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		<title>FOCUS: Remembering Howard Zinn</title>
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			<title>barbaratodish says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/304-justice/9651-focus-remembering-howard-zinn#comment-136942</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I believe that back then (late 1960's) we all still had our senses of humor. What we need to do is find our lost senses of humor. Even Chomsky could take himself less seriously!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>barbaratodish</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:41:28 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>carioca says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Howard Zinn, Chalmers Johnson, Gil Scott Heron: all great Americans we lost recently, who the gods of genetics will have a hard, hard time replacing.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>carioca</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:39:25 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>reiverpacific says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sadly, most "Average Americans" have never even heard of Zinn, or Chomsky or so many others at the forefront of progressive activism, writing and speaking, thanks to the infotainment dominant owner-media who are ushering in the age of "Idiotocracy" and submissive, blanked-out drones.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>reiverpacific</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:36:19 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>mhog jones says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA["a government that is ruthless about what it does to other people is often ruthless in what it does to our own people..." ZINN 2002 (gone but never forgotten!)]]></description>
			<dc:creator>mhog jones</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:26:28 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>motamanx says:</title>
			<link>http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/304-justice/9651-focus-remembering-howard-zinn#comment-136409</link>
			<description><![CDATA[How I wish A People's History of the United States had been written when I was still a kid in school! Thanks, Noam Chomsky for remembering Howard Zinn.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>motamanx</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:45:03 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>EileenFlemingforHouse says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA["I would never have become an historian if I thought that it would become my professional duty to go into the past and never emerge, to study long-gone events and remember them only for their uniqueness, not connecting them to events going on in my time."-Howard Zinn I have no doubt Zinn would have been most interested in what Israel's Nuclear Whistle Blower, Mordechai Vanunu told me: “The French were responsible for the actual building of the Dimona. The Germans gave the money... “President Kennedy tried to stop Israel from building atomic weapons.’ “When Johnson became president, he made an agreement with Israel that two senators would come every year to inspect. Before the senators would visit, the Israelis would build a wall to block the underground elevators and stairways. From 1963 to ’69, the senators came, but they never knew about the wall that hid the rest of the Dimona from them. “Nixon stopped the inspections and agreed to ignore the situation. As a result, Israel increased production. In 1986, there were over two hundred bombs. Today, they may have enough plutonium for ten bombs a year.” http://www.eileenfleming.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=46&Itemid=163]]></description>
			<dc:creator>EileenFlemingforHouse</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:53:14 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Capn Canard says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Noam, thanks for being Noam... Zinn's "A People's History of the United States", is still, hands down, the best book on American History. Bar none.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Capn Canard</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:43:30 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>lark3650 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Men like Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn.. who have character, integrity and the ability to reason are proof that.... "Character is more valuable than wealth..wealth is material and dissolves but character is moral and has lasting effects. If is was not for character whereby man would make every known sacrifice, even to giving up life itself for the sake of principle, human beings would be no better than the beasts of the field. ...the will to do right creates the master character." - Alfred W. Lawson]]></description>
			<dc:creator>lark3650</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:09:25 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>deedeehalleck says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Here is a short puppet show by Amy Trompeter based on Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States, with mic check by the audience: http://youtu.be/yFsCcrp4jQ4]]></description>
			<dc:creator>deedeehalleck</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 05:38:13 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>leslie griffith says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A people's history of the United States should be in the homes of every family in this country. On this second anniversary of Zinn's dead, if you have not read it, do so. Then pass it down to your children. Zinn and Chomsky are heroes of this country. To ignore them diminishes us all. Book banning may be next--and Kinn's History would be one of the first to go.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>leslie griffith</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:54:55 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>jbrecher says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Like most here, Zinn and Chomsky have had a tremendous influence on the way I see the world. They have helped me understand my country as it is - stripped of its doctrinal cover - not a comforting view. The strength and truth of their analysis has moved me to activism and provided direction in my life. My occupation now allows me to travel around the world and interact with people on every continent. I know that every personal interaction I have is partly influenced by the moral and intellectual voices of these two great men. I can't thank them enough for their unfortunately rare intellectual courage of "telling truth to power."]]></description>
			<dc:creator>jbrecher</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:02:21 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>amye says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Zinn and Chomsky are two of the greatest intellectuals of our time! They belong in our history books next to Martin Luther King and so many other great people who are struggling now and have struggled in the past for a more peaceful world where equality, honesty and goodness exists for all people!!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>amye</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:05:55 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>politicaleconomist says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sorry if there was some confusion but unfortunately my total comment exceeded RSN's word count. Here's the rest of the story. The second was a "debate" over the morality of the Viet Nam War, where Chomsky and Zinn carried the day for morality. In that case the same blind allegiance to what the opposing debater assumed was the only acceptable discourse led him to say something like: "Are we going to let these men attack the morality of our great nation?" There was no brief silence before the laughter that time.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>politicaleconomist</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:55:23 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>politicaleconomist says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Duplicate see below.