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MATT DAMON on ELITE & NWO - Amazing Speech On This Evil World (Original Post)
wildbilln864
Jul 2015
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zeemike
(18,998 posts)1. Kick it and recomend it...he is right.
Warpy
(111,466 posts)2. Well done, Matt Damon
It's a fitting sequel to "why I'm not going to work for XYZ government agency" in "Good Will Hunting."
proverbialwisdom
(4,959 posts)3. FYI: Damon is reading a speech by Howard Zinn.
Matt Damon from Howard Zinn's speech: The Problem is Civil Obedience
Published on Nov 21, 2013
Matt Damon, a lifelong friend of Howard Zinn and his family, read excerpts from a speech Howard Zinn gave in 1970 as part of a debate on civil disobedience.
This performance was part of "The People Speak, Live!" with Matt Damon and Lupe Fiasco at the Metro in Chicago, on January 31, 2012, produced by Voices of a People's History (peopleshistory.us) in collaboration with Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival.
Here's what Howard Zinn writes about this speech in his introduction to the full piece in his book Voices of a People's History of the United States, written with Anthony Arnove and first published in 2004 by Seven Stories Press:
"In November 1970, after my arrest along with others who had engaged in a Boston protest at an army base to block soldiers from being sent to Vietnam, I flew to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore to take part in a debate with the philosopher Charles Frankel on civil disobedience. I was supposed to appear in court that day in connection with the charges resulting from the army base protest. I had a choice: show up in court and miss this opportunity to explain and practice my commitment to civil disobedience, or face the consequences of defying the court order by going to Baltimore. I chose to go. The next day, when I returned to Boston, I went to teach my morning class at Boston University. Two detectives were waiting outside the classroom and hauled me off to court, where I was sentenced to a few days in jail. Here is the text of my speech that night at Johns Hopkins."
rainy
(6,096 posts)6. I thought it sounded very much like
Howard Zinn
JackInGreen
(2,975 posts)4. DIG IT
go matt go!
merrily
(45,251 posts)5. I've been hoping that Damon will endorse Sanders.
As with Jon Stewart, Damon's mom is a teacher who thinks Duncan should stick his gospel of charter schools. The difference is that Stewart has been centrist for the most part while Damon has not. I think he grew up in Cambridge, MA whose civilians tend to skew liberal, despite JIM CROWley.
drynberg
(1,648 posts)7. Not Following Dictates of the State...when a higher law is to be obeyed is just and correct, however
The RWers are claiming this like they invented it...and it is fraught with problems. I do hear what Matt is saying and heartily agree, but that higher law is the key.
Farmbrook
(48 posts)8. He nailed it.
The problem today is civil obedience. The time is now for us to stand up against excessive greed.