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Wallace Shawn Reads Howard Zinn's Speech on Civil Disobedience

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Actor Wallace Shawn reads the speech of historian Howard Zinn given at Johns Hopkins University on Civil Disobedience, November 1970. Part of a reading from Voices of a People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove,) May 2, 2007 in New York, NY

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