The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope

Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan

Haymarket Books, 2012 - History - 345 pages

""Amy Goodman has taken investigative journalism to new heights of exciting, informative, and probing analysis."-Noam Chomsky Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan began writing a weekly column, "Breaking the Sound Barrier, " for King Features Syndicate in 2006. This timely new sequel to Goodman's New York Times bestseller of the same name gives voice to the many ordinary people standing up to corporate and government power-and refusing to be silent. The Silenced Majority pulls back the veil of corporate media reporting to dig deep into the politics of "climate apartheid, " the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the movement to halt the execution of Troy Anthony Davis, and the globalization of dissent "From Tahrir Square to Liberty Plaza." Throughout Goodman and Moynihan show the power of ordinary people to change their media-and change the world. Amy Goodman is a multiple New York Times best-selling author and the host and executive producer of Democracy Now! a daily independent news program airing on more than one thousand television and radio stations. Time named Democracy Now! its "Pick of the Podcasts, " along with NBC's Meet the Press. Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize." Denis Moynihan, since helping co-found Democracy Now! as an independent production company in 2002, has participated in the organization's growth, focusing primarily on distribution, infrastructure development, and coordinating complex live broadcasts from all continents (save Antarctica). He lives in Denver, Colorado. "--

Contents

• Let Us Not Become the Evil We Deplore: 2
• The Tortured Logic Continues: 4
• The Obscenity of War: 6
• Broken Promises Broken Laws Broken Lives: 8
• A Day Without War: 10
• Torture in Iraq Continues Unabated: 12
• War Should Be an Election Issue: 14
• The Prisoner and the Prosecutor: 16
• The Afghan Wars Nine Lives: 18
• Terror Trauma and the Endless Afghan War: 20
• A Tragedy in Three Acts ACT II THE WAR ON VETERANS AND SOLDIERS: 23
• Honor the Dead Heal the Wounded Stop the Wars: 24
• Veterans Say No to NATO: 25
• The War Condolences Obama Hasnt Sent: 28
• The Comeback Kid and the Kids Who Wont: 30
• Bring the Troops Home: 32
• Soldier Suicides and the Politics of Presidential Condolences: 34
• Lt Choi Wont Lie for His Country: 36
• Why Did Obama Fire Dan Choi?: 38
• A Tragedy in Three Acts ACT III THE WAR ON THE PUBLIC TREASURY: 41
• We Cant Afford War: 42
• Deficit Doves: 44
• New Fronts in the Afghan and Iraq Wars: 46
• War Is a Racket: 48
• War Debt and the President: 50
• Money in Politics: 53
• Big Money Clouds the Big Skies of Montana: 54
• Its One Person One Vote Not One Percent One Vote: 56
• Following the Money Behind TV Political Ads: 58
• Republicans Divided Citizens United: 60
• cliMaTe chanGe: 63
• New Light on Copenhagen Climate Talks: 64
• Trick or Treat for Climate Change: 65
• Take Me to Your Climate Leader: 68
• The Empires New Clothes: 70
• From Hopenhagen to Nopenhagen: 72
• Cochabamba the Water Wars and Climate Change: 74
• How Climate Change Affects You: 76
• A Little Missed Sunshine: 78
• Cancún Climate Change and WikiLeaks: 80
• Renewed Energy for Renewable Energy: 82
• Weiners No Longfellow: 84
• Cry the Beloved Climate: 86
• Listen to the People Not the Polluters: 88
• Climate Apartheid: 90
• The Long Hot March of Climate Change: 93
• This Is Just the Beginning: 95
• dirTy enerGy: 97
• Obamas Nuclear Option: 98
• Cracking Down on Fracking: 100
• Massey Disaster Not Just Tragic but Criminal: 102
• Billionaire Polluter: 104
• In Memory of All That Is Lost: 106
• If Only Information Flowed as Freely as Oil: 108
• A Warning to the World: 110
• Japans Meltdowns Demand New NoNukes Thinking: 112
• Japans Atomic Tragedies: 114
• DC Protests That Make Big Oil Quake: 116
• Ring Around the Rose Garden: 118
• The Bipartisan Nuclear Bailout: 120
• Race Racism and the Myth of Postracisl America: 123
• Henry Louis Gates Jr Troy Anthony Davis and the TwentyFirstCentury Color Line: 124
• Van Jones and the Boycott of Glenn Beck: 125
• Holding Corporations Accountable for Apartheid Crimes: 127
• Boycotting Arizonas Racism: 129
• Alleged Chicago Torturers Overdue Day in Court: 131
• MosqueIssippi Burning: 133
• NYCs Jihad Against Debbie Almontaser: 135
• From Tuskegee to Guatemala via Nuremberg: 137
• A Tale of Two Sheriffs: 139
• Tucson Juarez and an Assault Weapons Ban: 142
• If You Cant Beat Them Enjoin Them From Voting: 144
• The Killing of Trayvon Martin: 146
• The Police Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain: 148
• The Machinery of Death: 151
• Troy Davis and the Meaning of Actual Innocence: 152
• Tinkering with the Machinery of Death: 153
• One of Americas Worst Crimes: 156
• Troy Davis and the Politics of Death: 158
• Troy Davis and the Machinery of Death: 160
• WikiLeaks and the Crackdown on Dissent: 163
