[Mpls] Amy Goodman (Host of Democracy Now!) in Minneapolis

[Jim McGuire]

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Amy Goodman, internationally acclaimed journalist and host of the 
nationally broadcast daily radio/TV news hour Democracy Now!, brings the 
Un-Embed the Media! tour to Minneapolis on Saturday, May 7th and Sunday, 
May 8th.

Saturday, May 7, 7:00 PM

Wesley United Methodist Church
801 E. Grant St.
Minneapolis

Tickets: $15
Purchase by visiting www.kfai.org, or calling 1-888-690-9875.

For more information, call 612-341-3144.

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Sunday, May 8, 9:00 AM & 11:00 AM

Church of St. Joan of Arc
Sunday Mass
4537 Third Ave. S.
Minneapolis

Free and open to the public.

For more information, visit www.stjoan.com.

Join us as we celebrate the paperback edition of Amy and David Goodman's 
national best-seller, The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily 
Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them.

Spread the word! For event details and a complete schedule of tour dates, 
and how to order a book as a gift, for yourself, or for a library or a 
prison book program, go to 
<http://www.democracynow.org/book>http://www.democracynow.org/book. The 
book tour website has downloadable posters, flyers, and an easy 
event-by-event Email A Friend option.

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DEMOCRACY NOW !
<http://www.democracynow.org>http://www.democracynow.org

Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news 
program airing on over 330 stations in North America. Pioneering the 
largest public media collaboration in the U.S., Democracy Now! is broadcast 
on Pacifica, NPR, community, and college radio stations; on public access, 
PBS, satellite TV stations (DISH network: Free Speech TV ch. 9415 and Link 
TV ch. 9410; DIRECTV: Link TV ch. 375) with closed-captions for people who 
are deaf or hard of hearing; and online at www.democracynow.org.

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About "The Exception to the Rulers!"

"Hard-hitting, no-holds barred brand of reporting... fierce and tireless." 
-Publishers Weekly

"What journalism should be: beholden to the interests of people, not power 
and profit." -Arundhati Roy, author, The God of Small Things

"Amy Goodman has taken investigative journalism to new heights." -Noam 
Chomsky, author, 9/11 and Hegemony or Survival

"Amy Goodman [carries] the great muckraking tradition of Upton Sinclair, 
George Seldes, and I.F. Stone into the electronic age."
-Howard Zinn, historian and author, A People's History of the United States

"Pick up this book, shake your head in disbelief and disgust as you read 
it, and then...go raise some hell!" -Michael Moore, Academy-award winning 
director, Bowling for Columbine

And the rulers take exception!

"Hostile, combative, and even disrespectful." -President Bill Clinton

"A threat to national security." -The Indonesian military

"Not easy-listening." -The New York Times

"I have advised my mother to talk to no reporters because of ... people 
like you." -Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich
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Jim McGuire
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