Khury Petersen-Smith: Above all, Galeano was committed to remembering. His defense of what Howard Zinn called “people’s history” was key to understanding a world that begs to be changed. As Galeano wrote in 1982, “I believe in memory not as a place of arrival but as a point of departure–a catapult throwing you into present times, allowing you to imagine the future instead of accepting it.” More here.