Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman
Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman
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Democracy Now!
Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America

Author: Amy Goodman, David Goodman, Denis Moynihan

Narrator: Amy Goodman

Unabridged: 11 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/12/2016


Synopsis

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).

About Amy Goodman

Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now! An acclaimed international journalist, she has won the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the Alternative Nobel Prize; a lifetime achievement award from Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism; the George Polk Award; Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting; and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award. Amy is the New York Times bestselling author, with Denis Moynihan, of The Silenced Majority and Breaking the Sound Barrier; and with David Goodman, of Democracy Now!, Exception to the Rulers, Static, and Standing Up to the Madness. She is a syndicated columnist for King Features.

About David Goodman

David Goodman is an independent journalist, contributing writer for Mother Jones, host of the radio show, The Vermont Conversation, and the bestselling author of ten books. The author of Fault Lines: Journeys Into the New South Africa, and Democracy Now! (with Amy Goodman), his work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Outside, The Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Globe, The Nation, and numerous other publications. He lives in Vermont.

About Denis Moynihan

Denis Moynihan has worked with Democracy Now! since 2000. He is a bestselling author and a syndicated columnist with King Features. He lives in Colorado, where he founded community radio station KFFR 88.3 FM in the town of Winter Park.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on June 03, 2016

Amy Goodman takes us on a twenty year journey through the perils and progress of activism for peace and justice throughout the world. 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, th......more

Goodreads review by David on May 15, 2017

I'm never quite sure whether to be heartened or discouraged by books like this. On the one hand, the legendary journalist Amy Goodman provides countless examples of individuals who have stood up for democracy, freedom, and social justice and rebelled against both public and private institutions. On......more

Goodreads review by Sabrina on May 09, 2016

Excellent book! If you like the show you'll love reading about the "behind-the-scenes" stories.......more

Goodreads review by Carolina on April 20, 2016

It's good. But the introduction was too long. She could have taken some of the points she made there and added them to some of the chapters, that way it wouldn't have felt too repetitive. The case for an alternative media or a reform within the traditional media is well established and one I whole h......more

Goodreads review by Jacquelyn on August 03, 2016

Fantastic. Moves quickly, but is very moving. As depressing as some of the reporting can be, the rest is equally inspiring. Democracy Now! and Amy Goodman are National Treasures. Like she says, independent media is the oxygen of democracy.......more