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The Democracy Now! audio podcast cover artwork. Democracy Now!, also called Democracy Now!The War and Peace Report, Democracy Now Independent Global News, or Democracy News, was founded on February 19, 1996, at WBAI in New York City by journalists Amy Goodman, Juan González, Larry Bensky, Salim Muwakkil, and Julie Drizin.
Democracy Now ' s Amy Goodman gives a keynote address at the 2013 National Conference for Media Reform in Denver, Colorado. Goodman has received awards for her work, including the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting (1993, with Allan Nairn) [48] and the George Polk Award (1998, with Jeremy Scahill). [49]
A democracy's salvation lies within itself. To save the American experiment, we must remember how its potential first brought us together. Overcoming the darkness of our divides won't be easy.
The voices of González and Amy Goodman, from an episode of "Democracy Now", were used (uncredited) over news footage concerning Hurricane Katrina in the opening montage of New Orleans at the beginning of the action-drama film Streets of Blood (2009). He has said that a prime motivating force in his work has been, "a sense about the unjust ...
Nash is now 86, but her voice carries steel when she talks about the challenges ahead. “People have died in large numbers fighting wars to preserve democracy,” she says.
Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday, returning to office amid pomp and ceremony at the Capitol Rotunda. Trump was sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts ...
Law Professor Jonathan Turley explains why President Biden's declaration that the proposed Equal Rights Amendment is law is ridiculous, because the amendment failed to pass decades ago.
Scahill became a senior producer and correspondent for Democracy Now! and remains a frequent contributor. Scahill and his Democracy Now! colleague Amy Goodman were co-recipients of the 1998 George Polk Award for their radio documentary "Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship", which investigated the Chevron Corporation's role in the killing of two Nigerian environmental ...