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Amy Goodman’s New Column “President Obama Can Redeem the White House”
Alice Walker is the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. But Monday, I called her to talk about a true story. The Obamas had just visited the White House. The first African-American elected president of the United States had visited his soon-to-be residence, a house built by slaves.
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Amy Goodman on CNN Newsroom, November 10, 2008
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Anjali Kamat’s New Column: “Change We Can Believe In?”
Democracy Now! producer Anjali Kamat writes, “To all those for whom America has represented generations of racial injustice, the election of America’s first Black president marks the beginning of a new era…But unless the inspired millions who brought him to power continue to believe their demands matter and insist on holding him accountable each step of the way, it will be Obama’s corporate and hawkish friends who determine the domestic and foreign policies of the coming administration and our collective future.”
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“Organizer in Chief”
You could almost hear the world’s collective sigh of relief. This year’s U.S. presidential election was a global event in every sense. Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a black Kenyan father and a white Kansan mother, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, represents to so many a living bridge—between continents and cultures.
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Studs Terkel, 1912-2008
The legendary radio broadcaster, writer and oral historian Studs Terkel has died at the age of 96 in Chicago. Over the years Terkel has been a regular guest on Democracy Now!
In 2005, Studs Terkel appeared on Democracy Now! shortly after undergoing open heart surgery. He told Amy Goodman, “My curiosity is what saw me through. What would the world be like, or will there be a world? And so, that’s my epitaph. I have it all set. Curiosity did not kill this cat. And it’s curiosity, I think, that has saved me thus far.”
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“Election Protection”
Election Day approaches, and with it a test of our election system’s integrity. Who will be allowed to vote; who will be barred? Who will get paper ballots; who will use electronic voting machines? Will polls be open long enough to accommodate what is expected to be a historic turnout?
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“Change Big Donors Can Believe In”
The candidates’ coffers are swelling with larger and larger bundles of cash, but don’t hold your breath waiting for the extended television discussions of this, because it’s the broadcasters who profit the most.
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“Mickey Mouse Won’t Try To Vote”
The 2008 presidential election may see the highest participation in U.S. history. Voter registration organizations and local election boards have been overwhelmed by enthusiastic people eager to vote. But not everyone is happy about this blossoming of democracy.
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Alfred Zappala, Peace Activist Who Lost Son in Iraq, Dies at 68
The peace activist Alfred Zappala has died at the age of sixty-eight after a battle with lung cancer. Zappala became a vocal critic of the war in Iraq in 2004 after his son, Sgt. Sherwood Baker, was killed in Baghdad. [includes rush transcript]
Alfred and Celeste Zappala, appearing on Democracy Now!, May 13, 2004.
Rush Transcript
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AMY GOODMAN: Before the break, we turn to some sad news from Philadelphia. The peace activist Alfred Zappala has died at the age of sixty-eight after a battle with lung cancer.
Al Zappala became a vocal critic of the war in Iraq in 2004 after his son, Sergeant Sherwood Baker, was killed in Baghdad. Baker was the first member of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard to die in combat since 1945. In May 2004, Alfred Zappala and his ex-wife Celeste Zappala appeared on Democracy Now!
ALFRED ZAPPALA: My son was betrayed by the Bush administration. This whole—you know, people make analogies between Vietnam and Iraq, and I think the big difference is that it took years to find out the lies in Vietnam, and we have discovered these lies in less than a year.
CELESTE ZAPPALA: And knew it going in. And knew it going in.
ALFRED ZAPPALA: And, you know, we’re into this war for no reason at all. I mean, well, we’re in it for reasons that Bush wants us in for, but not for—not what he told the American people. Not about weapons of mass destruction, not about any of that stuff.
CELESTE ZAPPALA: Not al-Qaeda ties.
ALFRED ZAPPALA: Right. So, you know, it was a senseless death, just like all those other boys.
CELESTE ZAPPALA: And girls.
ALFRED ZAPPALA: And—yes. And the 10,000-plus Iraqi citizens that have been killed in Iraq. I mean, it’s just going on and on.
CELESTE ZAPPALA: I feel like we’ve opened the gates of Hell, and we don’t know how to close them, and we don’t know why we’ve done it now.
AMY GOODMAN: Celeste Zappala and Al Zappala, they were in our studio in 2004. Al died yesterday morning at the age of sixty-eight. He was a member of Military Families Speak Out, Gold Star Families Speak Out and Veterans for Peace. He campaigned against the war for the last four years, almost nonstop.
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