Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times | 
|  | | | Title: | Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times | | Author: | Amy Goodman
David Goodman | | Publisher: | Hyperion | | Type: | Book / Hardcover | | Publication Date: | 01 April, 2008 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 1401322883 / 9781401322885 | | List Price: | $23.95 | | You Save: | $7.66 | | Amazon Price: | $16.29 | |
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Standing Up to the Madness not only is a timely, inspiring, and even revolutionary look at who wields the greatest power in America--everyday people who take a chance and stand up for what they believe in--but also offers advice on what you can do to help. Where are the millions marching in the streets to defend human rights, civil liberties, and racial justice? Where is the mass revulsion against the killing and torture being carried out in our name? Where are the environmentalists? Where is the peace movement? The answer: They are everywhere. The award-winning sister-brother team of Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, and investigative journalist David Goodman traveled the country to detail the ways in which grassroots activists have taken politics out of the hands of politicians. Standing Up to the Madness tells the stories of everyday citizens who have challenged the government and prevailed. As the Bush administration has waged war abroad and at home, it has catalyzed a vast groundswell of political action. From African-American residents of deluged New Orleans who are fighting racism and City Hall to regain their homes; to four Connecticut librarians who refused to spy on their patrons, challenged the USA PATRIOT Act, and won; to a group of high school students who were barred from performing a play they wrote on the Iraq War based on letters from soldiers; to the first U.S. Army officer to publicly refuse orders to deploy to Iraq, charging that his duty as an officer is to refuse to fight in an illegal and immoral war, Standing Up to the Madness profiles citizens rising to extraordinary challenges. And, in the process, they are changing the way that politics is done, both now and in the future. In communities around the United States, courageous individuals have taken leaps of faith to stop the madness. They could only hope that if they led, others would follow. That is how movements are born. What begins as one, eventually becomes many. In that tradition, the authors have included the ways in which any individual can take action and effect change.
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• Standing Up To The Madness 27 July, 2008
STANDING UP TO THE MADNESS BY AMY GOODMAN AND DAVID GOODMAN: The award-winning and bestselling brother and sister team Amy Goodman (popular and successful host of the TV and radio show Democracy Now!) and David Goodman (an investigative journalist), authors of Static and Exception to the Rulers return with Standing Up to the Madness. The Goodmans strike out on a new path in, aiming to not retread on the familiar ground of endlessly criticizing the Bush administration and its endeavors, but to report and record grassroots stories of people from across the country who have suffered under the current regime, and how they have fought back and gained some ground.
The stories in the book are grouped into subjects on how science is being threatened, schools and education being threatened, the war in Iraq, and simply "Standing up to the Madness." There is the story Malik Rahim, a native of New Orleans who was there when Hurricane Katrina struck, and is still there now trying to rebuild the ravaged country and its torn and exiled people. Rahim tells of the little help he has seen from the government, and what there remains now. He also provides startling insights into the horrific acts of racism that are now commonplace in the ruins of the city. But Rahim has started a charity group from scratch, Common Ground, that is now strong and increasing in size and popularity, providing aid and shelter to the many citizens of New Orleans that still have no where to call home.
Raed Jarrar, a US citizen originally from Iraq, tells the story of his being prevented from flying on JetBlue because he was wearing a T-shirt that read "We Will Not Be Silent" in both English and Arabic. Clearly it was because of the color of his skin, and with help from the original manufacturers of the T-shirt, he was able to make a stand for freedom of speech. Librarians across the country tell their story of standing against the Patriot Act and its supposed allowance of turning over library members reading histories. Psychologists speak out against the use of their members being used as litmus tests and decision makers when witnessing torture at Guantanamo Bay. American soldiers back from Iraq tell the true story of what was really taking place in the Middle East, and why every day is another step in the wrong direction.
It is easy to criticize the Bush administration, but the authors of Standing Up to the Madness challenge the reader to do something other than criticize. Through the voices and lives revealed in this book, one can see that change and justice is possible, and with an epilogue of advice and suggestions, it gives one fuel to begin the change that is necessary to make American the land of the free once again.
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• The Way, The Truth, The Life . . . 28 April, 2008
This book is third installment of the Goodmans' chronicling of the investigative researches and discoveries of the journalistic odyssey which is Democracy Now, in my opinion, at least, the most important public project of the past decade. The word from Radio Free America is there to remind us that we do not live by bread alone. I wax Biblical, because the holiest thing one can do at this point is to stand up for our rights. The Goodmans, with characteristic attention to the crucial detail, make this point clear in the book which discusses, some of the key incidents shaping the contemporary political milieu, ranging from the plight of the Connecticut Librarians to the fate of the Jena Six, and the issues emerging from them. To think that the "average American" is now to be counted among the "voiceless" masses of the world, in the wake of the fascist ideology which infects the Bush regime, the complicity of our subservient mainstream corporate-owned media, and the spineless, apparently calculated compliance of the "opposition" party, is to realize how far the ideals of democracy have fallen in our dear nation. But, the Goodmans focus on hope here, in these inspiring portraits of those ordinary folks who had the courage to stand up for what they knew, and because of their stance we now know, was right.
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• Promotes The More Leftist Fears Of Government Power... 23 May, 2008
The book delves back over 30-plus years to recognize individuals who stuck up for freedom and justice against long odds, but its real purpose seems to be a concise restatement of the liberal arguments against our post 911 government actions. