Update About Hunger Strike
RidorLIVE I got a lot of emails asking about the hunger strike protesters. After talking with one of the protesters who was discharged from the local hospital. She said that the rest of the group had to stay for an overnight observation. And they are taken care of. A couple of them are in “not so [...]
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Posters/Banners: Contact Information
Mishka Zena For the banner and poster that’s taken down and collected for archive purpose.  Please contact Jeanine at bluesun@tmail.com so she can take care of all of the banner and poster that you collected.   She will save them for archives.  It needs to be done asap before PPD does their clean up. *paul email contact: mishkazena@aol.com [...]
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Hunger Strikers?
Mishka Zena Few people asked me about the hunger strikers. At the the news of Fernandes’s resignation, there were five strikers left, two from Oct 13th.  Allegedly at least two went to the hospital for medical treatment.  David Simmons and Larry Vollmar were still at the front gate, so they got up on the rally stand where they were [...]
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At Gallaudet, Trustees Give Up on New Leader After Protests
BiblioMarket By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO Published: October 30, 2006 WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 ? Surrendering to months of widening and unrelenting protests by students, faculty, alumni and advocates, the board of trustees of Gallaudet University, the nation?s premier university for the deaf, abandoned its choice of the institution?s next president.
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Richard Rohiem at it again!
The Deaf Sherlock Jamie Berke tipped me off on this topic on Deafness.about.com: She didn't want a firestorm on her site, so I welcome it on MINE! SALUTE to Jamie Berke!First, Jamie's post on the Deafness.about.com ( [link] :------------JKF No More:Jane Fernandes [...]
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LET'S STAMP OUT AUDISM!
Show Me Deaf Community Effective today, let's stamp out audism in every facet of our Deaf life. It is time to reverse the sins of the infamous 1880 Milan Conference. The picture shows that it is time to sweep audists and their attitudinal behaviors into the hole and close the trap door to keep audism out of our lives. Yesterday marks the beginning [...]
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Perfect Storm: Gallaudet 2006
HexToons's Xanga Amazing! The movie also ended the same way. The survivors' work shall continue... 2006, Heather L. Withrow
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A ?Disaster? if IKJ Stayed on as President?
The GU Private Investigator In the same HigherEd article referenced in my last posting, the following statement closed out the article:  “Richard Lytle, a professor of education, said that in the wake of the last few months, it would be ?a disaster? if the board kept Jordan on. Added Lytle: ?The big question is: Who will pick up the process and [...]
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Moore and Goodstein Acknowledge that Protests were NOT...
The GU Private Investigator It’s been no big secret among the Deaf community that Jordan and Fernandes have been repeating a gross distortion of the reasons for the protests to the mainstream media and public: That this was all about cultural identity and “not being deaf enough.” However, I am pleased to see that Gallaudet’s interim provost and a board member [...]
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Fernandes' last PR Spin Job!!
The Deaf Sherlock Oh man.. just when I thought the media was happy with spinning their "truths" in the preferred way of Jane K. Fernandes' (JKF), it could not get worse. Especially in the aftermath!!For many of us in DC, the protest will be front page news. But in towns far away, it's a story BURIED among the news. However, we all need to check the article and read it carefully! You [...]
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No, Dr. Jordan, I will NOT lay down my ?weapon of words!?
The GU Private Investigator I. King Jordan released the following statement shortly after the Board of Trustees voted to remove Fernandes as President-Elect. My comments are in italics. ?The struggle during the past several months has been very painful for all of us. I am deeply troubled by the divisions among us and by the anger that overtook reason, respect, [...]
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Two Demands NOT Met! Reprisals still in effect!
The GU Private Investigator Celebrations may be premature as the protestors’ two demands have NOT been met! The Board of Trustees has released this statement as well:  TO: Gallaudet University FROM Board of Trustees DATE: October 29, 2006 RE: Statement of the Board “The Board of Trustees respects the right of people to express their views in a peaceful manner. However, individuals [...]
