26-01-2015, 06:49 PM
This is now the fifth anniversary of Howard Zinn's death!
Author on Air January 19, 2010
In early January of 2010, the Zinn Education Project joined with HarperCollins, publisher of Howard Zinn's classic A People's History of the United States, to sponsor an "Ask Howard" online radio interview, and invited teachers from around the country to participate. Sixty teachers and students submitted written questions to Professor Zinn. The Jan. 19 interview was conducted by Rethinking Schools Curriculum Editor Bill Bigelow. Below is the full audio recording, followed by excerpts from that interview, edited for length and clarity.
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Bill Moyers Journal December 11, 2009
"I have confidence in the future. You know why? You have to be patient. Farmworkers were at one point in as helpless a position as the labor movement is today. But as Cesar Chavez said, we learned that you have to organize. And it takes time, it takes patience, it takes persistence."
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TV Without Borders (TVXS) May 30, 2009
Recorded in Greece, Zinn talks about Obama and the presidency.
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Interview by Jessica Lee and John Tarleton Indypendent Nov. 14, 2008
"Significant changes occur when social movements reach a critical point of power capable of moving cautious politicians beyond their tendency to keep things as they are or when these movements, by direct action, bypass the political system and bring about change by acting directly on the obstacles to change."
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The Boulder Weekly Oct. 2, 2008
"We resemble other times in history before the movements were effective when they were just growing, when they were just developing. The anti-slavery movement had to develop over 30 years. The anti-war movement against Vietnam had to develop over four or five years. The Civil Rights movement had to develop over decades and decades. So, we are in a stage of development. You can't just look at where we are right now and say, Well, we're not doing it, we're incapable, we're hopeless.'"
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Interviewed by Al Jazeera Sept. 13, 2008
Q: Is there any hope the US will change its approach to the rest of the world?
"If there is any hope, the hope lies in the American people. [It] lies in American people becoming resentful enough and indignant enough over what has happened to their country, over the loss of dignity in the world, over the starving of human resources in the United States, the starving of education and health, the takeover of the political mechanism by corporate power and the result this has on the everyday lives of the American people."
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Interview by Gabriel Matthew Schivone ZCommunications August 29, 2008
GMS: Let's start with the second resolution of the March 4 Manifesto: "To devise means for turning research applications away from their present emphasis on military technology toward the solution of pressing social and environmental problems." Would you explain the importance of this idea of scientific reconversion?
It's been a long-standing problem of science being used for destruction or for construction. It goes back to Hiroshima and Nagasakiit goes back to the atomic bomb. In fact, that probably was the first really dramatic instance of the use of the latest scientific knowledge to kill human beings.
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Interview by Rob Kall OpEd News Aug. 28, 2008
Do you have any advice for Obama?
"Yes. Speak boldly to the American people, the American people want to get out of Iraq. Speak boldly and say, I'm going to withdraw from Iraq as fast as ships and planes can carry them,' and I think that Obama will have a much better chance of winning the election because he will be speaking to the hearts of the American people, who really are sick of the war."
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Interview by BigThink 7/5/08
What is the state of democracy in America?
HOWARD ZINN: We don't have a lot of democracy in America today. We have these formal institutions. We have representative government and we have a Bill of Rights… Sure, we are more democratic than an absolutist and totalitarian state, but we in the United States are still quite a long way from democracy and certainly a long way from economic democracy.
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Interview by BigThink July 5, 2008
What do you want to be remembered for?
HOWARD ZINN: If I want to be remembered for anything, it's for introducing a different way of thinking about the world, about war, about human rights, about equality, for getting more and more people to think that way. Also, for getting more people to realize that the power which rests so far in the hands of people with wealth and guns, that the power ultimately rests in people themselves and that they can use it. At certain points in history, they have used it.
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Interviews With Howard Zinn
[many more than I put here.....at http://howardzinn.org/articles-interview...ward-zinn/One Long Struggle for Justice'
Posted on January 19, 2010Author on Air January 19, 2010
In early January of 2010, the Zinn Education Project joined with HarperCollins, publisher of Howard Zinn's classic A People's History of the United States, to sponsor an "Ask Howard" online radio interview, and invited teachers from around the country to participate. Sixty teachers and students submitted written questions to Professor Zinn. The Jan. 19 interview was conducted by Rethinking Schools Curriculum Editor Bill Bigelow. Below is the full audio recording, followed by excerpts from that interview, edited for length and clarity.
