Howard Zinn

Tucson's Mexican American Studies Director Sean Arce Wins National Zinn Education Award

Jeff Biggers | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Ethnic Studies, President Obama, Myles Horton, Howard Zinn, Mexican American Studies, Rep. Raul Grijalva, Tucson, Sean Arce, Arizona, Zinn-Education-Project, Daily Show, Ethnic Studies Tucson, Tucson Ethnic Studies, Tucson Mexican American Studies, Education News

While the Daily Show brilliantly reminded millions of viewers last night of the disgraceful racist elements behind the attack on Tucson's acclaimed and now outlawed Mexican American Studies program, educators across the nation recalled a teaching moment.

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Local Poet On Howard Zinn And Why The Time For Change Is Now

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 01.30.2012

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"To live now, as human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory." Though the late historian Howa...

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PHOTOS: 10 Uplifting Books For Lonely Souls

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Tom Robbins, Bridget Jones's Diary, Still Life With Woodpecker, A Peoople's History of the United States, Vida, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, David Sedaris, Helen Fielding, High Fidelity, Michael Chabon, Howard Zinn, Nick Hornby, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Paulo Coelho, Uplifting Books, The Alchemist, Diane Ackerman, Books News

In response to Russ Marshalek’s excellent post on devastatingly sad books last week, we’ve decided to try and lift your spirits a little during th...

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PHOTOS: HuffPost Editors' Picks, Books We're Loving Right Now

Posted 06.30.2011

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The reporters and editors on the Huffington Post staff are serious book lovers and we wanted to know what they're reading and loving now, hoping that ...

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I Am Review: Hollywood Director Exlores What's Right with the World

Dan Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

As the world is transfixed by remarkable change in the Middle East, America's popcorn culture distracts us with another Nicholas Cage road rage movie ...

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HuffPost Review: I Am

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thom Hartmann, Movie Reviews, Tom Shadyac, Marshall Fine, I Am Movie Review, Ace Centura Pet Detective, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Homer Simpson, I Am, The Nutty Professor, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, The Simpsons, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Movies, Entertainment News

As I watched Tom Shadyac's documentary I Am., I wondered: Does it take a near-death experience to open our eyes to the wonder of life and force us to reckon our place in the world?

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Remembering Howard Zinn

Josh Brolin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Josh Brolin, Santa Monica, Celebrity Deaths, Howard Zinn Dead, Howard Zinn, Remembrance, Entertainment News

The impact that Howard Zinn has had on the world of fair, conscientious people is profound, and the impact that he had as a friend will be forever felt by me and by all those that knew him.

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Remembering Howard Zinn: Power to the People's History

Sam Chaltain | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: History, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Education, Cherokee Nation, American History, Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States, Education News

It was one year ago today -- January 27, 2010 -- that Howard Zinn died at the age of 85.

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Afghanistan Is About Perpetual War

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 1984, Rome, George Orwell, War, Ussr, Perpetual War, Obama, A People's History of the United States, Peace, Norman Solomon, Athens, The Bomb, David Swanson, Howard Zinn, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Persia, Politics News

The war in Afghanistan is about perpetual war, not Afghanistan. It's about preventing democracy in the United States, not bringing it to Southwest ...

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Electoral Reform: 1 Page 9 Points

Robert David Steele | Posted 05.25.2011

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Since the year 2000, when I watched in horror as Al Gore took the dive and played dead in Florida (the theft was exposed three months before the fact ...

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'Soul Of A Citizen': Arun Gandhi, Martin Luther King, And Looking Beyond The Impossibly Perfect Standard

Paul Loeb | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Perfection, Community Organizer, Psychology, Social Change, Burnout, Howard Zinn, Activism, Martin Luther King Jr., Arun Gandhi, Oil Spill, Climate Change, Books News

From reining in Wall Street to preventing the next oil spill and tackling global climate change, we often hold back from taking important public stands because we're caught in a trap I call "the perfect standard."

