Wednesday, Apr 01, 2009

TTT APRIL 1: HOWARD ZINN and "VOICES OF A PEOPLE'S HISTORY"

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APRIL 1: HOWARD ZINN and "VOICES OF A PEOPLE'S HISTORY"

The history of the United States as taught in our schools is only half the story - and almost always told from the perspective of the conqueror - in this case, European immigrants - with little if anything said about the conquered - the indigenous peoples of this hemisphere who found their peaceful existence interrupted, their people enslaved and murdered to extinction, their cultures exterminated. HOWARD ZINN's A People's History of the United States sought to correct such half-truths and to fill in the very large vacuum in our understanding of the events that led to our current government's founding, establishment and pervasive culture.

Voices of A People's History records the commentary and philosophy of those who sought and spoke truth to power in the centuries that followed. Co-authored with scholar Anthony Arnove, "Voices..." resurrects the seekers of justice from every walk - like that of Nez Perce Chief Joseph, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Eugene Debs, Frederick Douglass, and Columbus critic Bartolomé Las Casas, among other "Voices.." to be read and heard when Howard Zinn comes to town to oversee the dramatization of these historical characters at an event on behalf of the Nonviolent Peaceforce at St. Catherine's O'Shaughnessy Auditorium in St. Paul April 6th at 7:00PM. Co-sponsored by KFAI.
TTT's ANDY DRISCOLL and LYNNELL MICKELSEN talk with Howard Zinn and other guests about the role historical perspective plays in our self-perception and in the way we govern ourselves today. We'll hear a reading from scheduled performer** MICHAEL KIESOW MOORE and a song from Twin Cities' premier jazz vocalist PRUDENCE JOHNSON.
GUESTS: HOWARD ZINN, Historian/Author of People's History of the United States and Voices of A People's History; PROF. DOUG ROSSINOW - Historian and Professor of History Metropolitan State University/ Author, Visions of Progress: The Left-Liberal Tradition in America; PRUDENCE JOHNSON - Twin Cities Jazz Vocalist; MICHAEL KIESOW MOORE - Twin Cities Poet/Essayist/Fiction-Writer/Teacher and Peace Activist

• Performers will read/sing at Zinn's and Anthony Arnove's "VOICES OF A PEOPLE'S HISTORY" April 6th, St. Catherine

**KFAI's own ANDY DRISCOLL will also read April 6th

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