Howard Zinn/Eddie Vedder- Zinn's new book

Commy

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/5/13/h ... bama_would


(from abook)

jlew24asu

where is abook?

Commy

she said she' coming back soon. not sure what she's up too.

Byrnzie

Thanks for posting. :ugeek:

musicismylife78

seems ed hasnt swallowed the party line, luckily, and is continuing to demand an end to war no matter what, even if obama is in office. Very good to hear.

g under p

I heard that show on that morning and I was taken aback by what HZ spoke about President Barack Obama.
Especially this part......

Democracy Now wrote:

AMY GOODMAN: Well, at the Democratic convention in Denver at the stadium, John Lewis was honored. When President Obama was inaugurated, he shook John Lewis’s hand. He was on the main stage at the Capitol right there when President Obama came down the steps. Your thoughts on President Obama today, the first African American president?


HOWARD ZINN: I wish President Obama would listen carefully to Martin Luther King. I’m sure he pays verbal homage, as everyone does, to Martin Luther King, but he ought to think before he sends missiles over Pakistan, before he agrees to this bloated military budget, before he sends troops to Afghanistan, before he opposes the single-payer system, which you talked about earlier in your program. He ought to ask, “What would Martin Luther King do? And what would Martin Luther King say?” And if he only listened to King, he would be a very different president than he’s turning out to be so far. I think we ought to hold Obama to his promise to be different and bold and to make change. So far, he hasn’t come through on that promise.


AMY GOODMAN: When Barack Obama was running for president, asked in the debates who would MLK endorse, who would Dr. King endorse, he said, “None of us.”


HOWARD ZINN: Yeah, that’s true, because King believed—and this actually is one of the themes of our people’s history, is that you cannot depend on presidents, and you cannot depend on elections and voting to solve your problems. People themselves, organizing, demonstrating, clamoring, they are the only ones who can push the President and push Congress into change. And that’s what we have to do now with Obama. We have to point to what Obama said in the course of the campaign, when he said we not only have to get out of Iraq, we have to get out of the mindset that brought us into Iraq. Obama, himself, has not gotten out of that mindset yet. And I think we, the people, have to speak to him about that.

This also ties in with Commy's other thread on HZ and the President's mindset on war.

Peace