Former radical Bill Ayers due at Town Hall
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/207610.asp
by Joel Connelly
May 24, 2010
Former radical William Ayers, object of late-in-the-game Republican
attacks in the 2008 presidential campaign, will lecture on the topic
"To Teach: The Journey" on June 7 at Town Hall, in Seattle.
Ayers' own journey has taken him from the Weather Underground and
"Days of Rage" in the late 1960s to his current role as Distinguished
Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the
University of Illinois -- Chicago.
The lecture title is also title of an Ayers book, recently reissued
with comic illustrations. He has been quoted as saying, "Teaching at
its best is not a matter of technique: It's primarily an act of love."
Ayers published a memoir of his radical activism -- the Weather
Underground planted bombs and broke windows -- soon after the 9/11
bombing. Another veteran of the group, onetime high-profile Columbia
University radical Mark Rudd, produced a memoir in 2007 soon after
retiring from his post teaching mathematics at a community college in
New Mexico.
Ayers was once pursued by the "Red Squad" of Chicago Mayor Richard J.
Daley. In his later life, he has won praise from hizzoner's son,
present-day Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.
He is founder of the Small Schools Workshop in Chicago, and the
Center for Youth and Society.
He was a neighbor of State Sen. (and later, of U.S. Sen.) Barack
Obama in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The two men served
together on a foundation board giving out grants in a program
underwritten by the late Walter Annenberg, a major Republican donor
who was Richard Nixon's Ambassador to the Court of St. James.
In the 2008 campaign, however, Ayers was constantly demonized on the
Fox News Channel -- the TV voice of the Republican Party -- and GOP
vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin accused Obama of "pallin'
around with terrorists."
The Ayers appearance is sponsored by the Town Hall Center for Civic
Life, underwritten in part by the Boeing Company Charitable Trust and
RealNetworks Foundation.
Tickets are $5 and can be obtained here or by calling 800-838-3006.
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