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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHollywood Left Turns Out to Celebrate Howard Zinn’s Legacy
from The Progressive:
Hollywood Left Turns Out to Celebrate Howard Zinns Legacy
Rocker Tom Morello brought the house downand the crowd of 800 to their feet with rollicking renditions of Bruce Springsteen and Woody Guthrie songs at a Los Angeles event celebrating the publication of the 10th anniversary edition of Voices of a Peoples History of the United States (Seven Stories Press). Co-edited by the late Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove, the hefty volume contains quotes by indigenous people, slaves, abolitionists, suffragettes, labor organizers, agitators, anarchists, communists, feminists, and dissidents of many stripes representing the marginalized.
This updated version of Voices adds passages from whistleblower Chelsea Manning, anti-surveillance Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gleen Greenwald, anti-globalization activist/author Naomi Klein, and other resistance figures. A host of Hollywood heavyweights, including Kerry Washington (Scandal, Django Unchained), Oscar-winner Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny) and Benjamin Bratt (Traffic), read various quotations from Voices during the Nov. 13 show at Downtown L.A.s Japanese Cultural & Community Center.
Introducing the talents participating in the sold-out performance, Arnove noted sadly that the occasion was bittersweet as this was the first edition since 2004 of Voicesa companion book to Zinns classic text A Peoples History of the United Statesto be released after the historians 2010 death at age 87. But Arnove, who co-produced the Oscar-nominated documentary Dirty Wars and compiled the additions for this third edition of Voices, asserted, I am very confident that Howard is very much with us in spirit and I also feel that Howard is with the strikers who are striking at the docks at L.A.s port and with the Walmart workers who are sitting in todayand at Ferguson, Missouri.
Singer/songwriter Joe Henry then kicked off the event with a moving performance of a 1971 Bob Dylan song about prison guards killing Black Panther and so-called Soledad Brother George Jackson. ..............(more)
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