Voices of a People's History of the United States in the 21st Century - Documents of Hope and Resistance

Informationen zum Autor ANTHONY ARNOVE is the editor of several books, including, with Howard Zinn, Voices of a People’s History of the United States and Terrorism and War . He wrote the introduction for the thirty-fifth anniversary edition of Zinn’s classic book A People’s History of the United States . Arnove cofounded the nonprofit education and arts organization Voices of a People’s History of the United States, wrote, directed, and produced the documentary The People Speak , and has directed stage and television versions of The People Speak in Dublin with Stephen Rea, in London with Colin Firth, and across the United States with various arts groups including Lincoln Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Sundance Film Festival. He produced the Academy Award–nominated documentary Dirty Wars . Arnove is on the editorial boards of Haymarket Books and Tempestmag.org and is the director of Roam Agency, where he represents authors including Arundhati Roy and Noam Chomsky. He lives in Hopewell, New Jersey. HALEY PESSIN is a socialist activist living in Queens, New York. They have participated in struggles against police brutality and mass incarceration, in solidarity with Palestine, in defense of abortion rights and reproductive justice, and as a legal service worker and union delegate for 1199SEIU (Service Employees International Union). Pessin has spoken at conferences in Switzerland, Australia, Ireland, Quebec, and throughout the United States on the struggle for Black liberation. Their writing has appeared in New Politics and at Tempestmag.org, where they currently serve on the editorial board. Klappentext "In this book, editors Anthony Arnove and Haley Pessin, curate voices of resistance and hope from 2000 to the present, inspired by the original Voices of a People's History of the United States. The book features speeches, essays, songs, and documents from Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, indigenous struggles, the environmental movement, disability justice organizers, and frontline workers during the global pandemic who spoke out against the life-threatening conditions of their labor. Gathering 120 documents from across the country and including contributions from Angela Y. Davis, Naomi Klein, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Ayo Tometi, Colin Kaepernick, Walter Mosley, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Amy Goodman, Nick Estes, Linda Sarsour, Marc Lamont Hill, Eve Ensler, Rebecca Solnit, Rev. William Barber and others, this book offers resources of hope for those seeking to understand our recent history so they can better understand how to change it"-- Leseprobe Introduction This project continues work by Howard Zinn (1922–2010) in the book Voices of a People’s History of the United States and, before that, A People’s History of the United States, first published in 1980. In both books, Howard took inspiration and distilled critical lessons from countless people who worked to challenge oppression, exploitation, and injustice, participating in social movements that brought about changes many did not live to see in their own lifetime. Howard understood the power of listening to how these voices speak to our present and provide, in the words of Raymond Williams, “resources of hope.” The book Voices of a People’s History of the United States has three editions. Howard worked on the first edition, published in 2004, and an updated second edition, published in 2009. For the third edition, published in 2014, Anthony Arnove updated the book with selections from the period after Howard’s death in 2010, seeking to foreground voices that spoke to Howard’s passions and concerns. In beginning work on a fourth edition, especially inspired by the remarkable upsurge of activism for Black lives and liberation, which galvanized perhaps the largest protests in US history, our publisher, Dan Simon of Seven Stories Press, suggested a bold and comp...

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• Authors: Anthony Arnove, Haley Pessin
• Publisher: Seven stories press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.04.2023
• EAN: 9781644212974
• ISBN: 978-1-64421-297-4
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 223 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous