Howard Zinn spoke yesterday at the immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles in front of 1,400 people. Mr. Zinn is the author of “People’s History of the United States” the best-selling history book of all times. “If you don’t know history,” he says, “it’s like you were born yesterday.”

Being asked about the supermarket’s strike, Howard Zinn said that the struggle of the strikers to try to maintain their healthcare benefits should be everyone’s struggle. People should come together to support the strike and show solidarity with the supermarket workers.

Mr. Zinn said that he was not a big fan of the Democratic Party, but he urged people to vote for the democratic ticket anyway, at the next presidential election, to get rid of George Bush.

During the Q&A a woman congratulated Howard Zinn for being not only a lecturer of history, but also an activist who stands for peace and social justice.

i attended the event last nite. i was disappointed. i don't feel as if howard said anything radical or revolutionary what so ever. it seemed as if the audience was really comfortable with just laughing and applauding everytime he repeated slogan overtly used on liberal bumpersticks or in chants at ineffective marches across the country.

every piece of information he gave out is widely known about and pushed through popular leftist publications or poster signs. i think it is disheartening to see someone who has spent so much time on gathering history from the viewpoints of those of us who were left out (because of class, gender, sexuality or race) only to offer "vote for the democratic party to get bush out of office" as a priority for this "movement." Not once did he mention armed struggles in this country. He talked about occupations all over the world, but left out Palestine (hmmm). and not to mention, there is such a cult of personality principle within this enviornment. holding zinn up as if he is a celebrity to movement is stupid. the prices for the event were too expensive, and the room was lack the diversity of los angeles, of course.

a.d. if you were really there, you didn't listen well or you left to go on the potty for a few minutes. Zinn talked about Palestine not once but two or three time, and the public cheered him up a lot on one of his remark on Palestine.

Zinn doesn't care for the democratic party, but he doesn't want Bush in office again in 2004. I myself tend to disagree with him. History show that Democrats have done more harm than Republicans when it comes to foreign policy. WW II and Vietnam was started by Democrats.

that's quite strange, because, both my partner and myself immediately conversed with each other about how we felt after zinn's speaking at the church on sunday night and both picked up on him not mentioning Palestine... maybe we're crazy, but i was "actually there." and i didn't actually here him mention it, and give it the time we felt it was needed. please cue me in on where you remember that being a part of his speech... it is possible we missed it, yes.... but what about my criticisms regarding everything else?

and good call about disagreeing with the democratic vote as a tactic to get bush out. either way, it's still a snake.