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By Steve Diamond on Sep 8, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Chicago School Reform Collaborative, Chicago politics, Crown family, Penny Pritzker, William Ayers | 195 Comments
As Global Labor readers are well aware the University of Illinois at Chicago denied Stanley Kurtz of National Review access to the official records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the six-year-long $160 million education reform project led by, among others, Barack Obama and Bill Ayers. The denial of access to the archives of the CAC [...]
By Steve Diamond on Aug 28, 2008 in 1st Amendment, Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Chicago politics, William Ayers, Woods Fund | 84 Comments
The other night was a surreal experience. Chicago is home to a retired conservative University of Chicago professor named Milt Rosenberg who hosts an evening talk show on WGN radio. WGN stands for “World’s Greatest Newspaper” because it is owned by the Tribune Company which also owns the Chicago Cubs. Jack Brickhouse, the voice of [...]
By Steve Diamond on Aug 21, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, William Ayers, Woods Fund | 13 Comments
Here is a second group of records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (“CAC”), the education reform project founded by Bill Ayers and which he led with Barack Obama from 1995 until 2001. The Challenge spent some $160 million in the Chicago Public School system during that time period with the explicit goal of improving educational [...]
By Steve Diamond on Aug 19, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Chicago politics, Weather Underground, William Ayers | 80 Comments
There has been some very interesting blogosphere discussion in reaction to the National Review piece on the blocking of access to research material on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge today. One comment noted: it’s not the crime, it’s the cover up and now the University of Illinois has provided the cover up. Ironic, that a [...]
By Steve Diamond on Aug 12, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Bolshevikization, Chicago politics, William Ayers, Woods Fund | 174 Comments
If you take the Obama campaign at its word, the contention that there is a relationship between Bill Ayers and Barack Obama is “phony,” “tenuous,” a “stretch.” In Obama’s own words, Ayers was “just a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” certainly not a long time close political ally. But a review of just the [...]
By Steve Diamond on Jul 14, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Chicago politics, Joyce Foundation, Richard Daley, William Ayers, Woods Fund | 161 Comments
The New Yorker magazine made a fundamental mistake when it decided to answer the question, Who Sent Obama? They sent a 30-something New Yorker named Ryan Lizza to Chicago. And Chicago ate him for breakfast and never looked back. Of course, as patient readers of Global Labor well know, we asked, and answered, the [...]
By Steve Diamond on Jul 5, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barbara Jordan, Bill Ayers, Chicago politics, Education, Education Debt, Unions, Weather Underground, William Ayers | 257 Comments
All of a sudden, the American Federation of Teachers seems to have decided it is in their best interest to rise to the defense of Obama and his education advisor Linda Darling-Hammond. In particular, they do not want anyone looking too closely at the long-standing relationship between Bill Ayers and their preferred presidential candidate, Senator [...]
By Steve Diamond on Jun 26, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bolshevikization, Chicago politics, Weather Underground, William Ayers | 205 Comments
Easy come, easy go. No sooner than Global Labor blogged here and here — reprinted at No Quarter earlier in ““White Guilt” Politics of Obama Crowd Undermined” — about the role in the Obama campaign of Mike Klonsky, former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers’ longtime comrade-in-arms from their days in SDS to the Chicago School Wars [...]
By Steve Diamond on Jun 26, 2008 in Barack Obama, Bernardine Dohrn, Bolshevikization, Current Affairs, Education, Education Debt, Latinos, Race Card, Racism, Weather Underground, William Ayers | 174 Comments
If you believe the rhetoric of the “social justice” crowd influencing the Obama camp’s approach to education policy – the authoritarian leftists Bill Ayers and his sidekick Mike Klonsky as well ed school professors like Linda Darling-Hammond and Gloria Ladson-Billings – only reparations for 400 years of oppression of non-whites will allow us to close the [...]
By Steve Diamond on Jun 19, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Chicago, Chicago politics, Joyce Foundation, Race, Weather Underground, William Ayers, Woods Fund | 101 Comments
The key points of this (long!) blog post: 1) Obama education advisor Linda Darling-Hammond responds to Global Labor blog posts on Bill Ayers and Reparations 2) Review of Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) documents shows that Ayers and Obama each chaired the two CAC operating bodies from 1995 to 2000 3) CAC was at heart of [...]
By Steve Diamond on Jun 12, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Chicago, Chicago politics, Hugo Chavez, William Ayers | 129 Comments
If they start to foam at the mouth about you I guess what you are saying is having some kind of impact, so the lumping of my work along with others under the title of a recent blog called “Lies, Damnable Lies, and Political Commentary,” should perhaps be viewed as a kind of praise. But [...]
By Steve Diamond on May 23, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Education, Weather Underground, William Ayers | 88 Comments
NOTE FROM LARRY JOHNSON: Steve Diamond has been on the cutting edge of this investigation. The story below is written in the precise, scholarly style Steve is accustomed to using as a genuine Law professor (unlike Barack). For those of you with Attention Deficit Disorder, here’s the bottomline–Barack Obama continues to lie about his long [...]
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