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Democracy Now! is a syndicated program of news, analysis and opinion that, as of 2006, airs on over 500 radio and television stations, on cable TV, and on satellite television networks in North America. The program's full name is Democracy Now! the War and Peace Report, and it is the flagship national program of the Pacifica Radio network. This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Artists impression of a Boeing 601 satellite, as configured for digital television transmission by SES Astra Satellite television is television delivered by way of communications satellites, as compared to conventional terrestrial television and cable television. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... Pacifica Radio Network. ...

Founders and background

The program was founded in 1996 at WBAI-FM in New York City by journalists Amy Goodman, Larry Bensky, Juan Gonzalez, Salim Muwakkil, and Julie Drizin. Since then, the show has been called "probably the most significant progressive news institution that has come around in some time" by professor and media critic Robert McChesney.^[1] Goodman serves as the program's principal host, with Juan Gonzalez often acting as co-host. The program focuses on issues related to war and peace; U.S. foreign policy; human rights; democracy, both at home and abroad; and domestic issues such as poverty, worker rights, race relations, and police abuse. It often highlights stories and perspectives that Goodman feels are overlooked or bypassed in mainstream news coverage, notably those of antiwar activists and conscientious objectors. Goodman's tagline for the program is, "The Exception to the Rulers". 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... WBAI, a part of the Pacifica Radio Network, is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station, broadcasting at 99. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1676  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City... Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! Amy Goodman (b. ... Juan Gonzalez is an American investigative journalist. ... Salim Muwakkil is an American journalist based out of Chicago. ... Progressivism is a term that refers to a broad school of contemporary international social and political philosophies. ... Robert McChesney is a media critic, academic, and activist. ... Look up war in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The symbol of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, which has become a widely recognized peace symbol. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ... A boy from an East Cipinang trash dump slum in Jakarta, Indonesia shows his find. ... Labor rights or workers rights are a group of legal rights and claimed human rights having to do with labor relations between workers and their employers. ... Race relations are relations between races, sometimes involving racism. ... David Kirkwood on the ground after being struck by police batons Police brutality is a term used to describe the excessive use of physical force, assault, verbal attacks, and threats by police officers and other law enforcement officers. ... Mainstream is, generally, the common current of thought of the majority. ... Anti war protest in Melbourne, Australia, 2003 Anti-war is a term that is widely adopted by any social movement or person that seeks to end or oppose a future or current war. ... Activism, in a general sense, can be described as intentional action to bring about social or political change. ... John T. Neufeld was a WWI conscientious objector sentenced to 15 years hard labour in the military prison at Leavenworth. ...

Awards

Democracy Now! and its staff have received dozens of journalism awards, including the George Polk Award for its 1998 radio documentary Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship, on the Chevron Corporation and the deaths of two Nigerian villagers protesting an oil spill. Other awards include the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Prize, and the Pinnacle Award for American Women in Radio & Television. The George Polk Awards is an American journalism award. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) is one of the worlds largest global energy companies. ...

Funding

The program is funded by listeners, viewers, and foundations. The Ford Foundation website revealed, for instance, that in 2004 a grant of $150,000 was given by the Ford Foundation to Democracy Now Productions Inc. "to produce, broadcast and distribute a series of radio, television and Internet reports on the media reform movement in the United States." At least $350,000 in grant money has been accepted by Democracy Now! since 2001 from the Lannan Foundation that was set up by the family of former ITT board member J. Peter Lannan. Over $100,000 in grants have also been given to Democracy Now! by former Microsoft VP and Real Networks CEO Rob Glaser's Glaser Progress Foundation in recent years. The Ford Foundation is a charitable foundation based in New York City created to fund programs that promote democracy, reduce poverty, promote international understanding, and advance human achievement. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Microsoft is one of few companies engaging itself in the console wars Where they are up against sony, nintendo, and of course sharps new console which may cause a threat. ... RealNetworks (NASDAQ: RNWK) is a Seattle-based provider of Internet media delivery software and services. ...

Democracy Now! does not accept donations from corporations or any government funding. The staff of the program does not accept grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting because they believe that funding from any government entity limits the independence of their programming. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting logo, used from 1969 to 2002. ...

Facilities

DCTV Firehouse Building.

