Professor Howard Zinn 1922-2010

America has lost a great progressive with the passing of Professor Howard Zinn. Professor Zinn was an anti war activist, American historian, author, playwright and Professor of Political Science at Boston University. Zinn was active in the Civil Rights movement and lobbied "to end the practice of the Southern Historical Association of holding meetings at segregated hotels."

Zinn wrote one of the earliest books calling for with drawl from Vietnam. VietNam: The Logic of Withdrawal was published in 1967 by Beacon Press. Zinn was a member of the Advisory Board of the Disarm Education Fund.

Zinn opposed the invasion and occupation of Iraq and wrote extensively about it.

Zinn died January 27th and said he would like to be remembered "for introducing a different way of thinking about the world, about war, about human rights, about equality," and "for getting more people to realize that the power which rests so far in the hands of people with wealth and guns, that the power ultimately rests in people themselves and that they can use it. At certain points in history, they have used it. Black people in the South used it. People in the women's movement used it. People in the anti-war movement used it. People in other countries who have overthrown tyrannies have used it".