Update: Bill Ayers
And so he’s taken to his blog, billayers.wordpress.com, to write about it.
“Bill Ayers is one of my heroes in life,” said Sam Ackerman, a longtime local activist.
Bill Ayers went underground again Thursday.
William Charles “Bill” Ayers is an American elementary education theorist, and former leading 1960s militant.
Barack Obama complains that he’s been unfairly attacked for a casual political and social relationship with his neighbor, former Weatherman Bill Ayers.
JERUSALEM – In spite of Sen. Barack Obama’s claims to the contrary, the Democratic presidential nominee had a close working relationship with former Weathermen terrorist leader William Ayers when the two served alongside each other on a hundred-million-dollar education foundation, according to the group’s own archived records.
In the ultraliberal Hyde Park community where the presidential candidate first earned his political spurs, Ayers is widely regarded as a member in good standing of the city’s civic establishment, not an unrepentant domestic terrorist.
During last night’s Democratic presidential primary debate in Philadelphia, Sen. Barack Obama was pressed forcefully by moderator George Stephanopoulos and Democratic rival Sen. Hillary Clinton about his relationship with William Ayers, a former member of the radical anti-Vietnam War group the Weathermen later the Weather Underground which bombed government buildings in the 1970s.
In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
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In 1995, Obama was appointed as the CAC’s first chairman.
Dohrn received a $1,500 fine and three years probation for her role in the ‘Days of Rage’ disturbance in Chicago in 1969.
Bill Ayers is shown in a Chicago Police mug shot in August 1968.
This time, however, he does it from his tenured perch as Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
This article is about the professor of Education and former radical activist.
News reports, archived records, interviews and Ayers’ own curriculum vitae document that Ayers was the founder of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, or CAC, which bills itself as a school reform organization.
“This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from,” said the senator from Illinois.
As I have shown elsewhere in City Journal, Ayers’s politics have hardly changed since his Weatherman days.
As head of an SDS regional group, the “Jesse James Gang”, Ayers made decisive contributions to the Weatherman orientation toward militancy.
Ayers, 63, spent 10 years as a fugitive in the 1970s when he was part of the “Weather Underground,” an anti-Vietnam War group that protested U.S. policies by bombing the Pentagon, U.S. Capitol and a string of other government buildings.
