Howard Zinn, Paul Potter, Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King Jr., Fred Hampton, Bobby Seale, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, Huey P. Newton, Wamsutta James, Jerry Rubin, H. Rap Brown, Connie Matthews, Karla Jay, Mario Savio, Gregory Calvert, Russell Means, Jarvis Teiner, Carl Oglesby, Eldridge Cleaver, Ossie Davis, Michael Ferber, John Lewis, Jane Fonda, James Forman, Dr. George Wald, Betty Friedan, Fannie Lou Hamer, Tom Hayden, David Hilliard, Denise Levertov, Abbie Hoffman, Julius Lester, Benjamin Spock, Milton Sacks, and on, and on, etc.
The Port Huron Project is a series of reenactments of protest speeches from the New Left movements of the 1960s and '70s. Each event takes place at the site of the original speech, and is delivered by a performer to an audience of invited guests and passers-by. Videos, audio recordings, and photographs of these performances are presented in various venues and distributed online and on DVD as open-source media.
Feel free to e-mail any comments or speech suggestions to PortHuronProject@Gmail.com.
Part of Creative Time's 2008 public art initiative
Democracy in America: The National Campaign
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Port Huron Project 6: Let Another World Be Born
Based on a speech originally given on April 15, 1967 by Stokely Carmichael Where: Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, NYC When:Saturday, September 6th, 2008, 12NOON (rain date September 7, 5 pm) Presented by CREATIVE TIME
.. Port Huron Project 4: We Too Are Responsible
Based on a speech originally given on May 2, 1971 by César Chávez When: Saturday, July 19, 2008, 6:00 PM Where:
South Lawn, Exposition Park, Downtown Los Angeles
Presented by CREATIVE TIME with LACE
Port Huron Project 5: The Liberation of Our People
Based on a speech originally given on November 12, 1969 by Angela Davis Where:DeFremery Park, Oakland When:Saturday, August 2, 2008, 6:00 PM (rain date August 3) Presented by CREATIVE TIME with the Oakland Museum of California
Port Huron Project 3: We Must Name the System
When: Thursday, July 26, 6:00 PM (rain date July 27)
Where: The National Mall, a few yards North of the Washington Monument, Washington, D.C.
Paul Potter, former director of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), originally delivered this renowned speech at the April 17, 1965 March on Washington. Potter offers an insightful critique of our government’s use of the rhetoric of freedom to justify war, and calls for citizens of the United States to create a massive social movement to build a “democratic and humane society in which Vietnams are unthinkable.”
Port Huron Project 2: The Problem is Civil Obedience
When: Saturday, July 14, 5:00 PM (rain date July 15)
Where: Brewer Fountain on Boston Common, about 100 feet West of Park Street Station.
Public reenactment of a speech originally given by author and activist Howard Zinn at a peace rally on May 5, 1971. In this stirring speech, Zinn defended the use of civil disobedience to protest the war in Vietnam and called on Congress to impeach the president and vice president of the United States for the high crime of waging war on the people of Southeast Asia.
Port Huron Project 1: Until the Last Gun Is Silent
When: September 16, 2006
Where: Mineral Springs Field, Central Park, New York City
This event reenacted a speech given by Coretta Scott King at a peace march in Central Park on April 27, 1968, three weeks after her husband, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated. The speech, which was based on notes found in the late Dr. King's pockets, addressed the war in Vietnam, domestic poverty, and the power of women to effect social change. Gina Brown, a New York-based actor and former welfare mother, delivered the speech.
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From one friend of Howard Zinn to another — Thanks for adding me. ¶ People hear only what they want, so facts alone won't wake them; they need inspiration too. ¶ This world's evils have a common root: Bullies, liars, thieves, murderers — in market, government, & elsewhere — believe we're all separate, motivated only by self-interest, greed, fear. They want us to share that belief. They use it to justify themselves, to keep us apart, to shape the world's political & economic systems, perpetuating war & poverty. Their power comes not so much from cabals as from incessant propaganda that we hardly notice, implicit in the background assumptions of tv & newspapers. ¶ But you & I have found a better light inside ourselves & our friends. It's in everyone, if we can just wake them; we're all one flesh & blood. Let's spread that vision, for until we do our other advances will be minor & temporary. Theists & atheists alike, let us sing of our brotherhood. ¶ Peace & communication are one subject, not two, & no one can know that subject perfectly until we all do. To teach anyone anything, you must lead them out of the maze of their preconceptions; but that means they must teach you their maze, which requires leading you out of yours! ¶ The outcome of the ideological struggle is not yet determined, so no one can afford to be just a spectator. Join the movement, if you haven't already: get involved in whatever way feels right for you. We must all learn from one another; each of us knows only part of the song. Question authority. Keep fighting, loving, hoping, singing. Hand in hand, we may still be able to heal this world. ¶ The flag of the USA, once a symbol of democracy & freedom, has now come to stand for plutocracy, consumerism, imperialism. Small flags are being sold in grocery stores, in anticipation of July 4. I'll wear mine upside down. ¶ Peace, love, hope, revolution. More details on my web page. — Eric
hey everybody guess what, theWUN is up and running at our homepage and waiting for you to join us there, i intend for these forums to remain open and active as long as myspace doesn't bother them, but we've finally got a center of operations which isn't on Myspace, and i say thank God for that. Please tell your friends, as Myspace might just delete us before i get to even tell all of ours, you never know and that's the problem with Myspace WorldUnificationNetwork. ning. com WorldUnificationNetwork. com and WorldUnificationNetwork. org (all go to the same place!)- Join Us!
