I waited for the afternoon newspaper to arrive, The St. Louis Star-Times, flung like a grenade onto our porch. I opened it to see photos of starving P.O.W.s liberated from a prison camp somewhere far away, on an island far … Continue reading →

Submitted to the Boston Globe Op-Ed page Paul L. Atwood University of Massachusetts-Boston Monday, November 7th, 2011. I wrote a version of this op-ed piece and submitted it to the Boston Globe shortly after the Times article appeared. The Globe … Continue reading →

Paul L. Atwood This is an updated version of a lecture delivered October 21, 2010 at the Institute For the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI) University of California-Berkeley Monday, November 7th, 2011. The Great Recession is the worst economic crisis … Continue reading →

Travis Weiner Note: The author was currently enrolled as a student at UMass, Boston. Growing up I became fascinated from an early age with military history and military culture. Certainly, my family was not ‘traditionally’ patriotic-and we were not a … Continue reading →

-by Barry Brodsky In 1974, I found myself living in Brockton in a federally subsidized housing project called Battles Farm Village, going to UMass-Boston on the GI Bill, and working as a tenant organizer for a statewide housing organization. While … Continue reading →

-by Noam Chomsky,Resist Newsletter It is not easy for me to write a few words about Howard Zinn, the great American activist and historian who passed away a few days ago.  He was a very close friend for 45 years.  … Continue reading →

Larry Aaronson Former Chair of Social Studies Department Cambridge Rindge and Latin School “You wanna read a really good American History book? Read Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. I will knock your socks off!” -Will Hunting … Continue reading →

-Nguyen Ba Chung One of Howard Zinn’s signatures is the power of his words. He has the knack of delineating the most complicated issues in the simplest way possible, with humor and wit. For example – “There is no flag … Continue reading →

I met Etheridge Knight in the early eighties and met him slowly. Our mutual friend, the poet Robert Slater, had long since been urging me from Kansas City to give Etheridge a call, since I lived only forty miles from … Continue reading →