Happy Birthday, Howard Zinn!
Date and Time
Aug 24, 2014 6:00 pm
Location
Hyattsville
5331 Baltimore Ave, Hyattsville, Maryland, 20781
Aug 24, 2014 6:00 pm
Hyattsville
Today - August 24 - would have been the 92nd birthday of the great historian and activist Howard Zinn, in which our private event space at Hyatttsville is named in honor of.
Join us for a free film screening of THE PEOPLE SPEAK, based on Howard Zinn's bestselling books, particularly "A People's History of the United States."
Producer Matt Damon, who grew up next door to the history professor, starts by reading from the Declaration of Independence, followed by other notables, among them Morgan Freeman (as Frederick Douglass), David Strathairn (John Brown), Marisa Tomei (Harriet Hanson Robinson), Sean Penn (Kevin Tillman, the brother of Pat Tillman), and coproducer Josh Brolin (Mark Twain). Others include Viggo Mortensen, Danny Glover, Kerry Washington, Benjamin Bratt, Rosario Dawson, and Don Cheadle, most of whom play several parts.
Like Howard Zinn's work as a whole, THE PEOPLE SPEAK celebrates the extraordinary possibilities for creating social change that ordinary people have realized throughout the course of our nation s rich but often ignored history of dissent and protest.
