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<blockquote data-quote="BrownShark" data-source="post: 332037" data-attributes="member: 12148"><p><strong>Who is Bill Ayers???</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>William C. ("Bill") Ayers</strong> (born <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">1944</span></u></a>) is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinguished_Professor" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Distinguished Professor</span></u></a> of Education at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Illinois_at_Chicago" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">University of Illinois at Chicago</span></u></a> who has worked on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_reform" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">school reform</span></u></a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%2C_Illinois" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Chicago</span></u></a>. He was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960s" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">1960s</span></u></a>-era radical and a founder of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_%28organization%29" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">Weatherman group</span></u></a>, which later became the Weather Underground.</p><p> </p><p>Ayers is the son of Thomas G. Ayers, former Chairman and CEO of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Edison" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Commonwealth Edison</span></u></a>, Chicago philanthropist and the namesake of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_G._Ayers_College_of_Commerce_and_Industry" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Thomas G. Ayers College of Commerce and Industry</span></u></a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-0" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[1]</span></u></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-1" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[2]</span></u></a> (The senior Ayers succeeded to the chairmanship of Commonwealth Edison after his son had attained notoriety.) Bill Ayers grew up in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Ellyn%2C_Illinois" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Glen Ellyn</span></u></a>, a suburb of Chicago, and attended <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Forest_Academy" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Lake Forest Academy</span></u></a>. He earned a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.A." target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">B.A.</span></u></a> from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Michigan" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">University of Michigan</span></u></a> in American Studies in 1968.</p><p> </p><p>According to his memoir, Ayers became radicalized at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Michigan" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">University of Michigan</span></u></a> where he became involved in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Left" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">New Left</span></u></a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society_%281960_organization%29" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Students for a Democratic Society</span></u></a> (SDS). In 1969, Ayers joined the Weatherman group (which arose as a result of a schism in SDS). The following year, he "went underground" with several associates after the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Village_townhouse_explosion" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Greenwich Village townhouse explosion</span></u></a>, in which three Weatherman members (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Gold" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Ted Gold</span></u></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Robbins" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Terry Robbins</span></u></a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Oughton" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Diana Oughton</span></u></a>, who was Ayers's girlfriend at the time) were killed while constructing a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nail_bomb" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">nail bomb</span></u></a>. <strong><span style="color: red">At the moment he went underground, he himself was not facing criminal charges; but eventually the federal government did file charges against him.</span></strong> While underground, he and fellow member <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardine_Dohrn" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Bernardine Dohrn</span></u></a> married and had two children. <strong>They were purged from the group in the mid-1970s, and turned themselves in to the authorities in 1981. All charges against him were dropped because of prosecutorial misconduct during the long search for the fugitives.</strong> Ayers and Dohrn later became legal guardians to the son of former Weathermen <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gilbert" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">David Gilbert</span></u></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Boudin" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Kathy Boudin</span></u></a>, after his parents were arrested for their part in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinks_robbery_%281981%29" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Brinks Robbery of 1981</span></u></a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-Smith-2" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[3]</span></u></a></p><p>Ayers' radical past continues to lend him notoriety, as in the fall of 2006, when, according to him, he was asked not to attend a progressive educators' conference on the basis that the organizers did not want to risk an association with that past<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-3" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[4]</span></u></a>.</p><p> </p><p>Ayers is currently a Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Education. His interests include teaching for social justice, urban educational reform, narrative and interpretive research, children in trouble with the law, and related issues.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-UIC-9" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[10]</span></u></a></p><p>He began his career in primary education while an undergraduate, doing student teaching.