Noam Chomsky and Harry Belafonte shared a platform on Dec. 4 in New York, where they joined journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Democracy Now! The four discussed American politics and the lessons to be learned from the recent election in front of an audience of 2,000 people at the Riverside Church in Manhattan.

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