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On this day 100 years ago, Howard Zinn was born.
This week @zinneducationproject @ZinnDigital + others have been hosting events in celebration of his life and legacy.
#HowardZinn100
This week @zinneducationproject @ZinnDigital + others have been hosting events in celebration of his life and legacy.
#HowardZinn100
Through the long legacy of people’s historians and storytellers, I’ve learned that history is not made up of grand figures who simply rose up and changed things (like I learned in textbooks from school), but rather everyday, ordinary people like you and me…
…that mobilized, built coalitions, and demanded justice.
We make history every day and it is in our actions and our relationships that we can forge new futures one day at a time.
#HowardZinn100
We make history every day and it is in our actions and our relationships that we can forge new futures one day at a time.
#HowardZinn100
Since news broke of SCOTUS draft to overturn Roe, we've seen many people say some version of:
"Never before in U.S. history has a constitutional right been taken away."
Well, the history of Reconstruction tells us otherwise.
#TeachReconstruction 🧵1/7
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"Never before in U.S. history has a constitutional right been taken away."
Well, the history of Reconstruction tells us otherwise.
#TeachReconstruction 🧵1/7
teachreconstructionreport.org
During Reconstruction, the Constitution finally became a document that people could cite in arguments for equality.
14th Amend., ratified in 1868, demanded equal protection of the laws & due process of law for all people. It authorized Congress to enforce these principles. 2/7
14th Amend., ratified in 1868, demanded equal protection of the laws & due process of law for all people. It authorized Congress to enforce these principles. 2/7
But soon after its enactment, SCOTUS interpreted the 3 Reconstruction Amend's (13th, 14th, 15th) extremely narrowly & Congress retreated from its commitment to use them to protect Black people & democracy itself from white supremacist terror & fraud. 3/7
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#tdih 1979, the Boston University faculty union called a strike. Howard Zinn was one of the strike committee co-chairs.
In this centennial, #HowardZinn100, read ⬇️ about the strike from Zinn's autobiography, "You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train."
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bost…
In this centennial, #HowardZinn100, read ⬇️ about the strike from Zinn's autobiography, "You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train."
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bost…
BU alum @dcolapinto said: "Labor leaders [like Cesar Chavez] would come to say a few words in solidarity with striking workers. The librarian union and clerical & staff unions joined the faculty strike."
Strike photos by Spencer Grant ⬇️via @BPLBoston. flickr.com/photos/boston_…
Strike photos by Spencer Grant ⬇️via @BPLBoston. flickr.com/photos/boston_…
After faculty strike settled, a few (“B.U. Five,” as they came to be known) showed solidarity with ongoing staff & librarian strike by holding classes outside or off-campus. B.U. Pres. John Silber escalated the fight. Read ⬇️by @dcolapinto via @ZinnDigital
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"The nuclear energy industry & its support elements in gov't. are practicing actively a form of despotism," -- Sam Lovejoy on toppling nuclear plant wind tower as form of civil disobedience. #tdih 1974. His case increased awareness of nuclear power threat. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/love…
Lovejoy defended himself & invited Howard Zinn as expert witness.
Zinn told court that the tower-toppling was in best tradition of Gandhi, Thoreau, & Abolitionists, including Elijah P. Lovejoy, Sam’s distant cousin, who was murdered by pro-slavery mob.
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Zinn told court that the tower-toppling was in best tradition of Gandhi, Thoreau, & Abolitionists, including Elijah P. Lovejoy, Sam’s distant cousin, who was murdered by pro-slavery mob.
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Judge Smith asked if true civil disobedience didn’t demand both strict nonviolence & acceptance of lawful punishment. Zinn replied that destruction of property was not violent when life was at stake. “Violence,” he said, “has to do with human beings, not property.” #HowardZinn100
"I only have 30 min. so I thought I would begin with the Stone Age. Mankind has gone through the age of stone and the age of bronze, & today we live in the age of irony. . . And it goes something like this. We the American people do not want to live in a Communist state." 1/5
"The reason for this is not so much that we object to a planned economy, although many of us do. Not so much that we object to socialized medicine . . . We don’t want to live in a Communist state b/c we don’t want any gov't agency inspecting what we say, what we think.. . " 2/5
".. . the associations we have, the paintings we paint, the writings we write, the books we read, the meetings we go to, the organizations we join. . . And so in order to avoid all this we set up HUAC. And this committee in order to prevent us from experiencing this. . ." 3/5
#tdih 1968 When asked at White House luncheon why young people are angry, Eartha Kitt said, b/c "You send best of this country off to be shot & maimed."
In retaliation for her honesty, her career in U.S. was ruined for 10 years & CIA tracked her. See ⬇️
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In retaliation for her honesty, her career in U.S. was ruined for 10 years & CIA tracked her. See ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/eart…
Eartha Kitt describes what happened in an interview with Renee Poussaint for Visionary Project. ⬇️
One of many stories in history of U.S. gov't. (and textbooks') erasure & silencing of critique. (See lesson in 🧵on COINTELPRO & current anti-"crt" laws).
One of many stories in history of U.S. gov't. (and textbooks') erasure & silencing of critique. (See lesson in 🧵on COINTELPRO & current anti-"crt" laws).
In a 1968 video editorial on WGBH Boston, Howard Zinn nominated Eartha Kitt and Dr. Benjamin Spock for Woman and Man of the Year because they “both refused to play the game” by speaking out against the Vietnam War. #HowardZinn100 #TeachTruth
Watch ⬇️
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Watch ⬇️
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