'Back to School' Conference on 'Communism in the Classroom' to be held August 20...
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'Back to School' Conference on 'Communism in the Classroom' to be held August 20 at National Press Club New disclosures about Barack Obama alleged terror associate Bill Ayers WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- America's Survival, Inc. (ASI) is holding a news conference on Thursday to release the results of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests into the activities and foreign travel of University of Illinois Professor Bill Ayers, a former leader of the communist terrorist group, the Weather Underground. Bill Ayers and President Barack Obama were political associates and worked on educational issues together when Obama was an Illinois state senator. "It is time to examine the influence of Marxist professors, not only on our president, but on students across the nation," declared ASI President and veteran journalist Cliff Kincaid. The University of Illinois has been embroiled in a scandal over hundreds of poorly qualified students getting admission through high level political and financial connections. The August 20 "Communism in the Classroom" conference will ask the questions: Who hired Bill Ayers and why? For the first time, ASI will release and analyze the course descriptions or syllabi of Ayers' "education" courses at the University of Illinois. ASI will also report on a controversial trip Ayers made to Hugo Chavez's Venezuela in 2006, to speak at a "World Educational Forum." The event will be held on August 20 at 12:30 p.m. in the First Amendment Lounge of the National Press Club (13th floor, 529 14th St., NW) in Washington, D.C. Speakers include noted author and Professor Paul Kengor of Grove City College on "Anti-Anti-Communism in the Academy;" Professor Mary Grabar of Emory on what Ayers is "teaching" in the classroom and whether he got his job "the Chicago Way"; and America's Survival President Cliff Kincaid on journalism "educator" Curtis MacDougall's 319-page FBI file. The "Communism in the Classroom" conference is free of charge and open to the press and the public. But reservations are requested at 443-964-8208 or Kincaid@comcast.net. America's Survival Inc. is a public policy group that educates the public about international affairs. More information about the conference is available on its website, www.usasurvival.org.. SOURCE America's Survival, Inc. Cliff Kincaid for America's Survival Inc., +1-443-964-8208, Kincaid@comcast.net
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