ACLU Files Amicus Brief On Behalf Of First Amendment Rights Of CU Professor Ward Churchill

Today the ACLU of Colorado filed an amicus brief in the Colorado Supreme Court case of Ward Churchill, who according to a jury verdict, was fired from his job as a Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder for exercising his First Amendment right to free expression.

September 13, 2011

Today the ACLU of Colorado filed an amicus brief in the Colorado Supreme Court case of Ward Churchill, who according to a jury verdict, was fired from his job as a Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder for exercising his First Amendment right to free expression.

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Churchill v. University of Colorado

In early 2005, controversy erupted over the discovery of an essay that University of Colorado Ethnic Studies Professor Churchill had published in the fall of 2001, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The essay is titled “Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens.” Churchill argued that American foreign policies provoked the attacks, and he referred to workers in the World Trade Center as “little Eichmanns” who were complicit in the evils wrought by “America's global financial empire.”