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To: GlennBeck08
You encouraged me to delve a bit more

Until 1999, DSA hosted the website of the Progressive Caucus. Following a subsequent expose of the link between the two entities, the Progressive Caucus established its own website under the auspices of Congress. But DSA and the Progressive Caucus remain intimately linked. All 58 Progressive Caucus members also belong to DSA. In addition to these members of Congress

In the wake of 9/11, DSA characterized the terror attacks as acts of retaliation for American-perpetrated global injustices. "We live in a world," said DSA, "organized so that the greatest benefits go to a small fraction of the world's population while the vast majority experiences injustice, poverty, and often hopelessness. Only by eliminating the political, social, and economic conditions that lead people to these small extremist groups can we be truly secure."

Annual fees for membership in DSA range from $15 to $60 per year. DSA raises additional funds via sales made through its online Book Shop, which features dozens of titles by leftist authors

On one of them:
In the closing days of the election race he endorsed Barack Obama, after initially urging voters to vote for third-party candidate Ralph Nader in states that were solidly Democratic.

Howard Zinn is an award-winning historian, political scientist, playwright, activist, lecturer, and prominent anti-war critic.

He is also Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Boston University (which I find ironic)

Kicker about this article is it is Al Jazeera

Howard Zinn on Barack Obama

I will continue this until I have those names!

116 posted on 01/26/2010 10:49:10 PM PST by JustPiper (testing...testing...testing Coming to America)
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I JUST posted on him yesterday

Howard Zinn has died at 86

http://howardzinn.org/default/


168 posted on 01/28/2010 1:36:23 AM PST by JustPiper
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