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By Howard Zinn. Excerpt from A People's History of the The states.
In light of the death of the President George H. Westward. Bush on Nov 30, 2018, we share some of Howard Zinn's writing virtually the Bush administration.

Talk by Howard Zinn. Democracy Now! February 25, 2003.
A speech Howard Zinn gave at the New School University. He talks about bombs, terrorism, the anti-state of war motion and the Bush assistants'due south impending war on Iraq.

Howard Zinn interviewed past Jessica Lee and John Tarleton. Indypendent. November. xiv, 2008.
"Significant changes occur when social movements achieve a critical signal of power capable of moving cautious politicians beyond their tendency to keep things equally they are — or when these movements, by direct activity, bypass the political system and bring virtually change by acting straight on the obstacles to modify."

Howard Zinn interviewed by Raymond Lotta. Revolutionary Worker. December 20, 1998.
"Beneath the surface of youthful 'ambition'—'demand to graduate,'' 'need to brand a career'—beneath that surface, I believe there'due south always amidst young people a hunger to do something worthwhile and important. And if you present young people something that is happening, that touches them...I discover that they respond."

Howard Zinn interviewed by Amy Goodman. Democracy Now! May thirteen, 2009.
Legendary historian Howard Zinn joins us to talk virtually war, torture and the teaching of history. Zinn says had Obama heeded the lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., he wouldn't be escalating U.S. attacks abroad and increasing the size of the U.South. war machine budget.

By Howard Zinn. ZCommunications. July xvi, 1999. The Progressive, September 1999, equally "Words in Encouragement."
"For those not in the know, allow me explicate that we who write for the progressive-radical movement have our specialties. Some specialize in writing depressing stuff. Others write humorous pieces. Some concentrate on trashing other Left writers. Information technology seems that at that place was an opening this calendar month for someone to inspire, and I was chosen. Not an easy job, when the United States government has but finished dropping thousands of cluster bombs on Yugoslavia…"

By Howard Zinn. Article. ZCommunications, June 1988; Failure to Quit, and excerpted from The Zinn Reader.
Howard Zinn writes: For a long time I thought that there were important and useful ideas in Marxist philosophy and political economy that should be protected from the self-righteous cries on the right that "Marxism is dead," as well every bit from the big-headed assumptions of the commissars of various dictatorships that their monstrous regimes represented "Marxism."

Howard Zinn interviewed by One thousand.H. Lagarde. La Habana. May 8, 2004.
"I'll remind people what Marx's criticism of capitalism was. I would demonstrate that these ideas accept much to with the United States today. In other words, that Marxist criticism today is exact and electric current."

Howard Zinn interviewed by Pedro de la Hoz. La Habana. May 7, 2004.
"Those who call themselves objective lie because they pick events and encompass upwards their taking of sides. I do not hide to say: this is my indicate of view, information technology is not the only ane, face it and brand your own conclusions."

Past Howard Zinn. Spoken language given in debate with philosopher Charles Frankel on civil disobedience in November 1970. Excerpt from Voices of a People'southward History.
I was supposed to appear in court that mean solar day in connexion with the charges resulting from the army base of operations protestation. I had a pick: show upward in court and miss this opportunity to explain—and practise—my commitment to ceremonious disobedience, or confront the consequences of defying the court social club by going to Baltimore. I chose to go.

Howard Zinn interviewed by Amy Goodman. Republic At present! April 27, 2005.
Howard Zinn: I believe neutrality is impossible, because the globe is already moving in certain directions. Wars are going on. Children are starving. And to be neutral, to pretend to neutrality, to non take a stand in a situation like that is to collaborate with whatever is going on, to let it to happen. I did non want to be a collaborator with what was happening. I wanted my history to intercede and to take a stand on behalf of peace, on behalf of a racial equality or sexual equality..."

Talk by Howard Zinn. Democracy Now! February 22, 2002.
Howard Zinn'due south talk on "Where are We Heading: Terrorism, Global security, and the Peace Movement," given at a do good for the Alliance for Democracy on February x, 2002.

Howard Zinn interviewedby Dave Zirin • May 2, 2009.
Give-and-take ranges from the U.S. elections, the New Bargain in the 1930s, the struggle for racial justice, equal marriage, and the need to recreate a socialist culling.

Talk by Howard Zinn. PM Press. 2011.
Howard Zinn returns to the themes he popularized in his masterful A People'south History of the United States—how we interpret history, and what that tells us nigh the struggles of the vast majority of folks typically written out of the narrative.

