Charges have been dropped against journalist Amy Goodman in a triumph of press freedom over corporate interest.
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In this video, the late Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) tells the story of writing his famous novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and the myriad challenges he and his wife Mercedes overcame in the process.
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A new survey of press freedom around the world finds the United States has plunged 13 spots, now ranking just 46th among 180 countries.
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In this video, Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman talks to Rainey Reitman about today’s anti-surveillance campaign protest: “The Day We Fight Back Against Mass Surveillance.” Reitman is the activism director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, also co-founder of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
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In the Weekly Freedom of Speech Roundup Sampsonia Way presents some of the week’s top news on freedom of expression, journalists in danger, artists in exile, and banned literature. This week news from Syria, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, and an essay by Ray Bradbury.
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The Obama administration is facing scrutiny for its role in the imprisonment of a Yemeni journalist who exposed how the United States was behind a 2009 bombing in Yemen that killed 14 women and 21 children. We speak to Mohamed Abdel Dayem of CPJ and investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill.
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Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman interviews acclaimed novelist Russell Banks, author of “Cloudsplitter,” “Affliction,” and “Lost Memory of Skin.” Banks, a former chairman of Cities of Refuge North America, invited City of Asylum Pittsburgh founders to join the US network.
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