I hope everyone had a good Fourth of July! I spent mine reacquainting myself with Howard Zinn, which is an extremely patriotic use of a patriotic holiday. If you haven’t read his A People’s History of the United States, (you should and) the thrust of his argument is that it’s the people who have driven change and progress in this country. The powerful have tried for stasis, and over and over again, the people haven’t let them get away with it. Laborers formed unions; former slaves kept talking and fighting until people listened; women organized and marched and starved themselves…
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