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Zinn: PBS Interview With Howard Zinn
Znet Article, January, 10 2003
Howard Zinn
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On Friday, January 10 at 9pm ET on PBS (check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html) NOW with Bill Moyers talked to author and historian Howard Zinn about his latest book and his thoughts about the impending war with Iraq. Read the t...
Zinn: Veterans Day
Commentary, November, 15 2002
Howard Zinn
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Veterans Day used to be called Armistice Day, because it was November 11, 1918, at 11 AM - the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, that the first World War came to an end. It would be good to remember a few things about tha...
Zinn: Veterans Day
Znet Article, November, 13 2002
Howard Zinn
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Veterans Day used to be called Armistice Day, because it was November 11, 1918, at 11 AM - the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, that the first World War came to an end. It would be good to remember a few things about that...
Zinn: What War Looks Like
Znet Article, October, 01 2002
Howard Zinn
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In all the solemn statements by self-important politicians and newspaper columnists about a coming war against Iraq, and even in the troubled comments by some who are opposed to the war, there is something missing. The talk is about strategy and t...
Zinn: What Bush's
Znet Article, September, 09 2002
Howard Zinn
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For half a century, HOWARD ZINN has been one of the leading voices to speak out against the injustices carried out in the name of "democracy" by the U.S. government. An emeritus professor of history at Boston College, he's the author of the classi...
Zinn: TENNIS ON THE TITANIC
Commentary, December, 16 2000
Howard Zinn
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As the prize of the presidency lurched wildly back and forth in the last days of the year, with the entire nation hypnotized by the spectacle, I had a vision. I saw the Titanic churning through the waters of the North Atlantic toward an iceberg lo...
Zinn: A CAMPAIGN WITHOUT CLASS
Commentary, September, 30 2000
Howard Zinn
Zinn's ZSpace page
There came a rare amusing moment in this election campaign when George Bush (who has raised $150 million or thereabouts, anyhow, for his campaign) accused Al Gore (who has only raised $140 million or thereabouts, anyway, for his campaign) of appea...
Zinn: Downfall
Commentary, August, 18 2000
Howard Zinn
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I am surprised that my friend Hans Koning, a stalwart protester against the war in Vietnam, seems to have been taken in by the argument of Richard Frank, in his review of Frank's DOWNFALL. Yes, we must all be willing to reconsider our most hardene...
Zinn: A Fourth of July Commentary
Commentary, July, 04 2000
Howard Zinn
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In this year 2000, I cannot comment more meaningfully on the Fourth of July than Frederick Douglass did when he was invited in 1852 to give an Independence Day address. He could not help thinking about the irony of the promise of the Declaration o...
Zinn: THE HEROES AROUND US
Commentary, May, 07 2000
Howard Zinn
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Recently, meeting with a group of high school students, I was asked by one of them: "I read in your book, A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, about the massacres of Indians, the long history of racism, the persistence of poverty in the rich...
Zinn: Sender Garlin
Commentary, March, 09 2000
Howard Zinn
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As the twentieth century came to an end last December, an extraordinary man, whose life spanned the century, died at the age of ninety-seven. His name was Sender Garlin.
Zinn: Notes for a Gathering
Commentary, January, 02 2000
Howard Zinn
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I have been asked to imagine this situation: "The progressive third party movement has captured the White House, 60% of Congress and 30 Governorships. What do we do now?"
Zinn: Seattle
Commentary, December, 22 1999
Howard Zinn
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In the year 1919, when the city of Seattle was brought to a halt by a general strike - beginning with 35,000 shipyard workers demanding a wage increase - the mayor reflected on its significance:
Zinn: On Rewarding People for Talents and Hard WorkÊ
Commentary, November, 25 1999
Howard Zinn
Zinn's ZSpace page
There are two issues here: First, why should we accept our culture's definition of those two factors? Why should we accept that the "talent" of someone who writes jingles for an Advertising agency advertising dog food and gets $100,000 a year is s...
Zinn: On Rewarding People for Talents and Hard Work
Commentary, November, 25 1999
Howard Zinn
Zinn's ZSpace page
There are two issues here: First, why should we accept our culture's definition of those two factors? Why should we accept that the "talent" of someone who writes jingles for an Advertising agency advertising dog food and gets $100,000 a year is s...
Zinn: A Larger Consciousness
Commentary, October, 10 1999
Howard Zinn
Zinn's ZSpace page
Some years ago, when I was teaching at Boston University, I was asked by a Jewish group to give a talk on the Holocaust. I spoke that evening, but not about the Holocaust of World War II, not about the genocide of six million Jews.
Zinn: Beyond the Soviet Union
Commentary, September, 02 1999
Howard Zinn
Zinn's ZSpace page
In the spirit of killing two obligations with one effort, I offer as my Commentary a response I just made to a letter by a retired professor in California, who wrote: "As a great admirer of Howard Zinn [should he have said "as a former great admir...
Zinn: Inspire Please
Commentary, July, 16 1999
Howard Zinn
Zinn's ZSpace page
The order came from above (I will not reveal the name, unless tortured) ): "Write something inspirational." The exact words were: "Inspire, please."
Zinn: Whose Atrocity Is Bigger
Commentary, May, 25 1999
Howard Zinn
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Milosovic has committed atrocities. Therefore it is okay for us to commit atrocities. He is terrorizing the Albanians in Kosovo. Therefore we can terrorize the population of cities and villages in Yugoslavia.
