The silenced majority
Subtitle: stories of uprisings, occupations, resistance, and hope
By: Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
Contributors: Moynihan, Denis
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9781608462315
Subjects: Democracy now! (Radio program); Democracy now! (Television program); Mass media; Political activists; History; Journalism; Foreign relations; Social movements
Description: Pulls back the veil of corporate media reporting to dig deep into the politics of "climate apartheid," the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the movement to halt the execution of Troy Anthony Davis, and the globalization of dissent "From Tahrir Square to Liberty Plaza." Throughout Goodman and Moynihan show the power of ordinary people to change their media-- and change the world. Amy Goodman is a multiple New York Times best-selling author and the host and executive producer of Democracy now! a daily independent news program. Moynihan has participated in the organization's growth, focusing primarily on distribution, infrastructure development, and coordinating live broadcasts.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Obama's wars : a tragedy in three acts. Act 1 : the wars abroad. Let Us Not Become the Evil We Deplore; title: The Tortured Logic Continues; title: The Obscenity of War; title: Broken Promises, Broken Laws, Broken Lives; title: September 11 : A Day Without War; title: Torture in Iraq Continues, Unabated; title: War Should Be an Election Issue; title: Guantánamo at Ten : The Prisoner and the Prosecutor; title: The Afghan War's Nine Lives; title: Terror, Trauma, and the Endless Afghan War; title: Obama's wars : a tragedy in three acts. Act 2 : the war on veterans and soldiers. Memorial Day : Honor the Dead, Heal the Wounded, Stop the Wars; title: Veterans Say No to NATO; title: The War Condolences Obama Hasn't Sent; title: "The Comeback Kid" and the Kids Who Won't; title: Accomplish the Mission : Bring the Troops Home; title: Soldier Suicides and the Politics of Presidential Condolences; title: Lt. Choi Won't Lie for His Country; title: Why Did Obama Fire Dan Choi?; title: Obama's wars : a tragedy in three acts. Act 3 : the war on the public treasury. We Can't Afford War; title: Deficit Doves; title: The Battle of the Budgets : New Fronts in the Afghan and Iraq Wars; title: War Is a Racket; title: War, Debt, and the President; title: Money in politics. Big Money Clouds the Big Skies of Montana; title: It's One Person, One Vote, Not One Percent, One Vote; title: The Real Mad Men : Following the Money Behind TV Political Ads; title: Republicans Divided, Citizens United; title: Climate change. New Light on Copenhagen Climate Talks; title: Trick or Treat for Climate Change; title: Take Me to Your Climate Leader; title: Copenhagen Climate Summit : The Empire's New Clothes; title: Climate Discord : From Hopenhagen to Nopenhagen; title: Cochabamba, the Water Wars, and Climate Change; title: News at 11 : How Climate Change Affects You; title: A Little Missed Sunshine; title: Cancún, Climate Change, and WikiLeaks; title: Renewed Energy for Renewable Energy; title: Weiner's No Longfellow; title: Cry, the Beloved Climate; title: Listen to the People, Not the Polluters; title: Climate Apartheid; title: The Long, Hot March of Climate Change; title: Climate Change : "This Is Just the Beginning"; title: Dirty energy. Obama's Nuclear Option; title: Cracking Down on Fracking; title: Massey Disaster Not Just Tragic, but Criminal; title: BP : Billionaire Polluter; title: In Memory of All That Is Lost; title: If Only Information Flowed as Freely as Oil; title: A Warning to the World; title: Japan's Meltdowns Demand New No-Nukes Thinking; title: From Hiroshima to Fukushima : Japan's Atomic Tragedies; title: D.C. Protests That Make Big Oil Quake; title: Keystone XL : Ring Around the Rose Garden; title: The Bipartisan Nuclear Bailout; title: Race, racism, and the myth of post-racial America. Henry Louis Gates Jr., Troy Anthony Davis, and the Twenty-First-Century Color Line; title: Van Jones and the Boycott of Glenn Beck; title: Holding Corporations Accountable for Apartheid Crimes; title: Boycotting Arizona's Racism; title: Alleged Chicago Torturer's Overdue Day in Court; title: Mosque-Issippi Burning; title: NYC's Jihad Against Debbie Almontaser; title: From Tuskegee to Guatemala via Nuremberg; title: A Tale of Two Sheriffs; title: Tucson, Juarez, and an Assault Weapons Ban; title: If You Can't Beat Them, Enjoin Them (From Voting); title: Walking While Black : The Killing of Trayvon Martin; title: Black in White Plains : The Police Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain; title: Capital punishment : the machinery of death. Troy Davis and the Meaning of "Actual Innocence"; title: Georgia and the U.S. Supreme Court Tinkering with the Machinery of Death; title: Capital Punishment : One of America's Worst Crimes; title: Troy Davis and the Politics of Death; title: Troy Davis and the Machinery of Death; title: Wikileaks and the crackdown on dissent.  