ATLANTA -- During this 2016 election season, Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman, David Goodman and Denis Moynihan are on a North American speaking tour to mark the 20th anniversary of the daily, independent, global TV/Radio news hour.
With an ambitious 100 cities tour, the team has reached the halfway mark of 50 to raise awareness and funds for independent media and celebrate twenty years of the Democracy Now! news hour.
Speaking at First Iconium Baptist church in east Atlanta to a packed house, Amy Goodman told stories of covering the controversial execution of Troy Davis and the battle for the Confederate flag outside of the South Carolina State house. She read selections from The new book Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America.
The Book looks at the powerful movements and charismatic leaders who are re-shaping our world. Goodman takes the reader along as she goes to where the silence is, bringing out voices from the streets of Ferguson, to Staten Island, Wall Street, South Carolina to East Timor—and other places where people are rising up to demand justice. Democracy Now! is the modern day underground railroad of information, bringing stories from the grassroots to a global audience.
In 1996 Amy Goodman began hosting a show on Pacifica Radio called Democracy Now! to focus on the issues and movements that are too often ignored by the corporate media. Today Democracy Now! is the largest public media collaboration in the US, broadcasting on over 1400 public television and radio stations around the world, with millions accessing it online at democracynow.org. Now Amy, along with her journalist brother, David and co-author Denis Moynihan, share stories of the heroes—the whistleblowers, the organizers, the protesters—who have brought about remarkable change.
The Event took place earlier in May, and was a benefit for WRFG 89.3FM which broadcasts Democracy Now! Monday-Friday at 5pm.
