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- Noam Chomsky spoke at Third Boston Symposium on Economics on February 10th 2014, sponsored by the Northeastern University Economics Society in Boston, MA. Chomsky argued that certain factors, among them cutting federal funding for research and development and the growing gap between the richest 1 percent and everybody else, have led to the country's current economic climate. "The system is so dysfunctional that it cannot put eager hands to needed work using the resources that would be available if the economy were designed for human needs," Chomsky said. "These things didn't just happen like a tornado; they are the results of deliberate policies over roughly the past generation." Chomsky focuses on what economic actions that government, the super rich and corporations are doing that insures the US and other economies fail for the overwhelming majority of people. We're a nation whose leaders are pursuing policies that amount to economic suicide
- Marc Maurer was the Keynote Speaker to the SPEAR conference April 4-5,consisting of 2014 Students for Prison Education and Reform (SPEAR) hosted by Building a New Criminal Justice: Mobilizing Students for Reform Conference at Princeton University. The conference enabled students to discuss how to build and transition to a new system of criminal justice that prioritizes effectiveness, fairness, and humanity. Marc Mauer is the Executive Director of the Sentencing Project is one of the country's leading experts on sentencing policy, race and the criminal justice system. He has directed programs on criminal justice policy reform for 30 years, and is the author of some of the most widely-cited reports and publications in the field. Race to Incarcerate, is Mark Mauer's groundbreaking book on how sentencing policies led to the explosive expansion of the U.S. prison population, was a semifinalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award in 1999. A second edition was published in 2006 and a 2013 graphic novel version was cited by the American Library Association as one of the "Great Graphic Novels" of the year. Mauer is also the co-editor of Invisible Punishment, a 2002 collection of essays by prominent criminal justice experts on the social cost of imprisonment.
- On April 4-5, of 2014 Students for Prison Education and Reform (SPEAR) hosted Building a New Criminal Justice: Mobilizing Students for Reform conference "building new criminal justice " a conference at Princeton University. The conference enabled students to discuss how to build and transition to a new system of criminal justice that prioritizes effectiveness, fairness, and humanity. One of the two featured speakers on late Friday April 4, was Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist with award-winning filmmaker Eugene Jarecki in discussion together after the filmmaker's screening of his award-winning film ,The House I Live In which is a documentary about the rise of the War on Drugs and mass incarceration's effect on society. Some of the footage during the screening of the movie was filmed is used during the opening and closing credits of this piece. After the film, both Chris and Eugene Jarecki spoke for over 80 minutes with the first 20 minutes focusing on commentary of the film and the remainder of the time a very thought provocative and educational series of Q&A regarding the film, its production and insights from an wonderful pairing of two men into issues facing our criminal justice system and society as well. They look at of how and why we got where we are and the impacts of the drug "class" warfare has impacted millions of lives in the US.
- Noam Chomsky spoke at MIT Wong Auditorium on November 18, 2013. The event was sponsored by the Boston Review. This event was based on the topic of Noam Chomsky new volume, On Anarchism. This is the first part of his lecture where he spoke on the event subject. It is missing the Q&A section that merited being on its own separate and distinct video. Noam Chomsky a world-renowned public intellectual and MIT Professor emeritus discussed the reasoning behind his fearless lifelong questioning of the legitimacy of entrenched power. Noam Chomsky anarchism is distinctly optimistic and egalitarian. It is an evolving tradition which emphasizes the power of collective. Noam Chomsky critiques of capitalism, imperialism, domestic repression and government propaganda are often topics of his lectures and numerous publications he has written.
- On August 9th, 2014 a rally supporting the people in Gaza took place at Columbus Circle in NYC. The rally lasted for 2 hours which was followed by a march to the United Nations. Prior to the rally starting, I was approached by Chris Hedges who mentioned that he had written a 8 minute speech that he wanted to deliver to the thousands of people attending the rally. However, he was told that all of the speakers were being limited to 2 minutes speaking time at the rally. This is that special speech that Chris Hedges wanted to deliver that day. He talked about the historical and religious background to what is the re-occurring violence in the area that the Israelis and Palestinians presently live in.
- In this very timely presentation after the collapse of the US brokered Palestine-Israeli peace talks on April 29, 2014, Noam Chomsky spoke at MIT on May 6, 2014 on the future Prospects for Palestine. The speech was sponsored by the Palestine@MIT group. Noam Chomsky spoke for the first 46 minutes about why the American-brokered Middle East peace negotiations failed, including the history and political situations that lead up to this event. The main speech is then followed by a 22 minute question and answer period. As is often the case, Noam's answers are extremely thought provoking while he further elaborates on the Palestine Peace Process. Noam Chomsky is a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political commentator and activist
- Filmed in The Great Hall, The Cooper Union Great Hall on April 28, 2014 during the 2014 PEN World Voices Festival Opening Night. Judith Butler speaks of turning rage and grief into theory and reflection which is inspired by her 2006 book and was one of 8 people to speak that evening. Judith Butler is an American philosopher and gender theorist, whose work has influenced the fields of feminist, queer, and literary theory, political philosophy, and ethics. Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and the Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has taught since 1993. On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" challenge the sex/gender distinction and develops her theory of gender performativity Butler's conception of gender performativity has shaped the scholarship of feminist and queer studies. Butler has also been outspoken on many contemporary political issues. She has been active in lesbian and gay rights.