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>politicaleconomist</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:27:34 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>noitall says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Noam Chomsky, an American hero of near if not equal stature to Zinn, speaks the truth. "Logic of Withdrawal" should be bedtime reading for Obama and all the so-called leaders of this country AND read by us all. To ignore history is to doom oneself to repeat it and as Reagan did, take Civics classes out of the classrooms, and today, to cut funds from education (and the already sorry content of history classes)is catastrophic to our future. Fantasy versions of history, designed to glorify guys like Reagan and policies such as those that lied us into Nam, Iraq, and will soon into Iran, will have grave consequences and we will pay dearly for each and every one. The last time I spoke with Zinn was only 3 or 4 months before his passing and it speaks to the MAN that me, NOBODY, was received by him gratiously and understandingly even as he was getting out of his car and unlocking the house door. I only mention this because these men of the people are ALL like that; they need no thrones, red carpets, or microphones with large audiences. They do not tire when their words go seemingly unheard. The wisdom and analysis written by the Howard Zinns, Noam Chomsky's, and many others speak the true history of our country and we all owe it to our cause to make sure that they are read. Zinn's "People's History of the United States" should be THE history book in our schools. Without TRUE knowledge of our history, we think that what we see today is normal when, in fact, it is criminal and SICK!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>noitall</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:00:41 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Glen says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Howard Zinn is rather much my hero. I held a private memorial to him when he died, and plan to make sure my family understands his contributions, in the same way I will make sure they understand the downfall of this country, most especially under George W. I'm glad Howard Zinn will not see the violence against citizens that is being carried out and will be much worse than when he was an activist.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Glen</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:40:17 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>DurangoKid says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[People like Howard Zinn are always in danger of being silenced. Chomsky's opinion that we are in a Weimar-like situation where the center does not hold rings true when Zinn's works are censored. If Zinn's works are being censored in Tucson, then we might conclude that at least in some parts of the country, the center has fallen. As usual, it's up to the 99% to keep history alive. The 1% seem bent on keeping us from the value of our labor, our health, and our past. In a few years, there will be a reckoning.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>DurangoKid</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:13:00 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>historywriter says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Maybe you should read it again.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>historywriter</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:59:52 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>ER444 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[His point is obvious. If you don't get it immediately explaining won't help.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>ER444</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:52:16 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>D.J. Scholtz says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[What a pleasure to read the words of one of my heroes, Mr. Chomsky, praising another of my heroes, Mr. Zinn. I routinely used the People's History in my courses and, last year as I was debating membership in a peace and justice group (Jewish Voice for Peace), when I saw both Zinn's and Chomsky's names on the Board of Advisers, it was an easy decision. May their words and actions live forever. . .]]></description>
			<dc:creator>D.J. Scholtz</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:14:42 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>dorianb@fuse.net says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Politicaleconom ist: What is your point?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>dorianb@fuse.net</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:46:24 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>sandyboy says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Many years ago a kid who I knew who worked in a comics store and who'd grown up in a famous UK commune told me Noam Chomsky was his favourite writer, and in my profound ignorance of social matters I hadn't a clue who he was talking about at the time. Looks like he made a good choice. What a great article.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>sandyboy</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:16:03 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Mickeyfilm says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Thank you Prof. Chomsky for this insight. My work and the goals of my life have been so seriously influenced by both of you. I've spent many long hours interiviewing average people in both North and South Korea attempting to develop a story of what really happened, "trying to learn those critical omissions."]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Mickeyfilm</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:03:04 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>politicaleconomist says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I was a student at MIT in the late 60s and a witness to the radical change in the limits of acceptable discourse. When I arrived at MIT i was told by upperclassmen of the last time that MIT had increased tuition (it was not given that tuition would go up annually), the president of the college had dispersed a crowd simply by saying that names would be taken with the implicit understanding that chances for employment were reduced. I remember on two occasions going to hear Chomsky lecture where the cultural change that had occurred by the late 1960s was hilariously apparent. The smashing of the limits of acceptable discourse that Chomsky and other true intellectuals had achieved at least at the university level was very much apparent. In the first instance Chomsky was discussing the Israeli-Palesti nian situation when someone in the question-from-t he audience phase challenged the audience "Are we going to let this Jew-Commie tell us to follow the Commie line in the Middle East?" After five seconds of silence spontaneous laughter filled the room for several minutes.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>politicaleconomist</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:49:10 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>bluepilgrim says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Note that Zinn's books are among those banned from Tuscon's classrooms.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>bluepilgrim</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:12:43 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>tomo says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[This is a really marvelous comment. Currently I teach a text in American studies titled Dissent in America. It's edited by Ralph Young, and is a rich continuation of the Howard Zinn approach. Howard wrote a glowing comment to promote the text. To accompany our work with this text, I've been playing the video Zinn, Matt Damon, and other people of remarkable talent put together titled The People Speak. I feel the ghost of Zinn hovers over the enterprises of me and my students--a veritable Holy Ghost. And I was delighted by the tribute here--so appropriate--to this wonderful man which Chomsky has written.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>tomo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:12:32 -0800</pubDate>
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