Amy Goodman joins Alison Stewart at WNYC to discuss Steal This Story, Please!, the new documentary chronicling 30 years of Democracy Now! — from nine community radio stations to 1,400 outlets worldwide. Goodman reflects on the show’s origins, her arrest at Standing Rock, and why she sees the press as “a huge kitchen table that stretches across the globe where we all sit around and debate and discuss the most important issues of the day.”

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About Steal This Story, Please!

Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin (Trouble the Water, The Janes) take us behind the scenes with the warm, wisecracking granddaughter of an Orthodox rabbi — raised in a tradition of asking hard questions – as she navigates a news landscape reshaped by technology, corporate consolidation, and political assaults on truth itself. Urgent, provocative and unexpectedly funny, Steal This Story, Please! is both a call to action and a celebration of resistance, posing the question: what happens to democracy when the press surrenders to power?

Visit stealthisstory.org for more about the film.