AMY GOODMAN with DENIS MOYNIHAN
Tuesday, November 24th
3:00 PM
The Elliott Bay Book Company
101 S. Main St.
Seattle, Washington 98104

Join us whenever and wherever it works in your Thanksgiving week as Democracy Now! host, bestselling author, award-winning journalist Amy Goodman makes this welcome Seattle return. Occasioning this visit is her newest book, Breaking the Sound Barrier (Haymarket), a collection of astute, perceptive pieces she's written (and delivered) over the past few years. Edited by Denis Moynihan, this book is a telling reminder of how vital Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! are to our country—an independent media voice not beholden to corporate interests. "You can learn more of the truth about Washington and the world from one week of Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! than from a month of Sunday morning talk shows. Make that a year of Sunday morning talk shows. That's because 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." – Bill Moyers, from the Foreword.

Free admission to the Elliott Bay talk.

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Amy Goodman: Celebrating Community Journalism
Friday, November 27th
 7 – 9pm
Town Hall Seattle
1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca Street)
Seattle, WA 98101
(Great Hall, enter on 8th Avenue)


Award-winning broadcast journalist Amy Goodman, author of Breaking the Sound Barrier and host and executive producer of the radio program Democracy Now!, kicks off a week of events marking the 10th anniversary of the historic Seattle WTO meeting with a celebration of the expanding world of grassroots community journalism. Goodman's work has won the George Polk Award and the Robert F. Kennedy prize for international reporting, and her show can be heard in Seattle on KBCS 91.3FM at 8 am and 3 pm weekdays. Presented by KBCS, Reclaim the Media, and the Seattle Plus 10 organizing committee as a benefit for KBCS.

Tickets are $15-$25 at www.kbcs.fm and at the door. Call 425/564-4069 or visit www.kbcs.fm for more information.

LEARN MORE:
www.kbcs.fm
www.democracynow.org
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Iran-Israel-U.S.
Resolving the Nuclear Impasse

Speakers:
Dr. Trita Parsi, director & founder, National Iranian American Council
 Dr. Ian Lustick, political science professor, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Keith Weissman, former director of Aipac's Iran desk

December 16th at 7 PM
Town Hall Seattle
1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca Street)
Seattle, WA 98101

Information: 206.632.0662 extension 30
Tickets: $10 suggested donation
Brown Paper Tickets

Community sponsors:
 American Friends Service Committee   American Muslims of Puget Sound   Jewish Voice for Peace
 Kadima Reconstructionist Community   Network Promoting Peace with Iran   United Nations Association


This community conference sponsored by local Jewish community groups and peace organizations will explore ways of resolving the Iranian nuclear crisis through negotiation, rather than force. This week, Congress is debating a draconian sanctions bill directed against Iran. Neocons in the U.S. and Israel suggest that if sanctions do not work eventually military force may be the only way to end or delay Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Many in the progressive community are deeply concerned that the U.S. and/or Israel may soon repeat interventionist mistakes made in Iraq and Afghanistan. This conference will present a comprehensive approach that could resolve major difference through diplomacy and open a new era in relations between these three current enemies. It will also discuss the best means of supporting the Iran reform movement in its efforts to encourage a government based on democracy and tolerance.
Three Iran and Israel analysts with extensive experience in the field will discuss U.S. and Israeli policy options including sanctions and a possible military attack.

Among the issues to be discussed:
What is the best way to approach the issue of Iran’s nuclear program that will secure a positive outcome for those nations opposed to it?
What impact might “crippling sanctions” have on Iran and the overall conflict? Will they work?
What repercussions might there be from an Israeli military attack on Iran and would such an attack attain its objectives?
If a military attack is a bad idea, how do we work to prevent it?
How should the west further the goals of the Iran reform movement?
Voices with the Israeli among the military, intelligence and academic communities that embrace a more pragmatic approach


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Washington Public Campaigns
  will send a speaker to your group or organization to give a presentation about public financing of political campaigns. Public financing means that a more diverse group of people could run for public offfice and less elected officials would be beholden to the special interests that financed their campaigns. Arizona and Maine are already holding elections with the clean money system.

Amy Goodman's interview with David Cay Johnston
How the Mega-Rich Treat Our Treasury Like a Buffet (And Stick You with the Bill)

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Interview with Naomi Wolf on
The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot

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Listen to Rick Steves talk about
 "Travel as a political act"

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Anita Hill Responds to the Memoirs of Clarence Thomas

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 "To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness... And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."
- Howard Zinn