Democracy Now!

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Blackwood Gallery

February 1st to March 6th, Monday – Thursday evening: Democracy Now! on the Image Bar

As part of If it’s Too Bad to Be True, It Could Be DISINFORMATION, the Blackwood Gallery will show broadcasts from the award-winning, American, independent and alternative media provider, Democracy Now!

Democracy Now's daily program, the War and Peace Report, provides access to people and perspectives rarely heard in the U.S. corporate-sponsored media. This includes independent and international journalists, ordinary people from around the world who are directly affected by U.S. foreign policy, grassroots leaders and peace activists, artists, academics and independent analysts. In addition, the War and Peace Report hosts debates between people who substantially disagree, such as debates between White House spokespeople and grassroots activists. Democracy Now! airs on over 350 stations in North America. It is also available as a podcast and on the internet.

1 – 2 February, 2006:
The War and Peace Report:
The daily War and Peace Report is streamed directly from the internet to the Image Bar.

6 – 9 February, & AGAIN, 28 Feb to 6 March, 2006:
From The War and Peace Trilogy:

Independent Media In A Time of War
Part scathing critique, part call to action, "Independent Media In A Time Of War" is a hard-hitting new documentary by the Hudson Mohawk Independent Media Center. This film is composed of a speech given by Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! illustrated by clips of mainstream media juxtaposed with rare footage from independent reporters in Iraq. The documentary argues that dialogue is vital to a healthy democracy. "Independent media has a crucial responsibility to go to where the silence is," says Amy Goodman, "to represent the diverse voices of people engaged in dissent." She makes a compelling argument that the commercial news media have failed to represent the "true face of war."

Voices Against War: F15 NYC
Chronicles the experiences of "ordinary" people on the streets of Manhattan as they joined millions around the globe in "The World Says No To War" protests.

Women’s Fast For Peace
With the invasion of Iraq looming, more than 125 women in upstate New York fasted to create a culture of peace rather than of war.

13 – 16 February, 2006:
Arundhati Roy: Public Power in the Age of Empire:
Famed Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy was born in Shillong, India in 1959. She studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives, and has worked as a film designer, actor, and screenplay writer in India. Her first novel, The God of Small Things, won the 1997 Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious literary award. It has sold six million copies and has been translated into over 20 languages worldwide. She is also the author of several non-fiction books: The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile, The Cost of Living, Power Politics and An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire. She gave an address on war, resistance and the presidency to the American Sociological Association in San Francisco on August 16, 2004. We give you her entire speech, followed by Q&A with the audience. 90 min

20 – 23 February, 2006:
Michael Moore at the Democratic National Convention:
Everywhere Michael Moore went in Boston, massive crowds followed him. On Tuesday, July 28, 2004, more than 2,000 people lined up in Cambridge to hear Michael Moore speak at a forum with Howard Dean. Only 500 or so were able to get in. Democracy Now! broadcasted both his speech inside and the impromptu speech he gave outside to the overflow crowd. 90 min.