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Afghanistan, U.S. Wars Gone By, and the Prospects for a Humane U.S. Foreign Policy

Talk by Howard Zinn. Democracy Now! October 22, 2001.
Protests against the U.S. and British attacks against Afghanistan continued around the world—from Belgium to Greece to London, Spain, Thailand, and Indonesia. In Burlington, Vermont this Sunday historian and activist Howard Zinn spoke to more than 1,000 people about the current U.S. war on Afghanistan in the context of previous interventions and the prospects for peace and a humane foreign policy.

A People’s History of the United States

Talk by Howard Zinn. Democracy Now! May 18, 1999.
Howard Zinn looking back at the millennium.

Historian Zinn Addresses Nation’s Censored Reports

Talk by Howard Zinn. Democracy Now! May 13, 1998.
HOWARD ZINN: Whatever we’re doing, we’re urged to be neutral. And to be neutral in an unneutral world, that is, to be neutral in a world where thing are already happening—that is, children are already going hungry, wars are going on, and terrible things are going on—and you can’t—to be neutral in a world like that is to collaborate with whatevers happening. And we don’t want to—the people we’re honoring here tonight have chosen not to collaborate.

Historian Howard Zinn on History and Politics

Talk by Howard Zinn. Democracy Now! June 10, 1997.
HOWARD ZINN: After you lived a little and struggled a little and been involved a little, you learn at some point along the line that that’s not quite democracy. It’s very far, very far from democracy. I remember seeing—that voting is a puny act in a society which is much, much more complex and where power and people have a much more intricate relationship than they could possibly have in a voting booth.

Howard Zinn on “The Advocates” (1971)

Howard Zinn appearance on “The Advocates.” WGBH TV. April 20, 1971,
Howard Zinn illustrates when civil disobedience has been necessary for changing history: "When very serious evils confronted the American people, they had to go beyond the Congressmen and Senators, and they had to commit civil disobedience and they had even to break the law."

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Afghanistan, U.S. Wars Gone By, and the Prospects for a Humane U.S. Foreign Policy

A People’s History of the United States

Historian Zinn Addresses Nation’s Censored Reports

Historian Howard Zinn on History and Politics

Howard Zinn on “The Advocates” (1971)

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