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Award winning journalist speaks of her detainment at Canadian Border
Article by Chris Johnson
Reporting by Lisa Nickol
Videography by Andrew Ainsley
Video editing by Andrew Ainsley and Chris Johnson
Photos by Pete Rockwell
December 9, 2009
Award-winning independent journalist Amy Goodman made a stop at the University of Victoria on November 28 to address a packed crowd at the Michelle Pujo room.
The lecture and book-signing was hosted by campus community radio station CFUV 101.9, one of 800 stations worldwide which broadcast Democracy Now on a daily basis. (11am on CFUV).
Amy Goodman is host, along with Juan Gonzalez of the national, independent radio, television and satellite news program Democracy Now’s War and Peace Report.
From the DN! website:
“Democracy Now!’s War and Peace Report provides our audience with access to people and perspectives rarely heard in the U.S. corporate-sponsored media, including independent and international journalists, ordinary people from around the world who are directly affected by U.S. foreign policy, grassroots leaders and peace activists, artists, academics and independent analysts. In addition, Democracy Now! hosts real debates–debates between people who substantially disagree, such as between the White House or the Pentagon spokespeople on the one hand, and grassroots activists on the other.”
Goodman spoke for nearly two hours, talking about everything from her detainment at the Canadian Border, to health care, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, climate change and the importance of challenging the corporate media.
Goodman and her colleagues were detained by the Canadian Border Service the day before their visit to Victoria, and were subject to an extensive search and interrogation. During her talk in Vancouver and then later in Victoria, Goodman described the incident and called it a ’serious violation’ of freedom of the press and the public’s right to know.
The B Channel News crew filmed Goodman’s UVic lecture, and we present it to you here as a series of video clips.
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