Posts tagged “noam chomsky”
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Parecomic: get your economic theory in palatable graphic novel form
May 7, 2013
Parecomic: Michael Albert and the Story of Participatory Economics is on sale today!
Sean Michael Wilson and Carl Thompson, the creative team behind the progressive comic strip “Green Benches,” have united once more to bring us Parecomic—the story of political and economic revolutionary Michael Albert and his ideas for an alternative to capitalism.
Noam Chomsky, in his first ever introduction for a graphic novel, calls the book and its message “a vital stimulus for the activist engagement that contemporary society desperately needs if urgent problems are to be confronted seriously and constructively.”Michael Albert has spent years developing an alternative economic vision, called “participatory economics,” and Parecomic outlines the principles of Albert’s ideas in a dynamic and accessible fashion, with appearances from Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, and the ghost of Karl Marx. Albert has traveled around the globe for more than thirty years to investigate working conditions, political movements, and alternative systems of management and compensation.
Tags: carl thompson, michael albert, noam chomsky, parecomic, Parecon, participatory economics, sean michael wilson
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Noam Chomsky, Inaugural People Before Profit! award celebration & public talk
September 27, 2012
Noam Chomsky, known throughout the world for his political and philosophical writings as well as for his groundbreaking linguistics work, is the Inaugural recipient being honored with at the People Before Profits! dinner, awards celebration, and fundraiser Thursday, September 27th at 5:30pm, hosted by the Center for Popular Economics. The celebratin will include Noam Chomsky as the keynote speaker, lively discussion, inspirational speakers, and a delicious dinner. Ticket prices range from $75-150. To reserve yours, visit Brown Paper Tickets.
Following the celebration dinner, Noam Chomsky will be giving a public talk, Who Owns the World? Resistance & Ways Forward, at the Fine Arts Center. You can reserve up to two seats call the Fine Arts Center Box Office at 545-2511 or 1-800-999-UMAS outside the local calling area, Monday-Friday from 10am to 6pm (suggested donation $10).
To learn more about these events, sponsored by Center for Popular Economics, visit the events page.
Tags: center for popular economics, economics, noam chomsky, people before profit!, profit over people, umass amherst
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Noam Chomsky: ‘Remembering Howard Zinn’
January 30, 2012
“Howard’s remarkable life and work are summarised best in his own words. His primary concern, he explained, was ‘the countless small actions of unknown people’ that lie at the roots of ‘those great moments’ that enter the historical record.” — Noam Chomsky
Tags: howard zinn, noam chomsky
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Noam Chomsky and Fred Wilcox at Loose Cannons and the Housing Works
October 17, 2011
NEW YORK!
There will be a terrific event centered around a dialogue between Noam Chomsky and Fred Wilcox on Monday, October 17th. Noam Chomsky is the author, among other works, of 9-11: Was There An Alternative?, and Fred Wilcox is the author of the work Scorched Earth, which questions the legacy of chemical warfare in Vietnam.
The event will be a colloquy and book-signing at The Housing Works Thrift Store at 4pm.
Housing Works is located at 2569 Broadway (near 96th Street) NY NY 10025.
Tags: 9-11 anniversary edition, author events, noam chomsky, scorched earth, waiting for an army to die
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Fred Wilcox and the “legacies of chemical warfare in Vietnam” on Lenny Lopate
October 17, 2011
Vietnam War scholar Fred Wilcox talks about the effects of chemical warfare on the Vietnamese people and their environment. Even today, more than 3 million people—including 500,000 children—are sick and dying from birth defects, cancer, and other illnesses that can be directly traced to Agent Orange/dioxin exposure. Scorched Earth: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam, the first book to examine long-term consequences of chemical warfare there, and the effects on future generations.
Listen to the interview here or download the audio.
Monday, October 17, 2011, Fred Wilcox will be in conversation with Noam Chomsky at Housing Works at 4pm.
Tags: 9-11, fred wilcox, housing works, lenny lopate, noam chomsky, radio interview, scorched earth, waiting for an army to die
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9-11: Was There an Alternative? reviewed on Foreign Policy in Focus
October 11, 2011
“9-11 is a crash course in America’s terrorism against inconvenient regimes, and a primer in the ways that those in power have misled the American public by suggesting that September 11 happened in a vacuum.”
Tags: 9-11 anniversary edition, book reviews, foreign policy in focus, noam chomsky
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Excerpt from “9-11: Was There an Alternative?” on Truthout
September 15, 2011
“The likely perpetrators are a category of their own, but uncontroversially, they draw support from a reservoir of bitterness and anger over U.S. policies in the region, extending those of earlier European masters. There certainly is an issue of ‘political authority and power.’”
Tags: 9-11, excerpts, noam chomsky, truthout
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Noam Chomsky speaking about Palestinian Statehood on Democracy Now!
September 13, 2011
Tags: interviews, noam chomsky, palestine, radio, video
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Noam Chomsky on Democracy Now!, speaking about the US economic crisis
September 13, 2011
Tags: democracy now, interview, noam chomsky, video
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Tom Dispatch serializes “9-11: Was There an Alternative?”
September 8, 2011
There has never been any reason to doubt what the FBI believed in mid-2002, but that leaves us far from the proof of guilt required in civilized societies — and whatever the evidence might be, it does not warrant murdering a suspect who could, it seems, have been easily apprehended and brought to trial. Much the same is true of evidence provided since.
Tags: 9-11, 9-11 anniversary, all voices, alternet, asia times, cbs, counter currents, democracy now, digg, history news network, international movement for a just world, naked capitalism, noam chomsky, outlook india, samoa news, santa fe reporter, straight goods exchange, tomdispatch, war in context, was there an alternative