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Howard Zinn

Posted on 10 February 2010 (0)

Howard Zinn − historian, activist, and a member of the National Writers Union and the Boston Chapter for almost 20 years, died on January 27, 2010. But his life and writing will inspire grassroots activists for many future generations. No pitifully small picket line, no poorly attended meeting, no tossing out of an idea to […]

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Howard Zinn, dead at 87 (View)

Posted on 28 January 2010 (0)

Howard Zinn died Wednesday, January 26, 2010. When I think about why Zinn is so important to me, I think of how he often describes his own experience, his own complicity, his own gradual understanding of “what’s going on” (eg as WWII Air Force bomber, bombing people he couldn’t see, including the first napalm drops […]