“in lieu of flowers, organize” « Letters from Grenada

“in lieu of flowers, organize”

“Howard Zinn didn’t want or need flowery eulogies. He wanted us to get out there and do the work he chronicled. In lieu of flowers, organize, document and tell the stories of that organizing so that others may, too, be inspired to do the same. That – and not a book on a coffee table – is the legacy of Howard Zinn. Like the song says, if you wanna go to heaven, you gotta raise a lotta hell.”

This quotation is an excerpt from The Field: Howard Zinn (1922-2010): In Lieu of Flowers, Organize. Click through and read the whole thing. There’s also video of Zinn being interviewed by Bill Moyers.

Howard Zinn and Bill Moyers in the same room is the kind of event that changes tides.