Ziin (Spanish Edition)

I suggest that the history of bombing—and no one has bombed more than this nation—is a history of endless atrocities, all calmly explained by deceptive and deadly language like 'accident', 'military target', and ' collateral damage '.

At Columbia University , he earned an M. His masters' thesis examined the Colorado coal strikes of Zinn regularly included it in his lists of recommended readings, and, after Barack Obama was elected President of the United States , Zinn wrote, "If Richard Hofstadter were adding to his book The American Political Tradition , in which he found both 'conservative' and 'liberal' presidents, both Democrats and Republicans, maintaining for dear life the two critical characteristics of the American system, nationalism and capitalism, Obama would fit the pattern.

Zinn was professor of history at Spelman College in Atlanta from to , and visiting professor at both the University of Paris and University of Bologna. At the end of the academic year in , Zinn was fired from Spelman for insubordination. Albert Manley, the first African-American president of that college, who felt Zinn was radicalizing Spelman students. His classes in civil liberties were among the most popular at the university with as many as students subscribing each semester to the non-required class.

A professor of political science , he taught at BU for 24 years and retired in at age But he always kept his sense of humor. He was a happy warrior," said Caryl Rivers, journalism professor at Boston University. Rivers and Zinn were among a group of faculty members who in defended the right of the school's clerical workers to strike and were threatened with dismissal after refusing to cross a picket line. Zinn came to believe that the point of view expressed in traditional history books was often limited. In later life he moved more toward anarchism. The book depicts the struggles of Native Americans against European and U.

The book was a finalist for the National Book Award in In the years since the first edition of A People's History was published in , it has been used as an alternative to standard textbooks in many college history courses, and it is one of the most widely known examples of critical pedagogy. The New York Times Book Review stated in that the book "routinely sells more than , copies a year. Voices is a sourcebook of speeches, articles, essays, poetry and song lyrics by the people themselves whose stories are told in A People's History.

In , the Zinn Education Project [30] was launched to support educators using A People's History of the United States as a source for middle and high school history.

The project was started when a former student of Zinn, who wanted to bring Zinn's lessons to students around the country, provided the financial backing to allow two other organizations, Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change to coordinate the project. The project hosts a website with hundreds of free downloadable lesson plans to complement A People's History of the United States. The People Speak , released in , is a documentary movie based on A People's History of the United States and inspired by the lives of ordinary people who fought back against oppressive conditions over the course of the history of the United States.

From through , Zinn chaired the Department of History and social sciences at Spelman College. He participated in the Civil Rights Movement and lobbied with historian August Meier [34] "to end the practice of the Southern Historical Association of holding meetings at segregated hotels. Edelman identified Zinn as a major influence in her life and, in that same journal article, tells of his accompanying students to a sit-in at the segregated white section of the Georgia state legislature.

Although Zinn was a tenured professor, he was dismissed in June after siding with students in the struggle against segregation. As Zinn described [41] in The Nation , though Spelman administrators prided themselves for turning out refined "young ladies," its students were likely to be found on the picket line, or in jail for participating in the greater effort to break down segregation in public places in Atlanta. A Personal History of Our Times. His seven years at Spelman College, Zinn said, "are probably the most interesting, exciting, most educational years for me. I learned more from my students than my students learned from me.

While living in Georgia, Zinn wrote that he observed 30 violations of the First and Fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution in Albany, Georgia , including the rights to freedom of speech , freedom of assembly and equal protection under the law. In an article on the civil rights movement in Albany, Zinn described the people who participated in the Freedom Rides to end segregation, and the reluctance of President John F.

Kennedy to enforce the law. Kennedy and the Federal Bureau of Investigation , headed by J. Edgar Hoover , did little or nothing to stop the segregationists from brutalizing civil rights workers. Zinn wrote about the struggle for civil rights, as both participant and historian. The New Abolitionists in which he describes how the sit-ins against segregation were initiated by students and, in that sense, were independent of the efforts of the older, more established civil rights organizations. In , forty-one years after he was sacked from Spelman, Zinn returned to the college where he was given an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters.

He delivered the commencement address [47] [48] titled, "Against Discouragement" and said that "the lesson of that history is that you must not despair, that if you are right, and you persist, things will change. The government may try to deceive the people, and the newspapers and television may do the same, but the truth has a way of coming out. The truth has a power greater than a hundred lies.

