NP Chomsky

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Theresa" <tildatoo at optonline.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 4:07 AM
Subject: Re: NP Chomsky

> on 5/24/04 9:10 PM, Mark Brawner at markbrawner at zipmail.com wrote:
>
> > I've no German and hence no comment other than to say by
> > the way that he's to be interviewed on Air America Radio on
> > June 3 at 8:20 (presumably by Janeane Garofalo? I heard her
> > mention it on the Daily Show). The date and time I got from
> > a kind reply from his office.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mark
>
> I copied and pasted the text from the site at freetranslation.com to get
the
> gist. It's not perfect, but you get the idea.
>  While I don't always agree w/ Chomsky (though most often I do), it's
always
> a pleasure to hear  him speak.
> Take care,
> Theresa
>

Yesterday he discussed with pupils at an Oldenburg high school. The topic
wasn't the actual war but business & media. In his initial speech he
introduced the pupils into the history of media and propaganda in the 20th
century:

Schüler löchern den Preisträger
Professor Dr. Noam Chomsky steht jungen Leuten Rede und Antwort
Der Philosoph und Linguist wurde auch als Gesellschaftskritiker bekannt.
Gestern sprach der Ossietzky-Preisträger in der Cäcilienschule über "Markt
und Medien".
(source: Nordwest-Zeitung, Dienstag, 25. Mai 2004)

The last four people who received the "Carl-von-Ossietzky-Preis für
Zeitgeschichte und Politik" have been Uri Avnery, Sergej A. Kowaljow, Hans
Mommsen and Prof. Dr. Israel Gutmann.

Carl von Ossietzky had stayed between February 1934 until May 1936 at the
Concentration Camp Esterwegen (some fifty kilometers vom Oldenburg). When
our university was founded in 1972 it had been decided that it's name should
be "Carl- von-Ossietzky-Universität" but the CDU/SPD- government of Lower
Saxony refused the name first. It lasted until the early eighties and a
red-green government at Hannover before the university could take the name
officially.
http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/uni/bilder/

Here is a picture of three long-haired and bearded students attaching the
name for the first time to the central tower on October 16, 1974. It took
400 policemen to remove it:
http://www.oldenburg.de/cvo-preis/geschichte.html

Otto