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Amy Goodman Visits LREI

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Students bring Democracy Now! host to speak
Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of the award-winning national news program Democracy Now!, spoke at LREI on Wednesday following LREI’s annual Eighth Grade Social Justice Teach-in.
 
LREI alum Nemo Allen ’08, who has worked with video for Democracy Now!, introduced Goodman. In her presentation, Goodman spoke to students about journalism and praised independent media and seeking out multiple sources and viewpoints. “We need a media that brings us together,” Goodman told LREI middle and high school students. “I see media as huge kitchen table that stretches across the globe.”
 
Goodman spoke about the abolitionist movement and the women’s suffrage movement and the leadership of Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony. She connected those historical moments to today’s social justice fights, including the Black Lives Matter racial justice movement and the fight for LGBT rights. Above all, Goodman stressed collaboration within social justice moments and across movements. "It's not about single leaders, it’s about people gathering together,” she said.
 
Bringing Goodman to campus wasn’t an easy task—in fact, the group of eighth graders studying Freedom of Speech (Nissim H., Cameron G., Cameron K. and River M.) contacted her staff relentlessly to get the very busy Goodman to speak at LREI. During the course of their research for the Social Justice Project, the Freedom of Speech group visited Democracy Now! studios and had the opportunity to speak with Goodman and her producers about the difference between corporate and free media and how to get the voice of the marginalized heard.

DemocracyNow! Airs five days a week on over 1,300 public television and radio stations worldwide. 
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