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Zinn wrote one of the earliest books calling for the U. It was so surprising at the time that there wasn't even a review of the book. In fact, he asked me if I would review it in Ramparts just so that people would know about the book. In December , radical historians tried unsuccessfully to persuade the American Historical Association to pass an anti-Vietnam War resolution. In later years, Zinn was an adviser to the Disarm Education Fund.

Zinn's diplomatic visit to Hanoi with Rev. The event was widely reported in the news media and discussed in a variety of books including Who Spoke Up? Also in January , he signed the " Writers and Editors War Tax Protest " pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the war. Announced on August 17 [56] and published on October 10, , this four-volume, relatively expensive set [56] became the "Senator Gravel Edition," which studies from Cornell University and the Annenberg Center for Communication have labeled as the most complete edition of the Pentagon Papers to be published.

United States in which the U. Supreme Court ruled in June ; [59] that the Speech or Debate Clause in the US Constitution did grant immunity to Gravel for his reading the papers in his subcommittee, and did grant some immunity to Gravel's congressional aide, but granted no immunity to Beacon Press in relation to its publishing the same papers.

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Zinn testified as an expert witness at Ellsberg's criminal trial for theft, conspiracy, and espionage in connection with the publication of the Pentagon Papers by The New York Times. Defense attorneys asked Zinn to explain to the jury the history of U. Zinn discussed that history for several hours, and later reflected on his time before the jury. I explained there was nothing in the papers of military significance that could be used to harm the defense of the United States, that the information in them was simply embarrassing to our government because what was revealed, in the government's own interoffice memos, was how it had lied to the American public.

The secrets disclosed in the Pentagon Papers might embarrass politicians, might hurt the profits of corporations wanting tin, rubber, oil, in far-off places. But this was not the same as hurting the nation, the people. Most of the jurors later said that they voted for acquittal. However, the federal judge who presided over the case dismissed it on grounds it had been tainted by the Nixon administration's burglary of the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist. Zinn's testimony on the motivation for government secrecy was confirmed in by Erwin Griswold , who as U.

The papers were simultaneously published in The Washington Post , effectively nullifying the effect of the prior restraint order. In , Griswold admitted there had been no national security damage resulting from publication. Zinn supported the G. In the film Unfinished Symphony: Democracy and Dissent , Zinn provides a historical context for the antiwar march by Vietnam Veterans against the War.

The marchers traveled from Lexington , Massachusetts , to Bunker Hill , "which retraced Paul Revere 's ride of and ended in the massive arrest of veterans and civilians by the Lexington police. Zinn opposed the invasion and occupation of Iraq and wrote several books about it. In an interview with The Brooklyn Rail he said,. We certainly should not be initiating a war, as it's not a clear and present danger to the United States, or in fact, to anyone around it. If it were, then the states around Iraq would be calling for a war on it.

The Arab states around Iraq are opposed to the war, and if anyone's in danger from Iraq, they are. At the same time, the U. Bush made a big deal about the number of resolutions Iraq has violated—and it's true, Iraq has not abided by the resolutions of the Security Council. But it's not the first nation to violate Security Council resolutions. Israel has violated Security Council resolutions every year since Now, however, the U. Charter, which is that nations can't initiate a war—they can only do so after being attacked.

And Iraq has not attacked us. He asserted that the U. Zinn compared the demand by a growing number of contemporary U. Zinn believed that U. Bush and followers of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi , the former leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq , who was personally responsible for beheadings and numerous attacks designed to cause civil war in Iraq, should be considered moral equivalents. In Madison, Wisconsin , in , Zinn said:.

Let's talk about socialism.

I think it's very important to bring back the idea of socialism into the national discussion to where it was at the turn of the [last] century before the Soviet Union gave it a bad name. Socialism had a good name in this country. Socialism had Eugene Debs. It had Clarence Darrow. It had Mother Jones. It had Emma Goldman. It had several million people reading socialist newspapers around the country. Socialism basically said, hey, let's have a kinder, gentler society. Let's have an economic system that produces things not because they're profitable for some corporation, but produces things that people need.

People should not be retreating from the word socialism because you have to go beyond capitalism. Zinn's daughter said she was not surprised by the files; "He always knew they had a file on him. Zinn married Roslyn Shechter in They remained married until her death in They had a daughter, Myla, and a son, Jeff. Zinn was swimming in a hotel pool when he died of an apparent heart attack [77] in Santa Monica, California , on January 27, , at age So, now you can see how a concept is translated in specific contexts. We are able to identify trustworthy translations with the aid of automated processes.

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