Sounds and Fury

來美國幾年，聽過不少左派知識份子/activist的演講，卻一直無緣見到瓊斯基（Chomsky）。唯一一次他來哥大演講，爆滿的厲害，排了很長的隊，還是無緣得見。
其實我並非其忠實粉絲，但還是想見見他廬山真面目，聽聽他的現場演講。


總算，今天有一場他和另一位左翼雜誌Z-magazine、網站Z-net創辦人Michael Albert的對談，主持人則是美國現在最活躍的左翼廣播節目Democracy Now!主持人Amy Goodman。這場座談會是因為Albert先生出版了一本自傳，談他自己從六零年代學運到參與當前的各種反抗運動。

書名是Remembering Tomorrow: From SDS to Life After Capitalism。


對談的內容除了他們自己的老故事以外，一個比較迫切的問題是當全球的反抗都在燃燒，美國的校園似乎安靜？
的確，我之前在紐約參加過幾次反戰遊行，人都不能算少。而校園也不是沒有行動主義，可是如果是以校園為主的行動，總是頗為冷清。
問題是，要如何改變呢？
這場座談沒有答案。



Remembering Tomorrow: From SDS to Life After Capitalism
Featuring: Michael Albert, Amy Goodman & Noam Chomsky.

Coinciding with the release of Michael Albert's memoir "Remembering Tomorrow," this meeting of friends, activists, organizers, and interested parties from across generations will share lessons from the past, prospects for the present, and hopes for the future. This afternoon event will feature a dialogue between Michael Albert and Noam Chomsky, facilitated by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, followed by respondent student and youth activists from today’s movements. A panel Q&A and discussion with all will close the event. Join us to explore lessons drawn from early days of 60's SDS, anti-war, civil rights and feminist movements to today's student radicalism, alternative media, institution and movement building.

• Michael Albert is a leading critic on political economy, U.S. foreign policy, and mass media. A veteran writer, activist, and MIT student from the 60's, he currently works with Z Magazine and the website ZNet, both of which he co-founded. The author of seventeen books, including Parecon: Life After Capitalism and Realizing Hope, Life Beyond Capitalism, Albert lives in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

• Noam Chomsky is the author of numerous bestselling political works, from American Power and the New Mandarins in the 1960s to 9-11 in 2001. A professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT, he is widely credited with having revolutionized modern linguistics. His most recent book is Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy. He lives outside Boston, Massachusetts.

• Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 500 stations across North America. She is co-author of the national best-seller The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media that Love Them, written with her brother David Goodman.

Join us to strategize and envision efforts to win another world.