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Obama-Led Foundation Funded a Group Led by Former Chair of ‘Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)’
Friday, October 24, 2008
By Matt Hadro
(CNSNews.com) – A foundation chaired by Barack Obama that was designed to improve Chicago public schools gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Small Schools Workshop, an organization led by former Weatherman Bill Ayers and by Michael Klonsky, a former chairman of both Students for a Democratic Society and, according to The Washington Post and New York Times, a group called the “Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist).”
“Ayers and an old comrade from SDS, Mike Klonsky, run the Small Schools Workshop to mentor and provide guidance and technical support to educators seeking to start small schools,” The Chicago Tribune reported on Sept. 16, 2001.
In a September 6, 1977 article headlined “China’s Ideal American; U.S. Marxist Gets Red-Carpet Welcome in China,” The Washington Post said Klonsky was “chairman of the newly organized Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) of the United States of America.”
“Secretary of State Cyrus Vance got a good reception in Peking last month, but nothing like the red-carpet treatment received by that distinguished representative of the American people, Michael Klonsky,” the Post reported, before asking: “Michael who?”
Answering its own question, the Post said: “Klonsky, as it turns out, is the chairman of the newly organized Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) of the United States of America, an amalgam of various pro-Peking leftist troops whose memberships are not thought to total more than a few hundred people–if that. Klonsky enjoyed a period of notoriety during the late 1960s when he headed Students for a Democratic Society and, for the first time, brought a radical Communist rhetoric to that New Left organization.”
The August 26, 1977 New York Times, citing Klonsky as leader of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), reported that he was one of only five Americans other than Secretary of State Vance and former President Richard Nixon and two Chinese-American scientists to have met with new Chinese Communist Party Chairman Hua Kuo-feng.
According to publicly available IRS 990 documents, the Small Schools Workshop that Klonsky ran with Bill Ayers received at least $800,000 from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) between 1998 and 2002. Obama chaired the CAC.
Leftist Activist
Klonsky “spent his college years in the late 60’s and early 70’s as an activist at what is now California State University, Northridge,” according to a March 5, 2000 story in The Chicago Tribune.
It added: “Mike Klonsky, who teaches education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was a member of the Students for a Democratic Society and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).”
Klonsky in 1968 “was national chairman of the S.D.S. and a demonstration organizer” during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, The New York Times reported on Aug. 26, 1996.
In an Aug. 24, 1996 piece in the Toronto Star that described Klonsky as an “angry student organizer” during the 1968 Democratic convention, Klonsky was quoted as saying he had entered the “political process.”
“He heads a project to revitalize Chicago’s inner city schools,” the Star reported. “He shows up at the office in jeans and a T-shirt. He is speaking out against racism, working with the poor and railing against the rise of right-wing politics in America.”
“We have to keep our guard up, make sure that progressive people are still active and conscious and aware,” Klonsky told the Star. “I’ve become part of the political process.”
When the SDS splintered in 1969 – in what The Chicago Tribune described as “a showy and disastrous split”–Ayers, his now-wife Bernardine Dohrn and others formed the violent Weatherman faction.
“I led the fight against the Weatherman,” Klonsky told the Tribune in Sept. 2001. “I wasn’t big on blowing up toilets and statues.”
Klonsky then founded the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) (CPML) in June 1977 in the Midwest, according to the Washington Post’s September 1977 article, after which he traveled to China in July 1977 and met with the Chairman Hua Kuo-feng of the Chinese Communist Party, who gave him, according to the Post, “what still stands as the warmest reception ever given an American by the new Chinese leader.”
“Vice Premier Li Hsien-nien told Klonsky at the banquet that the founding of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) of the United States reflects the aspirations of the proletariat and other working people of the United States and is a new victory for the Marxist-Leninist movement in the United States,” the Post reported.
The Post continued: “Klonsky replied, according to the Chinese news agency, ‘As a Marxist-Leninist party in one of the two superpowers, and recognizing our responsibility to lead the struggle to topple the U.S. imperialist ruling class, we are determined as well to make a contribution to the worldwide struggle against the two superpowers, the United States and Soviet social-imperialism, the main enemies of the peoples of the world.’”
The party collapsed in 1981, however.
“Between 1979 and 1981, the CPML, which had become internationally recognized as China’s favorite American party (CPML chairman Mike Klonsky was repeatedly feted with state-dinner-level visits to Beijing), dissolved in a rapid series of factional splits and departures,” Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Garrow wrote in July 9, 2002 Village Voice review of “Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che” by Max Elbaum.
School reform advocate
In the 1990s, Klonsky became a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he and Bill Ayers would join forces in the Small Schools Workshop.
“We started the Small Schools Workshop in 1991, with the goal of supporting Chicago’s reform-minded teachers as they tried to create new, smaller learning communities,” Klonsky and Ayers wrote in a February 2006 article they jointly authored for Phi Delta Kappan magazine, titled “Renaissance 2010: The Small Schools Movement Meets the Ownership Society.”
The bio-line for the article specified that Ayers founded the Small Schools Workshop in 1991 and that Klonsky “has served as the workshop’s director since 1993.”
“Our vision of small schools was closely connected with issues of social justice, equity, and community,” they wrote.
Klonsky repeatedly has been identified as “co-director” or “director” of the Workshop.
An Aug. 26, 1996 Associated Press story noted: “Mike Klonsky, a former SDS leader and ’68 protester, is helping reform Chicago’s troubled public schools as co-director of the Small Schools Workshop at the University of Illinois-Chicago.”
A March 5, 2000 Chicago Tribune story said Klonsky “remains active as co-director of the Small Schools Workshop based at UIC (University of Illinois at Chicago).”
A 2006 news release from Nova Southeastern University in Florida, announced Klonsky’s arrival there, identifying the educator as “director of the Small Schools Workshop in Chicago, Illinois.”
Of his collaboration with Ayers, Klonsky told the Chicago Tribune in 2001: “Now we’re on the same train. We still disagree about things, but . . . as long as we don’t talk about ’69, then we’re OK.”
“We’ve learned how to work within the system. The fight to save and improve public education embodies all the issues we were fighting for back then,” he added.
Reached by phone by CNSNews.com, Klonsky declined to be interviewed.
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“Whoa! Come on! John McCain and change? He needs a costume for that.”
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LOLOL Greatest Line of the year. Love it. Go Joe!

