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Goodman: Mickey Mouse won't try to vote
Znet Article, October, 16 2008
Amy Goodman
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The 2008 presidential election may see the highest participation in U.S. history...
Goodman: Open the Debates
Znet Article, October, 10 2008
Amy Goodman
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The reviews are in, and the latest U.S. presidential debate, the “town hall” from Nashville, Tenn., was a snore. One problem is that in a debate it is important for the debaters to actually disagree. Yet Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain substant...
Goodman: Invasion of the Sea-Smurfs
Znet Article, October, 04 2008
Amy Goodman
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A little-noticed story surfaced a couple of weeks ago in the Army Times newspaper about the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team. “Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months,” reported Army Times staff writer Gina Cavallaro, “the 1st BCT will be un...
Goodman: Troy Davis and the Supreme Decision
Znet Article, September, 25 2008
Amy Goodman
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Troy Anthony Davis was scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday. Two hours before the state of Georgia was to execute him, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay until Monday. It had earlier agreed to hear Davis’ case on Sept. 29, but Georgia se...
Goodman: Wall Street Socialists
Znet Article, September, 18 2008
Amy Goodman
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The financial crisis gripping the U.S. has the largest banks and insurance companies begging for massive government bailouts. The banking, investment, finance and insurance industries, long the foes of taxation, now need money from working-class t...
Goodman: The Party Police
Znet Article, September, 16 2008
Amy Goodman
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The Democratic and Republican national conventions have passed, but controversy surrounds how they were funded and how they were run. Mass arrests of peaceful protesters, excessive police violence, wholesale disregard for the Bill of Rights and th...
Goodman: Why We Were Falsely Arrested
Znet Article, September, 04 2008
Amy Goodman
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Government crackdowns on journalists are a true threat to democracy. As the Republican National Convention meets in St. Paul, Minn., this week, police are systematically targeting journalists. I was arrested with my two colleagues, “Democracy Now!...
Goodman: Amy Goodman & Two Democracy Now! Producers Arrested at RNC Protest
Znet Article, September, 02 2008
Amy Goodman
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More than 280 people were arrested here in St. Paul on Monday, the opening day of the Republican National Convention. Among them were several journalists covering the protests in the streets, including three of us at Democracy Now! I was detained ...
Goodman: Amy Goodman and Two Democracy Now! Producers Unlawfully Arrested At the RNC
Video, September, 02 2008
Amy Goodman
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Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar Released After Illegal Arrest at RNC...
Goodman: "Free Gaza” Boats Set Sail from Cyprus to Break Israeli Blockade
Znet Article, August, 22 2008
Amy Goodman
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Two converted fishing boats set sail from Cyprus today carrying forty-one activists and humanitarian workers who are part of the Free Gaza movement that is trying to break the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip...
Goodman: Don't Cage Dissent
Znet Article, August, 15 2008
Amy Goodman
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The bulwark against tyranny is dissent. Open opposition, the right to challenge those in power, is a mainstay of any healthy democracy. The Democratic and Republican conventions will test the commitment of the two dominant U.S. political parties t...
Goodman: Threats, Lies and Audiotape
Znet Article, August, 07 2008
Amy Goodman
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It was like an action movie. A young man held at night in a hotel, threatened with prison. He is to be shipped off to war in the morning. His friends desperately trying to find him. The “down” button on the elevator had been disabled. He considere...
Goodman: Colombia: Celebrate the Release, Not the Regime
Znet Article, July, 12 2008
Amy Goodman
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It is fantastic to see Ingrid Betancourt free. She was the Green Party candidate running for president of Colombia against Alvaro Uribe in 2002 when she was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) just days after appealing t...
Goodman: Weather reports are missing the story
Znet Article, June, 20 2008
Amy Goodman
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The floodwaters are rising, swamping cities, breaching levees. Tens of thousands are displaced. Many are dead. No, I am not talking about Hurricane Katrina, but about the Midwest United States. As the floodwaters head south along the Mississippi, ...
Goodman: This Way to Better Media
Znet Article, June, 13 2008
Amy Goodman
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“This way to better media,” read the floor sign directing people through a skyway to the Minneapolis Convention Center. Thousands of people gathered there for the fourth National Conference for Media Reform, hosted by freepress.net. They came from...
Goodman: Utah Phillips Has Left the Stage
Znet Article, May, 30 2008
Amy Goodman
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“Utah” Phillips died this week at the age of 73. He was a musician, labor organizer, peace activist and co-founder of his local homeless shelter. He also was an archivist, a historian and a traveler, playing guitar and singing almost forgotten son...
Goodman: The “Golden Voice of the Great Southwest”: Legendary Folk Musician, Activist Utah Phillips, 1935-2008
Audio, May, 28 2008
Amy Goodman
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Utah in his own words.
Goodman: Presidential Race Ignores Arms Race
Znet Article, May, 25 2008
Amy Goodman
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As the U.S. presidential race continues, so does the arms race worldwide. People — civilians, children — are being killed and maimed, on a daily basis, by unexploded cluster bombs and land mines. Thousands of nuclear missiles remain at hair-trigge...
Cusack: Why the War in Iraq Is Stranger Than Fiction
Znet Article, May, 24 2008
John Cusack
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John Cusack's new film War, Inc., takes on issues few in Hollywood today would dare to: war profiteering, mercenaries, political corruption and embedded journalism. A political satire, the film stars Cusack as Hauser, a hit-man for hire who is dep...
Goodman: Whistle-Blower Points to Target List in U.S. Attack on Hotel
Znet Article, May, 16 2008
Amy Goodman
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More than five years have passed since the invasion of Iraq, since President Bush stood under the “Mission Accomplished” banner on that aircraft carrier. While these fifth anniversaries got some notice, another did not: the shelling of the Palesti...
