Here Is The Proof That Mercy Coogan Lied!
RidorLIVE Mercy Coogan, the Director of Public Relations at Gallaudet University, claimed that there was no pepper spray involved at all. Here is the picture. The proof is sufficient to indicate that Mercy Coogan is lying and the Press MUST know that she was lying all along.Mercy Coogan, your pants are on fire.  You’re liar.  So [...]
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Discuss Gallaudet Protest
Jamie Berke (About.com) Tired of reading blogs yet? I have opened a thread on the forum, "Gallaudet Protest," for open discussion. If you are not yet a member of About, here is a...
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Power Behind Throne
Mishka Zena Last night I had a fascinating talk with a good friend of mine, who was a former employee at Gally and knows a lot of what is inside Gally and how Gally operates, through videoconferencing.  He said that Paul Kelly, VP for Finance is actually the power behind the throne.  IKJ and JF rely hevily [...]
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Buy a Shirt, Support the FSSA!
Bay Area Perspective on Gally
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DPS brutality toward Jory, one of our own!
Bay Area Perspective on Gally
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Thank you, State Representative Eddie Rodriguez!
AUSTIN for FSSA State Representative Eddie Rodriguez,Thank you for sponsoring the Austin for FSSA's Human Chain Rally on Sunday, October 8th at 1pm.AUSTIN for FSSA
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Are you a Crazy Person (Part Two)
Mishka Zena  ://gallaudet-part-2   By Charles Harper. Hat tip to DelaJoy
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From a hearing student: Interpreters banned
Mishka Zena From a pager of a hearing student: Gallaudet still refuses to let its staff interpreters do any interpreting for the protesting students. 
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Patti Kunkle Is The Key
RidorLIVE My sources has confirmed that Patti Kunkle, the special assistant to the President’s Office, attended all six finalists’ interviews.  Patti was invovled with the Presidential Search Committee.  She reports everything else to Dr. I. King Jordan. The claims that Dr. I. King Jordan has no interference in the next President of Gallaudet is wholly untrue.  It [...]
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Lockdown Continues!
RidorLIVE That’s it.  I’m heading off to Washington tonight. The IrvingBOTs heard the student leaders and dismissed them as well. Only two minutes after the meeting concluded, the interim Chair Brenda Brueggemann sent the heart-wrenching email to the Gallaudet community.  They also claimed that the security team is doing good job.  But in reality, they brutalized [...]
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BoT Firm: Fernandes Stays
Mishka Zena The arrogance of BoT, ignoring the whole Community and the protest, ignoring the negative PR coveragevaccumulating in the media, especially after the violence of its security guards against its students were exposed. For sure, the BoT doesn’t represent the Gallaudet Community.    Clearly, this has been a difficult day here on campus.  I must say, at the outset, [...]
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Special note to all Gallaudet Protest blogs
DeafRead Human Editor DeafRead wants to help enhance the network effects of your active protest blogs. DeafRead is serving as the nexus of all Gallaudet Protest blogs and we are offering you an unique feature to multiple your reach to many more visitors. If you can install the DeafRead badge on your blogs, you will be able to [...]
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Just Minutes After BOT?s Meeting with Students?
Elisa Abenchuchan ....this letter was sent out to the campus community. “Good afternoon, I am Brenda Brueggemann, the chair of Gallaudet University Board of Trustees.  I am joined by Dr. I. King Jordan, the president of Gallaudet.  Clearly, this has been a difficult day here on campus.  I must say, at the outset, that a great number of charges [...]
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We Are Not Animals!
Kalalau's Korner We Are Not Animals!We heard Gallaudet University again! We the Deaf have led lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving, if not hostile, hearing social hierarchy in the environment where ASL is marginalized and visual modes of communication forever speculated. President I. King Jordan is not exactly deaf; he was deafeed by a motorcycle accident. [...]
