Howard Zinn's "The People Speak" to Air on History

Source: http://anarchismtoday.org/News/article/sid=161.html">AnarchismToday.org



On Sunday, December 13, at 8 PM Eastern and Pacific / 7 PM Central, THE PEOPLE SPEAK -- the long awaited documentary film inspired by Howard Zinn's books A People's History of the United States and, with Anthony Arnove, Voices of a People's History -- will air on History.

Using dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries and speeches of everyday Americans, the documentary feature film THE PEOPLE SPEAK gives voice to those who spoke up for social change throughout U.S. history, forging a nation from the bottom up with their insistence on equality and justice.

Narrated by acclaimed historian Howard Zinn and based on his best-selling books, A People's History of the United States and, with Anthony Arnove, Voices of a People's History, THE PEOPLE SPEAK illustrates the relevance of these passionate historical moments to our society today and reminds us never to take liberty for granted.

THE PEOPLE SPEAK is produced by Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Chris Moore, Anthony Arnove, and Howard Zinn, co-directed by Moore, Arnove and Zinn, and features dramatic and musical performances by Allison Moorer, Benjamin Bratt, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Chris Robinson, Christina Kirk, Danny Glover, Darryl "DMC" McDaniels, David Strathairn, Don Cheadle, Eddie Vedder, Harris Yulin, Jasmine Guy, John Legend, Josh Brolin, Kathleen Chalfant, Kerry Washington, Lupe Fiasco, Marisa Tomei, Martín Espada, Matt Damon, Michael Ealy, Mike O'Malley, Morgan Freeman, Q'orianka Kilcher, Reg E. Cathey, Rich Robinson, Rosario Dawson, Sandra Oh, Staceyann Chin, and Viggo Mortensen."

More info:

http://anarchismtoday.org/News/article/sid=161.html">AnarchismToday.org News

http://howardzinn.org">HowardZinn.org

http://www.history.com/content/people-speak">History.com: The People Speak

...at the same time, so that it's practically mandatory viewing for all of the clueless in this country.

They aired a version on Democracy Now! years ago. I have a version in Atoday's multimedia archive.

If you run a recent Firefox, or have java installed, or have flash installed, some version of it should play, provided I did the fallback correctly:

http://anarchismtoday.org/DF_Multimedia/page=watch/id=10.html">AnarchismToday.org Multimedia: Howard Zinn's Voices of a People's History of the United States

One of my all-time favorite episodes of one of the best shows on television. :)

-Andy

If your a little uncomfortable with visiting an anarchist site, there should be several versions at Democracy Now! as well:

http://www.democracynow.org/2007/5/28/stream

Watching now

Unfortunately, no cable/satellite. Oh, well...it should be out on DVD eventually.

Thanks for the heads-up, personman! :)

Can't wait to watch something good on TV!!!!

as others have said, looking forward to it--something decent on history channel for a change.

Maybe I'll give a heads up the day before, and a quick shout an hour or so before.