conf1689: No it’s not, it is reacting to how this Government has been run the past 8 years. Bush has basically destroyed the Middle Class. You can’t have an economy without a middle class holding it up.

http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/10/24/new-3rd-party-ad-hits-obama-on-kilpatrick/

Nut jobs and conspiracy theorists, thats all McShame has left.
President Obama! Get used to it!

conf1689: and your broker is Republican also?
It all started with the bad housing loans. Which yes, started about 4 years ago, which took time to hit the banks and in return hit the market, which in return started with Bush and McCain who for years have screamed and voted deregulation. Now, all their friends and them are very wealthy while the rest us dirt. Yes, it is our fault, we should have screamed louder when this housing crap started, anyone in their right mind saw this coming down the tracks. Oh, wait, we all thought there was nothing we could do, after all, it is our Presidents job to protect the people of this great Nation and not just the top CEOs and Oil Companies.

I love ABC and the mainstream media(propaganda arm of DNC and Barack Obama)
covering everything, and I do mean everything, EXCEPT the relevant facts that I require to cast my vote for McCain or Obama.

BECKY iT ALL STARTED WITH THE HOUSING. YES IT DID AND MOST OF THE PROBLEMS STARTED WHEN THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER CONGRESS TWO YEARS AGO AND PROMOTED ACORN, FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE mAC LOAN PROGRAMS TO QUALIFY MORE AND MORE PEOPLE FOR MOTGAGES.I KNOW I AM A REALTOR AND LIVE IN LIBERAL BLUE MASS. HOME OF BARNEY FRANK. AND I’D LIKE TO STATE WE ARE EXTREMELY DEMOCRATIC STATE AND IT WAS GREEDY REGISTERED DEMOCRATS DOING IT IN MY STATE.HOW DO I KNOW BECAUSE I LIVE IN A DEPRESSED TEXTILE CITY AND THERE ARE NO REPUBLICANS AROUND.I SAW THIS COMING THREE YEARS AGO AND NO ONE WANTED TO LISTEN. AND FOR THE RECORD I DID NOT SELL ONE PERSON A HOME WHO DID NOT QUALIFY AND COULD NOT AFFORD THEIR MORTGAGE.AND NO MY BROKER IS NOT REPUBLICAN. HE HAS JUST BEEN A BROKER FOR 40 YEARS AND KNOWS THE REASON HIS CLIENTS ARE CALLING HIM AND TELLING HIM TO SELL.GO TO GOVTRACK.US AND LOOK UP WHO IT WAS PROMOTING AND PASSING ALL THE BILLS FOR THESE LOOSE MORTGAGE LENDING PRACTICES.

