January 2011
10 posts
A Year On. ¡Zinn Presente!
For the last year, on every page of History Is A Weapon, we’ve featured the above image as a memorial to Howard Zinn, the wonderful historian who passed away a year ago today.
Zinn’s impact lives on. In Amazon.com’s Democracy best sellers list, he’s ranked at #2, #3, and #5. The People Speak, the History Channel special about his Voices of a People’s History, did...
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We’re leaving Tumblr soon. The downtime has become to much of a nuisance. Be prepared to update your rss feeds.
Too many activists pretend they are carpenters for future cities while simply landlording over housefires.
What're the best links you got?
So recently on metafilter, there was a post about how there isn’t really a left wing blogosphere so much as a liberal blogosphere and a certain radical history website realized that it hasn’t updated its link page in about, oh, seven decades. So, have at it yall, what’re the good websites we should share? We want to update the old directory and our categories are as...
Added A Historical Survey of Organizations of the... →
Added “A Historical Survey of Organizations of the Left Among the Chinese in America” by H. M. Lai. It’s a great piece (recommended by someone at the Kasama project), but I’m adding it with some consternation because I’m sure there are some serious typos in here. (But it took a few months to get it this far….) If you see any typos, please send them along.
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Posted Carl Wittman's Refugees from Amerika: A Gay...
Posted Carl Wittman’s Refugees from Amerika: A Gay Manifesto
Weird Research tidbit of the day
I knew Comedian Jon Stewart’s brother is the Chief Operating Officer of the New York Stock Exchange, but, in addition, the head of Conan O’Brien’s production company is David Kissinger, son of supreme war criminal, Henry Kissinger (AKA America’s Hitler).
EDIT: Okay, we have been corrected. We stated that Kissinger was America’s Hitler, but apparently, a long time...