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In this season of leftwing documentaries, I can't imagine anything that will surpass "Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train," which opens at the Cinema Village in NYC on July 28. With a title drawn from his 1994 memoir, this film is much more about broader social and political issues than it is about the particulars of a man's ...
Sep 18, 2018 · In his memoir, You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train, Zinn reflects on more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from his teenage years as a laborer in Brooklyn to teaching at Spelman College, where he emerged in the civil rights movement as a powerful voice for justice. A former bombardier in World War II, he later became an ...
The eminent radical historian (Boston Univ.; Declarations of Independence, 1990, etc.) recalls his struggles against American racism and war, and he expresses his hope for the future, in this memoir and manifesto. The son of poor Jewish immigrants to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Zinn worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and served as a bombardier in Europe in WW II. He attended Columbia ...
By Howard Zinn. Excerpt from You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train December 30 is the anniversary of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo being indicted in 1971 for releasing the Pentagon Papers. The papers were part of a 7,000-page, top secret history of the U.S. political and military involvement in the Vietnam War from 1945-71. In other words, their “crime” was to make the American ...
May 15, 2017 · The main difference is that the shapers are creating and dictating the new realities through their actions while the spectators have the new realities imposed on them because of their passivity and silence. This post is named after the late Howard Zinn’s memoir: You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train. Zinn is an educator, activist and ...