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Howard Zinn: Interview by Bill Moyers
Posted on December 11, 2009Bill Moyers Journal December 11, 2009
"I have confidence in the future. You know why? You have to be patient. Farmworkers were at one point in as helpless a position as the labor movement is today. But as Cesar Chavez said, we learned that you have to organize. And it takes time, it takes patience, it takes persistence."
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Howard Zinn on Obama
Posted on May 30, 2009TV Without Borders (TVXS) May 30, 2009
Recorded in Greece, Zinn talks about Obama and the presidency.
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Election Day Will Not Be Enough': An Interview with Howard Zinn
Posted on November 14, 2008Interview by Jessica Lee and John Tarleton Indypendent Nov. 14, 2008
"Significant changes occur when social movements reach a critical point of power capable of moving cautious politicians beyond their tendency to keep things as they are or when these movements, by direct action, bypass the political system and bring about change by acting directly on the obstacles to change."
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Our Interview with the People's Historian, Howard Zinn
Posted on October 2, 2008The Boulder Weekly Oct. 2, 2008
"We resemble other times in history before the movements were effective when they were just growing, when they were just developing. The anti-slavery movement had to develop over 30 years. The anti-war movement against Vietnam had to develop over four or five years. The Civil Rights movement had to develop over decades and decades. So, we are in a stage of development. You can't just look at where we are right now and say, Well, we're not doing it, we're incapable, we're hopeless.'"
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U.S. In Need of Rebellion'
Posted on September 13, 2008Interviewed by Al Jazeera Sept. 13, 2008
Q: Is there any hope the US will change its approach to the rest of the world?
"If there is any hope, the hope lies in the American people. [It] lies in American people becoming resentful enough and indignant enough over what has happened to their country, over the loss of dignity in the world, over the starving of human resources in the United States, the starving of education and health, the takeover of the political mechanism by corporate power and the result this has on the everyday lives of the American people."
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The Citizens Among Us
Posted on August 29, 2008Interview by Gabriel Matthew Schivone ZCommunications August 29, 2008
GMS: Let's start with the second resolution of the March 4 Manifesto: "To devise means for turning research applications away from their present emphasis on military technology toward the solution of pressing social and environmental problems." Would you explain the importance of this idea of scientific reconversion?
It's been a long-standing problem of science being used for destruction or for construction. It goes back to Hiroshima and Nagasakiit goes back to the atomic bomb. In fact, that probably was the first really dramatic instance of the use of the latest scientific knowledge to kill human beings.
Read More...
Howard Zinn's Advice to Obama
Posted on August 28, 2008Interview by Rob Kall OpEd News Aug. 28, 2008
Do you have any advice for Obama?
"Yes. Speak boldly to the American people, the American people want to get out of Iraq. Speak boldly and say, I'm going to withdraw from Iraq as fast as ships and planes can carry them,' and I think that Obama will have a much better chance of winning the election because he will be speaking to the hearts of the American people, who really are sick of the war."
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Howard Zinn on Democracy in America
Posted on July 5, 2008Interview by BigThink 7/5/08
What is the state of democracy in America?
HOWARD ZINN: We don't have a lot of democracy in America today. We have these formal institutions. We have representative government and we have a Bill of Rights… Sure, we are more democratic than an absolutist and totalitarian state, but we in the United States are still quite a long way from democracy and certainly a long way from economic democracy.
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The Legacy of Howard Zinn
Posted on July 5, 2008Interview by BigThink July 5, 2008
What do you want to be remembered for?
HOWARD ZINN: If I want to be remembered for anything, it's for introducing a different way of thinking about the world, about war, about human rights, about equality, for getting more and more people to think that way. Also, for getting more people to realize that the power which rests so far in the hands of people with wealth and guns, that the power ultimately rests in people themselves and that they can use it. At certain points in history, they have used it.
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"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass