A Message From Ryan Commerson, A Student Leader
Mishka Zena We're going strong.. Even strong since the dps brutality incident. Injuries were "scarring" if u catch the drift.. The shock that dps wld do that is reverberating.I'm ok... Standing firm and confident that this wldnt be for nothing.
Fri, Oct 06 2006

Video Evidence of Assault on Students @ Bisontv.com
Elisa Abenchuchan GO TO http://www.bisontv.com/ TO SEE VIDEO EVIDENCE OF ASSAULT ON STUDENTS
Fri, Oct 06 2006

Your Help Needed. Please Contact the Media. Tell Them The...
Mishka Zena Gallaudet PR had released a statement that no Gally students were hurt. The media aren't hearing the students because of insufficient interpreters and Gally PR is taking advantage of that communication barriers. Please contact the media and tell them to read the blogs. We are speaking for the students. LOCAL TV STATIONS:ABC 7News DepartmentMain: 703-236-9555News Fax: [...]
Fri, Oct 06 2006

Excerpt from Article in Hearing Loss Magazine
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition The following is an excerpt from an article in the September/October 2006 issue of the Hearing Loss Magazine, which was an interview with Dr. Jane Fernandes. Hearing Loss Magazine:  Following Dr. I. King Jordan's decision to step down from the presidency, what made you decide to apply for the position as president ...
Fri, Oct 06 2006

Media Hurries to Interview Protestors
Elisa Abenchuchan There's media reporters and cameramen inside and outside of the building, doing interviews, filming things -- one reporter said, "Could you get several students here and we can interview them? I'm afraid we'll get kicked out."DPS has laid a yellow line all around HMB.Students here are scared and angry after the recent PR email. A mental health counselor has been [...]
Fri, Oct 06 2006

Gallaudet PR Office Says "No Students were Hurt''
Elisa Abenchuchan This was sent out to the campus community a few minutes ago:"Students who are illegally occupying Hall Memorial Building , have been repeatedly asked to leave by the University?s Department of Public Safety. The dissenters are disrupting classes and the offices in the building.They refused to move and the D.C. Police may be called in to remove the dissenters.Order [...]
Fri, Oct 06 2006

Alumni Meets with BOT
Elisa Abenchuchan Paul Singleton, one of the DPN Ducks, said some words to the protestors in HMB today. He said that he just came back from a meeting with the BOT.BOT's agenda for today is dropped in order to discuss the situation. Singleton and other alumni had requested for a meeting with one of the BOT members - Susan Elliott (Dickinson). But almost all BOT members showed up for the [...]
Fri, Oct 06 2006

Needed: Immediate Interpreter Assistance
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition Interpreters: If you can help Gallaudet students today, WE NEED YOU. Please call (443) 554-0519 or come directly to campus.The current situation is that the Gallaudet University Administration and the Department of Public Safety are threatening students both bodily and emotionally. Students have been physically harmed. What has ...
Fri, Oct 06 2006

More Description on DPS Brutality. Call your Congress...
Mishka Zena As you may gather, I'm pretty upset by the incoming reports of DPS brutality as this has been a constant worry of mine ever since the protest broke out. You see, I was working as an university instructor on campus when a student activist, Dupree, was killed by an overzealous security guard. I've reported on the illegal treatment and restraint of students and alumni [...]
Fri, Oct 06 2006

"Gallaudet Has Made It Violent"
Mishka Zena From a Student in HMBFiled under: General, - Students, FSSA ? gufssa @ 8:48 am Plea for peace,I am deeply saddened to be writing this. I started protesting because I saw the need for social justice. Now I am making a plea for the safety of my fellow students and myself. When did it turn from a plea for a peaceful protest for social justice into a plea for safety?Last [...]
Fri, Oct 06 2006

Interpreters Needed to Even Playing Field
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition Oppressive, Audist Administration Creates Inequity for Deaf StudentsMercy Coogan, University Public Relations Director, was talking with the media on Wednesday to provide the usual administrative spin to the campus protest. Ms. Coogan, a hearing woman, was giving media interviews in spoken English, with no attempt to add signs or use ...
Fri, Oct 06 2006

"Sad Green" by Paul Singleton
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition Dr. Jordan and Dr. Fernandes:Yesterday I went to Kendall Green with a heavy heart-because I have the greatest respect for you both. Also because I know you both are probably the only two persons left on the Kendall Green who knows you both are holding the campus ?life? all ...
Fri, Oct 06 2006

DPS Breaks Into HMB, Some Students Get Hurt
Elisa Abenchuchan Last night, protestors gathered and took over HMB -- locked the doors from inside and only allowed one door to be accessible for protestors only. This morning, a student found out that news reporters were not being allowed into campus because of a supposed bomb threat. She ran over there, talked with the reporters... until she got a page saying that students were [...]
Fri, Oct 06 2006

