Uncle Noam<\/a> done come and gone. I saw him speak in Sydney. His Sydney Peace Prize lecture (November 2), to be exact, which will be broadcast on the ABC’s Big Ideas<\/a><\/em> on November 30. You can watch the actual presentation<\/a> (by Patrick Dodson) on the Sydney Peace Foundation website. His lecture in Melbourne on the ‘Changing Contours of Global Order’<\/a> (November 4) will be available via the Deakin University website later in the week.<\/p>\n Inter alia<\/em>, Chomsky spent a few moments<\/a> talking with some of the members of Occupy Sydney prior to his lecture, tho’ his enthusiastic support for the Occupy movement is not one shared by authorities in Melbourne<\/a> or Sydney–or many other places it seems.<\/p>\n Most recently (November 9), Occupy Sydney protesters have been arrested<\/a> for briefly occupying\/squatting<\/a> one of the estimated 120,000+ properties standing empty in Sydney, allegedly the ‘seventh most expensive city’<\/a> in the world (see also<\/em> : UBS Wealth Management Research Prices and Earnings study, August 2011 update<\/a>).<\/p>\n The eviction follows closely upon another eviction of squatters in Sydney in September, this time from Church property (Sydney squatters’ rooftop protest over cost of housing<\/a>, Stephanie Gardiner, The Sydney Morning Herald<\/em>, September 16, 2011).<\/p>\n As for Chomsky, he also done talked to ABC’s Radio National (Part One<\/a> | Part Two<\/a>), SBS World News (Part One<\/a> | Part Two<\/a>) and 2SER’s Razors Edge<\/a>.<\/p>\n Otherwise, in response to his visit, semi-professional UK trollumnist Brendan O’Neill has a crack in Peace Prize winner more of a patrician than people’s champion<\/a> (The Australian<\/em>, November 5, 2011), in which he turns Chomsky on his head, while Philip Mendes laments aspects of Chomsky’s position on Israel\/Palestine in Why Noam Chomsky is not a suitable candidate for the Sydney Peace Prize<\/a> (The Australian<\/em>, November 2, 2011).<\/p>\n Nice work if you can get it.<\/p>\n A passing reference to former Foreign Minister Gareth Evans during the course of Uncle Noam’s Peace Prize lecture provoked a response by the man dubbed ‘Professor Genocide’ in East Timor and me: A response to Noam Chomsky<\/a> (November 3, 2011); an attempt at historical revisionism which Clinton Fernandes examines in ‘Gareth Evans and the Responsibility to Protect’ [PDF<\/a>].<\/p>\n Finally, the University of Sydney is hosting a public discussion of the Occupy movement on Wednesday, November 16 (the political agenda of Occupy Sydney, based on a survey of participants in a November 5 rally, is briefly discussed in a news release<\/a> of November 7, 2011). In Melbourne, the New International<\/a> bookshop is hosting a panel discussion on Left Politics and Strategy inre OM tomorrow night (Thursday, November 10) from 6.30pm.<\/p>\n Shout outs to Alex, Alex, Brian, Damian, Eleven, Jenny, Jeremy, Jura, Mutiny<\/em>, Phil, Shaun, Sunil, Tim and Occupy Sydney. Mad props to Uncle Noam for being a righteous d00d.<\/em><\/p>\n See also<\/em> : Chomsky in Australia<\/a> (August 28, 2011) | Noam Chomsky : Sydney Peace Prize winner and\/or \u2018ethical pervert\u2019<\/a> (June 17, 2011).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So much for apathy… Anarchy rules OK Chomsky tells Australia, AAP, November 3, 2011. (And for those with a slightly longer historical perspective, see : Harold Barclay, People Without Government: An Anthropology Of Anarchy, Kahn & Averill, 1990.) Uncle Noam … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/a1.img.mobypicture.com\/15ece7d78d7b5b26d468aa8f0cb08149_view.jpg\")
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