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Should Jordan Stay?
Mishka Zena Jordan brought Fernandes into Gallaudet University regardless of the objections of the university faculty senate when she was appointed as a provost, without the shared governance of the faculty senate.The university faculty senate’s vote of no confidence was ignored by Jordan. Jordan managed to grant Fernandes tenure without the permission of the faculty [...]
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Live Video for Today
DeafRead Human Editor 10:15AM EST Press Conference @ Front Gate 11:15AM EST Ricky Taylor (RidorLIVE) Interview 12:30PM EST Lunch at Marketplace We’re working on gathering specific individuals for interviews. Stay posted.
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Wonderful Video
Central Floridians For FSSA Wonderful video of people's responses to the annoucement of Dr. Jane K. Fernandes' termination. Check it out! [link] for Gallaudet!
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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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The Nature of Oppression
Random Thoughts and Musings One situation at work has really rankled for a few years and it was recently resolved. Without going into specifics, we as a team were discussing whether or not we wanted to change one policy, and if so, how we would change it. Most of us wanted to change it in a certain way to reflect Deaf cultural norms and the change would be linguistically appropriate in ASL. One [...]
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i.k. jordan - YOU ARE FIRED!
Show Me Deaf Community Hey! I do not like the tone of your memo. Why don't you clean out your desk and leave the campus! You had brought this on and let it drag for months and years! Your ignorance is your bliss! "Statement by I. King Jordan ?The struggle during the past several months has been very painful for all of us. I am deeply troubled by the [...]
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What a Long, Strange, Gallaudet Protest Trip It's Been
The Deaf Sherlock Well folks.. the title isn't mine. This last blog of the night is for Robert Goodwin. He had a compelling story to sum up the events. Though he's a student at George Mason University, he's followed the protest and all the events of the Gallaudet University. So, I'm making room for him and without further ado.. here's Rob's [...]
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aftermath of the Gally Protest Victory.
The Deaf Sherlock I am drained. After spending a month long of posting, and advertisement of other weblog links, and encoragement of the protestors, it has resulted in VICTORY.All of us are happy. We do thank the Board of Trustees members for listening to us and hearing the information from the various deaf communities at large. It was very important. Maybe they are human. Maybe they [...]
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Will FSSA Walk the Talk?
Chris Leon If you haven’t heard the news by now, the Gallaudet Board of Trustees terminated their contract with Dr. Jane Fernandes at a special Board meeting earlier today. The protest is over. At least for now. Many people of color I have spoken to have expressed mixed feelings about the protest. Many of us have felt the [...]
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Dysconscious audism
Random Thoughts and Musings My new favorite phrase - dysconscious audism. Dysconscious audism is basically defined as audism (a belief and attitude that to be deaf is to be inferior to hearing people) perpetrated by members of the Deaf community because they have internalized attitudes that the hearing way is superior due to the systemic and pervasive oppression all around us.Last night Dr. [...]
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What is the Least Restrictive Environment?
Random Thoughts and Musings Tonight at the gathering, we discussed a lot of stuff. But one thing we discussed was mainstreaming. I have grown to hate mainstreaming more and more as I become older. This is not intended to be a "bashing mainstreaming" post. As I said in an earlier post, we did not choose our educational experiences - our parents chose that for us. This is simply intended to posit [...]
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Reclaiming our dignity and equality
Random Thoughts and Musings This issue has been bothering me for a while. In fact, I blogged about it on my private blog last week and just now decided to bring the topic over here. I work in a school for the Deaf, in a position that has frequent, direct student contact. The mission and values of the school purportedly provide a safe, fully accessible place for all of our students and all of our [...]
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Reunions During The Protest
Mishka Zena When I stopped by HMB during its lockdown for an hour on my way home from SC, I saw one old student of mine, several classmates and few colleagues of mine. When I participated in the march, the rally at Capitol, and the homecoming on campus afterwards, I saw more old classmates, some that I have not seen [...]
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