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 Amy Goodman, Columnist
Amy Goodman is the co-founder, executive producer and host of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on more than 450 public broadcast stations in North America. Goodman graduated from Harvard with a degree in anthropology in 1984. She began her career in community radio in 1985 at Pacifica Radio’s New York station, WBAI, where she produced WBAI’s Evening News for 10 years. In 1991, Goodman traveled to East Timor to report on the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. There, she and colleague Allan Nairn witnessed Indonesian soldiers gun down 270 East Timorese men, women and children during a memorial procession. Indonesian soldiers savagely beat Goodman and Nairn, fracturing Nairn’s skull. Their documentary, “Massacre: The Story of East Timor” won numerous awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting, the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Award, the Armstrong Award, the Radio/Television News Directors Award, as well as awards from the Associated Press, United Press International and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In 1996, Goodman helped launch Pacifica Radio’s Democracy Now!. Two years later, Goodman and producer Jeremy Scahill went to Nigeria. Their award-winning radio documentary “Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria’s Oil Dictatorship” exposed Chevron’s role in the killing of two Nigerian villagers in the Niger Delta, who were protesting yet another oil spill in their community. In 1999, Goodman traveled to Peru to interview American political prisoner Lori Berenson. It was the first time a journalist had ever gotten into the prison to speak to her. In March 2004, Goodman obtained the international broadcast exclusive of the return of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from his imposed exile in the Central African Republic to Jamaica, accompanying the Aristides with the delegation that retrieved them. Her coverage of the Haitian story scored more than 3.5 million hits on Democracy Now!‘s Web site, ultimately forcing the story into the mainstream press in what Goodman describes as “trickle up” journalism. In addition to writing her syndicated editorial column, Goodman is co-author, with her brother David Goodman, of the book Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders and the People Who Fight Back (Hyperion, 2006). The pair also co-wrote the national best-seller The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them. The book was chosen by independent bookstores as the No. 1 political title of the 2004 election season and ranked as one of the top 50 nonfiction books of 2004 by the editors of Publishers Weekly. Goodman is the co-author of Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times, recently released in paperback. She was awarded the 2008 Right Livelihood Award, dubbed the “Alternative Nobel” prize, and received the award in the Swedish Parliament in December. 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Choi Won’t Lie for His Country 10/06 Watch What You Tweet 09/29 Scanning the Horizon of Books and Libraries 09/22 President Zelaya and the Audacity of Action 09/15 Let Us Not Become the Evil We Deplore 09/08 Van Jones and the Boycott of Glenn Beck 09/01 New Light on Copenhagen Climate Talks 08/25 Who Is Obama Playing Ball With? 08/18 Troy Davis and the Meaning of ‘Actual Innocence’ 08/11 Health Care Reform Needs an Action Hero 08/04 A Coup for Lobbyists at the White House 07/28 Obama’s Military Is Spying on U.S. Peace Groups 07/21 The 21st Century Color Line 07/14 Health Insurance Whistle-Blower Knows Where the Bodies Are Buried 07/08 Two Standards of Detention 06/30 Undo the Coup 06/23 Free Speech vs. Surveillance in the Digital Age 06/16 Congre$$, Heal Thyself 06/09 Two Men Who Stood Under the Plunderers’ Knives 06/02 Dr. George Tiller Didn’t Have to Die 05/26 Chevron, Shell and the True Cost of Oil 05/19 Yoo’s Views Make Philly News 05/13 Baucus’ Raucous Caucus 05/05 Pete Seeger Carries Us On 04/29 Disclosure of ‘Secrets’ in the ’70s Didn’t Destroy the Nation 04/21 Torturers Should Be Punished 04/14 Pacifica Radio at 60: A Sanctuary of Dissent 04/07 U.S. Muslims Still Under Siege 03/31 Seattle’s Lessons for London 03/24 Lessons of the Exxon Valdez 03/17 Those Hit Hardest Get No Bailout 03/10 Put Single-Payer on the Table 03/03 Obama’s Coalition of the Unwilling 02/24 Toxins ’R’ Us 02/17 Jailing Kids for Cash 02/11 Obama’s Afghan Trap 02/03 Produce the Note 01/27 Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Jail 01/20 A Long Train Ride 01/13 Nothing to Fear but No Health Care 01/06 Israeli Voices for Peace 200812/31 Voices of Resistance Sing On 12/23 One Man’s Bid to Aid the Environment 12/16 Workers Laid Off, Executives Paid Off, Bernard Madoff 12/09 A Tale of Two Nobel Nations 12/02 Chevron in the White House 11/25 Tutu, Obama and the Middle East 11/19 A View From the South 11/12 President Obama Can Redeem the White House 11/05 Organizer in Chief 10/29 Election Protection 10/22 Change Big Donors Can Believe In 10/16 Who Gets to Vote? 10/08 Open the Debates 10/01 Invasion of the Sea-Smurfs 09/24 Troy Davis and the Supreme Decision 09/17 Wall Street Socialists 09/10 The Party Police 09/03 Why We Were Falsely Arrested 08/27 Poverty Is the Real Scandal 08/21 Cheney, Bush and Habbush 08/13 Don’t Cage Dissent 08/06 Threats, Lies and Audiotape 07/30 ‘It’s a Global Election’ 07/23 Who’s Paying for the Conventions? 07/16 Don’t Drink the Nuclear Kool-Aid 07/09 Colombia: Celebrate the Release, Not the Regime 07/02 It’s Not the Man, It’s the Movement 06/25 Funny Man in an Unfunny World 06/18 Weather Reports Are Missing the Story 06/11 This Way to Better Media 06/04 Obama Strikes a Chord With a Disaffected Republican 05/28 Utah Phillips Has Left the Stage 05/21 Presidential Race Ignores Arms Race 05/14 Whistle-Blower Points to Target List in U.S. Attack on Hotel 05/07 The U.S. War on Journalists 04/30 Ticker Tape Ain’t Spaghetti 04/23 The Single-Payer Solution 04/16 The Orangeburg Massacre 04/09 A Torture Debate Among Healers 04/02 Where Do We Go From Here? 03/26 Body of War Publications
Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary TimesBy Amy Goodman, David Goodman 
Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Backby Amy Goodman, David Goodman 
The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love ThemBy Amy Goodman, David Goodman
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