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Friday, March 27, 2026
EXCELLENT AND HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!! — An Evening to Celebrate 30 Years of Independent Global News with Democracy Now!
This 30th anniversary celebration of Democracy Now! occurred on March 23rd. And as I watched this truly remarkable program dedicated to honoring and illuminating independent global news, I was moved to tears multiple times. And, oh!, how profoundly different our nation and our world would be if the vast majority of us were exposed over the years to the extraordinary diversity of voices of global truth-tellers, wisdom-keepers, Indigenous people, visionaries and intellectuals, authors and activists, and countless others provided to us by Amy Goodman, Juan González, and Nermeen Shaikh.Democracy Now! is life changing, freeing us layer by layer of the indoctrination, ignorance, illusions, polarization, and propaganda so prolific in American culture and beyond for so very long.
This event took place at the Riverside Church in New York, which is where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his most powerful speech Beyond Vietnam on April 4th, 1967 — which occurred exactly one year to the day before his assassination. Such an appropriate venue for this remarkable celebration of three decades of the independent reporting that Democracy Now! has gifted us all with over the decades. Amy Goodman is an extraordinary national and international treasure.
I truly cannot recommend this special event more strongly to everyone — and especially to those not familiar with Democracy Now! This is a force for truth, for awakening, for peace, for justice, for solidarity, for a transformed world! In deepest gratitude...🙏💜 Molly
P.S. If anyone ever wonders how I can hold so much of what is happening in our world, and how I have been inspired to be courageous and to care so deeply, just look to Amy Goodman.
Amy and Bruce
Amy Goodman with Juan González and Nermeen Shaikh
Angela Davis
Patti Smith
Please watch the full 30th anniversary special event here:
An Evening to Celebrate 30 Years of Independent
Global News with Democracy Now!
On Monday, March 23rd, more than 2,000 people packed the historic Riverside Church in New York to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Democracy Now!
Watch the full two-and-a-half-hour event, featuring musical performances by Patti Smith, Michael Stipe with Aaron Dessner, and Hurray for the Riff Raff, along with a surprise appearance by Bruce Springsteen, who performed his new song, “The Streets of Minneapolis.”
The evening included a conversation with the iconic academic and activist Angela Davis, interviewed by Amy Goodman, Juan González, and Nermeen Shaikh.
Pulitzer Prize–winning Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha read his poem “Under the Rubble” and spoke about surviving Israel’s war on Gaza, which killed 30 members of his extended family.
The program also featured an address by V (formerly Eve Ensler) and excerpts from the new documentary “Steal This Story, Please!”, about Amy Goodman and the history of Democracy Now!
All of the evening’s musical performers came together on stage to close out the evening with a riveting rendition of Patti Smith’s iconic song “People Have the Power.”
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