Protests Occupy Building At Gallaudet - WJLA
Tayler Mayer Washington (AP) - Protesters say they are barricading themselves inside one of the main classroom buildings at Gallaudet University, calling for a review of the university’s presidential selection process... Link: Protests Occupy Building At Gallaudet University - WJLA [...]
Fri, Oct 06 2006

Breaking News: Help Us!
Mishka Zena From a Gally Protester:Everybody! Come to HMB to help us block anybody from entering the building. We cannot let admin win.--vphreak
Fri, Oct 06 2006

SBG Office @ 4:21 a.m.
Jesse Thomas I tried to sleep in the little room, a closet, really, that the Rainbow Society AND the BDSU shares, way in the back of the SBG offices. There's a swinging door leading to a tiny hallway that ends in a 5-step staircase that leads to.... a wall. Nice office space the SBG has, huh? One of the three rooms that this hallway leads so was supposed to be my bedroom, but [...]
Fri, Oct 06 2006

HMB Barricaded by Protesters
Mishka Zena Paged by a protester: The FSSA Spokespeople and the supporters of the protest met at the SAC. We discussed what we planned to lock down and how. We all voted HMB [Hall Memorial Building], due to the majority of classes here. Keep in mind we did this secretly. We all got into HMB. From that point on we all were aiming to get all the doors locked. How? We used tables, [...]
Fri, Oct 06 2006

nbc4.com - News - Gallaudet Students Revive Protest Against...
Mishka Zena nbc4.com - News - Gallaudet Students Revive Protest Against PresidentCheck this slideshow showing tents barricading the HMB doors: Slideshow: Images From Scene
Fri, Oct 06 2006

DPS Behavior BRUTAL!!! Contact Your Congress People!!
Mishka Zena Email Directory of Congressional Members: U.S. Senate: Senators Home United States House of Representatives, 109th Congress, 2nd Session: Member Web Site Listing(Alphabetical) Click on Contact section From a deaf student blogger: « Successful Lockdown!DPS Threat (BREAKING NEWS)I am sick and disgusted with awful tactics that DPS attempted agaist protestors [...]
Fri, Oct 06 2006

Does Fernandes deserve a chance?
DeafDC.com Forgive the football analogy, but should the new NFL Commissioner be blamed for the mistakes of the outgoing one? The Commissioner was essentially the former number two guy who moved up. During a television interview with the new NFL Commissioner, a reporter accused the old NFL Commissioner of having the leader of the Player?s Union as [...]
Fri, Oct 06 2006

Question of the day
Random Thoughts and Musings I'm not sure what sent me off onto this tangent, but for the past half hour, I've been mulling the question of how the heck ANY deaf person learns how to speak spoken English. It's not like it's the first time I've ever wondered this, but I still don't get it.Take the word paradigm. Who'd know from looking at it that the g is silent? The Thames River - who'd know that [...]
Fri, Oct 06 2006

To voice or not to voice? That is the question.
Random Thoughts and Musings For months now, Dr. Brenda Brueggemann's choice to voice instead of signing her speech at Gallaudet's commencement last May has been a source of controversy, and the renewal of the protest has also brought renewed debate regarding her choice. There are those who yowl in outrage, saying her choice was audistic and oppressive, while there are those who defend her choice [...]
Fri, Oct 06 2006

Message Paged from a Protester
Mishka Zena The FSSA Spokespeople and the supporters of the protest met at the SAC. We discussed what we planned to lock down and how. We all voted HMB [Hall Memorial Building], due to the majority of classes here. Keep in mind we did this secretly. We all got into HMB. From that point on we all were aiming to get all the doors locked. How? We used tables, chairs, wires, locks, [...]
Fri, Oct 06 2006

CENSORSHIP AT GALLAUDET----Channel 7 told to go away
Mishka Zena At 4:20 a.m. this morning (Friday, October 6, 2006), Natasha Barrett of WJLA-TV, ABC7 News asked permission for their television news van to enter the Gallaudet campus and was denied permission. At first, the DPS officers asked them to wait while they called the administration to ask permission. The answer that came back was "No." "They told us to get off the [...]
Fri, Oct 06 2006

ABC Coverage of HMB Barricade by Students
Mishka Zena Protests Occupy Building At Gallaudet University Friday October 06, 2006 5:50am Washington (AP) - Protesters say they are barricading themselves inside one of the main classroom buildings at Gallaudet University, calling for a review of the university's presidential selection process.The naming of then-Provost Jane Fernandes as president last spring sparked angry [...]
Fri, Oct 06 2006