Social Media Frees 'Democracy Now!' from Arrest - Amy Goodman

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/15/Amy_Goodman__Denis_Moynihan_Breaking_the_Sound_Barrier

"Democracy is a messy thing," says Amy Goodman. The Democracy Now! host revisits her controversial arrest while covering a protest at the 2008 RNC. She praises social media sites like YouTube and Twitter as guardians of free speech.

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In the Gallery: Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan talk about Breaking The Sound Barrier. Amy Goodman, award-winning host of the daily internationally broadcast radio and television program "Democracy Now", breaks through the corporate media's lies, sound bites, and silence in this wide-ranging new collection of articles.

In place of the usual suspects—the "experts" who, in Goodman's words, "know so little about so much, explain the world to us, and get it so wrong"—this accessible, lively collection allows the voices the corporate media exclude and ignore to be heard loud and clear.

From community organizers in New Orleans, to the courageous American soldiers who've said "No" to Washington's wars, to the victims of torture and police violence, we are given the extraordinary opportunity to hear ordinary people standing up and speaking out. - Book Passage

Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!. She is co-author of the national best-seller The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media that Love Them written with her brother David Goodman.

Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 300 stations in North America.Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S., Democracy Now! is broadcast on Pacifica, community, and National Public Radio stations, public access cable television stations, satellite television (on Free Speech TV, channel 9415 of the DISH Network), shortwave radio and the internet.

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[meyerjac]

It's over. Even the pretense of a free society has been abandoned. Welcome to the totalitarian age.

[ITHEREONETHATHASNT]

@Skydancer365 Democrats are just as bad we really need a revolution in the states. 

[plasterdbastard]

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

-JFK

[rolovolo]

Any doubt about mass sheeple sleeping?

Any doubt about imminent end of times?

Just google:

"The Top 10 You Tube Videos of All Time".....

(WARNING: Risk for nausea/vomiting and TV damage)

In a sane world Ron Paul should be getting those JB's 600,000,000 views......

[EdMan2012]

Liberals/Progressives. Please tell me that you'll help the peaceful conservatives beat these necon warmongering RINO's by registering Republican & voting for Ron Paul in the primary in your state. We may not agree on what the size & role of the Federal Government, but we can unite to end these wars for the profiteering corporations who've made billions on the blood of our brothers, sisters, and friends. Visit DailyPaul(dot)com and find your state on the link chart a few clicks down to the right.

[25lockie]

left wing, right wing-idiots. keep fighting each other just like they want you too. lol. you think you have a say in the world they are creating!? pffff. good luck.

[DCPackFan]

@GDI109 Oh. Yeah, me too. That's why I posted here in the first place. Amy Goodman makes such a jackass of herself, it's just too hard to resist.

[GDI109]

@DCPackFan truthfully, i just like harassing jackasses over the internet.