Durr Responds to JKF?s article in the Washington Post
ASL Community Journal Editor’s note: This is the editorial Patricia Durr sent to the Washington Post in response to JKF’s opinion piece published last Saturday, October 14, 2006.  While I am not an alumni, student, faculty or staff member of Gallaudet, Gallaudet is a very sacred place to me.  For me as a hard of hearing person - it was also [...]
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Photos from Sunday
People of the Eye Since I wrote the previous post in the wee hours of the morning, for those of you who missed it in the overload of messages this AM, there are some very nice images up at my site from yesterday. I’ll be at the rally at noon, and will post those pictures this afternoon.
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BoT Must Start Doing Their Job Now!
Mishka Zena The BoT had been derelict for quite a while. They ignored the first no-confidence vote passed by the majority of the University Faculty. The letters of grievances by Gallaudet Faculty and Staff over the years were not responded by the BoT.   The comments by Gallaudet stakeholders regarding the presidential candidates were brushed away.  Nobody came to talk to [...]
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9 AM: Update At The Frontlines
Mishka Zena Jkf pulled through and several people ran after her car.  They blocked it and started signing, “resign, resign.”  Eventually some students, such as adam jarashow, went over anc convinced them to come back to the line. sent via the pager of Jennie, a protester on 6th St Gate
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Rough Summary Of CBS Coverage on Gallaudet Protest at 9:05...
Mishka Zena  sixth st ave open other gates closed faculty/staff/students entering through that 6th St. gate students holding up signs while letting the the cars in and chanting JK resign! JK resign! Students looking pretty good and very determined University faculty expected to pass four resultions this afternoon at four pm, signed a student. Fernandes claimed she hadsn’t [...]
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A Step Forward: Possible Guidelines For The Future
Mishka Zena We need to discuss the establishment of new guidelines so DPN and Unity for Gallaudet won’t be repeated. Both protests occurred due to a stalemate between President Appointee/BoT and the Gallaudet stakeholders.  We need to have a BoT who is responsive to the Gallaudet Community, but the BoT have not learned a lesson from 1988. So, [...] [...]
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October Theses from the Paddy Wagon
testing_the_truth Fernandes and Jordan has to go! Recent events showed the innate nature of hidden oppression perpetuated by the so-called inter-mediators toward the Deaf Community. They are the worst villains of our age. Who are these inter-mediators? They are those Deaf people, or people working with the Deaf, who anoint themselves as inter-mediators from the ?hearing world? toward [...]
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Tent City: Revival
Mr. Sandman [This is an extremely long post; my apologies! However, I believe it is a good, if lengthy, summarization of the events from October 2-11 regarding the protests at Gallaudet University.]On Monday, October 2, "Tent City" was revived on the slope facing Florida Avenue NE, and protesters again gathered around the front gates. This time, media attention focused rapidly, [...]
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Update At 6:30
Mishka Zena It’s 6:22 and I’m out here at the 6th Street gate with about 120 other people.  So far everything has been peaceful, with the exception of a few students blocking dps from coming in.  Luckily some other protestors pushed them out of the way so dps could come in.  The point of this is not to block the gates, [...]
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Situation At Gallaudet Today
Mishka Zena Even though the univ is open and people can come in, many alumni have joined the protesters on campus. Something big will happen soon. There will be press conference at 6pm after 4pm faculty meeting. Many protesters are wearing white t-shirts with their jail numbers. The Observer
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Brother of Hunger Strike Protester?s Note
Mishka Zena For your information, his dad and I used to work together in Biology Dept  at Gallaudet for several years before I resigned for health reasons some years ago. He was a great professor in an ivy league university in South Africa for 30 years before he retired. While teaching at Gallaudet, he was very popular [...]
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Concerned Students Take a Step Forward
DeafDC.com Yesterday marked exactly one week that Concerned Students for Gallaudet has been up and running and we have over 75 members. While that is not a huge number compared to the 1,800 students on campus it?s a remarkable start for a group that is only one week old. We have received over 200 signed petitions by [...]
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366: Monday Morning news opponents say that this ...
Deaf in the City 366: Monday Morning news & tea roundupMy History of the Gallaudet Protest, Part One seems to have gone over VERY well. It was crossposted at DailyKos a democratic site to raise awareness. As a result many Democrats are contibuting to and getting involved with GUFSSA. Do you know what? Not ONE person said it was wrong of students to protest. One of the more interesting [...]
