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95th Birthday Celebration with Frances Crowe

Amherst, MA

Tuesday, March 11, 2014 • 7:00 PM

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WMUA 91.1-FM and the UMass Journalism Department Presents a 95th Birthday Celebration with Frances Crowe. Featuring Amy Goodman and Mike Burke of Democracy Now!

When:
Tuesday, March 11th 2014 (7pm-9:30pm).

Where:
Bowker Auditorium at UMass Amherst, 100 Holdsworth Way, Amherst, MA 01003.

Information:
Glenn Siegel (advisor@wmua.org) or Georgia McGoldrick (publicity@wmua.org)

Come join us for a 95th birthday celebration of the legendary activist, Frances Crowe! Amy Goodman and Mike Burke from 'Democracy Now!' will be joining us for this free event. Goodman will interview Crowe, WMUA News Directors John O’Neil and Despina Durand will interview Burke. Goodman will give a talk, followed by questions from the audience. The event will be broadcast live on WMUA 91.1-FM.

Frances Crowe is a well-known peace activist from the Pioneer Valley. She holds degrees from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri and Syracuse University, and conducted graduate work at Columbia University and The New School for Social Research. In the 1960s, she founded the Northampton chapter of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, the Sane Nuclear Policy Committee, and the Valley Peace Center. She ran the local office of the American Friends Service Committee from her Northampton home for several decades. For her lifelong commitment to the Peace Movement and her unrelenting opposition to war through war tax resistance and an eco-pacifist lifestyle, she was awarded the Courage of Conscience award May 4, 2007, by the Peace Abbey in Sherborn, Massachusetts. An archive of her papers is kept at the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Amy Goodman is an American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter and author. Since 1996, Goodman has hosted Democracy Now!, an independent global news program broadcast daily on radio, television and the Internet. Goodman had been news director of Pacifica Radio station WBAI in New York City for over a decade when she co-founded Democracy Now! The War and Peace Report in 1996. Since then, Democracy Now! has been called “…the most significant progressive news institution that has come around in some time” by professor and media critic Robert McChesney. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Thomas Merton Award, a Right Livelihood Award, and an Izzy Award for “special achievement in independent media”. In 2012, Goodman received the Gandhi Peace Award for a “significant contribution to the promotion of an enduring international peace”. Goodman is the author of five books. Her latest is The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope.

Mike Burke is the senior news producer at Democracy Now!, where he has worked since 2002. He is also co- founder of 'The Indypendent,' a monthly community-produced newspaper based in New York City. Burke graduated from UMass Amherst in 1997. During his time at UMass he served as an arts & opinion editor at the Massachusetts Daily Collegian and hosted a late night music show on WMUA called, “The Sound is Now.” After graduation, he worked as a reporter at the Greenfield Recorder and Springfield Union News. He also helped start Flywheel, a volunteer-run community arts space in Easthampton.

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Bowker Auditorium at UMass Amherst

100 Holdsworth Way,
Amherst, MA 01003

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  • Amy Goodman

    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. She is also 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 the first co-recipient of the Park Center for Independent Media’s Izzy Award, named for the great muckraking journalist I.F. Stone, and was later selected for induction into the Park Center’s I.F. Stone Hall of Fame. The Independent of London called Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! “an inspiration.”

    Goodman has co-authored six New York Times bestsellers. Her latest, Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America, looks back over the past two decades of Democracy Now! and the powerful movements and charismatic leaders who are re-shaping our world. Before than, The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope, and Breaking the Sound Barrier, both written with Denis Moynihan, give voice to the many ordinary people standing up to corporate and government power. She co-authored her first three bestsellers with her brother, journalist David Goodman: Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times (2008), Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back (2006) and The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them (2004). She co-writes a weekly column with Denis Moynihan (also produced as an audio podcast) syndicated by King Features, for which she was recognized in 2007 with the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Reporting.

    Goodman has received the Society for Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for Excellence; American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Award; the Paley Center for Media’s She’s Made It Award; and the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship. Her reporting on East Timor and Nigeria has won numerous awards, including the George Polk Award, Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting, and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! its “Pick of the Podcasts,” along with NBC’s Meet the Press. PULSE named Goodman one of the 20 Top Global Media Figures of 2009.

    She has also received awards from the Associated Press, United Press International, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Project Censored. Goodman received the first ever Communication for Peace Award from the World Association for Christian Communication. She was also honored by the National Council of Teachers of English with the George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language.

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