A fine talk by Progressive historian Howard Zinn, delivered in 2008. It deals with themes of social justice, war, economic power, the anti-democratic behavior of governments (including ours), propaganda, and the power of the people to organize and compel justice.
Part 3 (this week) is (IMHO) the finest part of Zinn's long talk. It begins with Zinn's cogent rejection of war--all war, including the alleged "Good War," World War Two (in which Zinn himself fought).
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Zinn concludes by discussing the importance of learning history, how "disobedience is essential to democracy," and how democracy is not structures of government but rather people forming social movements. Selections from the Q&A round out the program.
KD begins this installment with the story of the American bombing of the town of Royan, France, in April 1945. This was the subject, 20 years later, of some interesting historical research and writing by Zinn--who himself had dropped some of the bombs. The destruction of Royan was a key event in the development of Zinns views on war.
Zinn spoke in Binghamton, NY, on November 8, 2008. Original 90-minute recording courtesy of Lyn Gerry and the Unwelcome Guests Collective (unwelcomeguests.net).
New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "boiler room") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.
This installment is available--in MP3 and other formats--also on The Internet Archive (www.archive.org). The page with the download links is here: https://archive.org/download/NewWorldNotes548-ThePowerToChangePart3
New World Notes's Web site has information, photos, interesting links, and a free archive of past shows. http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com . Also, radio4all.net has each show from May 2008.
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