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Iraq: Time for a People's History

James Denselow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, History, Iraq, Howard Zinn, Barack Obama, Tony Blair, World News

Obama's attempts to announce victory in Iraq and the release of Blair's book came as the vacuum that followed Iraq's attempts to form a government approached a six-month hiatus.

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2010 Workers' Voice Awards: Worker Worthy Pop Culture Standouts

Wyatt Closs | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wanna honor Labor Day but not work at it? Check out any of these pop culture expressions from the last year. Just in time for your nod to Labor Day, ...

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Worker Worthy Standouts: The Best Films About Work for Labor Day 2010

Wyatt Closs | Posted 05.25.2011

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There's a blog to be written about Greatest Films of All-Time about Workers and work themes but for now, lets look at those made or released in the last year. In terms of feature films, there are 5 standouts.

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Howard Zinn's Unwholesome Influence

Sean Paige | Posted 05.25.2011

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The really damning element of the Zinn saga isn't that he wrote books, but that these became textbooks, which were warmly and uncritically received by the public school establishment.

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Time To Declare War on Big: Killing America's Giants

Rob Kall | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Small, Small Business, Small Acts, Howard Zinn, Mega-Corporations, Too Big to Fail, Rob Kall, Business News

Big corporations destroy cultures.

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Johnny Appleseed of Joy

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Jams Baraz, Shoshana Alexander, Howard Zinn, Twitter, Daniel Ellsberg, The Buddha, Facebook, Glee, Albert Einstein, Healthy Living News

I first met the author and meditation teacher James Baraz five years ago at a silent Metta ("loving kindness") retreat at the Spirit Rock Meditation C...

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A People's History of Arizona: What Would Howard Zinn Say?

Ian Moss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jan Brewer, Education, Arizona Ethnic Studies, Howard Zinn, Haterism, Sarah Palin, Tom Horne, Racism, Immigration, Arizona, Arizona Immigration Law, Civil Rights, Politics News

While clad in the rhetoric of equality, these latest pieces of legislation represent anything but. Instead, both the immigration and the ethnic studies laws themselves represent ethnic chauvinism by the Arizona state government.

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Marx On The Upper West Side

HuffPost Citizen Reporting | Justin T. Cass | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marx, Michael Moore, New York Society for Ethical Culture, Brian Jones, Howard Zinn, Eyes and Ears, New York News

Produced by HuffPost's Local Citizen Reporting Team Here in New York City, the seat of global finance, Karl Marx received a standing ovation on Satur...

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NY Assignment Desk: Tribute to Howard Zinn, The Knicks

Huffington Post | Rebecca Harrington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Huffington Post continues its local coverage with the help of the Eyes&Ears Citizen Journalism Unit. To join the local reporting team and receive adva...

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Howard Zinn: A Call to Action

John Perkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Boston University, A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present, Central America, Opposition to the US Involvement in the Vietnam War, Howard Zinn, Activism, United States, Civil and Political Rights, Business News

It is time to take back our power, to wrest it from all the megalomaniac corporations and those who profit from withholding information from the people.

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ReThink Review: the Corporation -- Power to the Corporate Killbots!

Jonathan Kim | Posted 02.11.2010

When the Roberts Supreme Court passed its disastrous Citizens United ruling, one of the first things that came to mind was the excellent 2003 documentary, the Corporation.

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Remembering Howard Zinn

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Youth Activism, Marian Wright Edelman, Howard Zinn, Impact News

Howard Zinn taught us to be neither victims nor passive observers of unjust treatment but active and proud claimants of our American birthright.

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Howard Zinn On Optimism And The Struggle For Justice

The Huffington Post | Howard Zinn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Howard Zinn, Authors, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress, Books, A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn Dead, Books News

Howard Zinn, the much-loved author, professor, and political activist who is perhaps most famous for "A People's History of the United States," died o...

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Bob Herbert On Howard Zinn: 'A Radical Treasure'

New York Times | Bob Herbert | Posted 05.25.2011

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I had lunch with Howard Zinn just a few weeks ago, and I've seldom had more fun while talking about so many matters that were unreservedly unpleasant:...

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