<div>An activist and a philosopher discuss how privatization harms society and how we can challenge it. Privatization has been on the right-wing agenda for years. Health care, schools, Social Security, public lands, the military, prisons—all are considered fair game. Through stories, analysis, impassioned argument—even song lyrics—Si Kahn and Elizabeth Minnich show that corporations are, by their very nature, unable to fulfill effectively what have traditionally been the responsibilities of the government. They make a powerful case that the market is not the measure of all things, and that a vital public sector is an indispensable component of a healthy democracy. “If you care about your children’s education, the quality of the air you breathe and the water you drink, affordable health care or Social Security, you need to read The Fox in the Henhouse…. Kahn and Minnich have given us a blueprint of how to organize now and protect our country and our future.” —Jan Schakowsky, U.S. House of Representatives “The Fox in the Henhouse…provides analytic tools for challenging corporate America’s sale of democracy, honors legacies of resistance, and moves us to a vision of hope and action challenging the privatization of our lives and dreams.” —Chandra Talpade Mohanty, educator and author of Feminism Without Borders “Inspiring to read, this book will be of great value to organizers, activists, and citizens of conscience…. Nothing less than our democracy is at stake when extremists want to roll back our hard-earned rights. [This book] offers a spirited blueprint for all citizens who care about renewing America’s best and most generous traditions.” —Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor, The Nation</div>

The Fox in the Henhouse

<div>The host of Democracy Now! breaks through the corporate media&rsquo;s lies, sound bites, and silence in this New York Times&ndash;bestselling collection of articles. In place of the usual suspects&mdash;the &ldquo;experts&rdquo; who, in Amy Goodman&rsquo;s words, &ldquo;know so little about so much, explain the world to us, and get it so wrong&rdquo;&mdash;this accessible, lively collection allows the voices the corporate media exclude and ignore to be heard loud and clear. From community organizers in New Orleans, to the courageous American soldiers who&rsquo;ve said &ldquo;no&rdquo; to Washington&rsquo;s wars, to victims of torture and police violence, we are given the extraordinary opportunity to hear ordinary people standing up and speaking out. Written with all of the fierce intelligence and passion for truth that millions have come to expect from Amy Goodman&rsquo;s reportage, Breaking the Sound Barrier proves the power that independent journalism can have in the struggle for a better world, one in which ordinary citizens are the true experts of their own lives and communities. Praise for Amy Goodman and Breaking the Sound Barrier &ldquo;Amy Goodman has taken investigative journalism to new heights.&rdquo; &mdash;Noam Chomsky, leading public intellectual and author of Hopes and Prospects &ldquo;Amy, as you will discover on every page of this book, knows the critical question for journalists is how close they are to the truth, not how close they are to power.&rdquo; &mdash;From the foreword by Bill Moyers, author of Moyers on America &ldquo;What journalism should be: beholden to the interests of people, not power and profit.&rdquo; &mdash;Arundhati Roy, author of The End of Imagination &ldquo;Those unfamiliar with Goodman&rsquo;s work will discover a bold voice that refuses to mince words regardless of the topic or target, along with a wealth of behind-the-headlines reporting.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

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Breaking the Sound Barrier

<div>The New York Times&ndash;bestselling collection of essays on the power of ordinary people to effect lasting change&mdash;from the host and cofounder of Democracy Now! Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan began writing a weekly column, &ldquo;Breaking the Sound Barrier,&rdquo; for King Features Syndicate in 2006. This timely new sequel to Goodman&rsquo;s New York Times bestseller of the same name gives voice to the many ordinary people standing up to corporate and government power&mdash;and refusing to be silent. The Silenced Majority pulls back the veil of corporate media reporting to dig deep into the politics of &ldquo;climate apartheid,&rdquo; the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the movement to halt the execution of Troy Anthony Davis, and the globalization of dissent &ldquo;from Tahrir Square to Liberty Plaza.&rdquo; Throughout, Goodman and Moynihan show the work of ordinary people to change their media&mdash;and change the world. Praise for Amy Goodman &ldquo;Amy Goodman has taken investigative journalism to new heights.&rdquo; &mdash;Noam Chomsky, leading public intellectual and author of Hopes and Prospects &ldquo;Amy Goodman is not afraid to speak truth to power. She does it every day.&rdquo; &mdash;Susan Sarandon, activist and actress &ldquo;Crusading journalism at its best.&rdquo; &mdash;Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post &ldquo;A towering progressive freedom fighter in the media and the world.&rdquo; &mdash;Cornel West, author of Race Matters &ldquo;What journalism should be: beholden to the interests of people, not power and profit.&rdquo; &mdash;Arundhati Roy, author of The End of Imagination</div>

The Silenced Majority

<div>Organizers, activists, artists and community members share their struggles in New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina. Floodlines is a firsthand account of community, culture, and resistance in New Orleans. The book weaves the stories of gay rappers, Mardi Gras Indians, Arab and Latino immigrants, public housing residents, and grassroots activists in the years before and after Katrina. From post-Katrina evacuee camps to torture testimony at Angola Prison to organizing with the family members of the Jena Six, Floodlines tells the stories behind the headlines from an unforgettable time and place in history. Praise for Floodlines “This is the most important book I’ve read about Katrina and what came after. In the tradition of Howard Zinn this could be called “The People’s History of the Storm.” Jordan Flaherty was there on the front lines.” —Eve Ensler, playwright of The Vagina Monologues, activist and founder of V-Day “Jordan Flaherty brings the sharp analysis and dedication of a seasoned organizer to his writing, and insightful observation to his reporting. He unfailingly has his ear to the ground in a city that continues to reveal the floodlines of structural racism in America.” —Tram Nguyen, author of We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities after 9/11 “Flaherty pulls no punches . . . . Readers will be compelled, depressed, disturbed, and angered by what they find in this well-written report. Crucial reading.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review</div>

Floodlines

<div>A celebration of the revolutionary change Amy and David Goodman have witnessed during the two decades of their acclaimed television and radio news program Democracy Now!&#8212;and how small individual acts from progressive heroes have produced lasting results. In 1996 Amy Goodman began hosting a show called Democracy Now! to focus on the issues and movements that are too often ignored by the corporate media. Today it is the largest public media collaboration in the US. This important book looks back over the past twenty years of Democracy Now! and the powerful movements and charismatic leaders who are re-shaping our world. Goodman takes us along as she goes to where the silence is, bringing out voices from the streets of Ferguson to Staten Island, Wall Street, and South Carolina to East Timor&#8212;and other places where people are rising up to demand justice. Giving voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful, Democracy Now! pays tribute to those progressive heroes&#8212;the whistleblowers, the organizers, the protestors&#8212;who have brought about remarkable, often invisible change over the last couple of decades in seismic ways. This is &#8220;an impassioned book aiming to fuel informed participation, outrage, and dissent&#8221; (Kirkus Reviews).</div>

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