In a speech to Occupy Boston, the linguist and icon hailed the "unprecedented" first weeks of OWS. He cautioned protesters to build and educate first, strike later.
Converting schools and universities into facilities that produce commodities for the job market, privatizing them, slashing their budgets — do we really want this future?
Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. November 30, 2010.
World-renowned political dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky discusses the release of more than 250,000 secret U.S. State Department cables by WikiLeaks.
"What is needed is people who will work to sweep away the mists of carefully contrived illusion, and be directly engaged in popular struggles that they sometimes help galvanize."
Chomsky: "It's almost unheard of, outside of totalitarian states, for a government to prevent someone from responding to an invitation at a university to give a talk."
'We should not underestimate the depth of moral indignation that lies behind the furious, often self-destructive bitterness about government and business power."
Noam Chomsky speaks about the status of democracy in Iraq, U.S. imperialism over Latin America, and the media's shallow coverage of foreign affairs -- all topics explored in his latest book, Interventions.
