Howard Zinn on the Ludlow Massacre
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- Опубликовано: 5 ноя 2024
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IN THIS SCENE: Dr. Zinn discusses how Woody Guthrie's song "The Ludlow Massacre" drove him to investigate this event for himself.
ABOUT THE FILM: In these turbulent times, Howard Zinn is inspiring a new generation. This acclaimed film looks at the amazing life of the renowned historian, activist and author. Following his early days as a shipyard labor organizer and bombardier in World War II, Zinn became an academic rebel and leader of civil disobedience in a time of institutionalized racism and war. His influential writings shine light on and bring voice to factory workers, immigrant laborers, African Americans, Native Americans and the working poor.
Featuring rare archival materials and interviews with Zinn and colleagues such as Noam Chomsky, You Can't Be Neutral captures the essence of this extraordinary man who has been a catalyst for progressive change for more than 60 years.
Narrated by Matt Damon. Featuring music by Pearl Jam, Woody Guthrie & Billy Bragg!
I grew up in Colorado, but I never learned about this until I became a socialist. It's appalling how labor history has been erased from American schools. Then again, it makes perfect sense. The rich and powerful have undue and unearned influence over what's taught, and why would they want what's taught to be against their interests?
Socialism only workin in your head
@@TR3sniPEr actually socialists have helped activists create labor laws that protect workers , universal healthcare, minimum wage, unions, the weekend, civil rights, social security, and a plethora of other achievements. But keep living in ignorance.
You don't have to be a Socialist to figure this out.
I hope one day a dramatic film will be made about this event. I would make one if I knew how!
The history of American labor began with indentured servitude and then slavery along with about half of new colonists coming completely free of any servitude. With the industrial revolution, home craft and small farms gave way to factories and corporations more interested in profit than treating labor well with safe working conditions and profit sharing. It took organizing to improve conditions and the 1938 Fair Labor Practices Act to insure reasonable work hours, safer standards, overtime pay, vacation leave, workmen's comp, etc. All Americans benefited except for the capitalists at the top. Ludlow help pave the way for this change that we all have become used to and created a heroine named Frances Perkins. We owe a debt of gratitude to those killed at Ludlow and the many who worked 12 to 16 hour days 6 days per week and had the temerity to complain about it.
"Will work for scrips."
Hopefully, the American people will never get tossed into communities run by big businesses, all the while eventually but assuredly finding their basic human freedoms denied to them one by one.
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When you come to Ludlow off I-25, the site is so lonely. George McGovern's "Great Coalfield War" is an excellent resource, but lest we forget, other innocents besides the people at Ludlow: more Pinkertons, militia, and mining company personnel died during this strike than died at Ludlow, both before & after Easter 1913.
I spent life doing dirty work big corporation we work them till their bodies give out toss them out replace them no sympathy after all “it is only business” all of our top management guys no women became millionaires or very well off and the working stiffs live on Social Security which now they want to cut back the payments they paid into - Thank God I was born just right still young the middle of the baby boomers with all the advantages I try and help and will to the end to redeem myself
The enemy always stands in the own country.
There is only one mother of all wars: The class war.
All the Costa's that were murderd there were my relatives.
RIP Howard Zinn
thank you
Amen brother!
is this ludlow, massachusetts? o_O
because Ive never heard of the ludlow massacre, but all the things they talk about apply to the ludlow where I live
Ludlow was one of numerous tent colonies in Western Colorado where striking coal miners sought housing after going on strike. They had previously lived in squalor in company housing, that is to say housing provided by the mining companies, where they were paid in company credit (called "scrip") that was only good for company stores. This practice of monopolizing every aspect of your workers' existence is known as industrial paternalism. It's a way to prevent organization and empowerment.
He's also an unabashed critic against state backing of corporations (or anyone).
You have to realize that real conservatism is NOT what the current republican platform suggests. Bush, 2008 candidates, and democrats, too, are socialsts. It means they all think the government should have control, citizens are awarded privileges that can be revoked.
Our constitution, and all the political writing of that time, tried so hard to prevent this from happening. Please read it.
details are lackin'
Notice in the song how the Govt didn't raise a finger to help or investigate the massacre. That's because Govt is the problem and not the solution.
Yes, because the song is just a song, and not the full history. You can't take folk tradition at face value as a representation of actual historical fact. And actually, big business in the form of the Rockefellers, who owned Standard Oil and CF&I, bribed local authorities and bought them off. The issue wasn't the government, but rather capitalist interests infiltrating the government on the local level for their own benefit, then circumventing the enforcement of state and federal law. And President Wilson eventually sent in the army to put an end to the violence, at which point the strikers and the mining company employees had both contributed to, but there weren't really any great strives forward to protect workers' rights on the state and national level without governmental intervention. What little progress did occur happened because of governmental action to protect people in spite of what the corporations wanted. Also, there were over 5000 pages of investigative documents relating just to the Ludlow Massacre, and even more relating to the conditions of the miners (both in the actual mines and in the company towns).
To all the socialists below..leave America. We are capitalists and love freedom. If you want socialism go to Russia or even France or the US.
Socialists also can't spell. "Furthermore" is one word. "Legitimize" is spelled with a z. I won't even attempt the rest. Just too many.
Long live freedom, capitalism and America!
You know you contradicted yourself. You said "To all the socialists below..leave America. Then you said, " If you want socialism go to Russia or even France or the US."
The US, aka America.
You mean the freedom to get shot to bits and burned up by the capitalists?
But not leftist rhetoric. That's flowing freely here.