Selected testimonies to living historyspeeches, letters, poems, songsoffered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn. New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, speaking after her 35-year prison sentence); Naomi Klein, speaking from the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Liberty Square; a member of Dream Defenders, a youth organization that confronts systemic racial inequality; members of the Undocumented Youth movement, who occupied, marched, and demonstrated in support of the DREAM Act; a member of the Day Laborers movement; Chicago Teachers Union strikers; and several critics of the Obama administration, including Glenn Greenwald, on governmental secrecy.
- | Author: Howard Zinn
- | Publisher: Seven Stories Press
- | Publication Date: November 11, 2014
- | Number of Pages: 704 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1609805925
- | ISBN-13: 9781609805920
