Tag Archives: Howard Zinn
Chris Hedges and Mr. Fish: Art – transcendent, transformative, revolutionary
Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
‘Nobody Left’: Pay Some Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
The renowned political cartoonist sets out to ask the burning question: Is nobody LEFT any more?“
FREE THEM ALL! A Story by Roger Cuthbertson
“FREE THEM ALL! (Yes, free all of the people locked up in jails and prisons in the U.S.)”
Chris Hedges: The Soldier’s Tale
“Pat Tillman showed me I could resist the indoctrination”
No, Antifa, This is Not the 1930s and We Don’t Need to Punch a Nazi
Divided, we cannot effectively confront the ruling classes, and they know it.
Small Acts Transform the World
To transform: to change in nature, disposition, heart, character… change greatly the appearance or form of
Resistance is not an option, it is a necessity.
People everywhere are organizing by as many nonviolent means as possible…
Chris Hedges: Bearing the Cross (Dan Berrigan)
How long must the world’s resources
be raped in the service of legalized murder?
When at what point will you say no to this war?
Truthdigger of the Week: The Late Daniel Berrigan, Lifelong Activist for Peace
A Jesuit priest from Minnesota, Berrigan was also “a poet, pacifist, educator, social activist, playwright and lifelong resister to what he called ‘American military imperialism’ ”—just some of the roles ascribed to him in the more than hour long “Democracy Now!” special
John Pilger: The revolutionary act of telling the truth
Pilger: The truth about a war on terror that was always a war of terror; the truth about Guantanamo, the truth about Iraq, Afghanistan, Latin America. Never has such truth-telling been so urgently needed. With honourable exceptions, those in the media paid ostensibly to keep the record straight are now absorbed into a system of propaganda that is no longer journalism, but anti-journalism
Tomgram: Howard Zinn | “I Plead Guilty” (to Insubordination)
Finishing School for Pickets By Howard Zinn (August 6, 1960) By Howard Zinn and Paula Giddings TomDispatch.com March 24, 2015 [The excerpt from a longer 1960 piece by Howard Zinn and Paula Giddings posted at TomDispatch.com are from the Nation magazine’s 150th Anniversary Special Issue on newsstands in April. They appear here with the kind permission of the editors of that magazine.] One afternoon […]
▶ Howard Zinn: Have a More Interesting Life
The late historian, who studied injustice and action through the centuries, offers this wonderful insight: Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times page for posts from this blog and more! “Like” our page today. Rise Up Times is also on Pinterest, Google+ and Tumblr. Find us on Twitter at Rise Up Times (@touchpeace). Click here to help […]
Nafeez Ahmed: Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown
Social science is being militarised to develop ‘operational tools’ to target peaceful activists and protest movements Posted by Nafeez Ahmed 12 June 2014 theguardian.com Editor’s Note: They have the whole thing backward. Instead of preparing for “mass civil breakdown” (revolution), they should be studying the sociopaths who have taken over the government of America, the people […]
A Vietnam Veteran Reflects on Memorial Day
Father, husband, Chicago Public Schools history teacher & Spoken Word Poetry Coach, committed to promoting and improving urban public education Dave Stieber HuffingtonPost.com Posted: 05/23/2014 10:02 am EDT Updated: 05/23/2014 10:59 am EDT This post is written by my father, Arnold Stieber who was infantry in the Army stationed in Vietnam from 1970-1971. He is currently the coordinator […]
Henry Giroux: Hope in the Age of Looming Authoritarianism
We blame the poor, homeless, unemployed and recent graduates suffocating under financial debt for their plight as if individual responsibility explains the ballooning gap in wealth, income and power and the growing state violence that supports it. Poor people end up in debtor jail for not paying parking tickets or their bills while the corrupt […]
Bill Bigelow> Howard Zinn at 90> Lessons from the People’s Historian
Howard Zinn at 90 — Lessons from the People’s Historian “. . . Zinn insisted that teachers must help students challenge “fundamental premises which keep us inside a certain box.” by Bill Bigelow Published on Thursday, August 23, 2012 by Common Dreams August 24 would have been the 90th birthday of the great historian and activist Howard Zinn, […]
Video> Poet Alice Walker reads the 1851 speech of abolitionist Sojourner Truth
Uploaded by arnove on Jan 28, 2008 Poet Alice Walker reads the 1851 speech of abolitionist Sojourner Truth. Part of a reading from Voices of a People’s History of the United States (Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove,) November 11, 2006 in Berkeley, California. Join Us! Subscribe to WAMMToday from our blog website and “Follow” us. riseuptimes.wordpress.com. WAMMToday is […]
Noam Chomsky> Remembering Howard Zinn
Noam Chomsky was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize. (photo: Ben Rusk/flickr) Remembering Howard Zinn By Noam Chomsky, Al Jazeera via RSN 27 January 12 Editor’s note: Today, January 27, is the second anniversary of the death of Howard Zinn. An active participant in the Civil Rights movement, he was dismissed in 1963 from his position […]
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