Wild & Scenic and KVMR Co-Present a Special Evening with Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman, an award-winning investigative journalist and syndicated columnist, author and the host of Democracy Now! will present a lecture followed by Schooling the World, a film addressing the effects of instituting Western education worldwide.
Amy Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ for “developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media.” Democracy Now! airs on more than 1000 public television/radio stations worldwide. The Independent of London named Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! “an inspiration” and pulsemedia.org placed Goodman at the head of their 20 Top Global Media Figures.
Goodman is the author of four New York Times bestsellers. Her latest book, Breaking the Sound Barrier, proves the power of independent journalism in the struggle for a better world. She co-authored three other bestsellers, Standing Up to the Madness, Static, and The Exception to the Rulers, with her brother, journalist David Goodman.
Democracy Now!’s War and Peace Report provides their 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.
In the vein of challenging and rethinking our preconceived notions, we are proud to present the film Schooling the World, by Emmy and Writers Guild award winning film and television writer/director Carol Black (“The Wonder Years”). The film poses an almost heretical challenge to the long-unquestioned assumption that the western model of education and schooling improves lives wherever it goes. The film addresses how quickly education changes an ancient culture. The U.S. Government knew this in the 19th century when it forced Native American children into government boarding schools. Today, volunteers build schools in traditional societies around the world, convinced that school is the only way to a ‘better’ life for indigenous children. But is this true? What really happens when we replace a traditional culture’s way of learning and understanding the world with our own?
Beautifully shot on location in the Buddhist culture of Ladakh, India, Schooling the World takes a challenging, sometimes funny, ultimately deeply disturbing look at the effects of modern education on the world’s last sustainable indigenous cultures. Featuring Wade Davis, Vandana Shiva, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Manish Jain, and Dolma Tsering, Schooling the World has won many awards including: Best Feature Doc, Eugene International Film Festival; Best of Fest, World Community Film Festival; Best Doc Honorable Mention, Philadelphia Independent Film Festival.
Join us for our first ever Grass Valley Wild & Scenic event at the Veteran Hall, Saturday January 14, 2012. Doors open at 6:30pm and the event begins at 7:oopm. General admission is $27 or $24 for SYRCL & KVMR members. The event is included the weekend pass package. Click here to buy your tickets.
