You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train by Howard Zinn Reading Group

Start: Monday, April 28, 202506:30 PM

End: Monday, April 28, 202508:30 PM

Our reading group will empower and inspire you in these difficult times!

No reading is needed to attend this first reading group.

If you’re both overcome and angered by the atrocities of our time, this will inspire a “new generation of activists and ordinary people who search for hope in the darkness” (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor).

We will read out loud parts of the book in a large group, break into groups of 3 or 4 for discussion and also have large group discussion.

All are Welcome!

This is a space for community and connection.

Howard Zinn—activist, historian, and author of A People’s History of the United States—was a participant in and chronicler of some of the landmark struggles for racial and economic justice in US history. In his memoir, You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train, Zinn reflects on more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from his teenage years as a laborer in Brooklyn to teaching at Spelman College, where he emerged in the civil rights movement as a powerful voice for justice. A former bombardier in World War II, he later became an outspoken antiwar activist, spirited protestor, and champion of civil disobedience. Throughout his life, Zinn was unwavering in his belief that “small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.”