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Howard Zinn--a remarkable activist for peace and justice, a great teacher, and a willingness to listen and learn

Seeded on Fri Jan 28, 2011 12:06 PM EST
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Howard Zinn was a life-long activist for peace after serving in the US military. He knew that most of the so-called wars the US was fighting--from Vietnam to Iraq--were not for any values most Americans held. US leaders were willing to have our people killed and kill for terrible reasons: money, oil, presidential prestige ("I'm tough enough") and much much more. He fought his entire life for the values of peace, truth, and democracy--both on the national scene and also within the working place of the university.

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Here's one (of two or three) quotes I want to post, this from an introduction:

We live in an age in which the self has become the center of politics and everyday life. The formative culture, public spheres and institutions capable of challenging this privative notion of survivalism and market-driven notion of barbarism are both under siege and rapidly vanishing. The public intellectual has been replaced by the anti-public intellectual, just as the university as a democratic public sphere is now colonized by corporate and national security interests. Social movements barely speak beyond a narrow identity politics, and the questions that connect agency to pedagogy and social change have been replaced by the search for consumers and clients.

In his work, Howard Zinn criticized all of these positions, while embodying a notion of agency that exhibited a fierce moral courage and a deep propensity for engaged social action. He never faltered in his attempts to connect scholarship with politics, and he never retreated into the dystopian world of indifference or cynicism. Howard has left us a legacy of work, activism and hope that even in the darkest times offers a new language for reclaiming the link between politics and democracy, agency and critical thinking, ethics and a space of social responsibility and hope. We at Truthout are committed to his legacy, vision and mode of engaged struggle, and we are thankful for the work he left us and the humble and courageous spirit he offered as a model for all of us.

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truthlover

Just one more--much of the article is relevant for those interested in changing the world for the better:

What was so moving and unmistakable about Howard was his humility, his willingness to listen, his refusal of all orthodoxies and his sense of respect for others. I remember once when he was leading a faculty strike at BU in the late 1970s and I mentioned to him that too few people had shown up. He looked at me and made it very clear that what should be acknowledged is that some people did show up and that was a beginning. He rightly put me in my place that day - a lesson I never forgot.

That's a good one, that is. I recall someone once coming to an event--and saying to a smallish group, "no one's showed up." To which the response came, "we did."

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#1.1 - Fri Jan 28, 2011 12:17 PM EST
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rougy77

We lost a good one when Zinn died.

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Reply#2 - Fri Jan 28, 2011 3:04 PM EST
truthlover

We certainly did. He was active up to the very end of his life.

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#2.1 - Fri Jan 28, 2011 4:56 PM EST
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