A daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 700 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the U.S.
Today’s Show
- Headlines
- Promising “Change” in Washington, McCain Accepts GOP Nomination
- Maverick? Author Paul Waldman on “Free Ride: John McCain and the Media”
- Convention Cash: Journalist Peter Stone on the RNC’s Sponsors
- Crashing the Party: Suites, Corporate-Sponsored Events Gather the Money Behind the Conventions
- McCain: “We Have to Catch Up to History”
- Abramoff Sentenced to Four Years in Jail for Corruption and Tax Offenses
- Nearly 400 Arrested on Last Day of RNC, Including Over a Dozen Media Workers
- Ramsey County Sheriff Admits Local Police Used Paid Infiltrators and Spied on Activists Including RNC Welcoming Committee
- “We Are Not Terrorists”: Activists with the RNC Welcoming Committee Speak Out Against Police Crackdown & Terrorism Charges
- Iraqi American Sami Rasouli Says McCain Should Have Invited an Iraqi to Talk at RNC About the Effect of the Surge
RECENT SHOWS
Thursday, September 04, 2008
- Headlines
- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin Accepts GOP Nomination
- Amy Goodman Questions Ramsey County Prosecutors on Jailing, Charges of Journalists
- Eight Members of RNC Activist Group Lodged with Terrorism Charges
- Hundreds of Jailed Protesters Held for 2+ Days Following Mass RNC Arrests
- I-Witness Video Collective Forced Out of Living Space After Second Raid by St. Paul Police in Five Days
- Libertarian Presidential Candidate and Ex-Republican Rep. Bob Barr on Impeachment, Opening Up the Debates, and Why He Left the GOP
- Voices of the Delegates: Jeremy Scahill Goes Inside the RNC
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
- Headlines
- 8 Years After Accepting Dems’ VP Bid on Gore Ticket, Lieberman Attacks Former Party at GOP Convention
- Amy Goodman Grills St. Paul Police Chief About Her Arrest and Two Democracy Now! Producers
- Bush: “Angry Left” Will “Never Break” John McCain
- Fmr. UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter on the RNC, Joe Biden and the Possibility of an Attack on Iran
- Freed from Jail, Fmr. Alabama Governor Don Siegelman Accuses Karl Rove of Orchestrating Political Witch Hunt
- Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign Takes Cause to Streets Outside RNC
- Sami Al-Arian Released After 5.5 Years in Prison
- Thousands Gather in Minneapolis for Ron Paul Counter-Convention
- Thousands Join Poor People’s March Outside RNC
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
- Headlines
- Amy Goodman & Two Democracy Now! Producers Arrested at RNC Protest
- As RNC Opens, Iraq Veterans Against the War March in St. Paul
- As the RNC Opens in St. Paul, Twin Cities Police Arrest Nearly 300; Journalists Targeted
- A Debate: Iraq Veterans Against the War vs. Vets for Freedom
- Hurricane Gustav Slams Louisiana: A Report from Jordan Flaherty in New Orleans
- Report: Secretive Right-Wing Group Vetted McCain’s VP Candidate Sarah Palin
- Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) Condemns Police Intimidation of Journalists
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Call to Action on Behalf of DN! Journalists Facing Charges for Reporting on the Republican National Convention
Today it is critical that you make your voice heard in the Ramsey County Attorney and St. Paul City Attorney offices. Demand that they drop all pending and current charges against journalists arrested while reporting on protests outside the Republican National Conventions.
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Amy Goodman’s New Column: “Why We Were Falsely Arrested”
Government crackdowns on journalists are a true threat to democracy. As the Republican National Convention meets in St. Paul, Minn., this week, police are systematically targeting journalists.
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Media Coverage on the Arrest of Amy Goodman and Two Democracy Now! Producers
Links to video and articles about the arrest of Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar.
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Update: Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar Released After Illegal Arrest at RNC
Goodman Charged with Obstruction; Felony Riot Charges Pending Against Kouddous and Salazar
ST. PAUL--Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar have all been released from police custody in St. Paul following their illegal arrest by Minneapolis Police on Monday afternoon.
