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Howard Zinn: You can't be neutral on a moving train -- film screening

Dec 8 2010 - 6:30pm
Dec 8 2010 - 8:30pm

Location

Davenport Perth Neighbourhood Centre, Sanctuary
1900 Davenport (at Symington)
Toronto
Canada
43° 40' 14.0052" N, 79° 27' 17.1324" W
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"Bread and Bricks" DPNC Movie Night

The life and times of historian, activist and author of the best selling classic: A People's History of the United States.

"It is no exaggeration to say that he has changed the consciousness of a generation"

-- Noam Chomsky

Contact name: 
Pam Frache
Contact email: 
prfrache@sympatico.ca
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Howard Zinn's 'Marx in Soho' -- 1 night only

Nov 20 2010 - 7:00pm
Nov 20 2010 - 10:00pm

Location

The Cultch
1895 Venables
Vancouver, BC
Canada
49° 16' 35.958" N, 123° 3' 56.4804" W
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People's Co-op Bookstore is proud to present...

Howard Zinn's 'Marx in Soho', performed by Brian Jones

1 night only!

Saturday, Nov. 20
7p.m. at The Cultch (1895 Venables St.)

Part of an evening in celebration of the life and work of Howard Zinn

with remarks by special guest David Barsamian

Tickets: $20 (available soon)

All proceeds to benefit People's Co-op Bookstore, B.C.'s oldest independent bookstore, at 1391 Commercial Drive, celebrating its 65th anniversary this year!

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Howard Zinn: You can't be neutral on a moving train (with Naomi Klein)

Sep 8 2010 - 7:00pm

Location

Bloor Street Cinema
506 Bloor Street West
Toronto, ON
Canada
43° 39' 55.1484" N, 79° 24' 37.3716" W
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In co-operation with Continuing Education Students Association at Ryerson, the War Resisters Support Campaign is pleased to present :

NAOMI KLEIN introducing

Howard Zinn: You Can't be Neutral on a Moving Train
a documentary screening with film makers Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller
and Iraq war resister Jeremy Hinzman, introduced by Naomi Klein

Wednesday, September 8th
7 pm (Box office opens at 6:30)
The Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor Street West @ Bathurst

Admission: $10.00

For information or advance tickets, please contact us at resisters@sympatico.ca

War Resisters Support Campaign
www.letthemstay.ca <http://www.letthemstay.ca/>
www.resisters.ca <http://www.resisters.ca/>

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Derrick O'Keefe

Left Forum 2010: Rekindling the radical imagination

By Derrick O'Keefe
| April 3, 2010

I attended this year's Left Forum in New York, a gathering of thousands of progressive academics and activists held March 19-21. I spoke at a panel co-organized by the Canadian Peace Alliance and the Campaign for Peace and Democracy on the topic of the war in 'Af-Pak'.

The final plenary on March 21 featured a tribute to Howard Zinn, with actor-teacher-activist Brian Jones performing Zinn's Marx in Soho. With the Forum being held at PACE University in Lower Manhattan a stone's throw from Wall Street (and not far from Soho), the play was a joyful reminder that the ideas of both Zinn and Marx will resonate until the global dictatorship of Capital is brought to an end.

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Remembering Howard Zinn: A people's historian

Howard Zinn, legendary historian, author and activist, died last week at the age of 87. His most famous book is "A People's History of the United States." Zinn told me last May, "The idea of ‘A People's History' is to go beyond what people have learned in school ... history through the eyes of the presidents and the generals in the battles fought in the Civil War, [to] the voices of ordinary people, of rebels, of dissidents, of women, of black people, of Asian-Americans, of immigrants, of socialists and anarchists and troublemakers of all kinds."

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Law, protest and civil disobedience: The tofu cream pie incident

By Eric Mang
| January 29, 2010

This past Monday, Fisheries Minister Gail Shea, was on the business end of a tofu cream pie. Protesting the Conservative government's support of the seal hunt, PETA activist Emily McCoy deftly deposited a pie on Ms. Shea's visage just as the latter was about to speechify.


Ms. McCoy has been charged with assault - not the first and likely not the last pie wielder to be charged.


Shea, a Conservative MP from PEI, was not threatened: "I can tell you that this incident actually strengthens my resolve to support the seal hunt. If this is what it takes to stand up for Canadian sealing families and this industry I'm certainly very proud to do it."

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Watch and remember: A People's History of American Empire by Howard Zinn (1922-2010)

Howard Zinn died of a heart attack Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at the age of 87.  An intellectual of extraordinary influence, we remember him at rabble.ca for the way he wrote history 'for the rest of us'.

In this clip:  'Empire or Humanity? What the Classroom Didn't Teach Me about the American Empire' by Howard Zinn. Narrated by Viggo Mortensen. Art by Mike Konopacki. Video editing by Eric Wold.

 

 

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77 - Howard Zinn: Taking the Risk for Change

December 2, 2008
| Howard Zinn, renowned teacher, author, historian and civil rights activist, on how real change only comes about when people are willing to take a risk

18:32 minutes (25.46 MB)
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