"I am for Stanley Aronowitz because someone must speak the truth. Someone must say: Ours is a country of enormous wealth. We can use that wealth to guarantee to every American free medical care, decent housing, work at a living wage, child care and nurseries, clean air and clean water. We have had class warfare in this country for a very long time, not between the Democratic and Republican parties, but a war waged by both parties against the vast majority of the American people --against mothers trying to raise families, against people of color, against immigrants. Whether Democrats or Republicans are in power, corporate power will dominate the country, the military-industrial establishment will be in power, the war against the poor will continue. We need to vote for people like Aronowitz and the Green Party, someone who will still be fighting for us after election day."Dr. Howard Zinn is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Boston University. Zinn is a champion of the notion that historical change occurs more through mass movements of ordinary people than through the wisdom and insight of so-called Great Men. Professor Zinn argues that it is the social responsibility of the historian to do work that will help solve the conflicts humans face. His well-known A People's History of the United States 1492- Present, which has sold more than 400,000 copies, tells American history from the point of view of the powerless and disenfranchised, those whose circumstances are usually omitted from history books.
