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Democracy Now! is a syndicated news and opinion radio and television program that airs on over 420 radio and television stations, on cable TV, and both satellite television networks in North America. The flagship national program of the Pacifica Radio network, it also broadcasts on community and NPR stations, public access cable television stations, Free Speech TV (channels 9410 and 9415 of the DISH Network), Link TV (channel 375 of the DirecTV satellite network), and over the internet, including as a "podcast". The program's full name is "Democracy Now! the War and Peace Report." The views of its broadcasters are generally left-wing. This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ...
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Pacifica Radio is a network of five independent owned and operated, non-commercial, listener-supported radio stations, one associated station, and 90 affiliated radio stations in the United States that is known for its leftist and pacifist political views. ...
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. ...
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Public access television is a cable television service that allows members of the public to use a cable companys facilities and equipment to create and broadcast their own content. ...
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 broadcasts digital satellite television and audio to households 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. ...
DirecTV is a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service that transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States of America. ...
Podcasting is the method of distributing multimedia files, such as audio programs or music videos, over the Internet using either the RSS or Atom syndication formats, for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. ...
In politics, left-wing, the political left or simply The Left are terms that refer to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy or social liberalism, and defined in contradistinction to its polar opposite, the right. ...
Founders and Background
 Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez in studio. The program was founded in 1996 at WBAI in New York City by journalists Amy Goodman, Larry Bensky, Juan Gonzalez, Salim Muwakkil, and Julie Drizin. Amy Goodman acts as the program's host with Juan Gonzalez acting as co-host. The program is primarily concerned with issues related to war, human rights and U.S. foreign and domestic policy, attempting to provide an alternative to mainstream news coverage. Image File history File links AmyGoodman_JuanGonzalez. ...
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1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
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Flag Seal Nickname: The Big Apple, The Capital of the World[1], Gotham Location Location in the state of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area - City 1,214. ...
Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! Amy Goodman (born April 13, 1957) is an American broadcast journalist and author. ...
Juan Gonzalez is an American investigative journalist. ...
The United States detonated an atomic bomb over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, effectively ending World War II. The bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima (on August 6) immediately killed between 100,000 and 200,000 people and are the only known instances nuclear weapons have ever been used in war. ...
President of the United States, George W. Bush (right) at Camp David in March 2003, hosting the British Prime Minister Tony Blair. ...
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, 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. 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 Democracy Now! is headquartered in New York City. Located in a converted firehouse building in Chinatown that is also home to documentary filmmaker Downtown Community Television studio. Image File history File linksMetadata DCTV-DN-firehouse-250x200. ...
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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.
Staff - Amy Goodman-Host and Executive Producer
- Juan Gonzalez-Co-host
- Mike Burke-Producer
- Sharif Abdel Kouddous-Producer
- John Hamilton-Television Producer
- Elizabeth Press-Television Producer
- Yoruba Richen-Television Producer
- Frank Lopez - Television Producer
- Jen Utz - Television Producer/Distribution Manager
- Isis Phillips - Financial Manager
- Neil Shibata - Volunteer Coordinator
- Nikki Smirl - Outreach Coordinator
- Denis Moynihan - Outreach Director
- Mike Kimber - Distribution Associate
- Mike "Flip" DiFilippo - Audio Engineer
- Nick Marcilio - Engineer
- Mike Castleman - Resident Hacker
- Dave Rice - Archivist
Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! Amy Goodman (born April 13, 1957) is an American broadcast journalist and author. ...
Juan Gonzalez is an American investigative journalist. ...
John Hamilton is a common name shared by numerous individuals. ...
Notable guests, interviews, and on-air debates Tariq Ali Tariq Ali (born 1943) is an author, filmmaker, and historian. ...
Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ...
Bush in Babylon is a book by the Trotskyist author and historian Tariq Ali, which attacks the controversial 2003 invasion of Iraq. ...
Christopher Hitchens Christopher Eric Hitchens (b. ...
There have been three conflicts in the late 20th century and early 21st century called Gulf War, all of which refer to conflicts in the Persian Gulf region: Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) (aka First Gulf War). ...
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The Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement or Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru (MRTA) was an insurgent guerrilla movement active in Peru from 1984 to 1997. ...
William Jefferson Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ...
Noam Chomsky Avram Noam Chomsky (b. ...
Mapúa Institute of Technology (MIT, MapúaTech or simply Mapúa) is a private, non-sectarian, Filipino tertiary institute located in Intramuros, Manila. ...
Robert Fisk during a lecture at Carleton University, Canada, 2004 Robert Fisk (born 1946, Maidstone, Kent) is a British journalist, currently Middle East correspondent for the British newspaper The Independent. ...
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Socialism is a social and economic system (or the political philosophy advocating such a system) in which the economic means of production are owned and controlled collectively by the people. ...
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The Nation logo The Nation is a weekly left-liberal periodical devoted to politics and culture. ...
Tariq Ali Tariq Ali (born 1943) is an author, filmmaker, and historian. ...
There have been three conflicts in the late 20th century and early 21st century called Gulf War, all of which refer to conflicts in the Persian Gulf region: Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) (aka First Gulf War). ...
Bill Moyers William Daniel Moyers (born June 5, 1934) is an American journalist and public commentator. ...
PBS re-directs here; for alternate uses see PBS (disambiguation) PBS logo The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 349 member TV stations in the United States. ...
NOW is a PBS newsmagazine especially covering social and political issues. ...
Wide Angle is a weekly one-hour PBS series hosted by Bill Moyers and broadcast via the WNET PBS station since 2002. ...
Howard Zinn Howard Zinn (born August 24, 1922) is an American historian and political scientist. ...
A Peoples History of the United States, 2003 hardcover edition In A Peoples History of the United States, author Howard Zinn seeks to present U.S. history through the eyes of ordinary people, depicting the struggles of Native Americans against European and U.S. conquest and expansion, slaves...
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President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, companies, universities, and countries. ...
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Pacifica Radio is a network of five independent owned and operated, non-commercial, listener-supported radio stations, one associated station, and 90 affiliated radio stations in the United States that is known for its leftist and pacifist political views. ...
Indymedia Logo The Independent Media Center (aka Indymedia or IMC) is a global network of independent journalists and alternative media. ...
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Alternative media are defined most broadly as those media practices falling outside the mainstreams of corporate communication. ...
Social justice is a philosophical definition of justice, that is, giving individuals or groups their due within society as a whole. ...
The global peace movement refers to a sense of common purpose among organizations that seek to end wars and minimize inter-human violence, usually through pacifism, non-violent resistance, diplomacy, boycott, moral purchasing and demonstrating. ...
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