Voices of a People's History of the United States

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Selected testimonies to living history-speeches, letters, poems, songs-offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn. New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, speaking after her 35-year prison sentence), Naomi Klein, speaking from the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Liberty Square, a member of Dream Defenders, a youth organization that confronts systemic racial inequality, members of the Undocumented Youth movement, who occupied, marched, and demonstrated in support of the DREAM Act, a member of the Day Laborers movement, Chicago Teachers Union strikers, and several critics of the Obama administration, including Glenn Greenwald, on governmental secrecy.