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The NAD sent a sixth open letter to Gallaudet University
via link submit The relationship between the NAD and Gallaudet University has been long and fruitful, spanning over one hundred years. During this time, the university’s founder, Edward Miner Gallaudet, gave civil rights speeches at national NAD conventions and the NAD donated the famed Gallaudet-Cogswell statue to the Kendall Green campus. The NAD provided leadership prior to and during the Deaf President
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AP Report: Gallaudet students allege campus police brutality
Mishka Zena By LUBNA TAKRURI, The Associated Press Oct 6, 2006 3:50 PM WASHINGTON - Protests escalated at Gallaudet University on Friday as about 200 students blocked access to a campus building in opposition to the university’s choice for president. Students at Gallaudet, a university for people who are deaf and hard of hearing, claimed that the protests were marred by [...]
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Students Receive No Respect from BOT
Elisa Abenchuchan The BOT asked to see SBG President Noah Beckman and they said they would give him five minutes to talk. Beckman told them that he didn’t want to face them alone, he wanted other student leaders to go in with him. The BOT resisted at first, but the students said, either all of us will [...]
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356: don't miss the rat
Deaf in the City 356: don't miss the ratI wrote this post this morning on my blackberry before I knew about the criminal attacks on Gallaudet students this morning. All day I have been working fighting for Deaf rights around New York City in individual cases, wishing I could be in DC to help and protect those in Tent City. Protestors - you are more worthy of respect than those who [...]
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Update at 5 PM
Mishka Zena The office of the California Representative Pete Stark had made repeated calls to Gallaudet, requesting information regarding the safety of CA students there and received no response for quite a while. Finally a Gallaudet representative answered with a statement that no students were injured. BoT apparently had a meeting without Jordan. SBG President now waiting to [...]
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Passed 1k posts, 100+ posts in last 24hr, new theme
DeafRead Human Editor Transcript Yesterday Jared was eager to see who would be the author of the 1000th post at DeafRead, but ...we missed it. We’re now at 1115 posts. We’ve be hovering above 100 posts in the last 24 hours. Crazy due to the Gallaudet happenings. Ah yes, the database server went down for approximately 5 minutes this [...]
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Write to Your Congressmen
Elisa Abenchuchan THE MESSAGE TO TELL [to your fellow congressmen/congresswomen]:GALLAUDET IS A FEDERALLY FUNDED INSITUTION,  AND CURRENTLY, IT IS VIOLATING SEVERAL UNIVERSITY POLICIES. WHILE BREAKING, THIS UNIVERSITY ALSO IS INTIMIDATING STUDENTS AND GIVING PERMISSION TO THE UNIVERSITY POLICE TO USE AGGRESSIVE MEASURES TOWARDS THE NON-VIOLENT MOVEMENT HERE. AS MY SENATOR I AM ASKING [...]
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For Your Own Amusing Thoughts
RidorLIVE Things are very tense at this moment as the IrvingBOTs booted I. King Jordan and Jane K. Fernandes out of their meetings, scratched their original agendas to focus on this “leadership crisis”, they just called Noah Beckman (who brought his lawyer with him as well) to the closed meeting. So it is very tense [...]
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Jane Must Resign
Gallaudet University FSSA Coalition PRESS RELEASE October 6, 2006Jane Must ResignThe crisis on the Gallaudet campus is worsening by the minute and the students will not back down. Hall Memorial Building (HMB), the primary academic building on campus, is now being locked down by students standing in a peaceful human chain at every entrance. This ...
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Gallaudet has now UNITY but Not Yet!
Deaf Bison Network I am really proud that I did this. We are winning the protest and we finally revealed Administration’s Oppression against us by using camera. The community was  divided on this but after the video came out to prove that DPS (Dept of Public Safety) physically abused four protestors when we locked down entire school building. [...]
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SBG President Still Waiting for Meeting with BOT
Elisa Abenchuchan Faculty members also showed up to GUKCC and will be given an opportunity to have their say. ALSO - check out this article on cnn.com at http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/06/college.protesters/index.html Notice that Mercy Coogan is still bringing up the “not deaf enough” issue.
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