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Bill Ayers


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in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, The United States
December 26, 1944

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William Charles "Bill" Ayers is an American elementary education theorist and a former leader in the movement that opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. He is known for his 1960's activism as well as his current work in education reform, curriculum, and instruction. In 1969 he co-founded the Weather Underground, a self-described communist revolutionary group that conducted a campaign of bombing public buildings during the 1960s and 1970s, motivated by US involvement in the Vietnam War. He is now a professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, holding the titles of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar. During the 2008 Presidential campaign, a controversy arose over his co ...more

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Fight Fascism!!

Let’s work together NOW to resist fascism. Here’s one small thing we can each do with friends, collegues, neighbors:

AN INVITATION to PARTICIPATE:

https://www.writersfordemocraticaction.org/ichh

THE SCRIPT:
http://billayers.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/46683-itcan27thappenhere-again-final-3-27-2024.pdf

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“Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.”
Bill Ayers

“You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.”
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“I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement..”
Bill Ayers, Fugitive Days: A Memoir

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