Howard Zinn was a member of the Advisory Board of the National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case.
He was not alone in being a great historian, nor was he alone in
> being a fearless organizer and activist, but he was alone in being both at
> the same time. He was, for me, a person for whom there were no convenient
> labels. His commitment was to human beings, to their daily and lifetime
> experiences. Justice was not an abstraction for Zinn, but a necessary
> condition in the life of people seeking food, warmth, freedom. Like Whitman,
> his ideology was compassion. And, like Tom Paine, his patriotism was an
> energetic outreach to ordinary people to affirm their love of country, not
> through docility, but through dissent from policies driven by greed,
> pathological prejudice and imperial ambition. It is customary to say of such
> a man that it will be a long time before another like him comes our way.
> Zinn would dispute that, and would argue that many others like him are
> already on their way.

David Alman,

President, National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case