THE PROBLEM IS CIVIL OBEDIENCE: HOWARD ZINN 1971/2007

Public reenactment of a speech given by author and activist Howard Zinn at a peace rally in Boston Common on May 5, 1971. Zinn defends the use of civil disobedience to protest the war in Vietnam and calls on Congress to impeach the president and vice president of the United States for the high crime of waging war on the people of Southeast Asia. Matthew Floyd Miller, a New York-based actor delivered the speech on location in Boston on July 14, 2007. This five-minute video is based on a 17-minute speech.

"We need to do something to disturb that calm, smiling, murderous president in the White House... because for six years the President has carried on an unconstitutional war, and for six years the bodies of Americans have been coming home in plastic bags, and for six years the villages and countryside of Vietnam have been destroyed, and these members of Congress have been sitting there silently, passively, voting the money for this war."

"Young men will refuse to be drafted and women will defy the state, and we will refuse to pay our taxes, and we'll disobey. And they'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war."

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[Vegarchy]

Okay I found the origional. For those of you who are interested it has been uploaded by Teaquest under the title "Civil Disobedients???"

[Vegarchy]

@Vegarchy Okay I found it. The original has been uploaded by Teaquest under the title "Civil Disobedients???" for those of you who are interested.

[Vegarchy]

@Vegarchy Okay I found it. Here is the original speech by Howard Zinn:

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[Vegarchy]

Does anyone know where I can find the full speech by Howard Zinn? I am only able to find fragments of it in the documentary "You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train."

[gorto27]

His ideas were invulnerable...RIP Howard Zinn

[IntractableJ]

@nightwake I see no reason to think that they are.

[curlyfry1106]

i love how when someone says "hey, lets not kill those people" people like you just dismiss them as 'hippies'

[nightwake]

I wonder if these hippies feel the same way now that Obama is continuing the wars and going back on every single promise he made to get elected. Hopefully liberals are starting to wake up to the false left vs. right, divide and conquer strategy they play into so well.

[bjarczyk]

Zinn's speaking skills are way better than this.

[gabeh73]

If he would repeat this performance in the commons it would make me most happy.