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| Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! were the first journalists at Standing Rock in 2016 |
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| Independent investigative journalist and author Jeremy Scahill |
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The Trailer
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The Awards
Please go here to see the awards that have been given thus far to Steal This Story, Please!: https://stealthisstory.org/awards
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When and Where To See
Steal the Story, Please!
Steal This Story, Please! is playing around the country. To see where the documentary is playing near you, please go here: https://stealthisstory.org/
This film will continue to be featured in Portland at Cinema 21 through May 7th. If you are local and interested, please go here to view times/dates and get tickets: https://www.cinema21.com/
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Democracy Now!
If you haven't already been watching, reading, or listening to Democracy Now!, please go here for the website: https://www.democracynow.org/
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A 30 Year Anniversary Celebration of Democracy Now! and Global Independent Journalism
If you missed this amazing celebration and would like to see it, please go here: https://mollystrongheart.blogspot.com/2026/03/excellent-and-highly-recommended.html
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A Larger View of This Documentary
My husband I saw Steal the Story, Please! in Portland on April 27th. It is hard to describe my experience. It was so deep, so profound. Yes, the lifetime of Amy Goodman was featured. Simply awe inspiring. And the heart of the film also illuminates the vital need for and power of global independent journalism, which is indeed the "lifeblood of democracy."
We saw Amy as a child and how she came to be inspired to be one of the most extraordinary independent journalists nationally, globally, and of all times. We met her beloved dog, learned the history of her amazing father, met her 106 year old grandmother, and followed the astounding 30 year history of Democracy Now! from its inception to the present day.
We also had front row seats to Amy's travels all over the country and worldwide. We watched her go into war zones, be beaten and arrested, shine bright light on corruption wherever she found it, visit gravesites of ancestors who had died in the Holocaust, travel to where climate disasters had hit and where the fossil fuel industry was destroying a livable planet, and bring the stories of indigenous peoples, of marginalized populations, and of politicians doing the bidding of their wealthy donors rather than acting out of the best interests of We The People, all living beings, and the Earth. There are those like Jeremy Scahill — and Chris Hedges, Naomi Klein, Arundhati Roy, Jason Stanley, Timothy Snyder, George Monbiot, Norman Solomon, Ibram X Kendi, Henry Giroux, Angela Davis, countless worldwide indigenous voices, and on and on — that I only came to know through Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!
Again and again, and over the course of her adult lifetime, Amy Goodman has gone to where the silence is and brought forth the stories and the voices rarely or never heard on mainstream corporate funded American media. Because Amy has never been in the pockets of any wealthy donors, she has for decades embodied a profound dedication to truth and to holding the powerful accountable rather than being their voice pieces. And this is why I have been donating every month to Democracy Now! for many, many years. And this is why independent global news is so essential to the welfare of us all.
Amy Goodman if my heroine. She is among those who I most respect and am grateful for and admire and been inspired by. She is part of my inspiration to start my blog 18 years ago. And because of my exposure over the years to Amy's courage, integrity, truth-telling, and utter commitment to empowering us all as human beings, my own resilience, stamina, curiosity, and profound caring for all of life on Earth has grown and grown.
This is so much more than simply a political post that I am doing here, now, today. Amy Goodman is among those who inspires me to act, to be informed, to speak to what I am learning again and again and again, and to do my part in alleviating the suffering in our world. Amy is among those who have inspired and empowered me to hold in growing depth both the trauma and tragedies of our world and also its amazing beauty and the love and connection and caring that is possible between us all as human beings.
This is the larger view, something so much greater than being just "political." This is about my children and grandchildren and all of the children of all of the species on Earth. This is about our hearts, about truth and wisdom and courage, about curiosity and awareness and inspiration, about our interrelationship with all of our planetary sisters and brothers, and about being empowered to act out of the consciousness of the highest good for us all.
The essence of what flows through Amy Goodman and the gifts that she brings to myself and our world is intertwined with my spiritual path. The bottom line is to embody and act out of compassion and love. I bow with the deepest gratitude to all who have made such a profound difference in my life. Amy Goodman is certainly among them.
This extraordinary documentary ended with Patti Smith singing People Have the Power. Tears. My heart was so opened, moved, inspired, and filled with gratitude and passion to claim my power in doing my ever growing part in the the universal struggle for a just, sustainable, equitable, and peaceful world. I'll end with this video of Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, others singing this song at the close of the 30 year anniversary special honoring Amy Goodman and others and the phenomenal Democracy Now!
May we all be inspired!
And steal this story, please!
🙏💜
Molly
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| One of the countless times that I have been gifted with seeing Amy Goodman |
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| It was so wonderful to see and meet Jeremy Scahill! |
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