Posts tagged “the people speak”
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Teachers for Social Justice Conference
November 12, 2011
VOICES Chicago will be at this year’s Teachers for Social Justice conference on November 19th in Chicago, IL, where they will be giving away 1,000 FREE Educators Toolkits, which includes The People Speak DVD, A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn,…Tags: howard zinn, howard zinn on race, la otra historia, teachers for social justice, teaching with voices, the people speak, voices chicago, voices of a people's history
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SOS Film Festival screens The People Speak
July 25, 2011
On Monday, July 25th at 7:30pm, Dave Zirin will introduce a special screening of The People Speak at American University. This film screening is part of the Save Our Schools Film Festival, and is hosted by Save Our Schools National March & Call to Action. Tickets for all screenings are $10. Buy advance tickets and learn more about the SOS Film Festival here
Tags: american university, film festival, howard zinn, save our schools, the people speak, washington dc
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Kenneth Bernstein on Voices of a People’s History and Zinn Education Project
April 5, 2011
. . . [Howard Zinn] wanted to wrest control of the past away from those who did not less know or understand the entire truth of our nation. It is up to those of us in the present to continue his task of reclaiming the full past, lest we surrender the future to those who do not value the ordinary people, who fear and despise the collective action - of unions, of the civil rights movement, of the anti-war movement, of the women’s rights movement, of the movements for the rights of all who have been oppressed and left out. . . . We have many tasks to take on. Certainly winning elections is a major part. But so is how we educate our children. So is reaching out to adults who did not have the opportunity to truly learn our history and help them connect. You can help in this task in many ways. You can support the Zinn Educational Project.
—Kenneth J. BernsteinTags: articles, daily kos, howard zinn, kenneth j. bernstein, teaching with voices of a people's history, the people speak, voices of a people's history, zinn education project
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Screening of “The People Speak”
June 9, 2010
Wednesday, June 9, 2010, 7PM, LGBT Community Center: 208 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011. Tickets $15.
Tags: anthony arnove, howard zinn, LGBT Community Center New York, staceyann chin, the people speak
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Harris Yulin and Q’orianka Kilcher on Howard Zinn and The People Speak
December 10, 2009
On December 10, actors Harris Yulin and Q’orianka Kilcher joined GRITtv to talk about The People Speak, Howard Zinn, and the experience of bringing Voices of a People’s History to life. See the video below.
Tags: grittv, harris yulin, howard zinn, laura flanders, qorianka kilcher, the people speak, videos, voices of a people's history
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The People Speak to air on HISTORY in December
October 22, 2009
From Dr. Libby H. O’Connell’s article on Howard Zinn and The People Speak from History magazine:
If our textbooks present the story of America only through the eyes of its generals and presidents, Zinn argues, it gives “a distorted view of the past.” Certainly he provides a powerful counterbalance to the hero-centric approach of traditional textbooks. In 2004 Zinn joined with Dr. Anthony Arnove to publish a collection of primary source documents titled Voices of a People’s History of the United States, an academic bestseller on college and high school campuses. The materials range across the length of American history and feature letters, petitions, poems, speeches, and songs from “women and slaves, immigrants and youth, soldiers and students.”
Zinn and Arnove began to organize public performances of selections from Voices in 2003, before its official release, when A People’s History of the United States sold its 1 millionth copy (it has now surpassed the 2 million mark). Today, Voices brings alive the words and emotions of the past with songs and dramatic readings performed by well-established artists. At a presentation this past May celebrating the publication of A Young People’s History of the United States in New York City, seven performers gave new life to the words of famous dissenters — such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, and Martin Luther King Jr. — and lesser known, but equally stirring, voices from the past. . . It is performances like this in theaters around the country that inspired the latest incarnation of Zinn’s work, The People Speak. Scheduled to air on HISTORY in December 2009, the film weaves archival footage and interviews with performances by actors and artists such as Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Kerry Washington, Viggo Mortensen, Danny Glover, Marisa Tomei, Bruce Springsteen, and John Legend.
Tags: anthony arnove, history, howard zinn, matt damon, morgan freeman, television, the people speak, voices of a people's history
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The History Channel Magazine on Voices of a People’s History and The People Speak
September 9, 2009
From the September/October issue of The History Channel Magazine:
Author, historian, teacher, activist, and now television producer Dr. Howard Zinn is a man on a mission. He wants Americans to recognize the power of protest in shaping their country’s history. Along with executive producers Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Josh Brolin, and Anthony Arnove, he is moving his message from high schools and college campuses to film and, later this year, to HISTORY.
Tags: anthony arnove, articles, films, history channel magazine, howard zinn, the people speak, voices of a people's history
“the people speak” Posts
- Jul 25, SOS Film Festival screens The People Speak
- Apr 5, Kenneth Bernstein on Voices of a People’s History and Zinn Education Project
- Jun 9, Screening of “The People Speak”
- Dec 10, Harris Yulin and Q’orianka Kilcher on Howard Zinn and The People Speak
- Oct 22, The People Speak to air on HISTORY in December
- Sep 9, The History Channel Magazine on Voices of a People’s History and The People Speak