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-10" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[11]</span></u></a>[<em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">citation needed</span></u></a></em>] Upon abandoning his fugitive existence, he returned to the field. He earned an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.Ed" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">M.Ed</span></u></a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Street_College" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Bank Street College</span></u></a> in Early Childhood Education (1984), an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.Ed" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">M.Ed</span></u></a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teachers_College%2C_Columbia_University" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Teachers College, Columbia University</span></u></a> in Early Childhood Education (1987) and an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed.D" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Ed.D</span></u></a> from Columbia University in Curriculum and Instruction (1987).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-UIC-9" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[10]</span></u></a></p><p> </p><p>As a professor of education, he has edited and written many books and articles on education theory, policy and practice, and has appeared on many panels and symposia. He was tapped by Chicago Mayor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_M._Daley" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Richard M. Daley</span></u></a> to shape that city's now nationally-renowned school reform program.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-11" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[12]</span></u></a></p><p> </p><p>Ayers has also served on the board of directors of the <a href="http://www.woodsfund.org/" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Woods Fund</span></u></a> of Chicago, an anti-poverty, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthropy" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">philanthropic</span></u></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_%28nonprofit_organization%29" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">foundation</span></u></a>, since 1999. Ayers served on the board with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Senator</span></u></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Barack Obama</span></u></a> from 1999 to 2002.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-12" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[13]</span></u></a></p><p> </p><p>***************</p><p> </p><p>NOW, I challenge anyone to demonstrate one single republican domestic terrorist who has accomplished anything close to what Bill Ayers has done since his "fugitive" days to help american society??</p><p> </p><p>I just wish people would leave the propaganda alone and attempt to see thru the media B.S. on the Ayer/OBAMA issue.</p><p> </p><p>Ayers was convicted of nothing, he didnt have to testify against his comrades after pleading guilty, he never hid evidence, he never planted evidence or manufactured a report to make him look innocent.</p><p> </p><p>HE OWNED UP TO IT.</p><p> </p><p>Remember, in this country, he is innocent. All the Bill Orielly, Sean Hannity, Rush Limpbaugh, Ann Coulture Hype does not make a conviction.</p><p> </p><p>Do your own research people, dont get your info from "OPINION" media.</p><p> </p><p>Peace<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/peaceful.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":peaceful:" title="Peaceful :peaceful:" data-shortname=":peaceful:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrownShark, post: 332037, member: 12148"] [b]Who is Bill Ayers???[/b] [B]William C. ("Bill") Ayers[/B] (born [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]1944[/COLOR][/U][/URL]) is a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinguished_Professor"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Distinguished Professor[/COLOR][/U][/URL] of Education at the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Illinois_at_Chicago"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]University of Illinois at Chicago[/COLOR][/U][/URL] who has worked on [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_reform"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]school reform[/COLOR][/U][/URL] in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%2C_Illinois"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Chicago[/COLOR][/U][/URL]. He was a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960s"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]1960s[/COLOR][/U][/URL]-era radical and a founder of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_%28organization%29"][U][COLOR=#800080]Weatherman group[/COLOR][/U][/URL], which later became the Weather Underground. Ayers is the son of Thomas G. Ayers, former Chairman and CEO of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Edison"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Commonwealth Edison[/COLOR][/U][/URL], Chicago philanthropist and the namesake of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_G._Ayers_College_of_Commerce_and_Industry"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Thomas G. Ayers College of Commerce and Industry[/COLOR][/U][/URL].[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-0"][U][COLOR=#800080][1][/COLOR][/U][/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-1"][U][COLOR=#800080][2][/COLOR][/U][/URL] (The senior Ayers succeeded to the chairmanship of Commonwealth Edison after his son had attained notoriety.) Bill Ayers grew up in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Ellyn%2C_Illinois"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Glen Ellyn[/COLOR][/U][/URL], a suburb of Chicago, and attended [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Forest_Academy"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Lake Forest Academy[/COLOR][/U][/URL]. He earned a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.A."][U][COLOR=#0000ff]B.A.