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A couple of very informative interviews with both Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn from the UC Berkeley's "Conversations with History" series...

Howard Zinn See a webcast of this interview: Zinn 42 min.

1. Background ... observing his parents' lives ... reading Dickens ... life and scholarship intertwined ... becoming a radical by experience ... dissertation on LaGuardia
2. The Early Civil Rights Movement ... Spelman college ... learning black history ... watching democracy come alive
3. The Development of Social Movements ... unforeseen success
4. Experiencing War ... bombardier in World War II ... first use of napalm ... no questioning ... the myth of precision bombing ... no "good war"
5. History ... the omissions of history books ... examples: Columbus; Jacksonian democracy ... courage
6. Writing History ... clarity ... passion ... education through activism ... knowledge of history as empowerment
7. Conclusion ... cautious optimism ... the reason for learning ... engaging in the struggle

1. Background ... family influences ... his uncle and the New York newsstand ... Zionism ... Orwell ... the Spanish Civil War ... dread of fascism and palpable sense of anti-Semitism ... commentary by a ten-year-old
2. Anarchism and Power ... distinctiveness of U.S view... 19th century workers' movements and culture ... defining legitimate power ... burden of proof ... even for the powerless
3. Thinking about Power ... scientific inquiry and political questions ... the centrality of human freedom ... media control of the debate ... "concision" ... manufacturing consent ... the power to frame the issues
4. The U.S. Role in the World ... the case of Iraq ... the cases of Serbia and Turkey ... the case of Indonesia ....two kinds of intellectuals ... the case of Kosovo
5. Activism ... joining together ... changing consciousness ... the real heroes ... elementary moral principles ... courage ... the hard work