I was speaking with some fellow teachers and they asked me what I missed most about America and after some usuals like a/c, ice cream, electricity, high speed internet, family and friends, flavor in food and Jon Stewart. I realized that I miss Amy Goodman and Democracy Now. I know it’s kind of lame but gosh does she have a soft spot in my heart. Then I realized I haven’t done a shoutout in a while a boom, now you have it.
Amy Goodman is the host of online and public radio’s Democracy Now. This program is fully funded by viewers and has no corporate hands involved with anything related to the show. With that, Amy Goodman can say whatever she wants and does. Her show starts with a 15 minute recap of the news from the day before. This isn’t just the news news, this is often times news you will not see on TV from human rights abuses by corporations to the administration quietly selling several billion dollars worth of weapons to Taiwan and to when Haiti fades from the news while chaos is on the verge throughout the country. Amy covers all these things and I appreciate her for it. Then she usually has one to two interviews with folks about pressing issues regarding human rights or justice or the environment and usually all three wrapped into one.
So please, if you haven’t checked out Democracy Now, please do so and if you have heard of Democracy Now and appreciate the work that Amy Goodman is doing then tell your friends to watch Democracy Now for their news and if have some loose change, give it to her, they don’t have any outside funding and they do a really important job.
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