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Ward Churchill, Toronto

Controversial Ward Churchill in Toronto tomorrow

By Judi McLeod
Friday, February 3, 2006

There likely will be no SWaT teams on the roof of OISE (Ontario Institute for the Study of Education) when the controversial Ward Churchill delivers his address there tomorrow.

In fact, the controversial Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado and former Director of the american Indian Movement in Colorado, seems to draw more yawns than protests when he's headed for Canadian soil.

The man who called 9/11 victims "little Eichmanns", commands $5,000 plus expenses out on the speakers tour.

a favoured son of the anarchists' movement, Churchill does some pro bono work.

a blue-jeaned, chain-smoking pariah among small c conservatives, he's an icon in radical academe from which he came. accusations of plagiarism and challenges to his ancestry that dub him a "pseudo-Indian" have only garnered him more fame. In some quarters, it is claimed that Churchill is now required reading in more than 100 universities.

With no fanfare, the man who Weekly Standard writer Matt Labash says travels with a CV that "runs 41 pages" will be in Toronto for the Student anti-Imperialist Network Conference.

according to a media release, "The Student anti-Imperialist is meant to bring together existing Youth and Student mass organizations to communicate, inform each other on campaigns, projects and ideas, share skills and work towards coordination and cooperation."

"Our hope is to encourage anti-imperialist organizing on campuses where this work is lacking, and contribute to the organizing where it currently exists," states the release.

a sort of hippie king of the anti-globalization movement, Churchill is on home turf with the OISE crowd.

"In order to combat in an effective fashion this process that now goes under the name of globalization we have consciously to restore our understanding of the necessity of being–as a first priority–anti-imperialist. But we need to be anti-imperialists who have learned from the past mistakes of anti-imperialism. If you want to stop globalization you have to stop it where it lives," Churchill says.

Other speakers at Saturday's OISE conference include Jorge Madriz, representative delegate from the Revolutionary Movement Tupamaro, Venezuela and Hilda Torres, Fundacion Hermanos Saiz, Cuba.

The speaking engagement is part of the founding conference of the Student anti-Imperialist Network.

Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com


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