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PERFORMANCE: Marx in Soho Wednesday, February 23, 7PM The Glicker-Milstein Black Box Theatre in the Diana Center Barnard College $10 advance / $12 at the door |
For more information visit:
http://www.marxinsoho.com/
And for tickets go to:
http://www.cuarts.com/calendar/view/type/4/event_id/9464
“This week’s Sprouts is a special tribute to the people’s historian Howard Zinn who passed away one year ago, January 27, 2010, at age 87. The tribute, narrated by host Brian Jones, includes selections from Zinn’s acclaimed documentary The People Speak, and live readings of his book Voices of a People's History of the United States. Readers include Wallace Shawn reading a riveting speech by Howard Zinn on civil disobedience from 1970, Danny Glover reading Frederick Douglass’s remarkable speech on the meaning of Fourth of July to a former slave, Christina Kirk reading Susan B. Anthony’s defiant words at her 1872 trial for knowingly voting without having a lawful right to vote, with Josh Brolin as the judge, and Howard Zinn himself discussing his vision of social change.”
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“Sprouts is a weekly program that features local radio production and stories from many radio stations and local media groups round the world. It is produced in collaboration with community radio stations and independent producers across the country. The program is coordinated and distributed by Pacifica Radio and offered free of charge to all radio stations.”
http://audioport.org//index.php?op=program-info&program_id=38030
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OP-ED COLUMNIST When Democracy Weakens By BOB HERBERT February 11, 2011 |
“The Egyptians want to establish a viable democracy, and that’s a long, hard road. Americans are in the mind-bogglingly self-destructive process of letting a real democracy slip away.
“I had lunch with the historian Howard Zinn just a few weeks before he died in January 2010. He was chagrined about the state of affairs in the U.S. but not at all daunted. ‘If there is going to be change,’ he said, ‘real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves.’
“I thought of that as I watched the coverage of the ecstatic celebrations in the streets of Cairo.“
“Topics: civil disobedience, war, class, patriotism, Joe Lieberman, Afghanistan, artists’ roles in activism, anarchism, why studying history is so important, racism, President Obama, and what makes him happy.”
http://wearecitizenradio.com/2011/02/04/20110204-remembering-howard-zinn/
