Today in Labor History April 1, 1920: T-Bone Slim's “The Popular Wobbly” was published in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) "One Big Union Monthly." T-Bone Slim (Matti Valentin Huhta) was a Finnish-American poet, songwriter, journalist, hobo and IWW labor activist. He was a regular columnist for the Industrial Worker, Industrial Solidarity, and Industrialisti. Some of his most well-known labor songs include: The Popular Wobbly, Mysteries Of A Hobo's Life, and The Lumberjack's Prayer. His songs were sung during the Civil Rights protests of the 1960s and Noam Chomsky was a big fan. https://youtu.be/Rn_Wfydg61c
Notable/frequent guests include Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Edward Snowden, Vandana Shiva, David Graeber, Greta Thunberg, and so many more not listed on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Now!
Interview of Noam Chomsky conducted in the hall of the #UnitedNations General Assembly in 2015:
Amy Goodman (#DemocracyNow!): What do you think is the single most important action the United States can take ?
#NoamChomsky: Well, one important action that the United States could take is to live up to its own laws. Of course it would be nice if it lived up to #InternationalLaw but maybe that's too much to ask—but live up to its own laws.
Today in Labor History March 8, 1971: The Citizens Committee to Investigate the FBI stole 1,000 documents from the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania. They later released the documents to newspapers, revealing the FBI’s COINTELPRO program, which harassed, imprisoned & murdered US political dissidents. According to Noam Chomsky, 40% of the documents were dedicated to political surveillance. James Ellroy wrote about the burglary in his 2009 novel, “Blood’s a Rover.”
Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World with Noam Chomsky by David Barsamian
Timely, urgent, and powerfully elucidating, this important volume of previously unpublished interviews conducted by award-winning radio journalist David Barsamian features Noam Chomsky discussing America's policies in an increasingly unstable world.
Anybody watched the #noamchomsky masterclass? If so, is it worth signing up for a year's worth of masterclass? Effin thing is billed annually, so I have to know if it's worth it for just a few of the lectures that I DO want to see. I'd have to literally budget it in, or share it w someone. This shit should be free. Fuck capitalism. 😪
"If you believe in freedom of speech, you believe in freedom of speech for views you don’t like. Goebbels was in favor of freedom of speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re in favor of freedom of speech, that means you’re in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of freedom of speech."
Noam Chomsky écrivait que l'important, dans l'instruction, est moins de se souvenir que Hitler a fait tuer des millions de juifs que de se souvenir comment il a convaincu des millions d'allemands que c'était nécessaire.
En ce moment, en France, on assiste au même glissement idéologique écoeurant, nauséabond et rance, basé sur des idées fausses et totalement démontées par les études de science sociale.
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Ich denke, dieser französische Post sollte auch alle des Deutschen mächtigen zum stärkeren Nachdenken anregen:
Der Linguistik-Professor und politische Aktivist "#NoamChomsky schrieb, dass es bei der Bildung weniger darauf ankommt, sich daran zu erinnern, dass #Hitler Millionen von #Juden töten ließ, sondern vielmehr darauf, 👉wie er Millionen von Deutschen davon überzeugte, dass dies notwendig war.👈
#NoamChomsky wird heute 95. Sein Text "Manufacturing Consent" ist inzwischen auch in einer deutschen Ausgabe erhältlich. Er ist übrigens Mitglied der in derselben Internationalen @IclCit wie die @FAU organisierten Gewerkschaft @iwwunion - der in der @jungewelt von heute gratulierende Artikel "Ein Polyhistor" ist leider noch hinter einer Bezahlschranke verborgen.
"You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich man is bribed; he has been bribed already. That is why he is a rich man." #GKChesterton
#NoamChomsky has a line about establishment journalists. They are not told to lie to the people, they were chosen for the job because of how they already frame reality thanks to their elite family and education.
"Don’t Believe the Hype” inspired by left-wing political commentator #NoamChomsky, who authored the famous book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, which came out the same year as this song.