Sunday, October 14, 2012

Amy Goodman - Breaking the Sound Barrier

Amy Goodman - Breaking the Sound Barrier Tube. Duration : 37.03 Mins.


Amy Goodman was a keynote speaker at Connecting for Change. Come to the CFC 2012 in New Bedford, MA next October 26-28 to see more amazing speakers like her: www.connectingforchange.org What does it take to discover the truth and achieve real justice underlying the stories of power-hungry journalists consumed in the corporate world? Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! and author of Breaking the Sound Barrier, will inspire the ordinary man (and woman!) to speak out against social injustice and take action against those who have done wrong. Amy shares her experience in taking on the powers that be, to unveil critical social problems and how to stand up to them to create necessary change. Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 900 television and radio stations in North America. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! its "Pick of the Podcasts," along with NBC's Meet the Press. Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize' for "developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media." She is also one of the the first recipients, along with Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald, of the Park Center for Independent Media's Izzy Award, named for the great muckraking journalist IF Stone ...

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