The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope (52 page)

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Authors: Amy Goodman,Denis Moynihan

Tags: #History, #United States, #21st Century, #Social History, #Political Science, #Public Policy, #General, #Social Science, #Sociology, #Media Studies, #Politics, #Current Affairs

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About the authors

Amy Goodman
is an internationally acclaimed journalist, and host and executive producer of
Democracy Now!
, a daily grass-roots global news hour that broadcasts on over 1,000 radio and television stations and at democracynow.org. She is a syndicated columnist with King Features. Amy has received numerous awards for her work, including the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting, the George Polk Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards for excellence in broadcast journalism, and the Radio/Television News Directors Award, as well as awards from the Associated Press and United Press International. She is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, also referred to as “The Alternative Nobel Prize,” presented in the Swedish parliament. Amy was co-winner of the first annual Izzy Award from the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, named after legendary journalist I. F. Stone. She is the author of several books, all
New York Times
best-sellers, including
Breaking the Sound Barrier
, with Denis Moynihan, and, co-authored with her brother, David Goodman:
The Exception to the Rulers, Static,
and
Standing Up to the Madness
. She lives in New York City.

Denis Moynihan
met the
Democracy Now!
team as they covered protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999. Since 2001, he has participated in the organization’s growth and sustainability, focusing primarily on distribution, infrastructure development, and coordinating special projects, including live broadcasts from around the world. He lives in Denver, and is the founder of a new full-power noncommercial, community FM radio station in Colorado’s high country, as well as an avid telemark skier and mountain biker. This is his first book.

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