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As further evidence that FSSA needs to re-tool its...
Deaf Firefighter's Blog ... In my earlier blog post this morning, I said the administration continues to win the PR war with the larger community. I got this article in my email from DeafTimes that seems the Administration continues to run PR-circles around the FSSA. DC Examiner : Enough is enough at GallaudetBefore we go bashing the media for reporting before completely understanding the [...]
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Gallaudet--On The Outside, Looking In
Karen A fellow writer from Epinions recently sent me an email asking "Do you know why the students oppose the new president so fiercely?"I was in a hurry and quickly replied, "Protesters don't like Jane-- they say she can't lead, that she's cold and that she's "not deaf enough"(even when it is denied, this comes up). They're also saying that the search process was flawed [...]
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Ohlone College unanimously calls for JK's resignation!
Bay Area Perspective on Gally (emailed to Dr. Fernandes and CC'd to all Board of Trustees' e-mail addresses found on this blog as well as to the staff members at the Ohlone College Center for Deaf Studies and the people listed below)October 15, 2006Dr. Jane K. Fernandes,We, the faculty members of the Ohlone College Center for Deaf Studies, have agreed unanimously to declare our support for the [...]
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Physically Exhausted But Mentally & Spiritually Soaring!
RidorLIVE The alumni kept on coming in as far as Hawai’i, Florida, Seattle, Washington, Europe and so on.  In fact, one said that he will organize a Tent City in South Africa.  I was delighted to meet many old faces as well as new faces. Naturally, it is now 3 AM EST and I’m not going to [...]
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JKF as an Innocent Bystander
Kalalau's Korner JKF as an Innocent BystanderDixxxxx: JKF's letter in the protestveritas blog...she says she is the innocent person who happened to be nearby when the protest erupted, it's not her fault that issues got dumped on her..oh boy.Dixxxxx: or ...oh please.HonuGuy: she's amazing....Dixxxxx: "the issues of audism and racism that have plagued the deaf community for centuries [...]
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The Queen asks her magic mirror...
Show Me Deaf Community The Queen of Gallaudet asks her magic mirror who was the fairest in the Gallaudetdom. The Mirror responded that it was not her. She has gone stark mad and will resport to evil and punshment in the days ahead!
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My AIM Conversation with A Former Teacher
Kalalau's Korner My AIM Conversation with A Former TeacherHonuGuy: Merv Garretosn's letter is probably like a green go light for other "good boy network" guys to back off from Gallaudet and support GUFSSADixxxxx: wow, thats a point
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Deaf Benedict Arnold?
Show Me Deaf Community I have a question! Are the deaf BoT members behaving like Benedict Arnold? Are they committing treason? With the recent announcement by Brenda, it appears that someone is being a traitor and not respecting the rights of the students, staff, faculty and alumni. Is Tom Humphries "Deaf Benedict Arnold"? Is Ben Soukup "Deaf [...]
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FSSA Protest Continues to Spread Lies
The Gallaudet Protest: What you don't know Subject: [Planners] Student Distortions broadcast unchallengedDate: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:58:51 -0400Folks ? this is the kind of thing which must be countered. A student, a young woman whose name I didn?t catch, told NBC news taped earlier today that the Search Committee was all white, all hearing. This was reported as ?the protesters are claiming that the search was [...]
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Dr. Jane Fernandes makes herself known
The Gallaudet Protest: What you don't know Many Ways of Being DeafBy Jane K. FernandesSaturday, October 14, 2006 It was 3 a.m. on Tuesday. I had been up all night negotiating with student protesters occupying Gallaudet University's Hall Memorial Building, home to classrooms, department offices and labs. Negotiations had broken down. The protesters did not approve of my appointment by the board of trustees to [...]
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A MUST READ. BRILLIANT.
The Gallaudet Protest: What you don't know The Deaf community is wise. The Deaf Community is Strong but the Deaf Community is not being given the TRUTH: Here is some SERIOUS truth [link]
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Letter from the board
Frederick United For FSSA THE BOARD STILL DOES NOT LISTEN!October 15, 2006MEMORANDUM TO: The Campus CommunityFROM: Dr. Brenda Jo Brueggemann, ChairBoard of TrusteesSUBJECT: Statement from the Board of TrusteesOn behalf of the Gallaudet University Board of Trustees, I write to say that our foremost priority must be to reopen our campus so that Gallaudet University can move forward with its [...]
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