture.

Ayers and student Meg Lanker sued on Thursday, asking a federal judge to issue an injunction and allow the lecture. The lawsuit alleges the ban violates free speech rights and the freedom to assemble.


We've had government bailouts of Wall Street and failing businesses. We're embarking on an era of expansive government regulation of health care. Millions of Americans are of the opinion that President Barack Obama is a socialist.

But the free market has a pulse. Deals still are done by mutual consent, with prices largely set by supply and demand.

For evidence, you needn't look further than Sarah Palin and Bill Ayers, both of whom are being paid to show up on local California State University campuses.




William Ayers, a controversial figure connected with the anti-war movement in the early 1970s, spoke before a crowd of 250 people at Fresno State, where he praised teachers and the importance of free speech.

Friday's lecture was moved to a larger venue -- the Satellite Student Union -- after interest in Ayers swelled.

About 12 people gathered outside to protest just before the 2 p.m. speech titled "Pay Attention and Be Astonished: Ethical Action and the Creation of the Public Square."

On Thursday night, about 50 protesters showed up at the First Congregational Church in Fresno where Ayers also spoke.

Ayers has sparked controversy because of his connection to the anti-war Weather Underground movement that claimed responsibility for bombings across the country in the 1970s.
About 12 protest outside Ayers speech




About 250 people turned out to listen to William Ayers, a controversial educator-activist, speak Friday in the Satellite Student Union at Fresno State.


Now a professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, he was a polarizing figure in the 2008 presidential election. He lived in the same Chicago neighborhood as Barack Obama and they served on a board together.

"It is a fact we shared a boardroom," he said about Obama in an interview before Friday's lecture. "We are not sharing a milkshake with two straws."

Ayers said he doesn't believe protesters distract from his message. He said he met with a half-dozen Fresno protesters Thursday and found they share some common ground.

Nearly everywhere, an Ayers speaking engagement has generated controversy.

At the University of Wyoming in Laramie, about 80 students held a rally Thursday after the school refused to allow Ayers to speak. Ayers said the university's president bowed to pressure and threats from "people with torches and pitchforks." He has joined a lawsuit filed by a UW student over the matter. A federal court hearing is set for Monday.

Friday in Fresno, protesters debated whether Ayers should have been allowed to speak.

John Smedley of Madera Ranchos, a member of the Central Valley Tea Party, held a sign that read: "We love America -- don't blow it up, Bill." On the back, it said, "Freedom is the opposite of Communism. Stay free."

Smedley and Richard Stone of Fresno, a member of the Fresno Center for Non-Violence, engaged in a heated, but polite, discussion before Ayers' lecture.

"I sincerely doubt Ayers is a communist," said Stone, interrupting Smedley.

"Is it my turn now?" Smedley asked.

"Yes, if you say something logical," Stone said.

"But logical to me might not be logical to you," Smedley said, as both men laughed.

Susan Brown of Fresno, also a Tea Party member, said Ayers should not have been allowed to speak. "He participated in such terrible acts against our country," Brown said.

Read more: http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/04/23/1908417/about-12-protest-outside-ayers.html#ixzz0lzXrMolB

[annm4peace]

8. Local TV, KSEE 24, does an almost decent interview of Bill Ayers

well, I must say that was a better interview i have seen in a long time by a network news station.

http://www.ksee24.com/news/local/91987329.html?video=YHI&t=a
William Ayers is a professor at the University of Illinois. He's also considered a highly controversial activist dating back to the 1970's. He gave a lecture in front of a mixed crowd at Fresno State. KSEE 24 caught up with Ayers one on one.

[NYC_SKP]

9. Funny. I've been with him for the past two days, he mentioned this film today.

He didn't mention Fresno.

He did mention Obama, Rahm, and Arne.

He's really a brilliant man, I didn't know he had a background in early childhood education and work with juvenile hall populations.

:patriot:

[KamaAina]

10. Since when does the State of California take orders from KKKMJ?

:wtf: