Howard Zinn: Obama "Is Going to Need Demonstrations, Protest, Letters & Petitions" to Do Right

Howard Zinn: Obama "Is Going to Need Demonstrations and Protest and Letters and Petitions" to Do the Right Things

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LS: Do you see any hopeful parallels between the kind of organizing that you saw decades ago and the organizing that some of the organizing that is going on now?

Howard Zinn: Yes, I do see parallels. We're still at the early stage of it. We haven't reached that level of action and organization and protest that we had in the 1960s, but as I go around the country I do see everywhere, there's a nucleus of a larger movement. There's a promise of a national movement in the fact that in every community I've been in there have been organizations and people who are active and doing things. So I'm hopeful, yes.

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[edit on 12-3-2009 by baseball101]

Must read the whole thing! very interesting ... i think he makes a pretty good point ... and the sad thing is that he actually endorsed obama:

LS: You endorsed him, right?

Howard Zinn: Endorsed Obama? (Laughs.) Yes -- I endorsed Obama, I wanted him to win.

What are your thoughts?

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