Readings from Howard Zinn's Voices of a People's History of the United States

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DN!: Readings from Howard Zinn's " Voices of a People's

History of the United States "

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:55:19 -0500

" Democracy Now! "

 

 

 

 

 

TODAY'S DEMOCRACY NOW!:

 

* Readings From Howard Zinn's " Voices of a People's History of the

United

States "

 

Today we spend the hour with readings from a Voices of a People's

History of the United States edited by historian Howard Zinn and

Anthony Arnove.

It is the companion volume to Zinn¹s legendary People¹s History of the

United States ­ which has sold over a million copies.

 

We will hear dramatic readings of speeches, letters, poems, songs,

petitions, and manifestos. These are the voices of people throughout

U.S. history who struggled against slavery, racism, and war, against

oppression and exploitation, and who articulated a vision for a better

world.

 

Performances include Danny Glover as Frederick Douglass, Marisa Tomei

as Cindy Sheehan, Floyd Red Crow Westerman as Tecumseh and Chief

Joseph, Sandra Oh as Emma Goldman and Yuri Kochiyama, and Viggo

Mortensen as Bartolomeo de Las Casas and Mark Twain.

 

Listen/Watch/Read

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/20/148251

 

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