Democracy Now! Host Amy Goodman Looks Back on 20 Years

FEATURING AMY GOODMAN – Twenty years ago this year, New York-based Pacifica radio journalist Amy Goodman launched a daily program that rapidly became an institution in public radio and telvision. Today Democracy Now! is heard on more than 1,400 stations worldwide and its executive producer and host Amy Goodman has written a new book marking the 20th anniversary of her extraordinary program. It’s called Democracy Now! Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America and she’s now on book tour around the country.

Event information:

– The Los Angeles Festival of Books on Sunday April 10th at 12 noon on the USC campus.

– KCSB event on Sunday April 10th at 7:30 pm Corwin Pavilion, UCSB Campus, University Center, Santa Barbara.

– KFPK event on Thursday April 14th at 7 pm at the Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles, 3300 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90010. Sonali Kolhatkar will be at that event too.

– KPFA  event on Sunday April 17th at 7:30 pm at the First Congregational Church of Berkeley, 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley.

To find out more about these and the rest of her national tour, click HERE.

Amy Goodman, the award-winning host of the acclaimed national independent news show Democracy Now, and author of several books including The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope. Her latest book, out now, is called Democracy Now! Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America.