Howard Zinn, A Champion of the Oppressed

From the Boston Globe: 

 "Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and a leading faculty critic of BU president John Silber, died of a heart attack today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling, his family said. He was 87.

 "’His writings have changed the consciousness of a generation, and helped open new paths to understanding and its crucial meaning for our lives,’ Noam Chomsky, the left-wing activist and MIT professor, once wrote of Dr. Zinn. ‘When action has been called for, one could always be confident that he would be on the front lines, an example and trustworthy guide.’"

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Zinn was very supportive of World Can’t Wait and will be sorely missed by all who dream of, and fight for, a better world. 

See also "A Memory of Howard Zinn", by Daniel Ellsberg