Selected testimonies to living history--speeches, letters, poems,
songs--offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left
out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions
to the original texts by Howard Zinn.
New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea
Manning, speaking after her 35-year prison sentence); Naomi Klein,
speaking from the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Liberty Square; a
member of Dream Defenders, a youth organization that confronts systemic
racial inequality; members of the Undocumented Youth movement, who
occupied, marched, and demonstrated in support of the DREAM Act; a
member of the Day Laborers movement; Chicago Teachers Union strikers;
and several critics of the Obama administration, including Glenn
Greenwald, on governmental secrecy.