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<P><B><FONT face="Arial Black" size=5>AMY GOODMAN COMING TO FRESNO</FONT></B>
<BR><FONT face="Times New Roman">Amy Goodman, host of the award-winning news
program Democracy Now!, is coming to Fresno on Wednesday, April 14<SUP>th</SUP>
on her Exception to the Rulers tour. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Amy will be appearing at two venues on the
Fresno State University campus. From 4 to 6 pm you can meet and greet her at a
reception in the Renaissance Room in the University Center building. Admission
is $50 per person, which includes a copy of her book "Exception to the Rulers",
refreshments, and preferred seating at the lecture. Following the reception, Amy
will speak at 7pm at the Satellite Student Union in a free public lecture. Amy
Goodman's visit is sponsored by KFCF Radio, the Beth Ann Harnish Lectures, and
the Campus Peace and Civil Liberties Coalition. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Tickets for the reception are available from the
Movies, 1435 N. Van Ness, or by calling KFCF at 559-233-2221. </FONT><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Amy Goodman is the Executive Producer and Host of
Democracy Now!, a national, listener-sponsored public radio and TV news hour,
pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the country. The program
airs daily on over 200 stations including Pacifica radio stations, Pacifica and
NPR affiliates, public access TV stations, Free Speech TV (DishNetwork Channel
9415), Shortwave Radio (Radio for Peace International), Sirius Satellite Radio
on the internet at democracynow.org, and increasingly on radio in Europe and
Australia. In Central California, Democracy Now! can be heard on
listener-sponsored, Pacifica associate station KFCF 88.1 FM at 6 am and 9 am
weekdays, and on the internet at<U> </U></FONT><U><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#0000ff>www.kfcf.org <<A href="http://www.kfcf.org/"
target=_blank>http://www.kfcf.org/</A>></FONT></U><FONT
face="Times New Roman">. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Recently, Democracy Now! exposed the Bush
administration's role in the overthrow of Haiti's democratically elected
government with exclusive interviews of ousted President Jean-Bertrand
Aristide.<BR><BR>Amy Goodman is a 1998 recipient of the George Polk Award for
the radio documentary "Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil
Dictatorship," in which she and co-producer Jeremy Scahill exposed the oil
company's role in the killing of two Nigerian villagers on May 28, 1998. They
were also awarded the Golden Reel for Best National Documentary from the
National Federation of Community Broadcasters. Project Censored selected the
documentary as one of the "10 Most Censored Stories of 1998". They also were
honored by the Overseas Press Club, a citation they rejected because of the
Club's agreement that journalists not question the keynote speaker US Special
Envoy Richard Holbrooke at the awards dinner, in the midst of the US bombing of
Yugoslavia. Goodman and Scahill co-wrote two articles in The Nation magazine on
the Chevron-related killings.<BR><BR>Amy has also won numerous awards for the
radio documentary she co-produced with journalist Allan Nairn, MASSACRE: The
Story of East Timor," including the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International
Reporting, the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Award, the Armstrong Award, the
Radio/Television News Directors Award, as well as awards from AP, UPI, and the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting . In 1991 Goodman and Nairn survived a
massacre in East Timor in which Indonesian soldiers gunned down more than 270
Timorese. The Indonesian military banned them from returning. Goodman and Nairn
returned to East Timor to report on that nation's independence, in May, 2002.
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