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Contents Purpose: To Encourage More Access To Democracy Now! In The Spokane Region. Spokane Community Access Cable Channel #14 TV Schedule Each Monday 6-7PM April March February January 2003 December November October September August July June May April Democracy Now Audio Archives Sign Guestbook View Guestbook Discussion & Announcement Group Subscribe Visits Since 18 January 02   Democracy Now! Access On the Web Daily Pacifica Web Radio KPFA Berkeley WBAI New York WPFW DC KPFT Houston KPFK Los Angles More Web Radio KGNU Boulder, CO Others Stations that may have web access On Satelite TV Daily Dish Network Free Speech TV Channel 9415

Democracy Now! goes beyond the rhetoric and party politics offered by the mainstream media. Instead, it highlights grassroots efforts to enhance and ignite democracy in the U.S. These days, some are labeling this "public journalism" or "civic journalism." We call it Radio in the Pacifica Tradition. Democracy Now! focuses on a range of issues that demand attention, from the relationship of citizens to their government to the economic realities of declining wages and standards of living for the vast majority of Americans; from the role of money in campaigns to the impact of new technologies on politics and the media. Democracy Now! features the ideas and voices of some of the best minds of this generation (and previous ones), including activists, muckrakers, visionaries, artists, risk-takers, academics and "just folks" who share a commitment to truth, democracy, justice, diversity, equality and peace. The Team includes some of this country's leading progressive journalists who've garnered dozens of awards for their ground-breaking work in radio and print journalism. Amy Goodman Host Amy Goodman is a 1998 recipient of the George Polk Award for the radio documentary "Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Military 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. Goodman 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 Silver Baton, 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 250 Timorese. The Indonesian military banned them from returning. Goodman has reported from Israel and the Occupied territories, Cuba, Mexico, Haiti and was the first journalist ever to interview the jailed US citizen Lori Berenson, serving a life sentence in Peru. Goodman also broadcast the first US radio interview with imprisoned East Timor rebel leader Xanana Gusmao. In addition to her daily radio shows, Goodman speaks around the country on university campuses, as well as to human rights, church and community groups about media activism. She also runs workshops at community radio stations on grassroots coverage. Click here to see the rest of The Democracy Now! Team

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Democracy Now! Schedule
On Spokane Community Access TV
Channel 14

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 April - Monday Evenings from 6-7 PM, Channel 14

 

Spokane Date	#	1st Aired & Audio Link	Description
April 7	DN01	Feb 27	Democracy Now! Learns The Pentagon Is Asking Humanitarian Groups For Global Positioning Coordinates Of Civilian Sites In Iraq, Such As Water Treatment Facilities And Power Plants: Is It To Bomb Them Or Save Them? "The Press Will Once Again Serve Primarily As The Mouthpiece For The Government" - As Journalists Prepare To 'Embed' With Us Troops To Cover A War On Iraq, We Talk With Veteran War Correspondents Chris Hedges And Robert Fisk
April 14	DN02	Jan 2	"If You Love This Planet You Will Change The Priorities Of Your Life And Work Every Second Of Every Day To Save It": Physician And Anti-Nuclear Activist Helen Caldicott Speaks Out Against War
April 21	DN03	Feb 24	As Spanish Prime Minister Aznar And President Bush Strategize At Bush'S Ranch In Crawford, Texas, 94% Of Spaniards Oppose War World-Renowned Irish Civil Rights Leader Bernadette Devlin McAliskey Is Turned Away At The U.S. Border And Deported 'Come September': Award-Winning Author Arundhati Roy Speaks Out On Iraq, U.S. Foreign Policy, Palestine & Corporate Globalization
April 28	DN04	Feb 18	A Respected Greek Professor Is Detained, Shackled And Asked If He Is Anti-American: A Democracy Now! Exclusive Police Crack Down On Anti-War Protesters From New York To Colorado Springs To San Francisco "They Evidently Believe That The Means Of Violence In Their Hands Are So Extraordinary That They Can Dismiss With Contempt Anyone Who Stands In Their Way": Noam Chomsky On U.S. Empire And The Global Movement Against It

 

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 March - Monday Evenings from 6-7

 

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 February - Monday Evenings from 6-7

 

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 January 2003 - Monday Evenings from 6-7

 

 

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 December - Monday Evenings from 6-7

 