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The show was previously broadcast from Pacifica Radio's WBAI radio station in New York, and was relocated to the DCTV firehouse during a management conflict at the station, during 2000–2001. Since then, the show has added staff and television capability. With a television signal, the show was able to expand its reach to cable and satellite viewers.

Availability

Democracy Now! is the flagship national program of the Pacifica Radio network on which it airs. It also airs on NPR and community radio stations; public access cable television stations; and both Free Speech TV (channel 9415 on DISH Network) and Link TV (channel 375 on the DirecTV and channel 9410 on DISH Network). Democracy Now! is available over the Internet, as both streaming audio and video, and as a podcast. Pacifica Radio Network. ... Offical NPR logo National Public Radio (NPR) is an independent, private, non-profit membership organization of public radio stations in the United States. ... Community radio is a type of radio service that caters to the interests of a certain area, broadcasting material that is popular to a local audience but is overlooked by more powerful broadcast groups. ... Look up public access television in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Free Speech TV is a publicly-supported, independent, non-profit TV channel that is a project of Public Communicators, Inc. ... DISH Network is a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service that provides satellite television and audio programming to households and businesses in the United States, owned by parent company EchoStar Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH). ... LinkTV is a free satellite television station in the United States which started as Worldlink TV in December 1999. ... A standard DirecTV satellite dish with 1 LNB on a roof DirecTV (trademarked as DIRECTV) is a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service based in El Segundo, California, USA, that transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States and Latin America except for Mexico. ... Streaming media is just-in-time delivery of multimedia information. ... Streaming media is just-in-time delivery of multimedia information. ... Podcasting is the method of distributing multimedia files, such as audio or video programs, over the Internet using syndication feeds, for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. ...

Notable guests, interviews, and on-air debates

• Tariq Ali and Christopher Hitchens — took opposing sides in two debates over the Iraq War, in December 2003 and October 2004.
• Lori Berenson — Interviewed in 1999 in Peru by Amy Goodman; political activist arrested in 1995 for collaborating with the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, a Peruvian leftist guerrilla organization. It was the first time a journalist was able to interview Berenson inside the prison where she was incarcerated.
• Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela — Interviewed by Amy Goodman in September 2005.
• Noam Chomsky — Regular guest; MIT linguistics professor, political analyst, and author.
• Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States — Interviewed by Amy Goodman on November 7, 2000. The White House press office had lined up a series of short, routine, election-day interviews with local news outlets. But in this interview, which extended to nearly 30 minutes, Clinton was confronted with a series of pointed questions that compelled him to defend his record on a wide array of issues, with Clinton at one point complaining that Goodman had been "hostile and combative". ^[2]
• Alan Dershowitz and Norman G. Finkelstein — Finkelstein is a frequent guest. This was a much publicised debated about whether Dershowtiz's book The Case for Israel was plagiarised and inaccurate.

Further information: Dershowitz-Finkelstein affair

• Robert Fisk — Frequent guest; prominent and controversial British journalist who currently serves as a Middle East correspondent for The Independent.
• Bill Moyers — Interviewed by Amy Goodman; former host of the PBS show NOW with Bill Moyers and currently the host of the PBS show Wide Angle.
• Greg Palast — Frequent guest; US-born writer and investigative journalist for the BBC and The Observer.
• Scott Ritter — Interviewed by Amy Goodman; former UN weapons inspector who disputed the Bush administration's claims about weapons programs in Iraq.
• Arundhati Roy — Recurring guest; Indian writer, anti-war activist, and leading figure in the anti-globalization movement
• Edward Said — was a regular guest; Columbia University professor, literary critic and Palestinian activist and intellectual.
• Howard Zinn — Interviewed by Amy Goodman; historian and activist; author of several books, including A People's History of the United States.

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See also

• Independent Media Center
• Independent Media
• List of progressive organizations
• Pacifica Radio
• Peace movement
• Social justice
• WBAI

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References

1. ^ http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050523/ratner
2. ^ Frey, Hillary, "Open Mike", Ms. Magazine, February/March 2001

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External links

• Democracy Now! official website
• DCTV (John Alpert)
• Individual shows DN! audio downloads and DN! video downloads archived on Archive.org.
• Torrents of the last 3 episodes
• Podcast Directory (requires iTunes)
• Audio podcast feed
• Video podcast feed

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Articles

• Ratner, Lizzy. Amy Goodman's "Empire". The Nation. May 23, 2005 issue. Retrieved May 6, 2005.