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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums“Hands Off Goddard College!” - Head of Goddard on CNN next (3:30pm)
Good ole Goddard - just like the old days! Any DUers have a connection to this hallowed institution?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/03/to-police-and-politicians-hands-off-goddard-college/
Students at Goddard College in Vermont will hear Pennsylvania imprisoned journalist, Mumia Abu-Jamal, give their commencement address this Sunday, October 5, 2014.
Police and supporting conservative politicians are up in arms, denouncing Goddard College, even pressing for cancellation of Abu-Jamals address.
Abu-Jamals speech will have to be a pre-recorded speech, a genre the veteran journalist has honed to award-winning form, in local Philadelphia radio and for National Public Radio. His skills and awards came prior to being convicted in 1982 for the killing of Officer Daniel Faulkner, and before he served over 29 years on death row. His death sentence was ruled unconstitutional in 2001, and finally vacated in 2011. He now serves a life sentence in a Pennsylvania prison.
From death row and prison, Abu-Jamals renown only grew. He has authored thousands of audio and print essays, and eight books. He also earned a Bachelors degree (Goddard College) and a Masters degree (California State University / Dominguez Hills) while in prison. He has become the voice of the voiceless for many repressed voices in the nation and world. While he is, himself, a life-long critic of racist brutal cops, he wrote in defense of LA police whose federal retrial for the 1992 Rodney King beating he saw as clear violation of their freedom from double-jeopardy.
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“Hands Off Goddard College!” - Head of Goddard on CNN next (3:30pm) (Original Post)
flamingdem
Oct 2014
OP
Straw-man. The government isn't cracking down. But maybe the college could assign this:
WinkyDink
Oct 2014
#1
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)1. Straw-man. The government isn't cracking down. But maybe the college could assign this:
http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20141005_Consider_facts_on_cop_killing.html
It was a straight-forward case. His subsequent defenders, famous or otherwise, are irrelevant.
Interesting, though, that THEY are trying to pin the murder on a dead man, a man for whom they can produce zero evidence save "But HE was there, TOO!"
http://www.freemumia.com/who-is-mumia-abu-jamal/
Now, I am as appalled and enraged as ANYONE else about police brutality, "No-Knock" assaults, DWB stops, and the like.
But sometimes a crime is a crime, and a verdict is correct.
It was a straight-forward case. His subsequent defenders, famous or otherwise, are irrelevant.
Interesting, though, that THEY are trying to pin the murder on a dead man, a man for whom they can produce zero evidence save "But HE was there, TOO!"
http://www.freemumia.com/who-is-mumia-abu-jamal/
Now, I am as appalled and enraged as ANYONE else about police brutality, "No-Knock" assaults, DWB stops, and the like.
But sometimes a crime is a crime, and a verdict is correct.
FarPoint
(12,179 posts)2. The closest connection to Goddard College for me is....
My son goes to school in Montpelier Vt.at New England Culinary School. He just came home for a break a week ago...just left Ohio today to return. I believe Goddard is about 8-10 miles away from his school.
flamingdem
(39,300 posts)4. The Culinary school used to have a very good restaurant
in Montpelier, they probably still do. Yum!
FarPoint
(12,179 posts)6. They have a fabulous restaurant, NECI on Main...
Also, a bakery coffee shop, LA Brioche...also to die for bread, pastry and locally roasted coffee. I'm going back up in December.
salib
(2,116 posts)7. They are closely connected
http://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/vermonts-struggling-culinary-school-plans-its-next-course/Content?oid=2332056
"The entrepreneurs who cooked up the vision of a culinary school in Vermont weren't cooks themselves: Voigt and John Dranow met in the 1970s at Goddard College, where Voigt was then dean of summer programs and Dranow started the school's summer writing program. Their wives, Ellen Bryant Voigt and Louise Glück, respectively, were both poets teaching in the graduate writing program at Goddard, a school known for its alternative approach."
"The entrepreneurs who cooked up the vision of a culinary school in Vermont weren't cooks themselves: Voigt and John Dranow met in the 1970s at Goddard College, where Voigt was then dean of summer programs and Dranow started the school's summer writing program. Their wives, Ellen Bryant Voigt and Louise Glück, respectively, were both poets teaching in the graduate writing program at Goddard, a school known for its alternative approach."
FarPoint
(12,179 posts)8. Oh my gosh! That's so cool!
No wonder we picked NECI ...as did my son.
cali
(114,904 posts)3. Goddard is a shell of its former self. It's now a long distance learning college
He's going to be addressing less than 20 students. much ado about nothing.
flamingdem
(39,300 posts)5. They really got a lot of attention
Maybe it will increase enrollment.