Others I missed while I was working through my lower middle-class American life, such as the Stonewall riots of 1969 that gave rise to the gay pride movement or the complicity of the American Pyschological Association in the design of torture methods at Abu Ghraib and Guantnamo. ![]() Some of the stories were quite familiar- Chelsey (then Bradley) Manning's release of the Collateral Murder video to Wiki-leaks via Julian Assange, Assange's exile, the Arab Spring inspired Occupy movement, Bree Newsome's lowering of the Confederate flag after the AME massacre in South Carolina. This is “an impassioned book aiming to fuel informed participation, outrage, and dissent” ( Kirkus Reviews).Īmy Goodman takes us on a twenty year journey through the perils and progress of activism for peace and justice throughout the world. 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. 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. 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. Today it is the largest public media collaboration in the US. 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. 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.
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