[KFCF Friends] FW: [Board-FFCF] Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman coming to Fresno

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AMY GOODMAN COMING TO FRESNO 
Amy Goodman, host of the award-winning news program Democracy Now!, is
coming to Fresno on Wednesday, April 14th on her Exception to the Rulers
tour. 

Amy will be appearing at two venues on the Fresno State University campus.
>From 4 to 6 pm you can meet and greet her at a reception in the Renaissance
Room in the University Center building. Admission is $50 per person, which
includes a copy of her book "Exception to the Rulers", refreshments, and
preferred seating at the lecture. Following the reception, Amy will speak at
7pm at the Satellite Student Union in a free public lecture. Amy Goodman's
visit is sponsored by KFCF Radio, the Beth Ann Harnish Lectures, and the
Campus Peace and Civil Liberties Coalition. 

Tickets for the reception are available from the Movies, 1435 N. Van Ness,
or by calling KFCF at 559-233-2221. 
Amy Goodman is the Executive Producer and Host of Democracy Now!, a
national, listener-sponsored public radio and TV news hour, pioneering the
largest community media collaboration in the country. The program airs daily
on over 200 stations including Pacifica radio stations, Pacifica and NPR
affiliates, public access TV stations, Free Speech TV (DishNetwork Channel
9415), Shortwave Radio (Radio for Peace International), Sirius Satellite
Radio on the internet at democracynow.org, and increasingly on radio in
Europe and Australia. In Central California, Democracy Now! can be heard on
listener-sponsored, Pacifica associate station KFCF 88.1 FM at 6 am and 9 am
weekdays, and on the internet at www.kfcf.org < http://www.kfcf.org/
<http://www.kfcf.org/> >. 

Recently, Democracy Now! exposed the Bush administration's role in the
overthrow of Haiti's democratically elected government with exclusive
interviews of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Amy Goodman is a 1998 recipient of the George Polk Award for the radio
documentary "Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship,"
in which she and co-producer Jeremy Scahill exposed the oil company's role
in the killing of two Nigerian villagers on May 28, 1998. They were also
awarded the Golden Reel for Best National Documentary from the National
Federation of Community Broadcasters. Project Censored selected the
documentary as one of the "10 Most Censored Stories of 1998". They also were
honored by the Overseas Press Club, a citation they rejected because of the
Club's agreement that journalists not question the keynote speaker US
Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke at the awards dinner, in the midst of the US
bombing of Yugoslavia. Goodman and Scahill co-wrote two articles in The
Nation magazine on the Chevron-related killings.

Amy has also won numerous awards for the radio documentary she co-produced
with journalist Allan Nairn, MASSACRE: The Story of East Timor," 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 AP, UPI, and the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting . In 1991 Goodman and Nairn survived a massacre in East
Timor in which Indonesian soldiers gunned down more than 270 Timorese. The
Indonesian military banned them from returning. Goodman and Nairn returned
to East Timor to report on that nation's independence, in May, 2002. 

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