Opposed Ayers invitation
Mon, 01/31/2011
I wish to register a protest that our public school, Highline Community College asked Bill Ayers to speak.
Here are the facts that make me opposed to his speaking to our students:
William Charles "Bill" Ayers is an American elementary education theorist and a former leader in the movement that opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. He is known for his 1960s activism as well as his current work in education reform, curriculum, and instruction. In 1969 he co-founded the Weather Underground, a self-described communist revolutionary group that conducted a campaign of bombing public buildings during the 1960s and 1970s, motivated by U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. He is married to Bernardine Dohrn, who was a leader in the Weather organization.
He is currently involved in work that seeks to tear down our constitutional republic. He was not a fit speaker!
Barbara Levich
Burien