> So, thinking about this, maybe build a course around Zinn's book, and
> show how people make history to better their conditions. It's a pretty
> simple story, it is a great positive message, and it is something that
> seems possible.
>
> Also, what I found in causal `organizing' that local history is even
> more compelling. The Studs Terkel thing. Did you know, your great
> grandmother, led a march of women, the mothers, wives, and daughters on
> coal company meeting to ... It makes the little guy autobiography the
> central force of events---and that is pretty much the point. Get your
> head right, these guys are fucking you.
Don't forget Chomsky as a gateway drug.
-- Andy