Amy Goodman, the best-selling advocate of a free press and an independent media, will speak in Birmingham on Sept. 17.

The distinguished award winning journalist is co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers and the Media That Love Them. She is a commentator on the documentary film, "Independent Media in a Time of War" and the popular host of the nationally broadcast daily radio and television news hour, "Democracy Now!"

Goodman has earned the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting, the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Award, the Armstrong Award and the Radio and television News Directors Award as well as the Associated Press, United Press International and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Awards.

DETAILS OF APPEARANCE
Who: Amy Goodman
When: Saturday, September 17, 2005
Where: 7:00 PM Hill University Center Alumni Auditorium
14th Street South at University Blvd., Birmingham, AL 35294
Book signing follows.
Admission: FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Reception precedes at Bare Hands Gallery, 4:30 to 6:30 PM

Entertainment by instrumental trio "Changing Times," poetry by Laura Secord
109 Richard Arrington, Jr. Blvd. So.
Birmingham, AL 35233

Book signing at Hill Center, following program

Presented by the Birmingham Peace Project in collaboration with the following sponsors:

Birmingham Peace Project, Birmingham Freethought Society; Greater Birmingham NOW; Alabama Freethought Society; Birmingham Chapter, Democracy for America/Progressive Democrats of America; Alabama Chapter, National Lawyers Guild; Birmingham Chapter, Alliance for Democracy; Alabama Democratic Alliance; Church of the Reconciler, a UMC Congregation; Alabama Green Party; Birmingham Islamic Society; Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee of Birmingham, Malcolm X Grass Roots Movements; Alabama Chapter, Sierra Club; Bare Hands Gallery; Birmingham Chapter, Amnesty International; Birmingham Chapter, Young Democrats; ACLU of Alabama

For more information on Amy Goodman, visit www.democracynow.org

Contacts:
thepasss (at) aol (dot) com (David Gespass, Chair)
dianemcnaron (at) aol (dot) com (Diane McNaron, Press Coordinator)