[Peace-discuss] [Peace] News from Neptune on UPTV, 7pm Fri. 22 Aug. channels 6 & 99

Fri Aug 22 22:44:15 EDT 2014

Chomsky has written in his "Notes on Anarchism"

"Given the highly conservative cast of our highly ideological           society, it is not too surprising that the United States has been           relatively untouched by these developments. But that too may change.           The erosion of cold-war mythology at least makes it possible to raise           these questions in fairly broad circles. If the present wave of           repression can be beaten back, if the left can overcome its more            suicidal tendencies and build upon what has been accomplished in the           past decade, then the problem of how to organize industrial society on           truly democratic lines, with democratic control in the workplace and           in the community, should become a dominant intellectual issue for           those who are alive to the problems of contemporary society, and, as a           mass movement for libertarian socialism develops, speculation should           proceed to action. "

Notes on Anarchism, by Noam Chomsky

Notes on Anarchism, by Noam Chomsky
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On Friday, August 22, 2014 6:48 PM, C. G. Estabrook via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

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>A "Writers and Readers of the Liberal Weeklies” edition.
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>~ Good evening, & welcome to NEWS FROM NEPTUNE for the 34th WEEK of 2014 (August 22) 
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>~For more than twenty years, this program has been "a spontaneous & unrehearsed discussion of the news of the week and its coverage by the media" - first on a so-called "community radio station" - and, when censored & locked out of there - welcomed, I'm happy to say, by the good people at Urbana Public Television.
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>~ I’m Carl Estabrook. My discussants tonight are KAREN ARAM & DAVID GREEN.
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>~ Our program's name, News from Neptune, was chosen to honor Noam Chomsky, who has been talking sense about American politics for twice the quarter-century we've been on the air.  
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>Chomsky has said that in the American media, “either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.”
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>Our format is to take turns suggesting stories that have been ignored or misreported (occasionally even innocently) and then having our colleagues comment on them. 
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>Previous programs are archived on YouTube and posted to the facebook page for News from Neptune, where you’ll also find comments from viewers (not all unadulterated praise) and some answers from us.  I also can be reached at <carl at newsfromneptune.com>; I'm happy to receive your comments.
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>Today is August 22, 2014. I wan to read a bit of Kenneth Rexroth’s (1905–82) poem titled “August 22, 1939” - written on the anniversary of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, anarchists who were electrocuted by the state of Massachusetts in Boston in 1927. 
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>Nicola Sacco (1891 – August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888 – August 23, 1927) were Italian-born anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during the armed robbery of a shoe factory in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States in 1920. A controversial trial in 1921 resulted in the men's conviction, despite equivocal ballistics evidence and numerous witnesses who claimed Sacco had been in Boston's North End and Vanzetti in Plymouth, Massachusetts on the day of the robbery. Both defendants had to recount their anarchist beliefs in court to explain why they had been found armed when arrested.
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>By 1925, the case had drawn worldwide attention ... one of the largest causes célèbres in modern history. They were executed via electric chair in 1927 ... subsequent riots destroyed property in Paris, London, et al. In 1977, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis issued a proclamation that Sacco and Vanzetti had been unfairly tried and convicted and that "any disgrace should be forever removed from their names".
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>Kenneth Rexroth’s poem, “August 22, 1939” begins with a bit of  Nicola Sacco's last letter to his son Dante, dateed for days before he was executed:  
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>“...when you want to distract your mother from the discouraging soulness, I will tell you what I used to do. To take her for a long walk in the quiet country, gathering wildflowers here and there, resting under the shade of trees, between the harmony of the vivid stream and the tranquillity of the mother-nature, and I am sure she will enjoy this very much, as you surely will be happy for it. But remember always, Dante, in the play of happiness, don’t use all for yourself only, but down yourself just one step, at your side and help the weak ones that cry for help, help the prosecuted and the victim; because they are your friends; they are the comrades that fight and fall as your father and Bartolo fought and fell yesterday, for the conquest of the joy of freedom for all and the poor workers. In this struggle of life you will find more love and you will be loved.”  
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>Angst und Gestalt und Gebet —Rilke [from “Erinnerung” (Remembering) = “Anguish and form and prayer”]
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>Dante was homesick, the Chinese made an art of it,
>So was Ovid and many others,
>Pound and Eliot amongst them,
>Kropotkin dying of hunger,
>Berkman by his own hand,
>Fanny Baron biting her executioners,
>Mahkno in the odor of calumny,
>Trotsky, too, I suppose, passionately, after his fashion.
>Do you remember?
>What is it all for, this poetry,
>This bundle of accomplishment
>Put together with so much pain?
>Do you remember the corpse in the basement?
>What are we doing at the turn of our years,
>Writers and readers of the liberal weeklies?
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