Democracy Now!
“A sweeping look at both the origins of the show and its unique role in American political life. It’s also a scathing critique of corporate media and its corrosive culture.”
Salon
A celebration of the acclaimed news program Democracy Now! and the extraordinary heroes who have moved our democracy forward.
This book looks back over the past twenty years of Democracy Now! and considers that, as the courts and government abdicate their responsibilities, it has fallen to ordinary people to hold the powerful to account. Amy Goodman gives voice to these leaderful—not leaderless—movements: the countless charismatic leaders who are taking to the streets in Ferguson, Staten Island, Wall Street, and other places where people are rising up to demand justice.
This is the guiding principle of Democracy Now!, which is front and center in this powerful, important work.
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