razorcake:

This interview originally ran in Razorcake #6 and is in honor of the memory of Howard Zinn (1922-2010)

A strange thing happens to you when you read A People’s History of the United States. You come out feeling optimistic. You feel that, even if you can’t change the world, you can change some things in some small way. Beyond that, though, you feel like all of the people around you could do the same. You start recognizing the overworked, frazzled teller at the local Bank of America as a woman with all the strength and potential of the women in the Lowell textile strikes. You start to pay more attention to things like full-time UPS workers risking everything to help get benefits for part-time workers. You see how that relates to you, how striking UPS workers are one more step on the same path that brought us healthcare benefits, minimum wage, and child labor laws. You understand clearly that the people who bring positive change in our lives are not the President of the country or the CEO of large corporations. Positive change comes from the common people who stand back up every time they get pushed down.

 

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you should fucking read this.