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An Evening With WBAIs Amy Goodman & David Goodman
Join WBAI Pacifica Radio and the Action for Justice Committee of the Community Church of New York for an evening with the award winning sister-brother team Amy Goodman and David Goodman for a talk about their new book, "Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times."
Where are the millions marching in the streets to defend human rights, civil liberties, and racial justice? Where is the mass revulsion against the killing and torture being carried out in our name? Where are the environmentalists? Where is the peace movement? The answer: They are everywhere. Amy and David traveled the country to detail the ways in which grassroots activists have taken politics out of the hands of politicians. Standing Up to the Madness tells the stories of everyday citizens who have challenged the government and prevailed and also offers advice on what you can do to help.
Amy, the internationally acclaimed journalist who hosts Democracy Now!, is the recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting, the George Polk Award, the Radio/Television News Directors' Award and awards from the AP and UPI. Her brother David is also an award-winning journalist, the author of six books and a contributing writer to Mother Jones Magazine. Together they have published "The Exception To the Rulers" and "Static," both bestsellers. Their new book - "Standing Up To the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times" - has already garnered terrific acclaim.
"Amy Goodman continues the quest for global justice and awareness by bringing us stories and a perspective that we don't normally get from the mainstream media." Danny Glover ... "At times when people are told to 'watch what they say,' Amy Goodman is not afraid to speak truth to power. She does it every day." Susan Sarandon ... the great muckraking tradition of Upton Sinclair, George Seldes, and I.F. Stone into the electronic age." Howard Zinn.
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Amy Goodman is an internationally acclaimed journalist and host of the daily grassroots global news hour Democracy Now!, which airs on more than 600 radio and TV stations around the world and on DemocracyNow.org. Democracy Now! is the largest media collaboration in North American public broadcasting. She has won many of the most prestigious awards in journalism, including the George Polk Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting.
David Goodman is an award-winning independent journalist, the author of seven books, and a contributing writer to Mother Jones. His articles have appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Outside, The Nation, and numerous other publications. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book Fault Lines: Journeys into the New South Africa. He lives with his wife and two children in Vermont.
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LocationThe Community Church of New York
40 East 35 Street (between Madison & Fifth Avenues
New York, NY
United States
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