• WikiLeaks War Crimes and the Pinochet Principle: 164
• Bradley Manning and the Fog of War: 166
• Watch What You Tweet: 168
• Books Not Bombs: 170
• Canadas Olympic Crackdown: 172
• Collateral Murder in Iraq: 174
• WikiLeaks Afghan War Diary: 176
• FBI Raids and the Criminalization of Dissent: 178
• WikiLeaks and the End of US Diplomacy: 180
• From Character Assassination to the Real Thing: 182
• President Obamas Christmas Gift to ATT and Comcast and Verizon: 184
• Tony Kushner and the Angels of Dissent: 186
• Andrew Breitbarts Electronic Brownshirts: 188
• WikiLeaks Wimbledon and War: 190
• San Francisco Bay Areas BART Pulls a Mubarak: 192
• Pursue the Truth Not Its Messenger: 194
• Obamas Military Is Spying on US Peace Groups: 197
• The NSA Is Watching You: 199
• From the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street: 201
• The Pain in Spain Falls Mainly on the Plain Folk: 202
• Another World Is Possible Another Detroit Is Happening: 204
• Egypts Youth Will Not Be Silenced: 206
• From the Middle East to the Midwest: 208
• Barack Obama Must Speak Out on Bahrain Bloodshed: 210
• Framing the Narrative: 212
• 99 Percenters Occupy Wall Street: 214
• A New Bush Era or a Push Era?: 215
• The Arc of the Moral Universe from Memphis to Wall Street: 217
• Globalizing Dissent from Tahrir Square to Liberty Plaza: 219
• Veterans Join the 99 Percent: 222
• The Brave New World of Occupy Wall Street: 224
• Pulling Accounts from the Unaccountable: 226
• The SOPA Blackout Protest Makes History: 228
• Americas ProChoice Majority Speaks Out: 230
• A Movement Built by Dreamers: 232
• When Corporations Rule: 235
• Who Is Obama Playing Ball With?: 236
• When Banks Are the Robbers: 237
• When Corporations Choose Despots over Democracy: 239
• Policing the Prophets of Wall Street: 241
• Obamas Late Payment to MortgageFraud Victims: 244
• Romneys 1 Nation Under God: 246
• The President Is Wrong: 248
• Coal Foreclosures and Bank of Americas Extraordinary Event: 250
• Rupert Murdoch Doesnt Eat Humble Pie: 252
• Undoing the Coups From Haiti to Honduras: 255
• President Zelaya and the Audacity of Action: 256
• Tè TrembléThe Haitian Earth Trembled: 258
• Let the Haitians In: 260
• Haiti Forgive Us: 262
• Haiti Six Months After the Earthquake: 264
• A Long Nights Journey into Day: 266
• Hope and Resistance in Honduras: 268
• More News from the Unreported World: 271
• Obama in the Company of Killers: 272
• Fast Furious and Fueled by the US: 274
• Forget Fear of Flying Fear Airport Screening: 276
• The Real Scandal in Cartagena: 278
• Sick with Terror: 280
• Vermonts Gentle Revolution: 282
• A PreExisting Condition?: 283
• Rich Media Poor Democracy: 285
• Dont Ice Out Public Media: 287
• Luminaries: 291
• Across That Bridge Again: 292
• The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz: 294
• The Poetic Justice of Dennis Brutus: 296
• The Peoples Historian: 298
• Rachel Corries Posthumous Day in Court: 300
• Singing Lena Hornes Praises: 302
• Bald Brave and Beautiful: 304
• The Health Insurance Industrys Vendetta Against Michael Moore: 306
• Calling Out the Traitors: 308
• Sundance and the Art of Democracy: 310
• Father Mychals Message: 312
• Stop the Violence: 315
• On Gun Laws Its Bipartisan Consensus Not Gridlock Thats the Problem: 316
• The Obama Administration Torpedoes the Arms Trade Treaty: 318
• US Gun Laws Guilty by Reason of Insanity: 320
• 75 Years Later the Lessons of Guernica: 322
• Index: 325
• About Democracy Now: 344
• About the Authors: 345
• About Haymarket Books: 346

About the author

Amy Goodman is a broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter and author. Goodman is also the host of Democracy Now!, an independent global news program broadcast daily on radio, television and the Internet. Goodman graduated from Radcliffe College in 1984 with a degree in anthropology. She was news director of Pacifica Radio station WBAI in New York City for over a decade when she co-founded Democracy Now! The War and Peace Report in 1996. Amy Goodman is the author of several books: The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them (2004); Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People who Fight Back (2006); Standing up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times (2008) all co-written with her brother reporter David Goodman ; Breaking the Sound Barrier (with a preface by journalist Bill Moyers)(2009) and The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope (2012).

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope; G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
• Authors: Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Haymarket Books, 2012
• ISBN: 1608462315, 9781608462315
• Length: 345 pages
• Subjects: History / Social History; History / United States / 21st Century; Political Science / Essays; Political Science / History & Theory; Political Science / Political Process / Media & Internet; Political Science / Political Process / Political Advocacy; Political Science / Public Policy / General; Social Science / Media Studies