2006 Conference Events
~May 19, 20~
                         ~   Keynote Speaker: Ward Churchill   ~   Workshops   ~   Discussion Forums   ~   Kids' Peace Faire   ~   Academic Paper Panels   ~   Day-long Peace Meditation   ~   Film Night   ~   Peace & Justice Speakout   ~   Art Exhibits   ~   And more   ~

            Conference co-sponsored by
       Whatcom Human
        Rights Task Force

2006 Keynote Address: WARD CHURCHILL
                 Sponsored by Western Washington University's Civil Controversy Series
 

         

Indigenous activist and scholar Ward Churchill (of Cherokee ancestry) is an Associate Professor of Communications at the University of Colorado at Bolder. He is Co-Director of the Colorado chapter of the American Indian Movement, and is a former spokesperson for the Leonard Peltier Defense Fund and vice chair of the American Indian Anti-Defamation Council. A prolific writer on Indian and ethnic studies, his works appear regularly in such journals as Z Magazine and New Studies on the Left.  His books include Marxism and Native Americans (1984); Fantasies of the Master Race (1992); Struggle for the Land (1993/2002); Indians Are Us (1995); Since Predator Came (1995); From A Native Son (1996); A Little Matter of Genocide (1998); Acts of Rebellion (2002); Kill the Indian, Save the Man (2004). Churchill is also an active lecturer, with speaking engagements stretching across North America. Churchill was widely discussed, with both praise and criticism, in the mass media during 2005, stimulated by publicity given to a 2001 essay in which Churchill questioned the innocence of many of the people killed in the World Trade Center attacks, labeling them as "technocrats" and "little Eichmanns." No stranger to controversy, Churchill is known for calling it how he sees it. Agree or disagree, he is sure to provoke some critical thought.

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