Podcast: “THE SURREAL NEWS” Remembers Howard Zinn
Listen to this show and past episodes of The Surreal News at www.thesurrealnews.com
Raymond Lotta, author of “A Life Well Lived: Remembering Howard Zinn, People’s Historian,” joined Surreal News hosts Steve and Larry on Friday, Feb. 5 for a remembrance of Howard Zinn – the legendary historian, radical activist, thinker and teacher who died at the age of 87 on January 27.
Zinn wrote more than 20 books and plays, with his most famous and influential work being “A People’s History of the United States,” a book that opened the eyes of countless readers to the realities of America’s founding in genocide and slavery and America’s arc of brutal expansion. Howard Zinn stood for a truth-seeking craft of history that challenged the official and self-serving narrative of America-and that challenged people to learn from history, to act on history, to become a force in the struggle for a better world.
Raymond Lotta is a revolutionary intellectual who has written and lectured extensively on the experiences of the communist revolutions in the Soviet Union and China. He has done major work on political economy, including “America in Decline” and ongoing analyses of global economic developments in the “Revolution” newspaper.
Each episode of The Surreal News features “A Tannen Weekly” by humorist Pete Tannen, a Media Matters Minute and plenty of under-reported news items.
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