Mishka Zena

Endless Pondering

Transcript of GIS Speaks Out

Please share this with your friends, family and the public so they will understand the severity of oppression practiced by the university officials on the freedom of the students to speak out, taking advantage of the their deafness.  The public would be flabbergasted when they realize that an university for the deaf practices systematic discrimination against its deaf students, in violations of multiple federal civil right laws.  This is the proof elizabeth

PS. Several people mentioned that this interpreter no longer works for GIS as a result of this situation.  It is unknown if the departure was voluntary or forced.  If this is true, this person made a tremendous sacrifice for the students. His heart was in the right place when he shared with us the real story  eg

 ”Hello, my name is Robert Loeffler. I’m a GIS staff member here- Gallaudet Interpreting Service. I want to clarify a bit- there’s ambiguity, [some people] saying ‘Interpreters haven’t been provided’ [and others] responding, ‘We are providing services.” GIS is indeed providing services. GIS has provided services to anyone who can pay for services; just like anything else, with an interpreting agency, interpreters need money to pay the bills, pay for rent, buy things… that has never changed. Students have asked me why there are no interpreters. I said, ‘You have to ask the administration- you must ask King (Jordan), you must ask JK (Jane Fernandes), you must ask your dean, Karen Kimmel or Tom Allen, Carl Pramuk.’ Why are there no interpreters being provided? Gallaudet University claims to strongly believe in access to communication, but interpreters are not being provided. Again, I emphasize that GIS is not responsible for that. All along, GIS has provided services to the entire community because we must remain neutral. By remaining neutral, we can’t do pro-bono work for one group, and then tell another group they must pay- it’s not right. I agree with that [idea] and all students agree with that. But I see that the administration- the Office of Public Relations- stopped paying for interpreters for the media for the protest. That shows only the surface of the profound oppression that has been happening here for many, many years. That’s one small example, but as for those who are curious as to why GIS stopped providing interpreters- GIS did not stop providing interpreters. The administration stopped paying. They look to suppress the voices of the protesters by taking away interpreters from them.”

The videoclip link:
http://www.signcasts.com/?q=node/56

October 13, 2006 - Posted by Mishka Zena | Uncategorized | | 7 Comments

7 Comments »

  1. Basically, Jane don’t really need an interpreter.

    Comment by Bobby Orr | October 13, 2006

  2. There are so many lies flying around…are you sure that he no longer works for GIS?? As of when? I saw Ridor say his name mysteriously dissappeared from the GIS website, but I’m sorry - in the midst of the protest with no access to campus or their offices, I doubt that removing his name and bio from the website was GIS’s #1 priority. I mean, I could be wrong…

    And I’m sure he wants to help - great!, but why would he quit his job (hello, he was talking about having to pay the bills!) or get fired (no reprisals at least covers this moment). That is very unlikely…lets check the facts before we get all up in arms.

    Why doesn’t someone ask him? I’m sure he’s there! And why would they fire just him…I saw SEVERAL GIS interpreters there today…did they all get fired too? Doubt it.

    Comment by Are you sure??? | October 13, 2006

  3. I noticed tomorrow is 13th Friday.
    Police in there today.
    I cannot image about tomorrow.

    Comment by guest | October 13, 2006

  4. Didn’t you see where I said “if it is true”. People are speculating. However, I still stand by my words. He made a big sacrifice when he revealed the truth to the world.

    Comment by Mishka Zena | October 13, 2006

  5. The interpreter is saying that services stopped because the pay stopped? There are students putting their education at risk and faculty putting their jobs at risk…interpreters could well do pro bono work for a good cause temporarily and hope the bills will eventually get paid somehow. Their status would go up as opposed to being lowered if they just went home and allowed the Gallaudet administration to decide when and where they can work.

    Comment by Dianrez | October 13, 2006

  6. ok, i talked with bobby myself yesterday morning, and checked the GIS pages myself. bobby hasn’t heard anything about being fired from GIS. his profile was removed from the GIS pages, yes. he doesn’t know why either. not only that, when i told him, it was the first he had heard about it! however, he’s been taking personal leave to interpret for the students, so it’s possible GIS removed him until he comes back to work. it is feasible that they don’t want him seeming like a staff interpreter when he’s not acting in the capacity of one. just a thought, and hopefully that clears it up…

    Comment by eyethstudios | October 13, 2006

  7. MURDER OF MY DEAF HUSBAND AND BACK STABBING OF KING AND LINDA JORDAN BY DR. AMMONS

    These days the world is watching Gallaudet and its ongoing students’ protest.

    It is very shocking to see that one person - Dr. Donalda Ammons - chose to side with the protesters.

    In 2005 Ammons was implicated with the heinous crime - the murder of my beloved deaf husband Felix Shlimovich in Russia.

    Now, in 2006, Ammons acts as one of those who are opposing the choice of King Jordan’s favorite Jane Fernandes as the next Gallaudet President.

    What a dangerous and unpredictable deaf woman Dr. Ammons is!