Spokane Date	Oct#	1st Aired & Audio Link	Description
Dec 2	DN01	Oct 21	Bush Presses For Quick Inspections To Ensure U.S. Has Time To Attack Iraq Before Heat And Sand Storms Set In: Scott Ritter, Former U.N. Weapons Inspector In Iraq, Speaks On Weapons Inspections & The Human Cost Of Another Gulf War
Dec 9	DN02	Oct 2	Bush's Single-Bullet Theory - Assassinate Saddam Hussein: International Human Rights Attorneys Michael Ratner And Reed Brody Respond To Bush's Press Secretary Ari Fleischer's Call To Kill Police Spying: New York Police Seeks Court Approval To Monitor Political Activists; Denver Opens Hundreds Of Spy Files Collected From Illegal Monitoring Of Citizens Police Crack Down On Activists Across The Country From Washington To Colorado To Maine To California
Dec 16	DN03	Nov 11	A discussion with Vietnam veteran Mike Boehm about the massacre and the documentary "The Sound of the Violin in My Lai" What do the Washington-area sniper, the University of Arizona killer and Timothy McVeigh have in common? They were all Gulf War vets
Dec 23	DN04	Nov 12	Iraqi Parliament Votes No On Un Weapons Inspectors Resolution: We Go To Baghdad For A Live Report From Democracy Now! Correspondent Jeremy Scahill Leading Colombian Trade Unionist Goes Into Hiding After Receiving Threats On His Life
Dec 30	DN05	Sep 16	U.S. Politicians And Media Critic Norman Solomon Meet With Iraqi Officials In Baghdad Just One Person Can Make A Difference: Part Two Of Our Interview With Julia Butterfly Hill Activists protest former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson at his home in Long Island

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   November - Monday Evenings from 6-7

 

Spokane Date	Oct#	1st Aired & Audio Link	Description
Nov 4	DN01	Oct 18	Iraq Journal: As The UN Security Council Continues To Fight The US Resolution For An Invasion Of Iraq, Democracy Now's Jeremy Scahill Interviews Former Iraqi Ambassador Abdul Al-Hashemi Michael Moore's "Bowling For Columbine": The Filmmaker And TV Producer Talks About Gun Violence And War In The U.S.
Nov 11	DN02	Oct 15	Iraq Journal: Millions Of Iraqis Vote For Saddam Hussein In The Face Of The Bush Administration's Threat Of Invasion Come September: Arundhati Roy Speaks Out On Iraq, U.S. Foreign Policy, Palestine & Corporate Globalization
Nov 18	DN03	Oct 8	Bush Speech in Cincinnati. Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who submitted legislation for the creation of a department of peace, and one of the congress members who will vote no to Bush's Iraq resolution responded to the President's speech. Talkback To War: As Millions Around The Globe Continue To Speak Out Against War, We Hear From Actors Gabriel Byrne And Susan Sarandon, And Colleen Kelly Who Lost Her Brother On 9/11
Nov 25	DN04	Oct 10	Dissent In The Capitol: As Washington Prepares For War With Iraq We Hear Voices Of Peace From The Floor Of Congress Protests & Arrests Continue Against War In Washington & New York Talk Back To War: Democracy Now Listeners Share Their Comments The Journey From Torture To Truth: A Discussion On Terror With Chilean Writer Ariel Dorfman And Sister Dianna Ortiz, An American Nun Tortured By U.S.-Backed Guatemalan Security Forces

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October - Monday Evenings from 6-7

 

Spokane Date	Oct#	1st Aired & Audio Link	Description
Oct 7	DN01	Sep 3	U.S. Blocks All Action On Renewable Energy At Earth Summit In Johannesburg Best-Selling Author Paul Hawken On Renewable Energy, Sustainable Living, And Reigning In Multinational Corporations Alternatives To Global Warming: Vegetable-Based 'Biodiesel' Fuel, And Actor Ed Begley Jr., On Electric Cars
Oct 14	DN02	Aug 13	Israel Approves Forced Expulsions Of Families Of 'Suspected Terrorists' Jordan Shuts Down Al Jazeera
Oct 21	DN03	Aug 6	"Hague Invasion Act": Bush Signs A New Law Designed To Intimidate Countries That Ratify The Treaty For The International Criminal Court The Expansion Of FBI Powers During The So Called War On Terror: A Look At The Case Of Leonard Peltier
Oct 28	DN04	Aug 20	U.S. Health Department Launches A Witchhunt Against Aids Activist Groups FBI Is Sued For Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars For Shielding "The Animal" And Framing An Innocent Man: The FBI's Secret Partnership With The Mob Thousands Rally In D.C. For Reparations

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 September - Monday Evenings from 6-7

 

