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Democracy Now!

Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America

by Amy Goodman
David Goodman
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A celebration of the revolutionary change Amy and David Goodman have witnessed during the two decades of their acclaimed television and radio news program Democracy Now!—and how small individual acts from progressive heroes have produced lasting results.
In 1996 Amy Goodman began hosting a show called Democracy Now! to focus on the issues and movements that are too often ignored by the corporate media. Today it is the largest public media collaboration in the US. This important book looks back over the past twenty years of Democracy Now! and the powerful movements and charismatic leaders who are re-shaping our world. Goodman takes us along as she goes to where the silence is, bringing out voices from the streets of Ferguson to Staten Island, Wall Street, and South Carolina to East Timor—and other places where people are rising up to demand justice.

Giving voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful, Democracy Now! pays tribute to those progressive heroes—the whistleblowers, the organizers, the protestors—who have brought about remarkable, often invisible change over the last couple of decades in seismic ways. This is "an impassioned book aiming to fuel informed participation, outrage, and dissent" (Kirkus Reviews).

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    April 12, 2016

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      • ISBN: 9781501123603
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      • ISBN: 9781501123603
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    • English

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    • Kirkus

      April 1, 2016
      A 20-year chronicle of a radio, TV, and Internet broadcast program whose mission has been to expose, defy, and edify. In 1996, award-winning journalist Amy Goodman (co-author: The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupation, Resistance, and Hope, 2012, etc.) began hosting Democracy Now!, a radio news hour on public broadcasting focused on the presidential race among Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, and Ross Perot. The show was slated to last nine months, ending with the election. Two decades later, it has emerged as an important source of news and analysis, broadcast on more than 1,400 public TV and radio stations around the world and on the Web. Goodman--with her co-authors, Mother Jones contributing writer David Goodman (co-author: Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times, 2008, etc.) and Democracy Now! contributor Moynihan--celebrates the program's "remarkable journey" with this angry, hard-hitting volume. From Clinton to the current presidential campaign, no politician escapes the authors' critique. They skewer the George W. Bush administration for lies that led America into a useless war and propelled us into the "endless war" that has followed. They condemn Barack Obama's reliance on drones, pointing to casualties among children and families. "Militant groups such as ISIS and Al Qaeda," the authors write, "couldn't have a more effective recruiting tool than the indiscriminate bombing and drone strikes by the United States." The authors also discuss military interventions; whistleblowers (Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, and Chelsea Manning merit praise) and the government's attempt to quash them; immigration policy; capital punishment; income inequality; responses to climate change; the "routine" indignities inflicted on gay men and lesbians and the brave LGBTQ resisters; police brutality and the nation's ineffectual and racist prison system; the Black Lives Matter movement; and the scandal of psychologists' sanctioning of torture. "Independent media is the oxygen of democracy," the authors assert. An impassioned book aiming to fuel informed participation, outrage, and dissent.

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