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Alan Canfora
interview / speaker email / phone
-- Alan is available now --
************************* Alan Canfora -- INTERVIEWS --
ATTENTION STUDENTS: The majority of visitors at my web site are students seeking info for school projects. Alan Canfora is available for phone interviews regarding Kent State 1970, our effective anti-war movement, positive and negative lessons of American student activism, etc. Feel free to tape the phone conversation questions/answers (or take notes) and have your parents, teachers or fellow-students join the interview.
You can call me or I can call you free from here in Ohio. I prefer phone interviews instead of email because it's much easier for me to talk than hammer my keyboard here too much. Students, if necessary, email only a very few questions and expect only brief email replies. I just get way too many emailed questions. Sorry. email: alan.canfora@gmail.com Please mention your school project's deadline date.
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Alan Canfora SPEAKER / LECTURES
Since 1977, I have lectured at over 200 American colleges and universties. I also speak to high school students in classrooms and assemblies. If you seek Alan Canfora for a 2005 lecture or speech at your university, college or school, feel free to contact me now. I am available now available now for expert commentary regarding:
* the lessons of the 1970 Kent State tragedy and other student massacres; * American student activism -- past, present and future. * Vietnam, Iraq and the positive/negative lessons of anti-war student activism.
Especially now, during our ongoing inter-national war crisis, there is growing demand for my commentaries. I am available to travel and speak. My lecture fee is reasonable and negotiable. My expenses are minimal and I'm willing to drive to Ohio and other eastern/midwest US locations.
Alan Canfora Box 3313 Kent, OH 44240 Email: alan.canfora@gmail.com
******************************************** Here are sample news/internet clips re: Alan Canfora lectures: ********************************************
I want to thank the fine, dedicated student activists in THE WHITE ROSE organization at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. Here's an article announcing my Marshall Universty speech in their student newspaper, THE PARTHENON, on April 24, 2003:
WHITE ROSE GROUP SPONSORS SPEAKER
By Molly Dee Haught
A former Kent State University student protestor will present a workshop at 4 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center, 2W37, and speak at 7 p.m. today in the Alumni Lounge. White Rose, a Marshall University student organization, is sponsoring Alan Canfora, one of 13 people shot by the Ohio National Guard May 4, 1970, during a protest. He was wounded when an M-1 bullet pierced his right wrist. Canfora uses the Kent State experience as background for a discussion of current student activism during a workshop and presentation today. Canfora will discuss, "Examining the past as a clue to the present." Canfora's advice and observations are directed at issues of war, race, sexual orientation, women's rights and other civil liberties. He addresses the similarities in student protests over the centuries. He compares Kent State and current activism to student protests in the 16th century. "We feel that it is important to talk about student activism, especially with the recent events that have taken place as a result of the war in Iraq," David McGee, project advisor for White Rose, said. "We hope that Alan's encouragement can shed light on dealing with protest opposition issues." Student activism is an echo of an on-going, long-standing tradition - young people begin to think for themselves and they raise their voices in protest, Canfora said. He encourages peaceful protest. Canfora has spoken recently at American colleges and high schools in North Carolina, Mississippi, New Jersey, Colorado, Massachusetts, Pennsylva-nia, Ohio and elsewhere. He has appeared on Nightline, Crossfire, Good Morning America, The History Channel, The Learning Channel, Date-line, CNN News, ABC News, CBS News, National Public Radio and Pacifica Radio. Canfora lives in Barberton, Ohio. He has been the chairman of the Barberton Democratic Party and Deputy Director of the Summit County Board of Elections since 1992. More information on Alan Canfora is available at http://alancanfora.com/index.asp.
The Parthenon, April 24, 2003, page 2.
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CARY ACADEMY prep school in North Carolina:
http://www.caryacademy.pvt.k12.nc.us/canews/press.html
...from the Cary Academy (NC) web site news, April 11, 2003:
National Honor Society Welcomes Kent State Survivor Alan Canfora, who was a student at Kent State University during the anti-war protest in the 1970’s and was shot by the National Guard, visited Cary Academy on March 6, 2003, to talk about student activism. Canfora’s lecture, entitled Student Activism Past, Present, and Future, was the fourth lecture in the National Honor Society’s lecture series Global Citizenship in the Midst of Conflict. He addressed the similarities in student protest over the centuries – comparing the protests at Kent State and current war protests to protests in the 16th Century by students who were forced to attend religious schools. “We were but an echo,” he said. “You can hear the echoes, I think, of the on-going, long-standing tradition – young people begin to think for themselves and they raise their voices in protest.” Canfora encouraged peaceful protest. He also shared slides with students showing the Kent State protests where four people were killed by the National Guard during a protest against the war in Vietnam. Canfora currently lives in Barberton, Ohio. He has been the chairman of the Barberton Democratic Party and Deputy Director of the Summit County Board of Elections since 1992.
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http://robnugen.com/cgi-local/journal.cgi?dir=2002/02&file=02Day.html 7:26pm Saturday 2 February 2002 "Amazing presentation today by Alan Canfora who was wounded during the Kent State massacre on 4 May 1970. I had zero idea that anything had even happened, much less the details of the event. He presented a history of student rebellions over the past few hundred years in America, starting in 1760, I think. Then he described the anti-war efforts in late 1960s and tried to give the most objective story possible. Awesome stuff. Read his website; I cannot possibly do justice to the story."
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Summer 2004, comment by a US student traveller across America: "Alan Canfora was the most captivating speaker from the whole trip!"
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http://207.180.197.130/SMS/kent/index.html 2001 lecture at Solon Middle School, Solon, Ohio: "To further aid in their understanding of this horrific event in Ohio history, Mr. Alan Canfora, director of the Kent May 4 Center, shared his personal experience to the students on Friday, December 7. From his perspective as a injured protester, Mr. Canfora described and shared images of the events leading up to and including the demonstration, which culminated with thirteen student casualties, four dead and nine wounded."
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August 3, 2001: http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=38050
"I've been aware of the Kent State shootings since I was very young...I saw Alan Canfora giving a tour of that horrible day, where everyone was shot (including himself)...and it had a very powerful effect upon me."
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April 26, 2004: re: Alan Canfora speech at memorial-dedication event at Jeff Miller's High School at Plainview, Long Island, NY "...Among the nine wounded was Mr. Alan Canfora, who spoke at the assembly. Canfora spoke about the history of May Day (the name made for the atrocity committed on that day in May), the effects of seeing his best friend killed, his wound, and how the current war in Iraq is similar to the Vietnam War."
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http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~paulsjo/KentState.html "Thank you Alan Canfora for speaking at Earlham College (Indiana) on April 30. We enjoyed your presentation on Kent State and Student Activism Today. Alan Canfora also led a workshop on student action..."
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