Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America (Signed!) [B0677]

2016 HCDJ signed 1st edition in excellent condition. A celebration of the acclaimed news program Democracy Now! and the extraordinary heroes who have moved our democracy forward. In 1996 Amy Goodman started a radio show called Democracy Now! to focus on the issues that are underreported or ignored by mainstream news coverage. Shortly after September 11, 2001, they were broadcasting on television every weekday. Today it is the only public media in the US that airs simultaneously on satellite and cable television, radio, and the Internet. Now Amy and her journalist brother, David, share stories of the progressive heroes -- the whistleblowers, the organizers, the protestors -- who have brought about remarkable, often invisible change over the last two decades in seismic ways. Rebellion 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 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 the powerful, important Rebellion.

From recent-ish Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "This book covers war and peace, the black lives matter movement, LGBTQ rights, capital punishment, and so many other important topics from the perspective of those impacted the most. I love Democracy Now! It's a great source for daily news because of the journalists who produce it."; "Wow!! As a daily listener of democracy now and also someone who is the exact age of the program this book was deeply insightful. It covers so many huge issues that I had heard of as a kid and had a skewed opinion of or lacked the context for understanding because of mainstream media spin and public discourse. It does seem like a bit of a "greatest hits" but I have no issue with that, the work and events chronicled in this book should not be forgotten. I have such deep admiration for Amy Goodman and the Democracy Now! team."