    Before his murder, my husband vistied many Deaflympic Games and Gallaudet campus, and there, as he told me, he always saw how close and very fond Dr. Ammons was with King and Linda Jordan ( the Jordans many times attended the Deaflympics as fans ). I was also told that King gave to Ammons his full support for her election as the CISS President in 2005.

    Now, I can not believe that Ammons is betraying King and Linda Jordan.

    Please read my letter to the IOC President and see why I accuse Ammons of her role in murdering of my deaf husband on December 11, 2005.

    Is Ammons a right person and role model to get involved with students, faculty and others in their protests against King Jordan and Jane Fernandes? Can the protesters accomplish their goals without involvement of this distrustful, shrewd and ambitious woman and smooth talker named Donalda Ammons?

    Irina Sem Yu Shlimovich,
    The still grieving deaf widow in Russia

    ( see my June 11, 2005 letter to the IOC below ).

    June 11, 2006

    MURDER OF MY DEAF HUSBAND IN MOSCOW

    To: President and Members of the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee

    Subject: Murder of My Deaf Husband,
    CISS/Deaflympics President Ammons and
    $110,000.00 Assistance by IOC

    Dear IOC President and Board Members:

    On March 2, 2006, via the International Mail I sent to your IOC office in Lausanne my letter to President. Several weeks later on, through my friend, I again e-mailed a copy of my March 2 letter to your office.

    To my big regret, I have never received any response from the IOC or its officials to these 2 letters at all.

    Now, I must share with you a very appalling news: the police had finally found in a remote part of the city of Moscow a dead body of my husband - Felix Shlimovich.

    Felix’s body was in a bad and awful shape - his face was a deformed one, one eye was missing and much more.

    I write to you again to tell you that all this happened because of one person with whom the IOC continues to do business - Donalda Ammons, the CISS President.
    I have plenty evidence to support my position, that is, because of Ammons, my husband was kidnapped and murdered by Ammons’ deaf Russian people in Moscow.

    On my March 2 letter I explained to you that Felix sued Ammons and her Russian accomplice Slava Klimov for property theft.

    Ammons twice - on March 17, 2004 and May 17, 2004 - evaded to appear at the court trial in Washington, D.C.

    If there was ever held a live court trial, Ammons and her Russian accomplice would have lost the case because Felix had a very solid proof and number of credible witnesses to demonstrate the irrefutable evidence that the two - Ammons and Slava Klimov - did indeed commit an act of theft.

    Because of the above and in order not to ruin their personal reputation, Ammons and her accomplice Slava Klimov were very afraid to face justice at the court of law.
    So, the idea to eliminate Felix came up from Ammons and Slava - the two Gallaudet University-based employees in Washington, D.C.

    That is, before next scheduled January 18, 2006 trial date - Slava, in order to protect his own and Ammons’ integrity and through his deaf father Nikolay Klimov - took a very desperate act.

    Slava contacted and convinced his own father - Nikolay - to do something against Felix.
    On December 11, 2005, Nikolay hired and financed deaf killers in Moscow to kidnap and murder Felix.

    This way Felix was eliminated from his life’s existence on the night of December 11, 2005!
    THE CLEAR FACT WAS THAT HAD AMMONS NEVER SOUGHT HELP FOR HER OWN SEPARATE LAWSUIT CASE PROBLEMS FROM HER YOUNG RUSSIAN FRIEND AND COLLABORATOR - SLAVA KLIMOV - IN THE FIRST PLACE, THEN NOTHING TERRIBLE WOULD HAVE HAPPENED TO FELIX.

    I blame Ammons for getting involved both Klimovs - father and son - in her own initial legal problem in 2001 and, later on, for her involvement - directly or indirectly - in stealing of Felix’s property in 2002, then kidnapping and murder of Felix in 2005.

    In spite of the horrible behavior by Ammons, recently I read through the http://www.deaflympics.com website that the IOC gave away its financial assistance of $110,000.00 to the CISS organization, which is still headed by Ammons.

    Is it proper for the IOC to do business with an organization such as the CISS, whose president was implicated in kidnapping and murder of my husband?

    Will it be appropriate for Ammons as a president of an international sports organization, who did not make any effort in thwarting the December 11, 2005 criminal act tragedy against Felix, to award medals to athletes at the medal podium of next week’s World Championships for the Deaf in Cycling in California, USA?

    I would like very much to hear your answers to these 2 important questions from you, the IOC.

    Will you please inform me if you will answer to these 2 questions or not?

    Because of distance, lack of money and weak international judicial system ( there is no appropriate court of law to file a criminal charge lawsuit against Ammons-the troublemaker-initiator anywhere ), Felix’s grieving father, brother and I are very helpless to do anything by bringing the USA -based resident Ammons and her Russian killers together to justice for their horrendous acts of kidnapping and murder of Felix.

    Lately, after Felix’s body was found out, I and my deaf friends-supporters in Moscow and New York have been receiving death threats from Ammons’ people because Ammons’ people want to silence us over the news of kidnapping, murder and body finding of my husband.

    What can the IOC do for me and my friends-supporters in this regard?

    Please provide your response.

    With Tears in Eyes,
    Irina Sem Yu Shlimovich

    Comment by irina shlimovich | October 13, 2006

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