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New York-based independent investigative journalist Amy Goodman has been reporting from hotspots around the world for decades: from East Timor to Morocco, Nigeria, and Gaza, and closer to home during 9/11 and the Iraq War. Goodman and a small group of colleagues present the daily online, TV, and radio news program Democracy Now!, which has been on the air since 1996 with no government funding, thanks to contributions from donors, foundations, and news consumers.
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00:00Hi, I'm Amy Goodman from Democracy Now.
00:03Can you tell us what you think about President Trump saying climate change is a Chinese hope?
00:07I'm sorry, I'm running late for a meeting.
00:09Right, but you weren't running late when you were just standing there, so...
00:13My first impressions of Amy...
00:16What did you say to those who say that you're a war criminal?
00:18Man, she doesn't care what anybody thinks.
00:20Don't push me, I'm a journalist here.
00:22Independent media is the oxygen of a democracy.
00:25What do you mean by independence?
00:26Not being sponsored by corporations.
00:28Amy's chaotically brilliant at the spy game.
00:32We began on nine radio stations.
00:35If she believes something, she's going to fight for it and get it out to the world.
00:39Straight up journalism.
00:41It came from my Jewish education that you asked questions.
00:46Sharif, can you talk about what's happened on the Gaza Strip?
00:50From ground zero from East Timor.
00:53As we deploy in Haiti from Georgia's death row prison.
00:57We had to smuggle in our recording equipment.
00:59This was extremely dangerous.
01:01We're accusing a powerful American corporation of murder.
01:05Without any warning, the military opened fire on the protesters.
01:10They put the guns to our heads.
01:12It is critical that we expose what is done in our name.
01:21Donald Trump understood corporate owners of the media would do anything for money.
01:29She taught me, speak to the people at the target's end of the bomb.
01:33Speak to those who are being deliberately silenced.
01:35When you hear someone speak, it's less likely you'll want to destroy them.
01:42We expand the frame.
01:44We center those voices.
01:47There is a great force that would like to silence us.
01:51The first, you're the enemy of the people.
01:53It's not the only thing to us.
01:55No, we're not going to let it happen.
01:57We kind of save the same order for us.
02:02WeEM!
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