Word: noam
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BESIDES APPEALING to a new popular constituency, the paper hopes to embrace the already existing socialist tradition in this country. In These Times lists 39 sponsors representing a wide range of views. They include Julian Bond, Noam Chomsky, Barry Commoner, Daniel Ellsberg, Salvador Luria, Herbert Marcuse, and Paul Sweezy '31. Many of the sponsors will also write for the paper...
...several years afterward. Only the decline of the New Left and the general furor over governmental abuses of power as a result of Watergate have brought about a major decrease in the level of its illegal activities to suppress dissent. In this context, it is worth recalling, as Noam Chomsky points out in his introduction to COINTELPRO, that such programs have been carried out under administration of both political parties. They belong to a powerful tradition of restricting the political liberties of leftists which developed after World War II, and are not likely to vanish with the more transitory crimes...
Jesuit Father Daniel J. Berrigan and Noam Chomsky, well-known political activists of the '60s, spoke in Boston Saturday in an open discussion on "Politics As A Vocation: Why We Do What...
...classes." He also wonders whether the group represents the consensus of the radical left. For instance, Wilson notes that Marxist Herbert Marcuse wrote in the sixties that he believes in some form of biological determinism. And, Wilson cites passages in the recently published "Reflections on Language" by the leftist Noam Chomsky, as indicating that the radical environmental notion of man being infinitely plastic is probably both incorrect and dangerous...
...execution of the ten Iranians. We the undersigned urge that the Iranian government stop the execution of the ten defendants and permit the case of the ten to be remanded to the custody and protection of the United Nations Human Rights Charter, of which Iran is a signatory. Noam Chomsky Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn Congressman Michael Harrington Denise Levertov State Representative Elaine Noble John Roberts, ACLU Joshua Rubinstein, Amnesty International Ruth and George Wald Professor Howard Zinn Marjorie Swann, Executive Secretary, American Friends Service Committee