New World Notes - The Silenced Majority (First of two parts)

This week on New World Notes: radio program #338, August 26, 2014, from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m. (and on Wednesday from 8:30 to 9:00 p.m.), host Kenneth Dowst airs a nice--and highly listenable--talk by Amy Goodman, host and producer of Democracy Now!.

Goodman presents several interlocking "stories of uprisings, occupations, resistance and hope" by somewhat-ordinary people (mostly Americans) whose activism changed the world.

This week she tells the parts of the stories never reported by the corporate media--about Rosa Parks, Mamie Till, Martin Luther King Jr., Bowe and Bob Bergdahl, and others.

Rosa Parks was not just "a tired seamstress" but a trained and experienced activist and "world-class troublemaker."

Goodman spoke in Chicago on June 26, 2014. Audio courtesy of wearemany.org.

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Series overview: Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want--and what they're trying to make us settle for.

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