A People's History of the United States: The Working Class

<img src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/usermedia/image/6/bell_fig02b.jpg" align="left" alt="" style="padding-right:2px;" /> <p>Flying Squirrel Community Space was home to a talk on Thursday September 9 hosted by Progressives In Action. The subject was “A People's History of the United States: The Working Class.” Brian Lenzo was the featured speaker. Lenzo is a regular contributor to the blog The Sitch (www.thesitch.com), a member of the International Socialist Organization, and accompanied a humanitarian mission to Gaza in 2009. But the talk was not about deplorable conditions is some far-off place. It was about conditions becoming deplorable for working Americans right here in Western New York. </p ><p> Much of the discussion referenced the work of the late Howard Zinn (1922-2010) A People's History of the United States. Zinn's purpose in writing the book was “to provide history not just to enrich your life but to give you the tools to deal with the struggles of today.” What can we learn from working class struggles in American history and apply it to today? First of all, that things have not changed as much as we might think, or as much as we would like.</p > <p><a href="/newsite/node/6933">Read Full Article</a></p>

<p><img src="http://rochester.indymedia.org/usermedia/image/6/bell_fig02b.jpg" align="left" alt="" style="padding-right:2px;" /> </p><p>Flying Squirrel Community Space was home to a talk on Thursday September 9 hosted by Progressives In Action. The subject was “A People's History of the United States: The Working Class.” Brian Lenzo was the featured speaker. Lenzo is a regular contributor to the blog The Sitch (<a href="http://www.thesitch.com">www.thesitch.com</a>), a member of the International Socialist Organization, and accompanied a humanitarian mission to Gaza in 2009. But the talk was not about deplorable conditions is some far-off place. It was about conditions becoming deplorable for working Americans right here in Western New York. </p> <p> Much of the discussion referenced the work of the late Howard Zinn (1922-2010) A People's History of the United States. Zinn's purpose in writing the book was “to provide history not just to enrich your life but to give you the tools to deal with the struggles of today.” What can we learn from working class struggles in American history and apply it to today? First of all, that things have not changed as much as we might think, or as much as we would like.</p> <p><a href="/newsite/node/6933">Read Full Article</a></p>