Sunday, January 31, 2010

*Howard Zinn


             Howard Zinn will be missed

Howard Zinn led a life of principle and resistance. His death today (Jan 28) by heart attack is a tremendous loss to the people around the world. Few people so consistently used their platform and respect to shine a light on the crimes being committed in our names, to turn people on to the truths this system tries to hide, and to foster a climate and spirit of resistance and truth-telling. He stood against the U.S.'s unjust wars for empire. 
He excavated the buried genocidal history of this country. He challenged generation after generation to read and think outside the margins of acceptable academic discourse.

Read more at:
Howard Zinn will be missed - (Jan 31, 2010)


A memory of Howard Zinn - (Jan 28, 2010)

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