The People Speak Actor Danny Glover to Receive the Debs Award
Danny Glover, featured in the film The People Speak, will receive the 2011 Eugene V. Debs Award.
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Tip of the Cap to Howard Zinn from the New York Times’ Bob Herbert
"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.'"
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Film Even the Rain/Tambien La Lluvia Dedicated to Howard Zinn
The writer and film maker Paul Laverty was asked recently why he and director Icíar Bollaín dedicated his new film "Even the Rain (Tambien La Lluvia)," set in Bolivia and starring Gael Garcia Bernal, to the historian Howard Zinn.
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Review of The People Speak on BlogCritics
"The People Speak represents an opportunity very few of us are given. Not only does it present aspects of history not everybody is familiar with, it brings it to life and makes it real. For too many people history has been confined to the pages of dusty books and boring classrooms - this represents a chance to see and hear it brought alive. We may not be able to travel back in time, but this DVD brings the past to us.”
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Celebrate the Life and Legacy of Howard Zinn: January 27
Celebrate the remarkable life and legacy of Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 - January 27, 2010) by organizing a community screening of The People Speak documentary or hosting a reading of Voices of a People’s History of the United States.
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Audio of “Sprouts” (Pacifica Radio) Tribute to Howard Zinn Available Online
“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."
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Busboys & Poets Plans Two Community Screenings of The People Speak
Celebrate the remarkable life and legacy of Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 - January 27, 2010) by attending this community screening of Zinn's The People Speak documentary on the anniversary of his passing.
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The NYT Magazine Slights Howard Zinn in Its Farewell to 2010
By Matthew Rothschild • The Progressive • December 27, 2010
I picked up my Sunday Times yesterday morning and saw that the magazine section was doing its annual obituary section, “The Lives They Lived.” I expected to find Howard Zinn in there, one of the most towering leftwing intellectuals in America of the last 50 years. But he was nowhere in sight.
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I picked up my Sunday Times yesterday morning and saw that the magazine section was doing its annual obituary section, “The Lives They Lived.” I expected to find Howard Zinn in there, one of the most towering leftwing intellectuals in America of the last 50 years. But he was nowhere in sight.
A People’s History on Manning’s Prison Reading List
Bradley Manning, who allegedly leaked hundreds of thousands of secret government documents to Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks, turns 23 in jail Friday. The Daily Beast’s Denver Nicks, in an exclusive interview with Manning’s attorney, reports on his solitary confinement, what he’s reading (from George W. Bush to Howard Zinn), and his legal strategy.
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The People Speak: Music and DVD
Using dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries and speeches of everyday Americans, The People Speak focuses on the concept of democracy based on the lives and experiences of ordinary Americans who, through their words and actions, changed the course of history.
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Read, Learn, & Make History
Check out the Howard Zinn Digital Collection to search Zinn’s bibliography by books, articles, audio, video, and more.
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