Our economic crises did start with the sub-prime mortgage loans–to those who knowingly could not afford to pay for the mortgage or housing. Too many of these loans were made, thanks to pressure from the Democrats, minority groups and other who support them. American and European economic experts have been saying this all along but Obama is still blaming the Republicans. With all the forclosures, all housing values have dropped and people are dropping their mortgage payments because their house values are far below the sale value. Thanks for the worst economic crises in 80 years, Democrats.

Mary who was the biggest advocate for DEREGULATION on Wall Street, that allowed Banks and loan institutes the possibilities to push through those deals?
I’ll give you a hint. He voted with Bush 90% of the time. Did I mention he was a POW?

Mary, the super low interest rates as well as the straight up housing price curve were already in place when the Dems gained control of the House, so it’s kinda silly, but very Republican, to blame others for what is happening.

Oh goody! I can’t wait to read what he’s going to say today to doom his own campaign.
Go Biden! I hope McCain has a special place for you in his upcoming administration for all you’ve done for him. I mean that sincerely!
Yours Truly,

Haha the Republicans is starting the blame game: Now Tom Ridge says he wouldve been a better choise than Palin.
“Now the state’s former governor says that if he were on the Republican ticket, the road to the White House might have been a less bumpy one.”
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/24/ridge-if-mccain-doesn%e2%80%99t-win-pa-he-doesn%e2%80%99t-win-the-white-house/
Someone quick! Call Joe the plumber, the McCain/Palin campaign is going down the drains!!!

enn First of all I am not greedy gave more to charity then your spread the wealth around Biden.I am middle class who happened to invest in the stock market as a way to pay for kids colleges.The finacial INSTITUTIONS may have shown signs of trouble 10 months ago but they were not tranparent and got away with it till one month ago.They didn’t come out and publicly fail until the week McCain was up in the polls. I do blame the dems and Barney Frank for the mortgage crisis they pushed for unqualified buyers to receive mortgages. Look it uo govtrack.us. As I said before theywere the ones passing the bills for lower standards on mortgages for low income Buyers. Please read and look it up before you make stupid comments. Cogress has a Bank and Financing oversight committee and Bush is not on it. Barney Frank annd Chris Dodd are. And Congress ignored John McCain when he tried to warn them about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I’m soory accepting reality is beyond your capabilities.

becky..To be fair Bush was not pushing sub-prime loans nor freddie mac/fannie mae loans for people that could not afford them ..got a complaint? Send it addressed to Frank, Dodd and Greenspan plus the irresponsible home buyers who fooled themselves into believing that the interest rate would never go up on their adj. rate mortgages..So what happens when your imperial leader fizzles out and can not get this economy under control with his high taxes and spending?? Get ready to eat crow, there will be a lot of repubs ready to serve it with steak sauce as turn about is fair play…HEY YOU AND OBAMA SUPPORTERS LIKE YOU CREATED BITTERNESS WITHIN THE OPPOSING SIDE WITH NASTY MEAN COMMENTS AND ONE SIDED COVERAGE TO THE POINT THAT THE REPUBS WILL NEVER ACCEPT OBAMA AS THIER PRESIDENT….YOU CREATED THEM…….DEAL WITH IT…Not voting for either…..