Yours Truly, dcb (wun creator and webmaster) myspace. com/oscarakachris P.S. Its going to take me almost 2 months (!) to invite all of our friends from myspace to this new place, so i would very much appreciate you taking time to sign up @ WorldUnificationNetwork. org just so its easier to contact you, we're not very much of a network without you! P.S.S. That also means that once i've invited everyone i'm going to assume that if you want to keep updated about what we're doing then you'll join us because it litterally takes forever (well it feels like it) to contact you all the "old fashioned" aka myspace way...
Meet at the Rock - 6pm (Michigan State University Campus on Farm Lane across from Bessey Hall)
March to Veterinary Medical Center (Griffin will speak in E100 Vet Med Center)
Community Speak Out - 7pm In front of the Vet Med Center
Nick Griffin, holocaust denier and leader of the fascist British National Party (BNP) will be speaking on campus to promote a racist agenda and divide our university and community.
THE POLITICS OF THE BNP ARE PART OF AN INTERNATIONAL TREND OF RACISM AFFECTING BOTH AMERICA AND EUROPE
We reject this xenophobic speaker and feel the need to speak out against him. Join us!
Be sure to join in the national mobilization against the war THIS SATURDAY (OCT. 27): http://www.oct27.org/ [Personally I'm in Denver]
¡Revolución y Solidaridad - Palestina, Iraq, Irán, y el Mundo!
Los amigos americanos de Presidente Chavez y la Revolución en inglés... ---- Americans for Chavez http://www.americans-for-chavez.com Bolivarian Circle 'Chief Tierra Blanca'
Kevin Carter’s 1994 Pulitzer prize winning photo of a vulture waiting for a child to die, so that it will eat it epitomizes not only the hunger crises in Sudan but also in the whole of Africa. (Photo source: Pulitzer)
Thanks for supporting our cause! 4 months to go!! We hope you can join us next year, for a block, a mile or a marathon. See you in 2008 in mind or body.
I want to thank everyone for the great response to this campaign. Many thousands of you have acted, told friends, printed out flyers and handed them out at events. And now, today is the day for action! Visit www.house.gov and www.senate.gov. Find out how to contact your senators and representatives. Get their mailing addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, -- whatever your preference.
Write a letter telling Congress that you demand they impeach Bush and Cheney.
Así como el aire es la atmósfera del cuerpo, así el tiempo es la atmósfera de la mente; Si el tiempo en el que vivimos consiste en meses y días irregulares regularizados por minutos y horas mecanizadas, en eso se convierte nuestra mente: UNA IRREGULARIDAD MECANIZADA. Ya que todo viene de la mente, no es de extrañarse que la atmósfera en la que vivimos diariamente se vea más contaminada y la gran queja es: "no tengo suficiente tiempo" Quien posee tu tiempo, posee tu mente. Posee tu propio tiempo y conocerás a tu propia mente"
What you guys are doing is really great, and valuable both from an activist point of view and from a cultural point of view. So many things wrong today were correctly identified in the past, what you're doing is so valuable. Thanks, and I look forward to coming out to a reading soon.
thought for the day... so i finally got a jizzob!yep today was the first day of work. got a job at jostens stuffin envelops n puttin pappers threw a machine, pretty easy n after i do the same thing over n over agian for so long my mind starts to wonder, well as the day went on it started rainin n stormin n i started thinkin about how much im gonna hate workin inside every night, night went on an i started thinking more n more about the millions of papers i was puttin into these envelops n machines, all together about atleast 20,000 letters, which is alot of papers in each, well than i got to wondering why are these not recycled????????????????????? hmmmmmmmmmm thought about it for awhile n then thought even if the letters they used to send to other buisness's where recycled wouldnt that make alot of other buisness's think twice? wouldnt it save cost's for the buisness? what if people that worked at these buisness's that cared about the tree's they hug sent out recycled letter's to there work place or friends work place telling them n makin em relize hey you, your killin our tree's!would they not also rather have a world filled with tree's than a world filled with buildings n smoke filled sky's? thought about it some more n know that it could also have a very bad down side if not used to the best of it's knowlege or however you spell it. save the world yet create hell in our own eyes, because yes it is very possable the more we avoid it. sooooooooooooooooooooo, only using this an putting this to the most positive way possable,knowing every side effect it could have, negative concequences for those that jus always do befor looking, i warn that with one solution you have to follow with many more, so as a start to a solution, all i have to say is go out buy some recycled paper, write a letter on it or leave it blank what ever
