Lunch-break: Amy Goodman (from Democracy Now)

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When I was headed back to work after getting allergy injections today (mid-morning), I couldn't resist a very strong urge to buy a soft pretzel, even though I had eaten breakfast and wasn't hungry. This turned out to be very fortunate, since when I went for a lunch break at 1:00, I discovered that Amy Goodman was speaking in the library auditorium, so I skipped lunch and listened to her talk. (I had known she was going to be speaking some time, but I hadn't planned on attending, mostly because I rarely attend anything at the library, just because I don't like to spend extra time here.)

I had to leave early, with eyes that were beginning to tear up, as she described the Dili (sp?) massacre in East Timor in 1991, where she and Allen Nairn were beaten, and probably came close to being executed. (I went back to being a hard-nosed bureaucratic functionary almost immediately after I hit the reference desk, however, which makes me wonder about me.)

She talked about events (and their coverage, or lack of coverage) in Iraq, Haiti, E. Timor, etc. The auditorium was packed nearly to capacity. I wish I could have stayed until the end.

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

she is fantastic and I wish I got to listen to/watch her program more often.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Her story about being on the Sally Jesse Raphael show was very funny. (That particular tape was never aired, unsurprisingly.)

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

could you tell the story?

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

No. I couldn't remember it all, and it would never be the same.

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

not even a paraphrase? damn.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

she is fantastic and I wish I got to listen to/watch her program more often.

You can download mp3s from http://www.democracynow.org/

She's totally fantastic.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Arrrr.... looks like they had to start charging for them

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Does anyone know if she's a Gemini?

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 27 August 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

i don't know but they definitely don't charge for mp3s

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Saturday, 27 August 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

I'm starting to think she's not a very good interviewer. She will repeatedly ask questions that she has either already asked (and been given a straightforward, non-evasive answer to) or asks for information that has already been provided by the interviewee. How well does she actually listen? It seems to me she is best when she's calling out some figure in power.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 2 September 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

we have 60 copies of amy's new book and a hundred oatmeal raisin cookies in the truck and we are ready to roll. get the thai food to dollie's house. bring card-tables and t-shirts and something for donations. amy is flying in from nantucket. meet you at the old whaling church at five. maria will introduce amy, someone from the peace council will say something, and then its go-time. the oilgarchy won't know what hit them once truth speaks to power.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 2 September 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

sorry, i'm amy-ed out. maria has been planning a joint amy/peace/lo-fi radio hoe-down for weeks and today is d-day. and the kids are driving me nuts.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 2 September 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

i am an anti-war widow.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 2 September 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

Surely Rufus and Cyrus speak truth to power...when the say "But it's mine, Da-da. Mine! All mine!"

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Saturday, 2 September 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

i'll take marc cooper

― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 2 September 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

Weird that you would revive that thread today. I hate the expression "speak truth to power" - and have even less respect for Susan Sarandon now that she's quoted on the new book as saying Amy does that. That said (another too-oft-used expresseion), the book makes the horror of the past year's administration a breezy read. She was pretty good tonight. I was nervous introducing her. There were about 300 people there - most of the oatmeal cookies were eaten. We sold all the books (I bought the last one). Amy's speech didn't wow me, but it was interesting to see who showed up (my preferred provider! a long-lost Dutch friend! Amy's old professor! Phil Donahue!)

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Sunday, 3 September 2006 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

They leave on the Patriot at 4 a.m. You've got to get up early to speak truth to power.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Sunday, 3 September 2006 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

Hi aimurchie! You drunk?

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Sunday, 3 September 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

I hate that expression too. Noam Chomsky is on record finding fault in it as well.

(Scott, is it possible that, for better or worse, we have some sort of psychic connection, e.g., the time we brought up "Your Mama's on Crack Rock" at practically the exact same moment, on different ILM threads?)

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 3 September 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

Another thing I don't like about Democracy Now (and it's still one of the better news shows on, so I can afford to be picky) is the stupid holiday specials they have. Like, what's it going to be tonight, Howard Zinn reading his favorite poems?

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Actually: Today we spend the hour with the legendary folk singer, banjo player, storyteller and activist Pete Seeger.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

The "speak truth to power" was kinda sarcastic, on my part. I hate it too.
I don't think my sense of humor translates well in this forum...
Congrats on the show, Maria.
Not drunk right this minute, but I will try to be so soon...I have to register for school this week, and classes start, like, Wednesday, so that's a good excuse to get totally quasted!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Monday, 4 September 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

"Weird that you would revive that thread today."

The Richard Gere thread? There was a thread asking for thread revivals...and it is so good. Why weird?

What's weird is that I tried to call you, Maria, for the first time in months, on the day of your Goodman experience! THAT'S bad timing!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

No, not you. I mean weird that Rockist Scientist would revise *this* thread on the day I was having her here.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

Yup, that's weird. Weirder than trying to call you whilst you were addressing a crowd of 300 oatmeal cookies. Rather, liberal island folk.
Hope ya made some money for the radio station!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

She was at the Free Library again today. I left work early and was thinking about going home, but it felt weird not to go hear her, since she was there. Unfortunately, she didn't even speak for a full hour, and didn't take questions, because they wanted her to autograph books, and I guess her schedule is tight. She was good, man. She seems like such an effortless speaker, which tends to impress me.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think there were any seats left by the time her talk finished, so it was even more crowded than when I saw her before.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Ew, Dar Williams singing on Democracy Now. Why does so much protest music have to sound like that?

