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Amy made her third appearance on CNN’s new show, John King USA on March 29th at 7pm ET. If you want to see more of Amy on CNN’s John King USA, please let them know at:
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Click here to see Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman talking about health care on CNN’s new program, John King, USA , on Tuesday, March 23rd. [...]

In 1964, media analyst Marshall McLuhan suggested that a given medium was more important than its message. Kimberly Butler of the Huffington Post interviews Amy Goodman along with Dan Rather, Geraldo Rivera, Tim Zagat, Rachel Sklar, Carol Jenkins, Bill Pullman, Bob Simon, John Ziegler, Juan Williams, Kevin Macdonald , Mary Alice Williams, and Stephen Cannell. Watch here [...]

Friends of Howard Zinn gathered at Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC to pay tribute to the historian who died on January 27th. The speakers include Ralph Nader, Marian Wright Edelman, Amy Goodman, Dave Zirin, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Phyllis Bennis, Geoffrey Millard, Richard Rubenstein and Busboys and Poets’ owner Andy Shallal. The program also includes music by Bernice Johnson Reagon and Emma’s Revolution as well as readings from Howard Zinn’s books. [...]

Amy Goodman talks to Raj Patel, author of “The Value of Nothing” and Naomi Klein, author of “The Shock Doctrine,” about their books, the economy, the earthquake in Haiti, and other topics. On C-SPAN’s Book TV:
Sunday, February 7th at 3pm (ET)
Monday, February 8th at 5am (ET)
About the Authors Raj Patel is a fellow at the Institute for Food & Development/Food First and has written for the Guardian and Los Angeles Times. He is currently a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies. For more information, visit rajpatel.org . Naomi Klein writes a regular column for The Nation and The Guardian. She is the author of “No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies” and “Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate.” For more information, visit naomiklein.org . Amy Goodman is the host of Democracy Now! , a daily public tv/radio news hour which airs on more than 800 stations. Her latest bestseller is Breaking the Sound Barrier . She co-authored the first three bestsellers, Standing Up to the Madness , Static , and The Exception to the Rulers , with her brother, journalist David Goodman. For more information, visit democracynow.org . Read More [...]

Lily Tomlin gave Democracy Now! a shout out in Time Magazine’s “Short List of Things To Do.” Here’s the excerpt from Tomlin’s short list: Radio days

Stephanie Miller as commentator-comic Mama and her irreverent two-man band of merrymaking mischief monkeys get me laughing every morning. Then I get deeply serious with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! Read more [...]