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Amy Goodman and Two Democracy Now! Producers Unlawfully Arrested At the RNC
Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman was unlawfully arrested in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota at approximately 5 p.m. local time. Police violently manhandled Goodman, yanking her arm, as they arrested her.
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“Poverty Is the Real Scandal”
Former Sen. John Edwards was supposed to speak in Denver at the Democratic National Convention, but he had an affair. Will the Democrats now forget about his signature issue?
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“Cheney, Bush and Habbush”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on a book tour, where she is being hounded by activists and questioned about her pledge that “impeachment is off the table.” She responded on the TV talk show “The View,” “If somebody had a crime that the president had committed, that would be a different story.” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind may have provided the evidence she doesn’t want to see.
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“Don’t Cage Dissent”
Open opposition, the right to challenge those in power, is a mainstay of any healthy democracy. The Democratic and Republican conventions will test the commitment of the two dominant U.S. political parties to the cherished tradition of dissent. Things are not looking good.
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December 2002 Archive
Tuesday, December 31, 2002
- Headlines for December 31, 2002
- North Korea Accuses U.S. of Plotting War and Vows to Fight to the Last Man; South Korea Denounces Heavy U.S. Economic Pressure On the North
- “A Shortcut Through 2002,” Featuring George W. Bush, Trent Lott, Strom Thurmond, Martin Luther King, Jr., Phil Berrigan, Joe Strummer and Many Others
- The Biggest Stories of 2002 ­ According to You
Monday, December 30, 2002
- Headlines for December 30, 2002
- Kenya Elects Mwai Kibaki to Become the First Opposition Party Leader to Win the Presidency Since Kenya Became Independent
- 75 People Protest in Front of the Pentagon: Some Throw Blood On the Pentagon and Are Arrested
- “Saddam Did Not Close Our Health Clinics!”, “Ain’t No Viet Cong Ever Called Me a Nigger”: Civil Rights Leader and MLK Mentor Rev. James Lawson Calls On the Peace Movement to Become a Justice Movement
Friday, December 27, 2002
- Headlines for December 27, 2002
- Today Kenyans Go to the Polls for the First Time in 24 Years: We Interview Kenyan Professor Ali Mazrui About His Country’s Politics and the US Militarization of the Horn of Africa
- “I Refuse to Die”: Koigi Wa Wamwere, One of Kenya’s Leading Human Rights Activists, Is Running for Parliament in Today’s Elections. He Talks About US Support for the Moi Dictatorship and His Fear That
Thursday, December 26, 2002
Wednesday, December 25, 2002
- Headlines for December 25, 2002
- Legacy of Peace: Father Daniel Berrigan Eulogizes His Brother, Philip Berrigan; We Also Hear a Speech By Philip Berrigan Who Spoke at An Anti-War Rally On April 20 in Washington DC
- Legacy of Peace: Father Daniel Berrigan Eulogizes His Brother, Philip Berrigan; We Also Hear a Speech By Philip Berrigan Who Spoke at An Anti-War Rally On April 20 in Washington DC
Tuesday, December 24, 2002
- Headlines for December 24, 2002
- Is Bill Frist Another Trent Lott? the NAACP and Now Gives the Tennessee Senator’s Record An Fgrade, Consumer Groups Warn About His Extensive Tiesto the Medical and Pharmaceutical Industry. Today Isfri
- Christmas Under Siege: Israeli Pull Back Itstroops in Bethlehem But Warn Residents That This Willbe No Ordinary Christmas; We Go to Manger Square Andthen Talk to the Founders of the Palestinianinterna
Monday, December 23, 2002
- Headlines for December 23, 2002
- Iranian-American Attorney Banafsheh Akhlaghi Speaks Out Against the Detention of Her Clients and Hundreds of Other Men From Muslim Nations Last Week in Los Angeles
