Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010

  • Democracy Now! May 28, 2003

    Hour 1: Having invaded Iraq, Bush and his Hawks are Now Getting Ready to go for Regime Change in Tehran; A New Report Reveals that the Bush Administration had Planned to Invade Iraq as Early as December; You Back the Attack, We ll Bomb Who We Want! – A collection of remixed war posters Hour…

  • Democracy Now! May 28, 2003

    Arcata City Council Criminalizes Compliance with USA Patriot Act; Supreme Court Refuses to Hear an Appeal on the Hundreds of Secret Deportation Hearings for Immigrants Detained after September 11th; Government Investigates Allegations of Abuse in Two Immigration facilities INTRO: Behind the INS Curtain, a report from Noah Reibel; Howard Zinn and Arundhati Roy: A Conversation…

  • Democracy Now! April 30, 2003

    Hour 1: Alice Walker, Kurt Vonnegut, Danny Glover, James Earl Jones and others read from Howard Zinn s A People s History of the United States : Part one of two-hour special commemorating the millionth copy of the classic book sold. Hour 2: Nuclear non-proliferation conference opens to discuss nuclear issues in the age of…

  • Democracy Now! April 30, 2003

    Alice Walker, Kurt Vonnegut, Danny Glover, James Earl Jones and others read from Howard Zinn s A People s History of the United States : Part one of two-hour special commemorating the millionth copy of the classic book sold. |8:00-8:01 Billboard 8:01-8:06 Headlines 8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break 8:07-8:20: It has become a classic work…

  • Democracy Now! May 1, 2003

    Hour 1: U.S.-backed Middle East peace plan released: A debate between Electronic Intifada and AIPAC; Vieques celebrates the US Navy s withdrawal from the Puerto Rican Island: Concerns grow over environmental cleanup after 50 years of military testing; To mark May Day, protests planned against oil companies, weapons manufacturers and at government buildings: We go…

  • Democracy Now! May 1, 2003

    A May Day special: Part II of our celebrity book reading of Howard Zinn s A People s History of the United States. Kurt Vonnegut reads Eugene Debs, Alfre Woodard reads Fanny Lou Hamer, James Earl Jones reads Malcolm X, Danny Glover reads Martin Luther King, Alice Walker reads Abbey Lincoln and more. |9:01-9:06 Headlines…

  • Democracy Now! February 25, 2003

    A People s History of the United States, 1,000,000 copies and counting: This book delivered our history to us said actress Alfre Woodard who joins Alice Walker, Danny Glover, Kurt Vonnegut, Marisa Tomei and others in celebrating Howard Zinn s classic; Historian Howard Zinn talks about bombs, terrorism, the anti-war movement and the Bush administration…

  • Democracy Now! February 13, 2003

    Renowned historian Howard Zinn on the history of government and media lies in time of war: from the Mexican-American war to the Spanish-American war, the Philippines to Panama, Vietnam to the Gulf War to the present.; Over a hundred thousand people are expected to protest in Manhattan this Saturday despite the banning of a march:…

  • Democracy Now! June 21, 2002

    THE PEOPLE’ HISTORIAN: HOWARD ZINN |The Supreme Court rules that executing mentally retarded people is unconstitutionally cruel, giving scores of inmates on death row the possibility of a reprieve. We’ll hear the last words of a mentally retarded man executed in Georgia in 1986. And then, they call him the people’s historian. Today, we spend…

  • Democracy Now! December 7, 1998

    Howard Zinn on Mergers; Noam Chomsky |(33 Minutes) Howard Zinn on Mergers As Exxon and Mobil merge to become the world’s biggest corporation, a conversation with the radical historian on the implications of the return of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil. GUEST: Howard Zinn, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Boston University. He is the…