Message to Students, from Howard Zinn [View All]

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Message to Students, from Howard Zinn
Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 2006-01-31 08:18. Activism
World Can't Wait

I remember vividly how important it was during the Vietnam War that
students all over the country spoke up boldly calling for the United
States to withdraw from Vietnam, even when neither the media nor the
Congress had come to that position. But what the students did was to put
withdrawal on the agenda, compel the rest of the country to consider it,
and as the truth about the war became more and more clear others joined,
the movement spread, and policy changed.

Today, there is a similar crisis, and the removal of the Bush
administration from power, putting impeachment on the agenda, putting
withdrawal on the agenda, is a matter of saving lives, American and
Iraqi lives. In this developing situation, students can play a critical
role, as they have at other times in history. My hope is that students
will join the actions taking place around the State of the Union, to
demonstrate that the state of the union is perilous with this
administration in charge, and the Bush cabal which has taken power must
be compelled to step down. As the Declaration of Independence said so
forcefully, when governments no longer fulfill their requirement to
safeguard life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, they have lost their
legitimacy and must be removed from power.

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