Just May Be Matt Damon's Best Performance, Civil Obedience

[mother earth]

In 2012, Matt Damon helped pay tribute to the late historian and author Howard Zinn. This rendition of a speech Zinn gave in 1970 on civil disobedience is one of his most powerful performances to date.

[mother earth]

2. Watch the video...just sayin...nt

[2naSalit]

3. Got it.

I was going by the title. I have heard the speech before and it's awesome.

Thanks for posting!

[mother earth]

4. It really is. :)

[mtasselin]

5. Great

Now if only we could get the people in this country to understand that it is time to take a stand.

[jtuck004]

7. Would you agree that we have more in common with the Palestinians than,

say, Obama?

[zeemike]

6. 43 years ago and counting.

And it is more relevant today than it was then...or should I say more necessary today than then.

[Demo_Chris]

8. Had me hooked from the beginning. Thank you for posting this. nt

[mother earth]

10. Zinn & Damon, now what could top that? :) nt

[fasttense]

9. Obedience is the problem

If we had less obedience, the world would be better off.

[DeSwiss]

11. K&R!

I used to think we'd never become a narco-state, then we heard about Air-America.

Then I used to think we'd draw the line at pushing drugs in the street, then we hear how minority communities are being used to sell drugs to help stamp out communism.

Finally, I said, we'd never become a manufacturer or a grower with platoons of soldiers living in air-conditioned desert-tents (costing $20 billion a year) as the security arm for the heroin producers of the Afghanistan.

- Then I woke up, I had been dreaming the whole time......

K&R