In case you're not watching it....Howard Zinn Tribute on CSPAN2 now

[marmar]

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[asdjrocky]

1. I would have totally missed it.

Thank you!

[marmar]

2. Amy Goodman up now.

nt

[asdjrocky]

3. Loved the quote.

It surprises me more people aren't crazy for this here.

"If you are going to engage in war the overwhelming number of people that will die is civilians." Truer now than ever.

[EFerrari]

8. "When you bomb people, you make them angry." -- HZ

[catzies]

4. Thanks!!! Would have missed it.

:thumbsup:

[jonnyblitz]

5. I've been watching it. I caught it near the end of Nader.

I love Amy Goodman. :loveya:

[asdjrocky]

6. Amy was great.

She was almost crying at the end.

We must keep to the example set by Howard Zinn.

[EFerrari]

9. Amy is always great. I think Homeland Sekurity should check her DNA

because I don't think she's from this planet. :hug:

[asdjrocky]

10. She's going to be a Davis in April.

I'd like to put together a DU group near us to go.

[EFerrari]

11. Do it.

:)

[jonnyblitz]

12. I saw and met her in Cambridge MA when she was promoting

her book "the Exception to the Rulers" with her brother plus she had Noam Chomsky show up since he lives in that town and i met him briefly as well. I love living in between Boston and NYC! you definitely should get a group and go see her in April! She's always speaking in my neck of the woods.

Marion Wright Edelmen's speech was great as well just now!

[asdjrocky]

13. Yeah, I've often felt like I live in the wrong place.

At least we have the City near by.

[EFerrari]

7. Watching.

Thanks for posting because I couldn't. :grouphug:

[marmar]

14. I saw the perfect phrase to describe "Howie", as Marian Wright Edelman calls him.....

"The Pragmatic Revolutionary" ...... It was in something I read earlier.

[EFerrari]

15. The CSPAN archives have a bunch of his appearances

as does dear wonderful Amy at her site.

[EFerrari]

16. This thread should have a brazillion recs.

I rec this a brazillion times for Howard.

A good man. A man that asked not to be posted to the South as he was finishing up his PhD with a wife and two kids and a man that wound up supporting the Civil Rights movement at great personal cost. A man that just worked with his students at Spelman in an honest, ethical way. A man who was always on the right side of things with everything he had.

:toast:

[marmar]

17. Some on this board resent Zinn's "slanted" view of history......

..... I've seen that written here more than once. Only the whitewashed version of history is acceptable to some.

[EFerrari]

19. Howard Zinn was a scrupulous historian.

There is no tearing down his work as "slanted". It's not "bias" to bring facts to a discussion, is it?

Howard Zinn was attacked for decades because he had the facts on his side.

Do his detractors remember that he negotiated the release of three of our pilots during the Viet Nam War?

Where were all these chickenhawks when Howard went to Hanoi WHILE WE WERE BOMBING IT and came out with three of our people and a request for negotiation?

THAT is who Howard Zinn was. He walked the walk. That we had him for so long was just our great good luck.

[marmar]

22. Indeed.....I expected "slanted" and similar adjectives on the MSM......

.....I was a little taken aback when I saw some DUers using them.

[EFerrari]

24. Unfortunately, human beans often don't recognize the gifts presented to them.

That's a shame.

[KonaKane]

20. I didn't know David Horowitz was on DU!

He sure wasn't appreciated when NPR asked him to opine on the passing of Howard Zinn. NPR was the target of an email barrage that resulted in a lot of lost listeners thanks to that. I was among them.

[marmar]

23. Me too. That was outrageous.

nt

[KonaKane]

21. dupe, sorry

[xchrom]

18. Recommend

[EFerrari]

25. For people who missed this, CSPAN will archive it

and there is usually a transcript, too.

I'd check their search engine in a few days:

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/

:hi:

[EFerrari]

26. Tribute is now up at BookTV for those who can do video:

http://www.booktv.org/Featured/11325/Tribute+to+Howard+Zinn.aspx

Also, at Howard's website, there is a compilation of tributes on the homepage:

http://www.howardzinn.org/default/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Thanks, Howard.