with Howard Zinn
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
October 30, 2009
By Seth Rolbein
http://www.bu.edu/today/
October 29, 2009
A packed house hears a left-wing critique of Obama
With the Tsai Performance Center filled to its 500-seat capacity, many in the audience remembered when that hall was named Hayden, the University was in turmoil, and Howard Zinn was both lightning rod and radical catalyst.
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“They’re all in this for war,” he said. “That’s what we call bipartisanship.” Those surprised or disappointed are those who “exaggerated expectations, romanticized him, idealized him. Obama is a Democratic Party politician. I know that sounds demeaning. It is.”
“There’s an enormous weight left over by the Bush administration,” Zinn said. “Unfortunately, he has done nothing to begin to lift that weight.” Change can happen only by grassroots protest strong enough to move entrenched interests.
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via The Return of Howard Zinn, and Company | BU Today (click for rest of the story plus the video)
see
Noam Chomsky: When Elites Fail, and What We Should Do About It (must-see)
