Judy Ancel, Missouri Labor Professor, Discusses Fight Against Right-Wing Video Smear Campaign 2 of 2 http://youtu.be/QQFmlmhl5P4DemocracyNow.org - Democracy Now! interviews University of Missouri professor and labor activist Judy Ancel about the growing right-wing attacks on public education and the atmosphere of fear they produce. "The attack on labor education is an attack on academic freedom," Ancel says.
She was one of two professors who were recently vindicated after a right-wing smear campaign almost cost them their jobs. Last month, the website BigGovernment.com—run by right-wing blogger Andrew Breitbart—posted footage of a labor relations class taught by University of Missouri professors Judy Ancel and Don Giljum. In the video, the professors appeared to make a number of statements backing the use of violence in the struggle for labor rights. But it turned out the video was edited in a way to distort their words—similar to recent video campaigns against ACORN, Planned Parenthood, NPR and former FDA official, Shirley Sherrod. "I was just appalled. I knew it was me speaking, but it wasn't saying what I had said in class," said Judy Ancel, Director of the Institute for Labor Studies, University of Missouri-Kansas City, on Democracy Now! May 17.
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