Fresno hate radio, KMJ, spews lies about Bill Ayers, and State Depart cancels venue for Ayer's event

[annm4peace]

Because of the fallout from radio KMJ's interest in this week's screening of the film "The Weather Underground" which will be attended by Bill Ayers, the State of California Department of General Services revoked our permission to hold the event in the Hugh M Burns State Office Building. The event will now be held at the First Congregational Church, located at 2131 N. Van Ness Blvd. in Fresno, at the corner of Van Ness and Yale.

The date and time remain the same, April 22nd at 7 PM.

If you know anyone who is planning to attend, please advise them of this change.

This event is being widely publicized and criticized by radio KMJ, the Free Republic and the Tea Party. They plan to have a demonstration at 6 PM on the 22nd, presumably at the location of the event. If you attend, please remember that the first amendment still applies to us all and that these people have as much right to protest this event as interested persons have to attend it. Let's hold to the principles of tolerance and justice that we espouse and share this event peacefully. To quote Gandhi, "We must be the change we wish to see."

Sincerely,
John Maylone
Director, Creative Independent Activist Front

*****************************************************
KMJ had a news report on Ayers.. and then on the KMJ website I see they even wrote and article on the venue change of Ayers event.

So did KMJ did a hit piece on Ayers and then say " It is a mystery where his speaking event is going to be."

Here is the news announcement and interview with a neo-con christian conservative "accuracy in media"

http://www.kmj580.com/common/global_audio/174/18162.mp3

and new KMJ article on change of venue.

http://www.kmj580.com/pages/landing_news?60s-Radical-Ayers-To-Speak-in-Fresno=1&blockID=219138&feedID=806



*********************

Dear Friends of the Center:



1) I’m repeating the venue change for the Thursday, April 22 showing of the film “The Weather Underground” and presentation by William Ayers:



Permission to use the Hugh M. Burns State Building Assembly Hall for the Bill Ayers’ presentation and film on Thursday, April 22nd has been revoked by the State Department of General Services.



Fortunately, another venue has been found and this is the First Congregational Church (Big Red Church), 2131 N. Van Ness Blvd., Fresno. The event will start at 7 p.m. Free admission and wheelchair accessible.





2) Now, there is a venue change for the CSUF presentations for Friday, April 23. See below.



Please note venue change for this presentation

The College of Arts and Humanities
and
the Kremen School of Education and Human Development
present



Dr. William Ayers
Distinguished Professor of Education
and
Senior University Scholar at University of Illinois at Chicago



Pay Attention and Be Astonished: Ethical Action and the Creation of the Public Square

Friday, April 23, 2010
2-3:30 PM, Alice Peters Auditorium, McLane 161
Open and free to the public

3:30-4:30 Reception and Book signing
Dean's Gallery
Old Music Building

4:30-7:00 PM Film Screening Central Station (1998) and Discussion by Dr. Ayers, McLane 121



Central Station (1998). Director Walter Salles tells a profoundly moving tale of the human spirit. Inside Rio de Janeiro’s bustling Central Station, two very unlikely souls are about to become inextricably linked. When a young boy witnesses his mother’s accidental death, a lonely retired schoolteacher reluctantly takes the child under her wing. Although initially distrustful of each other, the two form an uncommon bond as they venture from the bustling city to Brazil’s barren and remote northeast region in search of the boy’s father. Together, the two embark on a journey of the heart that restores the woman’s spirit and teaches the child precious life lessons. This highly acclaimed film received numerous awards, including a Golden Globe and two Academy Award nominations. In Portuguese with English subtitles. 113 min.



Dr. William Ayers is founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society, teaches courses in interpretive and qualitative research, urban school change, and teaching and the modern predicament. A graduate of the University of Michigan, the Bank Street College of Education, Bennington College, and Teachers College, Columbia University, Ayers has written extensively about social justice, democracy and education, the cultural contexts of schooling, and teaching as an essentially intellectual, ethical, and political enterprise. He is currently the vice-president of the curriculum division of the American Educational Research Association, and a member of the executive committee of the UIC Faculty Senate.

Ayers' articles have appeared in many journals including the Harvard Educational Review, the Journal of Teacher Education, Teachers College Record, Rethinking Schools, The Nation, Educational Leadership, the New York Times and the Cambridge Journal of Education. His has authored and co-authored several books including To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher (Teachers College Press, 1993), which was named Book of the Year in 1993 by Kappa Delta Pi and won the Witten Award for Distinguished Work in Biography and Autobiography in 1995.





--
José A. Díaz, DMA
Associate Dean
College of Arts and Humanities
California State University Fresno

[annm4peace]

1. KMJ and Central Valley Teabaggers call for protest of Bill Ayers

I have been told that a substitute host on the Ray Appleton show yesterday
brought up the issue of Bill Ayer’s Fresno appearances at CSUF on Friday and
the screening of the “Weather Underground” Thursday. Apparently, listeners
became angry and expressed displeasure at his being invited to speak. It seems
that his long-past association with the Weather Underground makes him
undesirable in their eyes, even though he is now a nationally prominent
educator and Senior University Scholar at University of Illinois at Chicago.
You can see a KMJ article that appeared today at the link below, and, below
that, an invitation to a Tea Party demonstration against Ayers on Thursday.

Link to an article that appeared on the KMJ website:
http://www.kmjnow.com/pages/landing_news?60s-Radical-Ayers-To-Speak-in-Fresno=1&blockID=219138&feedID=806


=======================================

my.CentralValleyTeaParty.com: Get Involved with the Central Valley Tea Party
Brad Roltgen has invited you to the event 'Fresno - Bill Ayers
Protest' on my.CentralValleyTeaParty.com!
--------------------

Location announced tomorrow on event page, sent by E-Mail and sent to
our Text Messaging list. If you aren't on our Text Messaging list,
please text CVTP to 68398 to sign up.

Time: April 22, 2010 from 6pm to 8pm
Location: To Be Announced
Organized By: Steve Brandau:

Event Description:
Bill Ayers, co-founder of Weather Underground, a self-described
communist revolutionary group that conducted a campaign of bombing
public buildings during the sixties and seventies will be in Fresno on
Thursday at an undisclosed location (they've already moved the event
once).

We want to let him know that he is not welcome!

Please join us in a protest on Thursday (4/22) at 6:00 pm.

The location will be announced after 3:00 pm on Thursday here on this
event page and on our Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=84509477549&ref=ts

[annm4peace]

3. this event is today

I'm sure the local news will make a big deal of the tea baggers who show up to protest.

Free Republic started by a man in Fresno. A sad little creature that is often given praise by KMJ so his group will probably be on air.

The majority of people are not like the Free Republic. But since many of the talk radio, like KMJ are owned by these conservative neo-con agenda corporations the fundamentalist groups like Free Republic get lots of attention.

I will try to post pictures when I get home from work

[DJ13]

2. KMJ also owns 105.9 FM

They need to be included.