Spokane Date	Sep#	1st Aired & Audio Link	Description
Sep 2	DN01	Aug 5	The Saddam In Rumsfeld's Closet-What Was Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's Doing In Iraq In 1983? "Collateral Voices: A Report From The Frontlines Of Iraq"
Sep 9	DN02	July 15	"The New Rulers Of The World:" An Interview With John Pilger
Sep 16	DN03	July 9	After International Activists Are Held Illegally in Inhumane Conditions for 48 Hours, the US Consulate in Israel Says It Will File a Complaint Against the Israeli Military on Their Behalf The Einstein Files: J. Edgar Hoover's Secret War Against the World's Most Famous Scientist The Son of James Byrd Jr., the Black Man Brutally Murdered by White Supremacists, Fights to Save His Father's Killer from Execution
Sep 23	DN04	June 28	Filmmaker Chris Eyre And Marquetta Sheilds, Daughter Of Leonard Peltier: A Discussion Of Eyre's Newest Film, "Skins," Life On The Pine Ridge Reservation, And Justice For Peltier A New York State Appeals Court Rules The State Is Only Obliged To Provide An Eighth-Grade Education And Prepare Students For Nothing More Than The Lowest Level Jobs
Sep 30	DN05	Sep 11	Rita Lasar Lost Her Brother In The World Trade Center: She Remembers September 11 And Calls For Peace Odetta Sings To Mark The Time United Airlines Flight 175 From Boston Crashed Into The South Tower Of The WTC One Year Ago Rita Lasar Meets Masuda Sultan, An Afghan-American Who Lost 19 Members Of Her Family In The US Bombing Of Afghanistan Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark And Independent Filmmaker Jon Alpert Discuss Iraq Democracy Now! Archival Audio

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 August - Monday Evenings from 6-7

 

Spokane Date	#	1st Aired & Audio Link	Description
Aug 5	DN22	July 1	As Washington Steps Up Its Efforts To Force Arafat From Office, A Conversation With Palestinian National Council Member Hanan Ashrawi And Peace Activist Rami Elhanan, Whose Daughter Was Killed In A 1997 Suicide Bombing The RNC Battles The McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Law, Subpoenaing Democratic-Leaning Interest Groups For Detailed Financial Records
Aug 12	DN23	June 13	Wealthy Nations Feast on Developing Countries at the World Food Summit Bringing the Law to Bear on Corporate Power Congressman Dennis Kucinich Challenges the "Imperial Presidency"
Aug 19	DN24	July 5	As A Corporate Crime Wave Sweeps The Country, We Hear From Former Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader
Aug 26	DN25	June 21	The People's Historian: Howard Zinn The Supreme Court Rules Executing Mentally Retarded Is "Cruel And Unusual Punishment"

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 July - Monday Evenings from 6-7

 

Spokane Date	#	1st Aired & Audio Link	Description
July 1	DN18	May 23	Michael Moore's Stupid White Men
July 8	DN19	May 24	Peering Into The Abyss Of The Future: As Presidents Bush And Putin Sign A New Nuclear Arms Treaty Paving The Way For Star Wars, Scholar Noam Chomsky Talks About The Role Of Nuclear Weapons In U.S. Global Domination
July15	DN20	May 21	International Solidarity Movement Activist Adam Shapiro, On The Role Americans Can Play In Bringing U.S. Media Attention To The Palestinians British Journalist Robert Fisk On The Politics Of Language And The Media In The Middle East
July 22	DN21	June 5	Snoops, Snitches, And Provocateurs: As Congress Launches An Investigation Into The Response To September 11th, A Look At The Tactics Of The FBI And CIA "Me And My Shadow": A History Of The FBI'S Covert Operations And COINTELPRO
July 29	DN22	Jun 10	Marking 35 Years Of Occupation: Israeli Troops Surround Arafat's Compound As President Bush Meets With Prime Minister Ariel Sharon To Discuss A New Peace Plan As The Venezuelan Media Sows Rumors Of Another Coup, A Conversation With Investigative Reporter Greg Palast

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 June - Monday Evenings from 6-7

 

