Re: [xmca] Howard Zinn passed away

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Those are really, deeply, meaningful testimonials, Eric, Helena, and Peter.
Thanks
mike

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Peter Feigenbaum
<pfeigenbaum@fordham.edu>wrote:

> I was very saddened to learn this morning of the death of Howard Zinn. He
> was my advisor in Political Science
> when I was an undergradute student at Boston University in the early 1970s.
> We marched together in student
> demonstrations against the Vietnam War at BU, and against army recruiting
> on campus. I had the good fortune
> to be in several of his senior seminars, and to experience him as both a
> teacher and as a political activist.
>
> What has struck me most over the years about Howard was his staunch and
> consistent attitude and philosophy.
> He never took his eyes off the prize. He never wavered in his actions,
> speech, or vision of a better world--no
> matter what political currents may have been fashionable at the time. I
> have never known a more constant and
> committed activist and thinker than he. His warm and positive manner, and
> his simple, practical advice were
> infectious, and after getting to know him as an activist, I unreservedly
> adopted him as a model to emulate.
>
> It will be difficult to follow his example now that  he's gone.
>
> In solidarity,
> Peter
>
> Peter Feigenbaum, Ph.D.
> Associate Director of Institutional Research
> Fordham University
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>
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>
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> Hello -
>
> I do labor education, meaning basic education about workers rights, labor
> history, organizing, politics and economics for working people, based in
> Illinois. Here, $15 an hour with a union contract is a good job if it's
> full time. $10 an hour with no union, no contract, no benefits is still a
> job worth hanging on to because you're likely to be the only person in your
> extended family who has a job at all and therefore the only person who is
> functioning in the formal cash economy (as compared to the informal
> economy). "Scared" is a word that everyone is using -- no one is ashamed of
> admitting that they're scared.
>
> When we go to labor events -- union meetings, conferences, classes -- we
> bring boxes of books and lay them out on a book table for people to thumb
> through and skim, and buy if they have any money. When someone comes up and
> say, "Where should I start?" the answer is Howard Zinn's People's History.
> This is a book that makes the light go on in people's eyes. The two kinds
> of people for whom this book seems to have the most profound impact is
> older workers who have put in a lifetime of work and are now, age 55 or so,
> facing layoffs with no health insurance, too young to collect social
> security or be on medicare; and young people who are discovering that there
> are no decent jobs out there, period. They read this book and they
> understand how it got to be this way.
>
> Zinn is someone who did enough -- if you ask about someone's life, did they
> do enough? He did enough.  The edited books, plays, films, etc etc  --
> somehow or other, he got enough stuff out there so that it really has made
> and will continue to make a difference, for years to come.
>
> Helena
>
>
> Helena Worthen
> Clinical Associate Professor
> Labor Education Program University of Illinois
> 504 East Armory, Champaign, IL 61820
> 217-244-4095
> hworthen@illinois.edu
> communicate/coordinate/cooperate/collaborate
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
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> May be some of us , not only but especially US citizens , can share with
> us briefly their thoughts on (their reading on) Zinn.
>
> Ulvi
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