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Amy Goodman’s New Column: “A View From the South”
Evo Morales knows about “change you can believe in.” He also knows what happens when a powerful elite is forced to make changes it doesn’t want.
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“President Obama Can Redeem the White House”
Alice Walker is the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. But Monday, I called her to talk about a true story. The Obamas had just visited the White House. The first African-American elected president of the United States had visited his soon-to-be residence, a house built by slaves.
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Amy Goodman on CNN Newsroom, November 10, 2008
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Anjali Kamat’s New Column: “Change We Can Believe In?”
Democracy Now! producer Anjali Kamat writes, “To all those for whom America has represented generations of racial injustice, the election of America’s first Black president marks the beginning of a new era…But unless the inspired millions who brought him to power continue to believe their demands matter and insist on holding him accountable each step of the way, it will be Obama’s corporate and hawkish friends who determine the domestic and foreign policies of the coming administration and our collective future.”
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“Organizer in Chief”
You could almost hear the world’s collective sigh of relief. This year’s U.S. presidential election was a global event in every sense. Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a black Kenyan father and a white Kansan mother, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, represents to so many a living bridge—between continents and cultures.
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Studs Terkel, 1912-2008
The legendary radio broadcaster, writer and oral historian Studs Terkel has died at the age of 96 in Chicago. Over the years Terkel has been a regular guest on Democracy Now!In 2005, Studs Terkel appeared on Democracy Now! shortly after undergoing open heart surgery. He told Amy Goodman, “My curiosity is what saw me through. What would the world be like, or will there be a world? And so, that’s my epitaph. I have it all set. Curiosity did not kill this cat. And it’s curiosity, I think, that has saved me thus far.”
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“Election Protection”
Election Day approaches, and with it a test of our election system’s integrity. Who will be allowed to vote; who will be barred? Who will get paper ballots; who will use electronic voting machines? Will polls be open long enough to accommodate what is expected to be a historic turnout?
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“Change Big Donors Can Believe In”
The candidates’ coffers are swelling with larger and larger bundles of cash, but don’t hold your breath waiting for the extended television discussions of this, because it’s the broadcasters who profit the most.
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Amy Goodman Questions Fmr. President Jimmy Carter on Being Sidelined at DNC
Former President Jimmy Carter was removed from Monday’s speakers’ list in what appeared to be a last-minute change. The move immediately fueled speculation Carter is being sidelined for his outspoken criticism of the Bush administration and Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Amy Goodman asked Carter about his apparent demotion in the halls of the convention center. [includes rush transcript]
Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States.
Rush Transcript
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AMY GOODMAN: And back at the convention, tonight’s headlining speakers include former President Bill Clinton. While Clinton is being given a prime-time slot, controversy still surrounds former President Jimmy Carter’s diminished role at the convention.
Carter was removed from Monday’s speakers’ list in what appeared to be a last-minute change. Instead, Carter was shown in a three-minute videotaped address focusing on his work around Hurricane Katrina. He was then brought onto the stage for a ninety-second ovation for the crowd with his wife Rosalynn. The move immediately fueled speculation Carter is being sidelined for his outspoken criticism of the Bush administration and Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
I asked President Carter about his apparent demotion in the halls of the convention center afterwards.
AMY GOODMAN: We were hoping to hear you tonight. What happened?
JIMMY CARTER: Well, I was on the program.
AMY GOODMAN: Did you speak?
JIMMY CARTER: No, I had a—
AMY GOODMAN: I know. I saw you wave.
JIMMY CARTER: —video. No, well, we had a video ahead of time. You didn’t see the movie.
AMY GOODMAN: Yeah, I saw the video. It was very good.
JIMMY CARTER: That was it.
AMY GOODMAN: What message do you have for Barack Obama, how to avoid getting swift-boated?
JIMMY CARTER: I think he’s going to be immune from that, because the truth will emerge no matter how much the Republicans try to distort the truth. So I have confidence in him.
AMY GOODMAN: And what do you think of the choice of Biden?
JIMMY CARTER: Perfect.
AMY GOODMAN: President Jimmy Carter, after he did not address the Democratic convention on Monday night. I spoke to him in the halls of the Pepsi Convention Center.
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