Loki I’m a Realtor and I can tell you in my depressed part of the state of Massachusetts it is not the Republicans loosing their McMansions. I don’t think there are any republicans in my satte. But I can tell you it is alot of lower income people who were given FannieMae, freddie Mac and Acorn motgages. And part of the problem is they didn’t have to put any money down or even pay for closing costs so they had nothing invested of their own money in the purchase in the first place. So they are walking away and leaving the house empty and unfortunately sometimes trashing them before they leave, Pulling out kitchens, tearing out lighting fixtures, punching holes in walss etc.

DOLE, BACHMAN and McCain all use lies in their campaigns. The same story: the opponent MAY be un-American. the opponent MAY be radical.
DUMP the liar DOLE. ELECT HAGAN
DUMP the liar, two faced BACHMAN ELECT ELWYN TINK
And remember, the AL-QUAIDA prefer McCain and Palin, because neither of them will negotiate with the enemy, both ONLY want war, and the illusion of victory.
VOTE OBAMA for a negotiated peace in the middle east.

Some of what you’re saying may well be true. But you are distorting the statistics as most Republicans always do. A significant percentage of all the mortgages in the entire country are in trouble. It is silly to try and argue that all of these mortgages are for lower income people. That would mean the lower class in this country is much larger than it really is.

“Posted by: Loki | Oct 24, 2008 3:01:34 PM”
Wow. You really do drink the kool-aid, don’t you?
Do yourself a favor, bone up on the financial crisis. Go to the website that conf1689 gave you, twice. Don’t worry now, it’s a non-partisan website.
Oh heck. I’ll list it again… http://www.govtrack.us/
Then, let’s reconvene and talk about the issue, ok?

Again an outright lie. The Republicans did not make an serious attempt to regulate Frannie and Freddie. They had control of the Congress and the White House and could have passed the regulations if they wanted too. They were against regulation.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with structuring mortgages so that lower income people can afford houses or that it can’t be profitable for everyone. The mortages were designed so that lower income people COULD afford to pay them. Many people blame the derivatives where more debt could be backed up by less cash more than anything else for causing the actual collapse.

Loki..Geez reason why I am independent….WE READ THE CONTRACT:
NYT Article September 2003 clearly showing that the first substantive Fannie and Freddie reform from inside government came from the Bush Administration. Spurred by worries that Fannie and Freddie were cooking their book and taking too many risks, Treasury Secretary John Snow proposed placing the companies under Treasury oversight with strict controls over risk and capital reserves. THE NYT LABELED THE PROPOSAL “THE MOST SIGNIFICANT REGULATORY OVERHAUL IN THE HOUSING FINANCE INDUSTRY SINCE THE SAVINGS AND LOAN CRISIS A DECADE AGO.”
Barney Frank: “These two entities-FM/FM are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.”
OMG…You obama supporters don’t even know your Senate and Congress…WE ARE IN A WORLD OF HURT FOR THE NEXT 4 YEARS AS YOU CAN’T EVEN KEEP TABS ON YOUR OWN ELECTED OFFICIALS………

All the companies were taking risks. Where is Lehmann Bros? Merryl Lynch?
Did the Republicans try and regulate them?

“The Republicans did not make an serious attempt to regulate Frannie and Freddie.”
Ok, here’s where I AGREE with you to an extent. Fact is, while Democrats are largely responsible for bringing about the conditions that led to this current crisis, Republicans had an opportunity to fix it when they were in power and they did not. In fact, our elected leaders in Washington had their heads buried in the sand. Why? Politics, greed and a lack of leadership from Bush. Remember, everything was just grand – good economy, record home ownership, etc. Who wanted to rock the boat?
But remember too, that in 2006, after Dems took control of Congress, John McCain, Bush and three or four other Reps warned Barney Frank and Chris Dodd’s finance committee that a credit crisis was looming on the horizon and that reform should be considered and passed during the session. Well, after well-publized hearings, the committee rejected not only the proposed reform but even the IDEA that anything was wrong. Why? Nobody yet knows for certain however we do know which politicians have benefited financially from their relationships with the institutions largely responsible for issuing bad loans. And guess what? They are the Dems on the finance committee and… Barack Obama (gasp)!
And so here we are today…

Where were the democratic Congress? Did they try to regulate them? Who has had control for the past two years.The Buyers were the ones taking the risk first because they thought it was their right to own a home. And it is everyones right if you can afford it. But it is not the democratic Congresses right to put us all at risk for their hypocritical noble causes.True the institutions were and are stupid . But Congress was even dumber.

