An email from Noam Chomsky. University of Leeds (UCU) - Blog. November 30, 2009.

New World of Indigenous Resistance: Voices from the Americas
Noam Chomsky

With Lois Meyer, Benjamín Maldonado Alvarado

Indigenous societies today face difficult choices: can they develop, modernize, and advance without endangering their sacred traditions and communal identity? Specifically, can their communities benefit from national education while resisting the tendency of state-imposed programs to undermine their cultural sovereignty, language, and traditions? According to Lois Meyer and Benjamín Maldonado, these are among the core questions being faced by indigenous societies whose comunalidad -- or communal way of life -- is at odds with the dictates of big business and the social programs of the state.

To explore these issues in depth, Meyer and Maldonado conducted a series of dialogues with Noam Chomsky, and invited numerous organizers and intellectuals from indigenous communities of resistance to comment. In three in-depth conversations, Chomsky offers poignant lessons from his vast knowledge of world history, linguistics, economics, anti-authoritarian philosophy and personal experience, and traces numerous parallels with other peoples who have resisted state power while attempting to modernize, develop, survive, and sustain their unique community identity and tradition. Following the interviews are commentaries from more than a dozen activists and intellectuals from the Americas, who speak from their on-the-ground experiences and work with indigenous communities in Mexico, Bolivia, Argentina, Peru, and Canada. This is Chomsky at his best -- lucid, accessible and deeply informative.

For more information visit:

http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100162960

Chomsky condemns "immoral" Afghan war. BBC Hardtalk. November 3, 2009.

Militarizing Latin America. chomsky.info. August 30, 2009. Versión en castellano: La cuestionada supremacía estadunidense en América Latina. La Jornada. September 6, 2009.

Season of Travesties: Freedom and Democracy in mid-2009. chomsky.info. July 9, 2009. Versión en castellano: Una temporada de parodias. La Voz. July 11, 2009.

What Obama Didn't Say in His Cairo Address Speaks Volumes About His Mideast Policy. Alternet. June 4, 2009. Versión en castellano: El discurso de Obama en El Cairo. Sin Permiso. June 6, 2009.

The Torture Memos. chomsky.info. May 21, 2009. Versión en castellano: Tortura y amnesia histórica. La Jornada. May 30 and 31, 2009.

Interview: Noam Chomsky. With The Imagineer. May 19, 2009.

Palestine and the Region in the Obama era: The Emerging Framework. Imperial College Union Political Philosophy Society. October 29, 2009.

Human Rights in the New Millennium. London School of Economics and Political Science. October 29, 2009.

Voice of America (TV) Persian News Network interview. Voice of America (TV) Persian News Network. November 6, 2009.

War, Peace and Obama's Nobel. In These Times. November 5, 2009.

What Obama Didn't Say in His Cairo Address Speaks Volumes About His Mideast Policy. Alternet. June 4, 2009.

Kick-starting the environmental movement: An interview with Noam Chomsky. With Dan Mossip-Balkwill. July 2009.

Noam Chomsky on the Global Economic Crisis, Healthcare, US Foreign Policy and Resistance to American Empire. With Amy Goodman. April 13, 2009.

Noam Chomsky on US Expansion of Afghan Occupation, the Uses of NATO, and What Obama Should Do in Israel-Palestine. With Amy Goodman. April 3, 2009.

The Unipolar Moment and the Obama Era. Nezahualcóyotl Hall, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), University City, Federal District, Mexico. September 21, 2009.

Guerra, drogas y política, elementos del mundo bipolar. Nezahualcóyotl Hall, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), University City, Federal District, Mexico. September 21, 2009.

Professor Chomsky speaks at rally. By Kamil Dada and Alex Yu. October 5, 2009.

Noam Chomsky on Getting Rid of Elites and Much, Much More. By Amanda Ingram. October 4, 2009.

Chomsky blames the US for causing stress in the region. By El Universal. August 25, 2009.

Anti-war activist's works banned at prison camps. By Carol Rosenberg. October 11, 2009.

Barack Obama and the 'Unipolar Moment'. In These Times. October 6, 2009.

Noam Chomsky's Trick for Avoiding Political Letdown: Low Expectations. BigThink.com. August 26, 2009.

The "Democratic Deficit". BigThink.com. August 26, 2009.

Democracy: America's Oldest Spectator Sport. BigThink.com. August 26, 2009.

When Paying Taxes Became Un-American. BigThink.com. August 26, 2009.

Noam Chomsky on Cutting the Cost of Drugs. BigThink.com. August 26, 2009.

The Return of WWII Economics?. BigThink.com. August 26, 2009.

Noam Chomsky on Language's Great Mysteries. BigThink.com. August 26, 2009.

Ethical Dilemmas: Should I Protest Against My Government and Risk Jail Time?. BigThink.com. August 26, 2009.

Noam Chomsky on Love. BigThink.com. August 26, 2009.

Coups, UNASUR, and the U.S.. Z Magazine. October, 2009.

What's Ahead for the World?. Your Call Radio. October 1, 2009.

Green Light for War Crimes. The Little Magazine. May, 2000.

Noam Chomsky Meets with Chavez in Venezuela. By James Suggett. August 28, 2009.

Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours. Boston Review. September/October, 2009.

