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Re: [xmca] Howard Zinn passed away

Thanks to everybody who expressed their thoughts and feelings on Professor
Zinn.

It seems that injustice was not something Professor Zinn limited to a book
on his people's history but that he raised his voice against actual ones
too.

For example, having put his signature together with Noam Chomsky, Danny
Glover, Alice Walker, Cindy Sheehan, Ramsey Clark and many others, for


http://www.antiterroristas.cu/lang/en/index.php?tpl=./interface.en/design/reading/breaking-news.tpl.html&aNews_lang=en&aNews_obj_id=1000923

http://www.antiterroristas.cu/lang/en/index.php?tpl=./interface.en/design/reading/breaking-news.tpl.html&aNews_lang=en&aNews_obj_id=1002276

In April 2007, during a conference on the Cuban Five at Northeastern
University in Boston, Howard Zinn opened his talk addressing the audience
mostly of students and said "Tonight you are so lucky, you will learn about
something that most people in the United States are not aware of and that is
the case of the Cuban Five".  Later in his talk he referred to the
imprisonment of the Five for defending their country against terrorism as
"an unforgivable act of cruelty".


Ulvi


2010/1/30, mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>:
>
> That is great, Wayne and Steve. Thanks.
> This pm on the way home, my colleague, Ginny Gordon was telling us
> about being called before a magistrate in DC owing to participation in some
> demonstration. On her left was Chomsky, on her right, Zinn. When
> Chomsky's was called up to the magistrate, the bailiff just called out,
> Noam Chomsky. But when Zinn was called up, the bailiff shook his hand,
> and said "Its an honor to meet you Professor Zinn."
>
> All fame is fleeting, but the people's history has managed to keep on
> keeping on.
> mike
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Au, Wayne <wau@exchange.fullerton.edu
> >wrote:
>
> > In the midst of the reflections on Zinn, it occurred to me that folks on
> > this list might like to know about the Zinn Education Project:
> >
> > http://www.zinnedproject.org
> >
> > It was a project started by a former Zinn student who became wealthy in
> the
> > mobile electronics industry and wanted to get classroom teachers (mostly
> > middle school and above) to find ways to use "A People's History" in
> their
> > classrooms. The original project included a special printing of 4,000
> free
> > copies of "A People's History" that went out free to teachers who signed
> up
> > online - this also included a specially produced Rethinking Schools book,
> > "Teaching A People's History of the United States." Needless to say,
> those
> > copies were gone within a day.
> >
> > Now, in conjunction with Rethinking Schools as well as Teaching for
> Change,
> > the Zinn Education Project has produced a fabulous online collection of
> > resources and teaching ideas that match quite well with the politics of A
> > Peoples History. It is free to access with downloadable pdfs of the
> teaching
> > ideas.
> >
> > When I taught "drop out" high school students in Seattle, A People's
> > History was our only U.S. history text book - and our students, being the
> > alienated outcasts they were, took to the perspective and politics
> > immediately. I can think of no greater honor than to continue to use his
> > work with students today and in the future.
> >
> > Wayne
> >
> > --
> > Wayne Au
> > Assistant Professor
> > Department of Secondary Education
> > CSU Fullerton
> > P.O. Box 6868
> > Fullerton, CA 92834
> > Office: 657.278.5481
> > Editorial Board Member: Rethinking Schools (www.rethinkingschools.org)
> > http://ed.fullerton.edu/SecEd/Faculty/Full_Time_Faculty/Au.html
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