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Howard Zinn Film Festival & Memorial !!!! Today
Written by Powell Gammill Subject: Events: ArizonaWHAT: Howard Zinn Film Festival
WHEN: Today, Saturday, April 3rd from Noon – 8PM
WHERE: ASU
Tempe Campus – Murdock Hall 101 (450 E Orange St.)
ASU Tempe Campus Map (PDF) (map link)
Noon -2pm – “The People Speak” (2009) 112 minutes
The People Speak is a beautiful and moving film inspired by Howard Zinn's books A People's History of the United States--first published in 1980 and one of the bestselling history books in the United States--and Voices of a People's History of the United States, the primary-source companion to A People's History of the United States, edited with Anthony Arnove.
The film features the actual words (in letters, songs, poems, speeches, and manifestoes) of rebels, dissenters, and visionaries from our past--and present--including Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Bob Dylan, Langston Hughes, Chief Joseph, Muhammad Ali, and unknown veterans, union workers, abolitionists, and many others never featured in high school textbooks. These dramatic moments from our history are brought to life by a group of remarkable musicians and actors.
Like Howard Zinn's work as a whole, The People Speak celebrates the extraordinary possibilities for creating social change that ordinary people have realized throughout the course of our nation's rich but often ignored history of dissent and protest.
2:15-3:30 – “A Power Governments Cannot Suppress” (2007) 66 minutes
3:45 –6:15 “Tribute to Howard Zinn w/ Ralph Nader, Amy Goodman and others” (2010) 150 minutes
6:30 – 8pm – “You Can’t Be Neutral From a Moving Train” (2004) 78 minutes
In these turbulent times, Howard Zinn is inspiring a new
generation. This acclaimed film looks at the amazing life of the renowned
historian, activist and author of the landmark book 'A People's History of the
United States', an eye-opening history from the perspective of the
disenfranchised.
Following his early days as a shipyard labor organizer and bombardier in World
War II, Zinn became an academic rebel and leader of civil disobedience in a
time of institutionalized racism and war. His influential writings shine light
on and bring voice to factory workers, immigrant laborers, African Americans,
Native Americans and the working poor.
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1 Comments in Response to Howard Zinn Film Festival & Memorial !!!! Today
Zinnster. Never met the man but I was supposed to.
I used to have some cool connections to the hippy world. Dave Dellinger used to sleep over at my house. Annie Hoffman? Met him. Babba Ram Das and his sweet little wife. A few other names I honestly can't remember. That was back before anybody really knew what a libertarian was and neither did I. At that time (around 1986) I was calling myself an "egalitarian" because it was the closest paradigm I could find to tribalism. I think they liked me because they thought I was a young hippy and I got tired of explaining it to them and these guys were seriously major fun to hang out and party with.
So I'm aware of Zinn principally by the love and admiration heaped upon him by these esteemed peers. He was supposed to stop by and party one time but didn't make it.
Each and every one of them has gone to jail for their beliefs. Zinn was an incredible invesitgative journalist. Almost right up there with Sy Hersch. And I miss these guys. And it's not that they were dedicated socialist/communists at the time. That sort of accreted around them. I can tell you one thing, Abbie wasn't a commie, Abbie Hoffman was freaking manic depressive as hell. He was a constant cartoon of himself one moment and another, literally crying in his plate. But these guys had such a deep cameraderie. And as a 21 year old man, I was amazed. These guys had a deep effect on me. They basically taught me that emmotions are disposable, you can be anybody you want to be on a moment-to-moment basis, you are responsible only to yourself and what your heart dictates. On a moment to moment basis if you so desire.
It's one reason I continue to have a soft spot for hippies. And why I will revere Howard Zinn all my days.
Rest light brother.