Spokane Date	#	1st Aired & Audio Link	Description
Jun 3	DN14	May 10	Bringing War Criminals To Justice As Demonstrations Continue To Rack Venezuela, Venezuelan Government Officials Speak Out About The Failed Ouster Of President Hugo Chavez
Jun 10	DN15	Apr 18	As Israeli Troops Refuse To Help Rescue Survivors Buried Alive In Jenin Refugee Camp, The Commissioner General Of The UN's Main Body In The Occupied Territories Describes "Worse Destruction Than He Had Feared"rt. Was The White House Behind The Failed Military Coup In Venezuela? The White House Says No, But Recent Revelations Suggest That The Administration Knew A Lot More Than It First Let On Dr. Helen Caldicott On The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex
Jun 17	DN16	Apr 29	In Bethlehem, International Activists Force Their Way Into Manger Square To Try To Bring Food To Palestinians Trapped In The Church Of The Nativity Israeli Forces Invade Hebron, Killing At Least Eight Palestinians, After Palestinian Gunmen Dressed As Israelis Kill Four Israelis In A Nearby Jewish Settlement; In Tel Aviv, Thousands Of Jews And Arabs Gather To Protest Sharon's Policies A Palestinian Activist Is Detained By Undercover Officers In New York "The Indian Enron"? Hundreds Of Boxes Of Documents Destroyed, Charges Of Contempt Of Court, Billions Of Dollars At Stake, Millions Paid To Arthur Anderson: Native Americans Sue The U.S. Government In One Of The Largest Class Action Lawsuits In History
Jun 24	DN17	Apr 22	France Reels As Far-Right, Anti-Immigrant Candidate Upsets Socialist Prime Minister In Round One Of France S Presidential Elections One Hundred Thousand People Take To The Streets Of The Nation's Capital, Rallying Against The Israeli Occupation Of Palestine, The War Against Afghanistan, U.S. Military Aid To Colombia, And The Policies Of The World Bank And IMF

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 May - Monday Evenings from 6-7

 

Spokane Date	#	1st Aired & Audio Link	Description
May 6	DN10	April 3	Exclusive: A 21-Year-Old US Citizen, Suraida Saleh, Is Gunned Down By Israeli Soldiers In Ramullah; The State Department Knows, But Does Nothing; Her Father Buries Her In The Hospital Parking Lot Because The Hospital Morgue Is Overflowing And Under The State Of Siege No One Can Get To The Cemetery. What We Don't Hear In The U.S. Media About The Bush Family, The Saudi Family, And Oil: An Interview With Investigative Reporter Greg Palast
May 13	DN11	March 4	Inside The State Of Siege: Israeli Troops Raid Palestinian Refugee Camps And Palestinian Suicide Bombers And Snipers Step Up Attacks In Jerusalem And The West Bank Arundhati Roy, Author Of The God Of Small Things, Faces Prison For Speaking Out Against The Privatization Of Rivers, Energy, And Other Essential Resources In India
May 20	DN12	March 20	Former Director Of The CIA James Woolsey Vs. Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark: Should The U.S. Invade Iraq?
May 27	DN13	March 28	Restoring The Debt: Descendents Of Slaves File For Reparations From USA Corporations That Profited From Slavery

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 April - Monday Evenings from 6-7

 

Spokane Date	#	1st Aired & Audio Link	Description
April 1	DN05	Nov 13, 01 Jan 25, 02	FORMER GREEN PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE RALPH NADER ROUSES THOUSANDS AT A "DEMOCRACY RISING" RALLY IN BOSTON. SINGING TO BREAK THE SILENCE: A CONVERSATION WITH SINGER-SONGWRITER-ACTIVIST, DAR WILLIAMS (Partial)
April 8	DN06	Oct 22, 01 Nov 30, 01 Dec 17, 01	Gaza Strip - A new documentary about life in the Gaza Strip THE SHARON FILES: PALESTINIANS SUE ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON FOR GENOCIDE AS NEW DOCUMENTS PROVIDE "WATERTIGHT EVIDENCE" THAT ISRAEL DIRECTED MILITIAS TO KILL HUNDREDS OF REFUGEES IN LEBANON Story: SCHOLAR AND ACTIVIST NOAM CHOMSKY SPEAKS ON THE WAR AGAINST AFGHANISTAN AND THE SHAPE OF THE WORLD SINCE SEPTEMBER 11
April 15	DN07	Oct 22, 01 Jan 25, 02	HISTORIAN AND ACTIVIST HOWARD ZINN SPEAKS ON THE US WAR AGAINST AFGHANISTAN, US WARS GONE BY, AND THE PROSPECTS FOR A HUMANE US FOREIGN POLICY (Most of Part 1, All of Part 2) SINGING TO BREAK THE SILENCE: A CONVERSATION WITH SINGER-SONGWRITER-ACTIVIST, DAR WILLIAMS (Partial)
April 22	DN08	February 26	DICK GREGORY . . . LIVE FROM DEMOCRACY NOW! He was jailed and beaten by Birmingham police for parading without a permit in 1963. He took a bullet in the knee while trying to calm a crowd...
April 29	DN09	February 22	Daniel Pearl is confirmed dead in Karachi: As a journalist dies trying to find the truth behind the story, the Pentagon launches a worldwide propaganda campaign oversease "Where are We Heading? Terrorism, Global Security, and the Peace Movement": During a time of seemingly endless war, Democracy Now! turns to the prophetic words of radical historian Howard Zinn

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March - Sunday Evenings from 8-9

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