Feb 08 2010
KPFK Fund Drive – Day 7
Keeping Howard Zinn’s Legacy Alive
In the little mainstream media coverage of the death of legendary history Howard Zinn, there has been a debate over whether Zinn was a “radical anti-American troublemaker” or a pioneering people’s historian. The New York Times’ Bob Herbert put it well in his obituary of Zinn saying, “What was so radical about believing that workers should get a fair shake on the job, that corporations have too much power over our lives and much too much influence with the government, that wars are so murderously destructive that alternatives to warfare should be found, that blacks and other racial and ethnic minorities should have the same rights as whites, that the interests of powerful political leaders and corporate elites are not the same as those of ordinary people who are struggling from week to week to make ends meet?… That [Zinn] was considered radical says way more about this society than it does about him.”
Howard Zinn died over a week ago on January 27th while traveling in Santa Monica here in Southern California. He was 87 years old. His seminal book A People’s History of the United States, which sold well over a million copies, influenced countless people and spawned hundreds of historians to write similar “people’s histories.”
Today we spend the hour looking at Howard Zinn’s legacy and turn to journalist, author, activist, and historian Harvey Wasserman. Mr. Wasserman has written several books includng Solartopia! Our Green-Powered Earth, and Harvey Wasserman’s History of the US which has an introduction by Howard Zinn.
Read Harvey Wasserman’s obituary online at http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/2010/1803
Thank you Gifts:
The People Speak – DVD – $120
Holy Wars – speech by Howard Zinn on 11/11/09 at Boston University – $80
You Can’t be Neutral on a Moving Train – DVD – $80
Voices of a People’s History of the United States – DVD – $75
7 Hour MP3 CD of Howard Zinn from Pacifica Radio Archives – $35
Howard Zinn Legacy Pack (all of the above) – $365
Call 818-985-5735 (KPFK) to make a pledge.
2 Responses to “KPFK Fund Drive – Day 7”
i was wondering if your company could do a segment on FDA and also on the federal reserve? i just recently found that our income taxes,our money, is going to the federal reserve and for what? they are not even a part of our government and we continue to give them our tax dollars for no reason! its not a written law, we just do… if its not a written law then why do we pay them and why do we get in trouble with the IRS for not paying them?
i for got to add thank you for being an unfiltered voice to our society <3