Interviews at Consequence. Democracy Now! February 25, 2003.
Who would take thought a history volume could go a best-seller? Who would have thought that a history book could not only become a best seller, but could become ever more popular over the years? Who would have thought a fiddling while agone, Professor Howard Zinn would have sold the millionth copy of his famous volume, A People'southward History of the U.s.a.?

Article past Howard Zinn. The Nation. October 27, 2008.
"It is sad to see both major parties agree to spend $700 billion of taxpayer money to bail out huge fiscal institutions that are notable for two characteristics: incompetence and greed."

Article past Howard Zinn. The Progressive. July 2002.
"In the movie Bounding main's 11, eleven good crooks embark on an ingenious plan, meticulously worked out, to intermission into an impossibly secure vault and make off with more than $100 million in Las Vegas casino boodle. Inappreciably a crime of passion.... No, money was the motive, with as little moral fervor attending the criminal offence equally went into the making of the movie, which had the same motive. I was reminded of this recently when I sat in a court in Camden, New Jersey, and participated in the recollection of another break-in, carried out by the Camden 28, where the motive was to protest the war in Vietnam."

Article by Howard Zinn. ZCommunications, September 29, 2000 and The Progressive, Nov 2000.
"There came a rare amusing moment in this election entrada when George Bush-league (who has $220 one thousand thousand dollars for his campaign) accused Al Gore (who has only $170 million dollars) of appealing to 'form warfare'.… I noticed that neither of the accused responded with a defiant 'Aye, nosotros have classes in this country.' Only Ralph Nader has dared to suggest that this state is divided among the rich, the poor, and the nervous in between. This kind of talk is unpardonably rude, and would be plenty to bar him from the televised debates."

Commodity by Howard Zinn. The Progressive. March 2003.
"Men who have no respect for human being life or for freedom or justice accept taken over this beautiful country of ours. It volition be up to the American people to take it back."

Howard Zinn in conversation with Woody Harrelson. Deep Dish Boob tube. Oct 2003.
In Oct 2003, months subsequently the U.s.a. launched its savage, criminal war on the people of Iraq, historian Howard Zinn sat down with histrion Woody Harrelson for a provocative, humorous, wide ranging conversation.

Commodity past Howard Zinn. The Progressive. May 1999.
"A friend wrote to ask my stance on Kosovo. He said many people were turning to him for answers, and he didn't know what to say, so he was turning to me (knowing, I approximate, that I ever have something to say, correct or wrong). Several things seem articulate to me, and they don't fit easily together in a fashion that points to a clean solution."

Howard Zinn interviewed by Michael Pozo. St. John's University Humanities Review. March 2003.
MP: How is your arroyo to History conducive for positive social change?
HZ: I promise it gives people the History of previous social movements to show how they tin can bring almost change, to evidence that it is possible, to give people faith that if they participate, if they do even small actions, that might have an effect, if non today, tomorrow or side by side twelvemonth.

Past Howard Zinn. Commodity. The Progressive. Jan 2000.
"What happened in Seattle recently was not as large an result every bit the general strike of 1919. But it showed how evidently powerless people—if they unite in big numbers—can cease the machinery of government and commerce. In an era when the power of regime, and of multinational corporations, is overwhelming, information technology is instructive to become fifty-fifty a hint of how fragile that power is when confronted by organized, adamant citizens."

By Howard Zinn. Article. ZCommunications. July 4, 2000.
In this yr 2000, I cannot comment more meaningfully on the Quaternary of July than Frederick Douglass did when he was invited in 1852 to requite an Independence Twenty-four hours address. He could not help thinking virtually the irony of the promise of the Announcement of Independence, of equality, life, liberty made by slaveowners, and how slavery was made legitimate in the writing of the Constitution after a victory for "freedom" over England. And his invitation to speak came simply two years afterward the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.... So it is plumbing equipment, at a time when police are exonerated in the killing of unarmed black men, when the electric chair and the gas bedroom are used nigh often against people of colour, that nosotros refrain from celebration and instead listen to Douglass' sobering words…

Article past Howard Zinn. The Progressive. February 2003.
"The long funeral procession for Phil Berrigan moved slowly through the streets of the poor Blackness parish in Baltimore where he had begun his priesthood. ...It was a bitterly cold December day in the kind of neighborhood where the city doesn't bother to articulate the snow. People looked on silently from the windows of decaying buildings, and you could see the conditions that first provoked Phil's anger against the injustice of poverty in a nation of enormous wealth."

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