Practical Solidarity with the Pit Stop Ploughshares as they Approach March 7th 4Courts Trial.

by Pit Stop Ploughshares Tue Jan 18, 2005 14:21 ploughsharesireland at yahoo dot ie 087 918 4552

ON THE eve of polling day in Iraq, one of America’s
most respected broadcasters will be in Ireland to
speak on the responsibilities of independent
journalists covering wars and elections.

Amy Goodman, who has won numerous awards for
programmes made across the entire globe (see
biographical note below), will show a short film and
address an audience at Dublin’s ATGWU hall, Middle
Abbey Street on Saturday, January 29th at 8pm. (She
will speak at an Afri event in Kildare earlier the
same day.)

Goodman hosts the daily syndicated Democracy Now!
programme on US radio. Appropriately, the Dublin event
will be chaired by perhaps her nearest Irish
equivalent, Vincent Browne. It has been organised by
the Pitstop Ploughshares group – who face trial later
this year for ‘disarming’ a US military plane at
Shannon airport in 2003.

With George W Bush starting his second term, the need
for hard-hitting investigative journalism is greater
than ever – and so are the hazards that come with it.
Goodman has never been afraid to dig deep and court
controversy.

Goodman is notoriously disrespectful of the powerful
and privileged. When President Bill Clinton put in a
“get out the vote” call to her programme on election
day in 2000, she kept him on the phone for the most
challenging interview of his presidency.

And when Washington’s prestigious Overseas Press Club
tried to give her an award, she came to the ceremony
but refused the honour because she saw the club
showing too much deference to Secretary of State
Richard Holbrooke, who was also present.

ABOUT AMY GOODMAN
Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of
Democracy Now! She is co-author of the US bestseller,
The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily
Politicians, written with her brother David Goodman.
The book was chosen by American independent bookstores
as the top political title of the 2004 election
season.
Amy Goodman began her career in community radio in
1985 at Pacifica Radio’s New York station, WBAI. She
produced WBAI’s Evening News for 10 years.
In 1990 and 1991, Amy traveled to East Timor to
report on the US-backed Indonesian occupation of East
Timor. There, she and colleague Allan Nairn witnessed
Indonesian soldiers gun down 270 East Timorese.
Indonesian soldiers beat Amy and Allan, fracturing
Allan’s skull.
Their documentary, Massacre: The Story of East Timor,
won numerous awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy
Prize for International Reporting, the Alfred I.
DuPont-Columbia Award, the Armstrong Award, the
Radio/Television News Directors Award, as well as
awards from the Associated Press, United Press
International, and the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting.
In 1996, Amy helped launch Pacifica’s Democracy Now!
Two years later, Amy and producer Jeremy Scahill went
to Nigeria. Their radio documentary, Drilling and
Killing: Chevron and Nigeria’s Oil Dictatorship,
exposed Chevron’s role in the killing of two Nigerian
villagers in the Niger Delta, who were protesting yet
another oil spill in their community.
That documentary won the George Polk Award, the
Golden Reel for Best National Documentary from the
National Federation of Community Broadcasters, and a
Project Censored award.
In 1999, Amy Goodman traveled to Peru to interview
American political prisoner Lori Berenson. It was the
first time a journalist had ever got into the prison
to speak to her. In March of 2004, Amy obtained an
international broadcast exclusive: the return of
Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from imposed
exile in the Central African Republic to Jamaica; she
accompanied the Aristides with the delegation that
retrieved them.

by redjade Tue Jan 18, 2005 15:37

Please go to
http://PloughsharesIreland.org

and download the this PDF file.....

by Pit Stop Ploughshares Tue Jan 18, 2005 20:59

*The poster has the wrong day not date
Amy Goodman will be speaking 8 pm Saturday January 29th.
Will fix it as soon as possible for downloading.

*Correct Bank codes are as follows
Bank Codes
IBAN : IE18BOFI90055118972983
BIC NO./SWITCH CODE:BOFIIE2D

by redjade Wed Jan 19, 2005 15:00

grrrrr.... this is the correct flyer - go to website and download the pdf for the updated *corrected* version...

On Saturday

by Michael Thu Jan 20, 2005 18:08

Amy Goodman is a brilliant journalist, and the show which she hosts -- DemocracyNow! -- is the most important daily radio program from America. Her book, Exception to the Rulers, is a highly readable and life-affirming journey through her recent journalism and human rights reporting.