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Howard Zinn Presents Progressive American History in "The People Speak" [VIDEO]

Posted by Adam Howard, AlterNet at 12:14 PM on February 18, 2008.


Marisa Tomei, Danny Glover, Josh Brolin and many more join Howard Zinn to celebrate some of America's frequently overlooked heroes.
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This video is a trailer for The People Speak, a star-studded (Danny Glover, Marisa Tomei, Viggo Mortenson, and many others) four part television series inspired by Howard Zinn's book, A People's History of the United States. The series, hosted by Zinn, features performers telling the stories of those whose voices weren't heard in traditional history textbooks. It was shot in Boston's Cutler Majestic Theatre, and organized around four themes: class, women, race and war. Check out the video to your right for more.

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Tagged as: television, american history, the people speak, tomei, glover, mortensen, zinn

Adam Howard is the editor of PEEK.


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Posted by: Floresta on Feb 18, 2008 12:39 PM   
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If I was still a teacher and teaching high school young people, Mr Zinn's People's History of the United States would be in my curriculum of required reading (local conservative school boards be damned!). Young people are bored with the subject of history and therefore don't learn anything and much evidence points to the fact that they are taught nothing but white-wash and downright lies. So as a middle-aged "auntie", I regularly give this fine book out to my favorite, curious young'uns. And are they ever surprised to find out just what people in the US of A have done to secure a better and more just nation. Ah, the teachable moment!

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» RE: history teacher Posted by: Ruby
I'm guessing (and hoping) that this will turn up on my local PBS station
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Posted by: UnEasyOne on Feb 18, 2008 4:23 PM   
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One of the worst things about the last forty years for those of us who watched helplessly as rights earlier generations bled and died to get were nibbled away has been the knowledge that a couple of generations of Americans have no notion of what it takes to reverse this trend.

They don't understand (because they have most carefully not been taught) that nothing good about this country was simply given by the ruling classes. Child labor laws, the minimum wage, universal suffrage, environmental, food and water safety, freedom of the press, worker rights and safety - none of these were simply granted. They were all fought for and blood was shed. As time passed, they were all taken for granted.

Consequently they are all being taken away.

It can't be overstated how important it is to remember what the progressive movement has accomplished - and what courageous progressives had to go through to accomplish it. This generation will have to take up the banner - and soon - or very soon now, these freedoms and others so dearly won by our forefathers will be just that - history.

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i'd buy it
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Posted by: tomo57 on Feb 19, 2008 7:56 AM   
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couldn't agree more . i dont buy many dvds this i would

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“Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did and it never will.”
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Posted by: meadowlake59 on Feb 19, 2008 8:02 AM   
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We are, to borrow Foucault's euphemism, merely "docile bodies" formed and disciplined to enter the machine and repeat, reinforce, and replicate the power structure. Whether through the hegemony of corporate fascism, the oppression of racial distinction, or the lie of American democracy, there is no escape. The words of Frederick Douglass are as apt today as they were some 150 years ago--we must demand change and refuse power.

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