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 [...]
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"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 [...]
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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 ...
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"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 ...
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Fox Coverage
Mishka Zena Gallaudet ProtestLast Edited: Friday, 06 Oct 2006, 6:40 AM EDTCreated: Friday, 06 Oct 2006, 6:30 AM EDTDeveloping StoryGALLAUDET PROTEST:EXTENDED COVERAGERelated ItemsVideosGalleriesGallaudet Protest Photos from StudentsFrom the http://www.gallyprotest.org/ web siteFLASH--For release at 4:00 a.m. Eastern Time (Friday, October 6, 2006) Gallaudet University student [...]
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Transcript of Interview (FOX 5)
Mishka Zena Videoclip Sidebar Video Here it is: STEVE CHENEVEY (co-host): The main classroom building on the campus of Gallaudet University is now apparently in the hands of students. GURVIR DHINDSA: (co-host): The students have been frustrated for months now, even walking out of classes yesterday. But this morning they've taken their demonstrations to a new level. Matt Ackland [...]
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Security Guards Rough-Handled Protesters
Mishka Zena Reported by PaulThis morning as we the student were trying to peacefully protest by lining up student infront of the door at the hmb building. A few dps officers came trying to break in by using physical force, they grabbed the shirt, neck, and the body of 2 student here. They were shoved to the ground at a point. Mace was also used against a few student. We repeat [...]
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The DC Police on Campus Now
Mishka Zena From the pager of a student protester:Mpd is there- dc police is there*tara [...]
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Warning about DPS from a Gally Professor
Mishka Zena From Gallaudet professor:Dps is trying to provoke u srudents to resist or fight ir get rough tothem....don t do it. They will be very sorry when news gets out abtbrutality against peaceful students. Comment: I agree. Please be very careful. Don't let another tragedy, like Dupree, happen again. Don't fight back if the security guards get rough with you. You can get a [...]
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Hodge Podge Again
Mike McConnell Well, whadya know. I've been tagged as a "highly-respected deaf blogger" by another blogger in his/her blogsite over the discusson between Elisa and I. I guess I am now one of the many faces on "Blogs with a face" blogsite. Eh.The image of civility among protesters at IKJ building dedication.They were yelling so loudly, said some who couldn't get through the crowd, [...]
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Ho'omau In Hawai'ian
Kalalau's Korner Ho?omauIn Hawai?ian meaning:Perseverance; To Continue, To Perpetuate; Never Give Up.In your own personal striving within the protest at Gallaudet University, Ho?omau would be the single word that causes you to focus on what is most important and move forward with resolution, determination and confidence, for Ho?omau encompasses all of these qualities. You can be [...]
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Deaf Awareness Day in San Diego, CA
Jon Savage View This Video on GoogleGo to Video Google (ASL VLOG) [...]
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