War of Aggression
Howard Zinn Lecture Series: Howard Zinn, Bringing Democracy Alive
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In the first lecture of a new annual series bearing his name, HowardZinn, professor emeritus of political science at Boston University andauthor of A People’s History of the United States, calls for theimpeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President RichardCheney. Zinn accuses the Bush administration of starting a “war ofaggression” against Iraq and the American public. He argues that thegovernment and its “warmongering” organs — mass media and the congress— are not to be relied on for information and exhorts Americans to stopbelieving that government has the interest of the people in mind.
AlexH. MacDonald (CAS’72), a former student of Zinn’s who made the leadgift endowing the Howard Zinn Lectureship Fund, eloquently introducesZinn, and Maureen Strafford (MED’76), MacDonald’s wife, adds some finalwords.
A question-and-answer session follows the lecture.
November 2, 2006, 7 p.m.
Tsai Performance Center
About the speaker:
HowardZinn, a professor emeritus of political science at Boston University,a historian, and a war critic, is the author of A People’s History of theUnited States, a book both lauded and derided for telling Americanhistory from the perspective of minorities, immigrants, laborers, andothers Zinn feels had been excluded from traditional textbooks.
Bornin Brooklyn to Jewish immigrants, the former shipyard worker was abombardier in World War II, attended New York University on the G.I.Bill, and taught at the all-black women’s Spelman College from 1956until 1963, when he was fired for encouraging students to fightsegregation. Zinn taught at BU from 1964 until his retirement in 1988.
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