Noam Chomsky debates Ian Williams. Foreign Policy in Focus. August 3 - September 1, 2009.

Militarizing Latin America. chomsky.info. August 30, 2009.

Noam Chomsky interview. With George McLeod. March 27, 2009.

June's Release from the Archive: Phil Gasper, Noam Chomsky and George Carlin. Seeing Red Radio. August 7, 2008.

"We've reached back in the vaults to one of the best shows of 2008, with a podcast featuring Professor Phil Gasper on the ABC's of Marxism. We also include commentary from Noam Chomsky, comedic truth-telling from the late George Carlin, all mixed with the music of Ani Difranco, Utah Philips, the Weavers, Amon Tobin, David Rovics, DJ Spooky, HiM, and more."

Where To Now For Jewish America?. By Antony Loewenstein. January 24, 2009.

The Responsibility to Protect. UN General Assembly, New York City. July 23, 2009.

Interactive Dialogue on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Doctrine. United Nations General Assembly. July 23, 2009.

And a summary of the speakers' comments:

http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2009/ga10847.doc.htm

Transcript:

Interview with US political activist and philosopher Noam Chomsky. With Michael Dranove. March 13, 2009.

And videos:

Interview with US political activist and philosopher Noam Chomsky. Wikinews. March 13, 2009.

US policy towards separatist ambitions. With Peshawa Abdulkhaliq Muhammed. July 5, 2009.

A New American Era? An Interview with Noam Chomsky on American Society, Politics and Foreign Policy. With Chronis Polychroniou. February 28, 2009.

Chomsky: Understanding the Crisis -- Markets, the State and Hypocrisy. WithSameer Dossani. February 10, 2009.

Chomsky on Obama. With John F. Kirch. November 21, 2008.

Season of Travesties: Freedom and Democracy in mid-2009. chomsky.info. July 9, 2009.

Video:
Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours (American Power and the New Mandarins 40th Anniversary Talk). Brecht Forum, Riverside Church, New York City. June 12, 2009.

Transcript:
Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours (American Power and the New Mandarins 40th Anniversary Talk). Brecht Forum, Riverside Church, New York City. June 12, 2009.

"Little difference" between Obama, Bush in substance. With Richard Hall. June 24, 2009.

Noam Chomsky on the Past 10 Years: Seattle '99 to WSF to Climate in '09. Pittsburgh Indymedia. June 18, 2009.

Israel & Palestine After Disengagement: Where Do We Go From Here? (Debate with Alan Dershowitz). Harvard University Institute of Politics. November 29, 2005.

Why Iraq? Harvard University Institute of Politics. November 4, 2002.

Sovereignty and World Order. Harvard University Institute of Politics. March 25, 1999.

Massacre in East Timor: A Case Study in U.S. Foreign Policy. Harvard University Institute of Politics. April 21, 1992.

Media Coverage of the Gulf War: Journalism or Jingoism? Harvard University Institute of Politics. April 30, 1991.

Noam Chomsky interview. With Brian Lehrer. June 9, 2009.

Many thanks to Ken Levy for the transcription.

American Power and the New Mandarins - 40th Anniversary Talk. Brecht Forum, Riverside Church, New York City. June 12, 2009.

Just War Theory. U.S. Military Academy, West Point. April 20, 2006.

Many thanks to Mariko Sakurai and Scott Senn for their work on the transcription.

Noam Chomsky on WorldStreams. WorldStreams. June 17, 2009.

Noam Chomsky. Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC. June 9, 2009.

"Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009. chomsky.info. January 19, 2009 (revised and updated June 6, 2009).

Turning Point?. chomsky.info. June 7, 2009.

Iran is pressured because of its independent stance: Chomsky. With the Tehran Times. April 15, 2009.

Noam Chomsky interviewed by Allison Kilkenny and Jamie Kilstein. Citizen Radio. May 13, 2009.

Interview with Professor Noam Chomsky. With Allison Kilkenny and Jamie Kilstein. May 13, 2009.

Obama, Cigarettes and Marijuana with Noam Chomsky. Dr. Ken Hildebrandt, YouTube. May 17, 2009.

"Black Faces in Limousines:" A Conversation with Noam Chomsky. With Joe Walker. November 14, 2008.

The Torture Memos. chomsky.info. May 21, 2009.

Noam Chomsky interviewed by Radio Digna (with version dubbed in Spanish). Radio Digna. April 2, 2009.

Noam Chomsky interviewed by Neil Denny. Little Atoms. April 24, 2009.

And for additional archived Chomsky video, see the CSPAN Video Library.

Noam Chomsky interviewed by Jean Feraca. Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Wisconsin Public Radio. April 7, 2009.

Noam Chomsky interviewed by Allison Kilkenny and Jamie Kilstein. Citizen Radio. April 1, 2009.

Interview with Professor Noam Chomsky. With Allison Kilkenny and Jamie Kilstein. April 1, 2009.

Chomsky on Geithner. The Real News Network. March 26, 2009.

Chomsky On Gaza. With Christiana Voniati. February 16, 2009.

Anomie, oil wars and US elections. With Christiana Voniati. November 2, 2008.

The U.S. -- Israel's Godfather. Palestine Cultural Center for Peace, Boston, MA. January 21, 2009.