<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div id="yiv692050311"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" id="bodyDrftID" class=""><tbody><tr><td id="drftMsgContent" style="font:inherit;"><div id="yiv1188419110"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" id="bodyDrftID" class=""><tbody><tr><td id="drftMsgContent" style="font:inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse;line-height:15px;"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;display:block;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Arial Black';">Radio Free Maine</p><p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;display:block;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Arial
Black';">presents</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;display:block;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Arial Black';">Chomsky on Honduras</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;display:block;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Arial Black';">The Coup and Its Impact on Democracy Here and in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261410652_0" style="line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;border-bottom-style:dashed;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:rgb(0, 102, 204);cursor:pointer;">Latin America</span></p><p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;display:block;font:normal normal normal 4px/normal 'Arial Black';min-height:5px;"><br style="line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;"></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;display:block;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Arial Black';">On <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261410652_1" style="line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;">November 29</span>, 2009, elections were carried out amidst defacto <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261410652_2" style="line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;">military
rule</span> in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261410652_3" style="line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;">Honduras</span>. For four and a half months the country has suffered media censorship, widespread human rights violations, brutality against women and the LGBT community, and targeted assassinations of resistance leaders. Though <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261410652_4" style="line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;">Barack Obama</span> initially condemned the coup which ousted democratically-elected president <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261410652_5" style="line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;border-bottom-style:dashed;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:rgb(0, 102, 204);cursor:pointer;background-color:transparent;">Manuel Zelaya</span>, his administration expressed no qualms with these abuses, and has recognized the farce
elections. With this we witness the inauguration of a new model: overturn the leftist and replace him with the oligarch. So long as elections are realized, regardless of the conditions, the US will support you. This is a betrayal of the sovereignty of Latin American, proving to the world that the superpower, even under Obama, will support military coups and mass
brutality so long as they bolster US interests.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;display:block;font:normal normal normal 4px/normal 'Arial Black';min-height:5px;"><br style="line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;"></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;display:block;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Arial Black';"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261410652_6" style="line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;border-bottom-style:dashed;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:rgb(0, 102, 204);cursor:pointer;">Noam Chomsky</span> introduced by Vistiting Professor
at <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261410652_7" style="line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;">Harvard</span> and Honduras Minister of Culture in Exile Rodolfo Pastor </p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;display:block;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Arial Black';">In his introduction, Pastor acknowledges Chomsky’s great assistance and empathy with the people of Honduras, and poses four questions for Chomsky to address:</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;display:block;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Arial Black';">1. Claiming that the Poll scheduled for June
28<sup style="line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;">th</sup> was “a vote” or was “a referendum” and that its purpose was to allow President Zelaya to extend his term or be reelected is a lie.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;display:block;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Arial Black';">2. It’s a lie that the President’s forceful removal was not a coup
because various </p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;display:block;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Arial Black';">“Independent institutions” in Honduras backed this organized conspiracy and that it constitutes a peaceful “Constitutional Succession”. </p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;display:block;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Arial Black';">3. Whoever claims that the
November 29<sup style="line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;">th</sup> elections were legitimate because they had been “called for” before the Crisis, and its results “express the will of the people”, lies. The U.S. State Department has embraced this lie in the name of pragmatism, because supposedly it helps solve the problem.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;display:block;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Arial Black';">4. Finally, there is the consummate lie. U.S. Undersecretary of State Valenzuela declared last week that, “since June 28, the U.S, has been consistently principled” with respect to Honduras, it has worked with multilateral
organizations, condemned the Coup, continued to recognize Zelaya as President throughout the crisis and that it would have wanted to have him restored and was “disappointed” by the Congress’s decision against restoration.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;display:block;font:normal normal normal 4px/normal 'Arial Black';min-height:5px;"><br style="line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;"></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;display:block;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Arial Black';">During Q&A, Radio Free Maine told of how citizens influenced the Governors of Maine,
Massachusetts and <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261410652_8" style="line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;">Colorado</span> to refuse to send their state’s <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261410652_9" style="line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;">National Guard units</span> to Honduras during the mid 80s due to the widespread belief that Reagan was going to use the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261410652_10" style="line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;">National Guard soldiers</span> as pawns to start a US war in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261410652_11" style="line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;">Central America</span>. In response, Chomsky noted that many of the peace and justice movements started at that time are still in existence. In response to a question about Columbia, Chomsky delivered a long
critique of America’s <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261410652_12" style="line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;border-bottom-style:dashed;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:rgb(0, 102, 204);cursor:pointer;">War on Drugs</span>.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;display:block;font:normal normal normal 4px/normal 'Arial Black';min-height:5px;"><br style="line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;"></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;display:block;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Arial Black';">Pastor speaks for <span class="yshortcuts"
id="lw_1261410652_13" style="line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;">20 minutes</span>, Chomsky speaks for 45 minutes and the Q&A period is 54 minutes.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;display:block;font:normal normal normal 4px/normal 'Arial Black';min-height:5px;"><br style="line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;"></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;display:block;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Arial Black';">Sponsored by the Committee in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261410652_14"
style="line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;border-bottom-style:dashed;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:rgb(0, 102, 204);cursor:pointer;">Solidarity</span> with the Honduran Resistance and the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261410652_15" style="line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;border-bottom-style:dashed;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:rgb(0, 102, 204);cursor:pointer;">Western Hemisphere</span> Project</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;display:block;font:normal normal normal 4px/normal 'Arial Black';min-height:5px;"><br style="line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;"></p><p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;display:block;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Arial Black';">Recorded by Roger Leisner on <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261410652_16" style="line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;cursor:pointer;background-color:transparent;border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-color:initial;">December 15</span>, 2009 at M.I.T in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261410652_17" style="line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;">Cambridge, MA</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-color:initial;display:block;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Arial
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