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Together, their words remind us that history is made not only by the rich and powerful, but by ordinary people taking collective action. Manning, Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald, Julian Brave NoiseCat, H. Burke, Dream Defenders, Sins Invalid, Mariame Kaba, Naomi Klein, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Linda Sarsour, Chelsea E. William Barber, Bree Newsome, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Tarana J. Davis, Nick Estes, Colin Kaepernick, Rebecca Solnit, Christian Smalls, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Howard Zinn, Rev. Included in this new book are writings by Angela Y. A new companion to the classic collection edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove, Voices of a People’s History of the United States in the 21st Century brings together more than 100 activist texts on social and economic justice that have shaped the last 22 years. The editors, Arnove and Pessin, offer a curated collection of voices of hope and resistance from Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, the struggle for Indigenous liberation, activist groups for immigrant rights, environmentalist movements, disability justice organizing, and frontline workers during the global pandemic who spoke out against the life-threatening conditions of their labor. In this excerpt, originally published as an op-ed in Tallahassee Democrat, Rita Lasar, a founding member of September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, offers a personal account of the devastation caused by the attacks on September 11, 2001, which took the life of her younger brother, to argue for the United States to become a state that exists in concert with and as a partner to the rest of the world, rather than in opposition to it. With the forthcoming publication of Voices of a People’s History of the United States in the 21st Century, a new collection edited by Anthony Arnove and Haley Pessin, we are proud to share a series of excerpts from the book, which will be published individually each week on the Seven Stories blog until the book's release. “To Avoid Another September 11, United States Must Join the World” by Rita Lasar