Press Releases
10/21 Opposition Mounts in Response to David Horowitz's Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week
10/24 Protests Planned to Oppose Appearance by Ann Coulter at USC tonight
Press Contacts IFAW
Contact the following for comments on David Horowitz, Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week and the need to defend dissent and critical thinking in academia. Except where indicated, they are also available for radio and television interviews.
Bill Ayers: (312) 343-0101, bayers@uic.edu
Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and 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.
Noam Chomsky: (617) 253-7819, chomsky@mit.edu
Noam Chomsky is one of America's most prominent political dissidents. A renowned professor of linguistics at MIT, he has authored over 30 political books dissecting such issues as U.S. interventionism in the developing world, the political economy of human rights and the propaganda role of corporate media. Chomsky is not available for television interviews at this time.
Reggie Dylan: (626) 319-1730, criticalxthinking@yahoo.com
Dylan is the spokesperson for The National Project to Defend Dissent and Critical Thinking in Academia.
Richard A. Falk: (90-216) 318 6672, rfalk@Princeton.edu
Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice at Princeton University; Visiting Distinguished Professor (since 2002), Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. Falk is currently traveling in Turkey and may be unavailable at times.
Larry Everest: (510) 684.2104, larryeverest@hotmail.com
Larry Everest's most recent work is Oil, Power & Empire: Iraq and the US Global Agenda (Common Courage Press, 2003). Everest has covered the Middle East and Central Asia for over 20 years for the Revolution newspaper and other publications. In 1986 Everest wrote Behind the Poison Cloud: Union Carbide’s Bhopal Massacre, based on his on-the-scene investigation in Bhopal, India shortly after the gas disaster. In 1991, shortly after the end of the Persian Gulf War, Everest went to Iraq to document the impact of the war on the Iraqi people and filmed the award-winning video Iraq: War Against the People.
Henry Giroux: (905) 525-9140 ext. 26551, henry.giroux@gmail.com
Giroux currently holds the Global Television Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. He is the author of 39 books, including The Terror of Neoliberalism: Authoritarianism and the Eclipse of Democracy, Paradigm Publishers (2004), Against the New Authoritarianism: Politics After Abu Ghraib, Arbeiter Ring Publishing (2005), Stormy Weather: Katrina and the Politics of Disposability, Paradigm Publishers, (2006), and The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex, Paradigm Publishers, (2007).
Chris Hedges: (626) 319-1730, criticalxthinking@yahoo.com
Currently a fellow at The Nation Institute and a Lannan Literary Fellow, was a foreign correspondent for nearly 20 years, working as the bureau chief in the Middle East and the Balkans, as well as in other foreign assignments, for The New York Times from 1990 to 2005. He previously worked for The Dallas Morning News, National Public Radio and The Christian Science Monitor in Latin America and the Middle East. He has reported from over fifty countries as a correspondent based in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans. Hedges was a member of the New York Times team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism. He received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. Hedges holds a B.A. in English Literature from Colgate University and a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University and Princeton University and written for Foreign Affairs, Granta, Harper’s, Mother Jones, The New Statesman and The New York Review of Books. Hedges is the author of War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning - a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. His other books are What Every Person Should Know About War, Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America and American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America. He can be contacted through The National Project to Defend Dissent and Critical Thinking in Academia.
Gary Leupp: gleupp@granite.tufts.edu
Professor of History, and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Religion, at Tufts University and author of numerous works on Japanese history. He has written articles for Dissident Voice and Counterpunch.
Yifat Susskind: (212) 627-0444
Yifat Susskind, MADRE's Communications Director, was active in the Israeli women's peace movement for several years and directed a project at a joint Israeli-Palestinian human rights organization in Jerusalem before joining MADRE. She is the author of a MADRE report entitled ‘Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy: Gender-Based Violence and the US War on Iraq,’ which examines the incidence, causes, and legalization of gender-based violence in Iraq since the US-led invasion. She has written extensively on US foreign policy and women's human rights; her critical analysis has appeared in online and print publications such as TomPaine.com, Foreign Policy in Focus, and The W Effect: Bush's War on Women, published by the Feminist Press in 2004. Ms. Susskind has been featured as a commentator on CNN, National Public Radio, and BBC Radio.
Henry Silverman: (626) 319-1730, criticalxthinking@yahoo.com
Professor and Chairperson Emeritus, Department of History, Michigan State University.
Sunsara Taylor: (626) 319-1730, sunsarasworld@yahoo.com
Sunsara Taylor writes for Revolution newspaper and sits on the Advisory Board of The World Can’t Wait—Drive Out the Bush Regime. She has appeared on/in The New York Times, The O'Reilly Factor, CNN's Showbiz Tonight, Fox's Hannity & Colmes, Fox & Friends, the Alan Colmes Radio Show, and her writing has appeared in Revolution (revcom.us), TruthDig.com, TruthOut.org, CounterPunch.org, OnlineJournal.com, OpEdNews.com, SmirkingChimp.com, and numerous blogs.
John K. Wilson: (773) 227-8136, (773) 606-7830 (cell), collegefreedom@yahoo.com
Founder, Institute for College Freedom, www.collegefreedom.org, collegefreedom.blogspot.com: Author, "Patriotic Correctness: Academic Freedom and Its Enemies" (Paradigm Publishers, December 2007): Author, "Barack Obama: This Improbable Quest" (Paradigm Publishers, October 2007), www.obamapolitics.com.