- Art Torres, the Chair of the California Democratic Party Assails the Ins and Justice Department’s Post-9/11 Policies
- Kenyan Professor Ali Mazrui Looks at How America Is Hurting Itself Abroad and at Home
Friday, December 20, 2002
- Headlines for December 20, 2002
- Central Park 5 Are Cleared! Manhattan State Supreme Court Judge Throws Out the Convictions of the Five African-American and Latino Young Men Who Were Imprisoned for Up to 12 Years
- The Nation’s Largest Law Enforcement Agency Vies for “Total Spying Power”
- Over 1,000 Muslim Men and Boys Have Been Detained in Southern California After Going to the Ins to Register Under New Government Orders
- Thousands of Argentines Attempt to Shut Down Buenos Aires Stock Exchange and U.S. Corporations
Thursday, December 19, 2002
- Headlines for December 19, 2002
- Top Secret Iraq Weapons Report Says the U.S. Government & Corporations Helped to Illegally Arm Iraq, Part Two
- Why Isn’t Ashcroft in Lotts of Trouble? He Fought Integration of St. Louis Schools; He Praised Confederate Leaders Who Fought to Preserve Slavery; He Intervened On Behalf of a Supporter of the Council
Wednesday, December 18, 2002
- Headlines for December 18, 2002
- Top Secret Iraq Weapons Report Says the U.S. Government & Corporations Helped to Illegally Arm Iraq We Talk with the German Reporter Who Obtained Leaked Portions of the Unedited Report That Names Hewl
- Hundreds of Muslim Men From Around the Country Have Been Detained As They Register with Immigration Authorities Under New Government Orders: The Council On American-Islamic Relations Debates the Depar
- Demand for Emergency Shelter Sees Largest Increase in Ten Years: We Talk to Cheri Honkala of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union
Tuesday, December 17, 2002
- Headlines for December 17, 2002
- Tentative Agreement Averts Transit Strike By Workers From Nation’s Largest Public Transportation System
- Is Cross-Burning Constitutionally Protected Speech, Or Racial Intimidation and Hatred?
- “The International Poindextering of Poindexter”: Electronic Activists Publish the Total Information Awareness Director’s Home Phone Number and Satellite Photos of His House
Monday, December 16, 2002
- Headlines for December 16, 2002
- The Second-Highest Ranking Senate Republican Calls for a Meeting to Consider Trent Lott’s Ouster; in Mississippi, African Americans Protest the Segregationist Republican
- India Lurches Further to the Fundamentalist Religious Right As the Hindu Nationalist Party Wins in a Landslide in Gujarat
- “George W. Bush Could Succeed Where Osama Bin Laden Failed in Provoking a Clash of Civilizations Between Islam and the West”: Interview with Dilip Hiro
Friday, December 13, 2002
- Headlines for December 13, 2002
- “We Hold These Truths to Be Self Evident: Number 1, George W. Bush Is Not Our President/ Number 2, America Is Not a True Democracy/ Number 3, the Media Is Not Fooling You, It’s Not Fooling Me”–Singe
- “It’s Amazing How a Big, Corporate Network Can Be Threatened By a Little Folk Song” ­ Ani Difranco Sings a Song About Racism in America That the David Letterman Show Wouldn’t Let Her Perform; She A
Thursday, December 12, 2002
- Headlines for December 12, 2002
- Should Trent Lott Resign? The Senate Republican Leader’s Support for Strom Thurmond’s 1948 “Segregation Forever” Presidential Campaign Generates Mass Calls for Him to Step Down, He Refuses
- Is the Strike in Venezuela for the People, Or for the Businessmen? President Hugo Chavez Sends Troops to Regain Control of the Oil Industry As the Strike in Venezuela Enters Its 11th Day
Wednesday, December 11, 2002
- Headlines for December 11, 2002
- Over 100 Religious Leaders and Anti-War Activists Are Arrested Outside the UN: We Talk to Daniel Ellsberg and Others From Jail
- A Look at the Less Than Peaceful Presidency of Jimmy Carter, This Year’s Nobel Peace Prize Winner
- Emmy Award-Winning Actor Martin Sheen On the Late Philip Berrigan
- Indian Casinos: Who Gets the Money?
