Lippes Concert Hall at Slee Hall, UB North Campus
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Department of Media Study Forum on Torture series

AMY GOODMAN is an award-winning progressive journalist whose radio and TV news show Democracy Now!: The War & Peace Report broadcasts weekdays via 400 media outlets around the nation, in addition to the world wide web.

Please visit the program’s website for a comprehensive overview: http://www.democracynow.org

Amy Goodman provides a crucial antidote to US mainstream media, and examples of how she brings the “people’s news” to listeners include on the ground coverage of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the link between violence and the US presence in Haiti, the mass demonstrations against the new anti-immigrant legislation, and the news behind the news about the war and continued occupation in Iraq.

The "Forum on Torture" is a speaker's series organized by Caroline Koebel, professor of Media Study. As it becomes increasingly clear that the Abu Ghraib torture scandal was not an isolated incident but rather part of a larger pattern of US-perpetrated human rights abuses, it is our ethical responsibility to inform ourselves about these acts as well as the context in which occur. This course features diverse speakers representing different fields and experiences who together will posit necessary questions about torture practices and the role of the public. The Forum seeks to open up a space which makes the register of individual and collective oppositional voices possible.