“There is absolutely nothing wrong with structuring mortgages so that lower income people can afford houses or that it can’t be profitable for everyone.”
Loki, I will agree with you on this point too. The CRA has actually helped low-income families with SOLID credit get into homes. However, the CRA was later tinkered with during the Clinton Administration and the new rules forced lenders to completely abandon sound lending practices so that even more low-income people could get into homes, regardless of their creditworthiness.
Like I said, as a result home ownership skyrocketed and everyone thought this was good, that it was the sign of a strong economy our elected officials could take credit for – both Dems and Reps.

And is so amazing Obama will not disavow Acorn. Guess he likes fraud and deceipt and voter registration fraud, especially when its going his way.

When a single Black mother of three can sign as mortgage and move into a house worth $215,000 is great, until you find out her take home pay each month was less than $1,300.00. She paid only a very low interest rate and nothing on equity for three years. She is like millions of others who are losing their homes. It is false promises and false hopes—something Obama has been selling during this campaign.
In 2002 and 2006 the Republicans tried to get regulations in place but the Democrats balked. Fannie Mae and Fannie Mac were both very generous to the Democrats in campaign contributions for not deregulating.
Posted by: Mary | Oct 24, 2008 3:17:31 PM
This is the crux of the problem. People, who try to get something without earning it. It is why our prisons are full, and our economic system is failing. Work for what you have, earn it. Everything else, falls into place. Do anything else, and complain to someone else.

william..You finally have people discussing economic issues and our problems thereof and how obama is going control those economic troubles with higher taxes and higher spending…AND WHAT DO YOU BRING UP, GORDON LIDDY’S RELATIONSHIP WITH MCCCAIN…LOL… HEY IT LOOKS LIKE YOU AND OBAMA SUPPORTERS WILL WIN THE BOOBY PRIZE, A LIBERAL DEM IN OFFICE AND LIBERAL SENATE AND CONGRESS…SO STOP AVOIDING OBAMA’S POLICIES…I can see it now…2 years into an obama presidency his supporters will still be trashing mccain and palin just to deflect obama/biden failures..

“AND WHAT DO YOU BRING UP, GORDON LIDDY’S RELATIONSHIP WITH MCCCAIN”
Obamabot kiddies just mindlessly post talking points. They have no clue Liddy was a patriotic FBI man who among other things busted LSD guru Timothy Leary. I never saw William Ayers guest star on Miami Vice like liddy did. or have Robert Conrad play him in a movie.

Mountain Mama! Biden blows into West Virginia
Yes, but it’s a dry heat that blew in.
Oh, MajorTimms again…gave some Navy props to the Senator from Arizona.
Allow me to reciprocate:
I appreciate Barack Obama having once thought about kinda joining the military.

Why are people so OK with having their income taxed? That perplexes me. The government gave themselves that right, and We The Sheeple just go along with it. Or…..they’re lying. Taxes are what other people should pay, not themselves.
How about a national sales tax? If you can’t afford to buy this or that, then so be it. How about American adults being treated like big boys and girls for a change and being allowed to make decisions for themselves?
If you buy expensive toys because you’re rich and can afford them, then you pay more in taxes there. If you’re middle class you contribute that way.
Both parties in Congress are going to squander it anyway, so this ‘fiscal responsibility’ stuff is nonsense. However, I actually trust McCain and Palin to do that.
Since when is paying taxes ‘patriotic’? Jeez, talk about drinking Kool-Aid. What if Biden said that sticking a fork up yourself is patriotic how many of these idiots would repeat that? But, like actually liking paying taxes, they know better…it’s just baloney they mouth to support their God and his very mortal, possibly drunken, side-kick.
Someone posted elsewhere something to the effect that the next time you eat in a restaurant, ask your server if they’re an Obama supporter. If they say ‘yes’ tell them you’re going to send their tip to a charity. LOL…I like that!