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Uploaded on Jun 12, 2008

UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler interviews historian and activist Howard Zinn. (2001) Series: Conversations with History [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 8400]

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  • patsfan124

    I'm 16 years old. I just finished reading a people's history of the united states of america by this man. It was by far the greatest book on any subject I have ever read. I wish like anything to have been able to listen to Mr. Zinn in a lecture when he was alive. He will be missed.

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  • papelhojas

    that is true, and i think that it is apparent to some degree that i have sympathy for the professors and teachers that you are talking about, and also agree that sometimes their bias does color their lessons, but nearly without exception (in my experience) the aforementioned educators were available only at a college level. History, as it is studied in high school and before, seems to me to be shaded with a sort of western righteousness, and i think its important to self examine

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  • Jeffery Maddox II

    Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky are my heroes!

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  • livefreeanddonttread

    a smart man... speaks kind of like Christopher Walken

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  • jeromediaz1

    Thank you so much for putting this video online. It was simply passionating!

    Just to mention, also, that Zinn's "A people's history..." is mentioned in one of the greatest novels recently published: "The Given Day", by Dennis Lehane.

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  • JapanJohnny2012

    a heck of a guy

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  • Rjoette Squire

    I appreciate Zinn's views on the war. He has such a sound grasp on reality of war, and history. His sense of rightness comes from having grown out of his ignorance, and very clearly shares his progression of this journey so others can understand and relate to their own journey, and appreciating that of others.

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  • DebsForPresident

    That kindness makes one feel good does NOT mean "it's in your own self-interest." 

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  • tudor chirica

    incredible interview.

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  • JCSglobaI

    Jesus Christ said that "My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me" - JESUS CHRIST IS MY GOD, MY LORD, MY SAVIOR

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  • DebsForPresident

    Spend a little time with Democracy Now! or read Socialist Worker. We lost a lion with Zinn's death, but he's not the last of his kind, just the last the mainstream seems to have any interest in listening to.

    We just have to get louder and fight harder until we are heard.

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  • DebsForPresident

    Except there's a massive problem...he's nowhere NEAR the last, just the last one people seem to pay much attention to. There IS a left, and plenty of us still fighting the good fight. But the media ignores us entirely, rather than fighting against this unctious, stupid lie that they have "liberal bias." The anti-war movement is still around, people still fight for economic justice, against bigotry and discrimination. Giants like Angela Davis are still around...but you have to search to hear them

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