Friday, Oct 19th, 2007, 7pm - Leacock Auditorium, 855 Sherbrooke St West, McGill University. Advance tickets are available at CKUT, located at 3647 University Street from Oct 15th-19th, 2007 between noon and 6pm.
Keynote Presentation: Lecture and Book Signing with
Amy Goodman
Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, & the People Who Fight Back
The host, founder and executive producer of Democracy Now speaks in commemoration of Media Democracy Day at McGill University. Airing on more than 500 radio and TV stations across North America,
Democracy Now is an award-winning independent news program. Democracy Now! is celebrating its tenth anniversary offering independent news and coverage of peace and human rights movements. Amy Goodman's second New York Times Bestseller, Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back, has recently come out in paperback.
Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman is the host, founder and executive producer of Democracy Now. Airing on more than 500 radio and TV stations across North America, Democracy Now is an award-winning independent news program. Democracy Now! is celebrating its tenth anniversary offering independent news and coverage of peace and human rights movements. Goodman's second New York Times Bestseller, Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back, has recently come out in paperback. She writes a weekly column, syndicated by King Features and available to papers in Canada. As an investigative journalist, Amy Goodman has received acclaim for exposing human rights violations in East Timor, Nigeria, Haiti and most recently on such issues as the complicity of the American Psychological Association with the Bush Administration's torture policies and the racist prosecution in Louisiana of the teen-age boys dubbed The Jena 6.
She will be speaking in at the conference's keynote presentation in commemoration of Media Democracy Day.
This event is a CKUT/Media@McGill co-presentation.
