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[Lazarus Long]

This a very interesting an informative interview with Noam Chomsky that recently took place on public television's Charlie Rose show. It is worth listening to.

He touches on many subjects relevant to our efforts here and the manner of what we are confronting pragmatically as practitioners of what he discusses and beneficiaries of the process. He analyzes aspects of the power and development of web activism, which for its own agenda clearly this organization is an example but he also addresses larger issues of the social environment globally and domestically within which our environment is evolving.

LL

New York, November 20, 2003
Author Noam Chomsky on Middle East, Iraq Listen

Noam Chomsky, professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of "Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance," talks with Charlie Rose in New York about the Middle East peace process, the U.S.-led war on Iraq and democracy and politics in the U.S.

http://media5.bloomb....cgi?A=22615137

[Lazarus Long]

BTW, when Chomsky says that the Freedom of Speech is not in the Constitution he is wrong, not entirely, but it is a more subtle issue than even he is addressing.

The First Amendment says:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or of the rights of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for redress of grievances.

That's it.

It doesn't say more and try to define said freedom it need not say less to open this debate up to a profound level of social interaction seeking a rational and fair mechanism for resolution of dispute and deep seated social difference within a process governed by a rule of law predicated on providing communication as the central perquisite necessity for a forum for resolution.

[Lazarus Long]

Since I have made an audio of Chomsky available already I think this selection is worth a listen too. It is a recent lecture he gave at Columbia University.

An Hour With Noam Chomsky on Iraq, War Profiteers & The Media
Real Player

MP3

Democracy Now Show

[imminstmorals]

perhaps he's refering to this

http://engforum.prav...25&pagenumber=2