Tuesday, December 10, 2002
- Headlines for December 10, 2002
- Hundreds of Church Leaders to March On the United Nations to Call for Peace: We Talk to Civil Rights Leader and Martin Luther King’s Mentor Reverend James Lawson
- Talk-Back to War: People Call in to Democracy Now!’S Answering Machine
- Over 600 Gather for the Funeral of Legendary Anti-War Activist Philip Berrigan in Baltimore: We Hear From Historian Howard Zinn and Brendan Walsh, Who Co-Founded Viva House, a Catholic Worker House in
Monday, December 09, 2002
- Headlines for December 09, 2002
- Philip Berrigan, 1923-2002: The Legendary Anti-War and Anti-Nuclear Activist Dies in Baltimore On Friday at Jonah House Surrounded By Family and Friends. We Broadcast a Special Report From Saint Peter
- Religious Rebel, a Look at the Life of Philip Berrigan and Non-Violent Anti-War Activism: A Roundtable Discussion with Plowshares Activists Who Were Jailed for Committing Civil Disobedience Actions wi
Friday, December 06, 2002
- Headlines for December 06, 2002
- “We Wanted Our Children to Be Professionals. We Wanted Our Children to Be Lawyers and Doctors and School Teachers. We Wanted for All Children What All People Want for Their Children”: The Mothers and
- Attorney Barry Scheck and NYC Councilman Bill Perkins Call for Mandatory Videotaping of Police Interrogations
- “The Court’s Role Is to Maintain the Social Order.” “Jesus Couldn’t Have Won It.” We Go Back in Time with the Words of Famed Attorney William Kunstler, Sharonne Salaam, Mother of Yusef Salaam, and His
Thursday, December 05, 2002
- Headlines for December 05, 2002
- Students Confront New School University President Bob Kerrey Over His Role in the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq and Demand Resignation
- Democracy Now! to Former Senator Bob Kerrey: Would You Support a War Crimes Tribunal for Your Own Role in Massacring Vietnamese Civilians? Would You Support Barring CIA Recruiters From College Campuse
- Manhattan Da Expected to Call for Dismissing Central Park Jogger 5 Convictions, Protesters Gather at New York Courthouse
Wednesday, December 04, 2002
- Headlines for December 04, 2002
- Renowned Anti-War Icon Philip Berrigan Is Quietly Dying at Home Surrounded By Family and Friends From the Jonah House Resistance Community in Baltimore: We Talk with His Son and Daughter Who Are By Hi
Tuesday, December 03, 2002
- Headlines for December 03, 2002
- Israeli Military Attacks United Nations Workers and Buildings: Soldiers Shoot Dead a British UN Worker, Detain Israeli and Palestinian Workers, and Bomb a World Food Program Warehouse
- Supreme Court to Decide Whether Affirmative Action and Gay Sex Are Legal
- Manhattan Da Set to Determine the Fate of the Central Park Jogger Rape Case This Week: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Sydney Schanberg Discusses the New Evidence and the Power Politics That Have Al
Monday, December 02, 2002
- Headlines for December 02, 2002
- 9/11 Families Protest Selection of Henry Kissinger to Head Sept. 11 Investigation: Concerns Rise Over Former Secretary of State’s Ties to Saudi Arabia, We Talk with Investigative Reporter Seymour Hers
- The Israeli Mossad, the CIA, and the Kenyan Intelligence Agencies Work Together to Determine Who Is Behind the Kenyan Bombing: We Go to Mombassa to Talk with Christian Science Monitor Reporter
- Millions Mark World AIDS Day Around the Globe: Meanwhile Bush Administration Cracks Down On AIDS Groups, Censors Cdc Website and Pushes Abstinence-Only Policies