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

"I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn"
Neil Innes' "Protest Song"

― everything (everything), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

I am eternally grateful to her for the mega-slap phone interview she did with that fucker Clinton shortly before he left office. You could hear one of those famous WJC tantrums barely being held in check while she read him the riot act.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

I think that's permanently on the Democracy Now website.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/21/1613218&mode=thread&tid=25

GOODMAN: Do you support a moratorium on the death penalty, given the studies that show the racist way it has been applied?

CLINTON: The disturbing thing to me is that there is not only an apparent racial disparity on death row, but also way over half the cases come from a relatively small number of the U.S. attorneys' offices.

But again, let me just say this. If you are concerned about that, that's a good reason to vote for Al Gore and Joe Lieberman, and Hillary for the Senate.... Because we know the Democrats care about these issues, and we know they're not very important to the Republicans. So that's another example of another reason you ought to vote for the Democrats.

GOODMAN: Gore supports the death penalty.

CLINTON: He does, but...

GOODMAN: And Lieberman.

CLINTON: Yes, they do.

― and what (ooo), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

must admit i love 'pure as caesar's wife' re: nader

― and what (ooo), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

*roffle* (maria went to college with dar williams)

(but i agree. it's all ninasimonemichaelfrantibobmarley on democracy now and its enough to make you join the john birch society)

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

(but i agree. it's all ninasimonemichaelfrantibobmarley on democracy now and its enough to make you join the john birch society)

Actually, they did play Galaxie 500 as bumper music a couple days ago. And the closing music is still Manitoba.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

wow, did you guys see amy getting arrested!?

maybe it's on the convention thread:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjyvkR0bGQ

― Maria :D, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 00:44 (seventeen years ago)

er, that's me.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 00:45 (seventeen years ago)

probably old news on here anyway...

― scott seward, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 00:45 (seventeen years ago)

That was YOU getting arrested?

― Abbott, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 01:48 (seventeen years ago)

that's horrifying

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 03:37 (seventeen years ago)

i mean it looks like someone's scripted version of the aggressive arrest of a dissenting journalist except ITS REAL

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 03:38 (seventeen years ago)

needs more taser

― velko, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 03:42 (seventeen years ago)

I got a fever

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 03:45 (seventeen years ago)

If I'm not mistaken the Eleventeenth Amendment guarantees our right to win shoving matches with cops in riot gear...

― Kerm, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 03:54 (seventeen years ago)

Tear gas.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 04:17 (seventeen years ago)

fuckers

― tremendoid, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 06:18 (seventeen years ago)

it's so great being a cop. you got a stick, pepper spray, a taser, a pistol, bean-bag gun, rubber bullets, a shield, a helmet, knife-proof armor, bullet-proof armor, a gas mask, battering rams, tanks, cs gas grenades... and on top of that people are shit-scared of you and have to do what you say. and you can pretty much just kill them if they don't. america rules. if you're a cop.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 07:33 (seventeen years ago)

total bullshit (but obv not surprising). they were released and are back on-air now: http://www.democracynow.org/

― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 12:04 (seventeen years ago)

goodman's been charged with obstruction of a legal process and interference with a “peace officer.”

basically everyone was in a parking lot, full of cars, and the police were yelling at everyone to move, but people couldn't move as fast as police wanted them to b/c it they were blocked by cars and the crowd. 3 cops pushed nicole salazar to the ground and dragged her along while she was shouting 'i'm press!' and trying to show them her press badge. later they took the battery out of her camera (but not the tape). same thing with Kouddous - secret service even took away his and amy's high-level-security press badges. goodman went to question the police (ohboy) about the arrest of her fellow journalists and was then arrested too. of course she kept questioning and was repeatedly told to shut up and had her plastic handcuffs tightened. total lack of media recognition, let alone respect.

― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 12:29 (seventeen years ago)

seven months pass...

It's obvious, I know, but

AMY GOODMAN IS AWESOME

Thank goodness for her.

Just thought I'd get that out there before the Amy Goodman RIP thread in the late 2080s.

― I f'd up the word rear (Z S), Saturday, 4 April 2009 03:20 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.davidicke.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-96790.html

― is it really that hard to spot all these fake british dudes? (velko), Saturday, 8 May 2010 20:49 (fifteen years ago)

six years pass...

Anyone watching Amy Goodman live now?

― PappaWheelie V, Monday, 17 October 2016 18:41 (eight years ago)

Case against Amy Goodman dismissed

― PappaWheelie V, Monday, 17 October 2016 18:44 (eight years ago)

good

― sleeve, Monday, 17 October 2016 18:47 (eight years ago)

Local prosecutor seeks liberal-bashing street cred with voters. Gets most of what he wants.

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Monday, 17 October 2016 18:47 (eight years ago)

With voters or with oil companies? Or are all the voters there oil company workers?

― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 17 October 2016 19:14 (eight years ago)

oil workers or else harvesting the wages of oil workers.

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Monday, 17 October 2016 19:15 (eight years ago)

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