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![Howard Zinn: Resistance and the Role of Artists](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 2/6/2004Call Number: CD 305Format: CDProducers: Alternative RadioProgram: ZINH32Collection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Artists have always been on the cutting edge of society. They are the innovators as well as the seers. Go back to Aeschylus, the great 5th century BC Greek playwright who wrote "The Persians." This classic drama was a warning to the Greeks to not be consumed by the same arrogance that was undoing of the Persians. Power thinks it's infallible and eternal. Artists puncture holes in these illusions. Today, writers, musicians, poets, filmmakers, and actors like Michael Franti, Alice Walker, Danny Glover, Radiohead, Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon, Bonnie Raitt and many others challenge the political orthodoxy. For daring to speak out they incur the wrath and scorn of the super patriots that dominate the airwaves.
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