WikiLeaks, War Crimes, and the Pinochet Principle; title: Bradley Manning and the Fog of War; title: Watch What You Tweet; title: Books, Not Bombs; title: Canada's Olympic Crackdown; title: Collateral Murder in Iraq; title: WikiLeaks' Afghan War Diary; title: FBI Raids and the Criminalization of Dissent; title: WikiLeaks and the End of U.S. "Diplomacy"; title: "Assangination" : From Character Assassination to the Real Thing; title: President Obama's Christmas Gift to AT&T (and Comcast and Verizon); title: Tony Kushner and the Angels of Dissent; title: Andrew Breitbart's "Electronic Brownshirts"; title: WikiLeaks, Wimbledon, and War; title: San Francisco Bay Area's BART Pulls a Mubarak; title: WikiLeaks vs. Stratfor : Pursue the Truth, Not Its Messenger; title: Obama's Military Is Spying on U.S. Peace Groups; title: The NSA Is Watching You; title: Uprisings : from the Arab spring to occupy Wall Street. The Pain in Spain Falls Mainly on the Plain (Folk); title: Another World Is Possible, Another Detroit Is Happening; title: Egypt's Youth Will Not Be Silenced; title: Uprisings : From the Middle East to the Midwest; title: Barack Obama Must Speak Out on Bahrain Bloodshed; title: The Gaza Freedom Flotilla : Framing the Narrative; title: 99 Percenters Occupy Wall Street; title: A New Bush Era or a Push Era?; title: The Arc of the Moral Universe, from Memphis to Wall Street; title: Globalizing Dissent, from Tahrir Square to Liberty Plaza; title: Call of Duty : Veterans Join the 99 Percent; title: The Brave New World of Occupy Wall Street; title: Pulling Accounts from the Unaccountable; title: The SOPA Blackout Protest Makes History; title: America's Pro-Choice Majority Speaks Out; title: A Movement Built by Dreamers; title: When corporations rule. Who Is Obama Playing Ball With?; title: When Banks Are the Robbers; title: When Corporations Choose Despots over Democracy; title: Policing the Prophets of Wall Street; title: Obama's Late Payment to Mortgage-Fraud Victims; title: Romney's 1 % Nation Under God; title: New Obama Campaign Co-Chair : "The President Is Wrong"; title: Coal, Foreclosures, and Bank of America's "Extraordinary Event"; title: Rupert Murdoch Doesn't Eat Humble Pie; title: Undoing the Coups, From Haiti to Honduras. President Zelaya and the Audacity of Action; title: Te Tremble : The Haitian Earth Trembled; title: Let the Haitians In; title: Haiti, Forgive Us; title: Haiti, Six Months After the Earthquake; title: Aristide's Return to Haiti : A Long Night's Journey into Day; title: Hope and Resistance in Honduras; title: More news from the unreported world. Obama in the Company of Killers; title: Failed War on Drugs : Fast, Furious, and Fueled by the U.S.; title: Forget Fear of Flying, Fear Airport Screening; title: Obama's Policies : The Real Scandal in Cartagena; title: Sick with Terror; title: Single-Payer Health Care : Vermont's Gentle Revolution; title: Domestic Violence : A Pre-Existing Condition?; title: Rich Media, Poor Democracy; title: Don't Ice Out Public Media; title: Luminaries.  John Lewis : Across That Bridge, Again; title: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz; title: The Poetic Justice of Dennis Brutus; title: Howard Zinn : The People's Historian; title: Rachel Corrie's (Posthumous) Day in Court; title: Singing Lena Horne's Praises; title: Eve Ensler : Bald, Brave, and Beautiful; title: The Health Insurance Industry's Vendetta Against Michael Moore; title: John le Carre : Calling Out the Traitors; title: Sundance and the Art of Democracy; title: 9/11 Victim 0001 : Father Mychal's Message; title: Stop the violence. Sikh Killings : On Gun Laws, It's Bipartisan Consensus, Not Gridlock, That's the Problem; title: The Obama Administration Torpedoes the Arms Trade Treaty; title: Aurora Massacre : U.S. Gun Laws : Guilty by Reason of Insanity; title: 75 Years Later, the Lessons of Guernica.