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Police Crackdown on G20 Protests: Democracy Now! Reports from the Streets

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World leaders are gathering in Pittsburgh for the G20 summit under the shadow of a police crackdown on protesters in the streets. Heavily-armed riot police are out in force all over the city, using tear gas, stun grenades, smoke canisters, and sound cannons, which direct extremely loud shrill sounds. This is believed to be the first time sound cannons have been publicly used in the United States. Democracy Now! producer Steve Martinez reports from the streets of Pittsburgh.

Arun Gupta asks "What Anti-War Movement?"

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It has now been eight years since 9/11. The United States is still engaged in Iraq and is escalating its wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan with no end in site. Speaking at the Bluestockings Bookstore on the Lower East Side in New York, Arun Gupta, a founding Editor of The Indypendent, takes a critical look at the failures and future of the once massive anti-war movement.

September 24, 2009 |  Filed under  Web Exclusive, Pakistan

Sandra Maria Esteves Performs "Aguacero" at the Young Lords 40th Anniversary Celebration

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Sandra Maria Esteves is one of the founders of the Nuyorican poetry movement. She performed her poem "Aguacero" at the 40th Anniversary celebration of the revolutionary community organizing group the Young Lords earlier this year.

Part II: Tim Robbins on Activism in Hollywood from the 1930s to the Present

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Tim Robbins is the artistic director of the Actor’s Gang and an Academy-award winning actor, director, producer, and writer.
He won an Oscar for his role in “Mystic River” and is well-known for his roles in numerous films over the past two decades including “The Shawshank Redemption”, “The Player”, “Bull Durham”, and “Bob Roberts.” His best known directorial ventures include the award-winning “Cradle Will Rock” and “Dead Man Walking.”

Sexual terrorism in Congo

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Steve Earle sings "John Walker’s Blues" about John Walker Lindh in our firehouse studio

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British MP Blasts U.S. Efforts to Keep Evidence Hidden in Gitmo Torture Case

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Complete Interview with Iranian Dissident Journalist Akbar Ganji

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July 27, 2009 |  Filed under  Web Exclusive, Iran

K’naan performs in our firehouse studio

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Somali-Canadian hip hop artist K’Naan joined us in our firehouse studio and performs songs from his new album “Troubadour”.

"Now the Work of Movements Begins"

By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan

The election is over, and President Barack Obama will continue as the 44th president of the United States. There will be much attention paid by the pundit class to the mechanics of the campaigns, to the techniques of microtargeting potential voters, the effectiveness of get-out-the-vote efforts. The media analysts will fill the hours on the cable news networks, proffering post-election chestnuts about the accuracy of polls, or about either candidate’s success with one demographic or another. Missed by the mainstream media, but churning at the heart of our democracy, are social movements, movements without which President Obama would not have been re-elected.

November 08, 2012 |  Filed under  Columns & Articles, 2012 Election

Part II: Cornel West and Carl Dix on Race and Politics in the Age of Obama

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Watch the continuation of the discussion from today’s broadcast. Cornel West is a Professor at Princeton University and Carl Dix is a founding member of the Revolutionary Communist Party.

Tonight in NYC: Amy Goodman Speaks on Election 2012, Superstorm Sandy, Climate Change

Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman speaks at the first event at the Tribeca Barnes & Noble since its reopening post-Hurricane Sandy. She links Sandy and other extreme weather events to climate change, and discusses the corporate media’s failure to make the connection.

November 05, 2012 |  Filed under  Events, Election 2012, Climate Change, Hurricane Sandy

We Are Not Powerless to Confront Climate Change

By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan

Millions of victims of Superstorm Sandy remain without power, but they are not powerless to do something about climate change.

November 01, 2012 |  Filed under  Columns & Articles, Climate Change, Global Warming

California’s Food Fight: To Label or Not to Label GMOs

Of the 11 initiatives before the 2012 California electorate, one drawing perhaps the most attention is Proposition 37, on the labeling of food containing genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. Whether or not this ballot passes could have a significant impact on how our food system is organized, favoring small, local organic-food producers (if it passes), or allowing for the increased expansion of large, corporate agribusiness (if it fails).

October 25, 2012 |  Filed under  Columns & Articles, Food, California, Agriculture

VIDEO: Amy Goodman’s Appearance on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal

Watch Amy Goodman’s appearance on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal from September 29. In the interview, discusses her New York Times best-selling book, "The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope."

Binders Full of Women, and Two Women Bound

By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan

You may have noticed that the Green Party presidential candidate, Dr. Jill Stein, was absent from the “town hall” presidential debate at Hofstra University the other night. That’s because she was shackled to a chair in a nearby New York police facility, along with her running mate, Green Party vice president nominee Cheri Honkala. Their crime: attempting to get to the debate so Stein could participate in it.

October 18, 2012 |  Filed under  Columns & Articles, Election 2012, Women’s Rights, Mitt Romney

Workers Fight for Justice, From Wal-Mart to Chipotle

By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan

The great recession of 2008, this global economic meltdown, has wiped out the life savings of so many people and created a looming threat of chronic unemployment for millions. Despite unemployment levels that remain high, and the anxiety caused by people living paycheck to paycheck, many workers in the United States are taking matters into their own hands, demanding better working conditions and better pay.

October 11, 2012 |  Filed under  Columns & Articles, Labor, Unions, Walmart

Expand the Debate: This Is What Democracy Sounds Like

By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
A few miles south of the campus arena in the Mile High City where President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney met in their first debate, Democracy Now! broke the sound barrier by expanding their gated debate to include two third-party presidential candidates. Dr. Jill Stein, of the Green Party, and Rocky Anderson, of the Justice Party, responded to the same questions put to the major-party candidates, in real time, from their own podiums a little ways down the road. The goal was to open the forum, to bring out voices that are ignored or marginalized by the mainstream media.

October 05, 2012 |  Filed under  Columns & Articles, Election 2012, Obama, Mitt Romney, democracy, Expanding The Debate

On the Road with Democracy Now!: Colorado Springs Independent Profiles Amy Goodman

Click here to read Independent Streak by Chet Hardin.

October 04, 2012 |  Filed under  D.N. in the News, 2012 Election

SATURDAY: Amy Goodman on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal

Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal on Saturday, September 29th at 7:45 am EDT.