Award-winning host of “Democracy Now!,” Amy Goodman will visit Davis to discuss her new book, Breaking the Sound Barrier at a benefit for KDRT 95.7 FM & KDVS, 90.3 FM, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 from 7-9 p.m. in Social Sciences 1100 on the UC Davis campus.
A pre-event reception with Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan, will be held at The International House, 10 College Park in Davis from 6-6:45pm.
Purchase tickets quickly as this event is sure to sell out.
$20 General Admission Tickets available from tickets.com $10 Student and $20 General Admission Tickets available at the UCD Freeborn Hall Ticket Office Pre-event Reception Tickets available from Davis Media Access (includes copy of Breaking the Sound Barrier w/ special signing, appetizers and wine, and reserved seating at the event.)
Goodman is an award-winning investigative journalist, columnist for King Features Syndicate, author, and the host/executive producer of “Democracy Now!” airing on nearly 800 stations worldwide. Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize' for "developing an innovative model of independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media." Along with her brother, journalist David Goodman, she is the author of three New York Times bestsellers: Standing Up to the Madness, Static, and The Exception to the Rulers.
Breaking the Sound Barrier (Haymarket Books, 2009) shuns the “experts” who, in Goodman’s words, “know so little about so much, explain the world to us, and get it so wrong”—and allows the voices corporate media excludes and ignores to be heard loud and clear. From community organizers in New Orleans, to the courageous American soldiers who’ve said “no” to Washington’s wars, to the victims of torture and police violence, we are given the extraordinary opportunity to hear ordinary people standing up and speaking out. The book includes a forward by Emmy Award-winning journalist Bill Moyers, and is edited by Denis Moynihan, CEO of Free Speech Television.
The event is sponsored by the Program in Technocultural Studies at UC Davis, with additional sponsorship provided by The Hallmark Inn in Davis.
More information is available at http://kdrt.org or http://kdvs.org, or by calling Davis Media Access at (530) 757-2419.