[/COLOR][/U][/URL] from the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Michigan"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]University of Michigan[/COLOR][/U][/URL] in American Studies in 1968. According to his memoir, Ayers became radicalized at the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Michigan"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]University of Michigan[/COLOR][/U][/URL] where he became involved in the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Left"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]New Left[/COLOR][/U][/URL] and the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society_%281960_organization%29"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Students for a Democratic Society[/COLOR][/U][/URL] (SDS). In 1969, Ayers joined the Weatherman group (which arose as a result of a schism in SDS). The following year, he "went underground" with several associates after the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Village_townhouse_explosion"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Greenwich Village townhouse explosion[/COLOR][/U][/URL], in which three Weatherman members ([URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Gold"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Ted Gold[/COLOR][/U][/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Robbins"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Terry Robbins[/COLOR][/U][/URL], and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Oughton"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Diana Oughton[/COLOR][/U][/URL], who was Ayers's girlfriend at the time) were killed while constructing a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nail_bomb"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]nail bomb[/COLOR][/U][/URL]. [B][COLOR=red]At the moment he went underground, he himself was not facing criminal charges; but eventually the federal government did file charges against him.[/COLOR][/B] While underground, he and fellow member [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardine_Dohrn"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Bernardine Dohrn[/COLOR][/U][/URL] married and had two children. [B]They were purged from the group in the mid-1970s, and turned themselves in to the authorities in 1981. All charges against him were dropped because of prosecutorial misconduct during the long search for the fugitives.[/B] Ayers and Dohrn later became legal guardians to the son of former Weathermen [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gilbert"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]David Gilbert[/COLOR][/U][/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Boudin"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Kathy Boudin[/COLOR][/U][/URL], after his parents were arrested for their part in the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinks_robbery_%281981%29"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Brinks Robbery of 1981[/COLOR][/U][/URL].[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-Smith-2"][U][COLOR=#800080][3][/COLOR][/U][/URL] Ayers' radical past continues to lend him notoriety, as in the fall of 2006, when, according to him, he was asked not to attend a progressive educators' conference on the basis that the organizers did not want to risk an association with that past[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-3"][U][COLOR=#800080][4][/COLOR][/U][/URL]. Ayers is currently a Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Education. His interests include teaching for social justice, urban educational reform, narrative and interpretive research, children in trouble with the law, and related issues.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-UIC-9"][U][COLOR=#800080][10][/COLOR][/U][/URL] He began his career in primary education while an undergraduate, doing student teaching.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-10"][U][COLOR=#800080][11][/COLOR][/U][/URL][[I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]citation needed[/COLOR][/U][/URL][/I]] Upon abandoning his fugitive existence, he returned to the field. He earned an [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.Ed"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]M.Ed[/COLOR][/U][/URL] from [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Street_College"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Bank Street College[/COLOR][/U][/URL] in Early Childhood Education (1984), an [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.Ed"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]M.Ed[/COLOR][/U][/URL] from [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teachers_College%2C_Columbia_University"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Teachers College, Columbia University[/COLOR][/U][/URL] in Early Childhood Education (1987) and an [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed.D"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Ed.D[/COLOR][/U][/URL] from Columbia University in Curriculum and Instruction (1987).[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-UIC-9"][U][COLOR=#800080][10][/COLOR][/U][/URL] As a professor of education, he has edited and written many books and articles on education theory, policy and practice, and has appeared on many panels and symposia. He was tapped by Chicago Mayor [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_M._Daley"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Richard M. Daley[/COLOR][/U][/URL] to shape that city's now nationally-renowned school reform program.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-11"][U][COLOR=#800080][12][/COLOR][/U][/URL] Ayers has also served on the board of directors of the [URL="http://www.woodsfund.org/"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Woods Fund[/COLOR][/U][/URL] of Chicago, an anti-poverty, [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthropy"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]philanthropic[/COLOR][/U][/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_%28nonprofit_organization%29"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]foundation[/COLOR][/U][/URL], since 1999. Ayers served on the board with [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Senator[/COLOR][/U][/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Barack Obama[/COLOR][/U][/URL] from 1999 to 2002.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers#cite_note-12"][U][COLOR=#800080][13][/COLOR][/U][/URL] *************** NOW, I challenge anyone to demonstrate one single republican domestic terrorist who has accomplished anything close to what Bill Ayers has done since his "fugitive" days to help american society?? I just wish people would leave the propaganda alone and attempt to see thru the media B.S. on the Ayer/OBAMA issue. Ayers was convicted of nothing, he didnt have to testify against his comrades after pleading guilty, he never hid evidence, he never planted evidence or manufactured a report to make him look innocent. HE OWNED UP TO IT. Remember, in this country, he is innocent. All the Bill Orielly, Sean Hannity, Rush Limpbaugh, Ann Coulture Hype does not make a conviction. Do your own research people, dont get your info from "OPINION" media. Peace:peaceful: [/QUOTE]
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