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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-07-05 05:09 PM
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Amy Goodman in Tempe (Changing Hands) April 14th
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Amy Goodman, internationally acclaimed journalist and host of the nationally broadcast daily radio/TV news hour Democracy Now!, brings the Un-Embed the Media! tour to Tempe on Thursday, April 14th.

7:00PM

Changing Hands Bookstore
6428 S McClintock Dr
Tempe

Free

For more information, go to http://www.changinghands.com/ or call 480-730-0205 and ask for Pinna or Yvette.

Join us as we launch the paperback edition of Amy and David Goodman's national best-seller, The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them.

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DEMOCRACY NOW !
http://www.democracynow.org

Amy Goodman, host of the national, daily radio/TV program Democracy Now!, is on a national tour to mark the launch of her first book "The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them" (co-written with her brother, journalist David Goodman).

Spread the word! For event details and a complete schedule of tour dates, and how to order a book as a gift, for yourself, or for a library or a prison book program, go to http://www.democracynow.org/book. The book tour website has downloadable posters, flyers, and an easy event-by-event Email A Friend option.

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About "The Exception to the Rulers!"

"Hard-hitting, no-holds barred brand of reporting... fierce and tireless." -Publishers Weekly

"What journalism should be: beholden to the interests of people, not power and profit." -Arundhati Roy, author, The God of Small Things

"Amy Goodman has taken investigative journalism to new heights." -Noam Chomsky, author, 9/11 and Hegemony or Survival

"Amy Goodman the great muckraking tradition of Upton Sinclair, George Seldes, and I.F. Stone into the electronic age."
-Howard Zinn, historian and author, A People's History of the United States

"Pick up this book, shake your head in disbelief and disgust as you read it, and then...go raise some hell!" -Michael Moore, Academy-award winning director, Bowling for Columbine

And the rulers take exception!

"Hostile, combative, and even disrespectful." -President Bill Clinton

"A threat to national security." -The Indonesian military

"Not easy-listening." -The New York Times

"I have advised my mother to talk to no reporters because of ... people like you." -Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich
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housewolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-07-05 06:25 PM
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1. This is so exciting!!!
Thanks for posting this, I'm gonna plan to go. See you there?
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-07-05 06:33 PM
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2. no, as much as I'd love to, 7PM is my bedtime on weeknights
4AM comes early and Tempe is 30+ miles away
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n2mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 11:52 PM
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3. I'm tempted but
to drive from Tempe late in the evening on freeway by myself, I don't think so.
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