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Dear friends,

Although this is not a Basque issue I think that many people in the list
would like to take part in this initiative.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 11:36:37 -1000
From: Eric Fawcett <fawcett@physics.utoronto.ca>
To: s4pint@physics.utoronto.ca, nINES listserver <inesnet@fy.chalmers.se>,
    nIPRA listserver <ipra-l@hawaii.edu>
Cc: Z Magazine <sympatico@zmag.org>
Subject: SfP Notice: Noam Chomsky Birthday Celebration Request




Dear Friend,
  This is Michael Albert from Z Magazine writing to you. I have an
unusual request I would like you to consider. December 7 is Noam Chomsky's
70th birthday.  Some folks who Noam works with at MIT got together
few months back considering what kind of present they might give
Noam to convey people's feelings. They came up with soliciting a paragraph
or two of good wishes and sentiments (what Noam has meant to people, etc.)
from a large number of people he has affected around the world. They
decided to do this by way of a web site. People would go to the site and
enter their comments and when Noam's birthday arrives the creators will
resent him with a scroll of the names of all the people sending him best
wishes. Later he could go to the site and see what people actually wrote.
This was a nice idea but due to insufficient "promotion," with only a
couple of weeks to go there are way too few comments to make a worthy gift.

So the originators of the idea have asked me if I would use the internet
to let more people know about this gift for Noam and also to make clear
that everyone who has strong feelings for and an intellectual/political
"debt" to Noam for his writing, his commitment, his life, should say so as
a birthday greeting. You don't have to personally know him - you just have
to feel that he has made a difference in your political development, beliefs,
commitments, or otherwise, to want to send him your "birthday greetings."

If Noam has meant enough to your work and political allegiances to want to
thank him for it and wish him well on his 70th, there are two ways you can
do so:
1] You can go to the web site (www.zmag.org) and enter your
comments via the link to a Noam Chomsky Birthday Celebration Form you will
find there, or
2] you can just reply directly to the Z-magazine address  at Cc in the
header of this message with your birthday greeting. In either event, what
you write will be added to the site for unveiling on December 7th, and
most importantly your name will be added to the scroll of well wishers
presented to Noam on his birthday.

I thank you for your time and do hope that you will join in this
celebration of Noam's 70th birthday

Yours,
  Michael Albert, Z Magazine
  [now available again in Robarts Library at U of Toronto]

P.S. I am told this is to be a surprise. So, while you should certainly
tell everyone you know who you think might want to wish Noam a happy
birthday, you should not communicate directly to Noam himself about it.
Thanks again...
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Again, to add your name to the birthday scroll, either go to www.zmag.org
and click the link for Noam's Birthday Celebration Project and fill out
the form you find there, or, if you prefer, use your email reply option to
send me back the information requested below. Either approach will work
fine -- thank you. But please reply as soon as possible and no later than
December 5th.

Your Name....

Your Email Address....

At most a paragraph or two indicating how Noam has impacted your life, your
values, or your actions; or your regard for his work, and some statement
of
your feelings on his 70th birthday:
....
....