On the justice of roosting chickens / C-SPAN.

Professor Churchill spoke on the controversy surrounding his book, On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Reflections of the Consequences on U.S. Imperial Arrogance and Criminality, published by AK Press. The book was an expansion of an article about the attacks of September 11, 2001, arguing that Americans should not have been surprised by attacks against symbols of Western culture and capitalism. Rather, he cited the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children in the wake of U.N. sanctions placed on Iraq after the first Gulf War as a justification by Islamic Militants for the acts of terrorism. The most controversial aspects of his writings were the characterization of the people killed at the World Trade Center as "little Eichmanns," an illusion to Nazi Bureaucrat Adolf Eichmann, a chief facilitator of Hitler's Final Solution. Professor Churchill resigned his chairmanship of the school's ethnic studies program on January 31, 2005, while retaining his tenured faculty position. He had also come under intense media scrutiny for his ideas and a lecture at Hamilton College was canceled after the public outcry. This talk was titled "Ward Churchill Speaks on His Book: Real Academic Discourse Outside the Filter of the Media," was sponsored by a group called "CU Students, Staff and Faculty in Support of Ward Churchill."

Speakers, Russell Means, Ward Churchill.

Recording of a speech originally given at the University of Colorado, Boulder, on Feb. 8, 2005, and subsequently broadcast on C-SPAN.