<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body >At 5pm Central time today, listen (on line) to a read-in from Howard Zinn's "People's History of the United States"- coming from Purdue University in Indiana, where the Governor recently tried to ban Zinn's writing from use in schools.<div><br></div><div>More below. Watch at:</div><div> http://wearemany.org/zinn</div><br><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Ashley Smith <ashley05401@yahoo.com> <br>Date: 11/05/2013 07:39 (GMT-06:00) <br>To: ufpj-activist <ufpj-activist@lists.mayfirst.org>,v-mgj@lists.riseup.net,Vermont Peace <VTpeace@yahoogroups.com>,massaction-boston <massaction-boston@googlegroups.com>,unac-discussion@googlegroups.com,vtsf@lists.riseup.net <br>Subject: [ufpj-activist] Howard Zinn Read-In at Purdue University | WeAreMany.org <br> <br><br><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 14px;">***Forward Widely***</span></div><div><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass" ><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareUserContentTopClass" style="line-height: 14px !important; color: black !important; text-align: left !important;" applecontenteditable="true"><br></span><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareSharedContentClass" style="position: relative !important;" applecontenteditable="true"><a href="http://wearemany.org/zinn">http://wearemany.org/zinn</a> </span></span><div><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass" contenteditable="false"><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareSharedContentClass" style="position: relative !important;" applecontenteditable="true"><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass" contenteditable="false"><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareSharedContentClass" style="position: relative !important;" applecontenteditable="true"><div class="panel-pane pane-content-field pane-field-title " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><div class="inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="pane-content content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field field-type-text field-field-title" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2em;"><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-item odd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Howard Zinn Read-In at Purdue University</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="panel-separator" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"></div><div class="panel-pane pane-speakers " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><div class="inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="pane-content content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">With <a href="http://wearemany.org/bio/james-loewen" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">James Loewen</a>, <a href="http://wearemany.org/bio/staughton-lynd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Staughton Lynd</a>, <a href="http://wearemany.org/bio/anne-wright" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Anne Wright</a>, <a href="http://wearemany.org/bio/anthony-arnove" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Anthony Arnove</a>, <a href="http://wearemany.org/bio/alex-lichtenstein" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alex Lichtenstein</a> and <a href="http://wearemany.org/bio/jesse-hagopian" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jesse Hagopian</a></div></div></div><div class="panel-separator" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"></div><div class="panel-pane pane-node-body " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); position: static; z-index: auto;"><div class="inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="pane-content content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;">Tune in to watch live at 6PM ET on November 5th!</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;">In honor of historian Howard Zinn and all the ordinary people he celebrated in his work, on Tuesday November 5, scholars and activists from across the country will take part in a Read-in of Zinn's work on the campus of Purdue University and on campuses across the nation. The day marks the birthday of another fighter for social justice -- Indiana-born labor activist, Eugene Debs.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;">The idea for the event was sparked when the Associated Press reported that the current Purdue University President Mitch Daniels, in 2010 as Governor of Indiana, tried to censor and ban Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" from Indiana schools. When the news became a national scandal, many students, faculty, and citizens of Indiana had expressed deep concern over the news that the President of one of our great public universities would have attempted such censorship. 'The Zinn Read-in Committee' envisions the event to be a commemoration of academic freedom and a declaration of anti-censorship.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;">The event will also symbolize the ongoing fightback in the United States against the privatization of public education, attacks on teachers and teachers unions, and the need for real democracy in both schools and curriculum. Zinn's A People's History of the United States is an important text for understanding the history of underrepresented populations; the fight for the right to teach this history is never separate from the fight to improve the material lives of students, teachers, minorities and workers around the world.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;">The Zinn Read-in Committee, encourages support for this event by any means possible.</p></div></div></div></span><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareUserContentBottomClass" style="line-height: 14px !important; color: black !important; text-align: left !important;" applecontenteditable="true"><br></span></span></div></div></body>