[3] Chomsky was a graduate student in anthropology when she joined a project to organize grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.
[4] She left graduate school and spent the next several years as an organizer with the Philadelphia Resistance, primarily with anti war GIs (active duty in the military) and with Vietnam veterans.
As the US participation in the war wound down, Chomsky decided that her family circumstances as a mother of two did not permit her to work as an organizer.
She was contacted by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which was looking for a lawyer who could go to Gaza and the Occupied West Bank to help prepare a case involving civilian deaths from the Israeli occupation.
[3] On June 13, 2007, she represented Colombian families in a federal class action lawsuit against Chiquita Brands International (Doe v. Chiquita Brands International), a producer and distributor of bananas based in Cincinnati, Ohio for funding and arming known terrorist organizations (designated by the United States Secretary of State) in Colombia to maintain its profits.
She was one of the lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights who represented the Saro-Wiwa family in their lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell.