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Amy Goodman with Jeremy Scahill and Noam Chomsky, Dirty Wars Book Event

Cambridge, MA

April 27, 2013 | Saturday | 2:00 pm

Harvard University Science Center — Hall B

1 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 ( see map )
Join investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill, author Noam Chomsky, and Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman for a special discussion of Scahill’s ground breaking new book “Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield.”

Free and open to the public. Seating is general admission. Attendance is first come, first served.

Click here to watch the Democracy Now! livestream of the event from 2-4pm EDT.

Sponsored by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and the ACLU of Massachusetts.

Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill is National Security Correspondent for The Nation magazine and author of The New York Times best-seller Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army. He is a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute. Scahill has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, the former Yugoslavia and elsewhere across the globe. Scahill is a frequent guest on a wide array of programs, including The Rachel Maddow Show and Real Time with Bill Maher. He has also appeared on Fresh Air, ABC World News, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, CNN, PBS NewsHour and Bill Moyers Journal.

Scahill’s work has sparked several congressional investigations and won some of journalism’s highest honors. He was twice awarded the prestigious George Polk Award, in 1998 for foreign reporting and in 2008 for his book Blackwater. He is also the subject of the film Dirty Wars (http://dirtywars.org/), an official selection of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. The film opens in theaters June 7 through Sundance Selects.

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Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 1,400 public television and radio stations worldwide.

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard honored Goodman with the 2014 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence Lifetime Achievement Award....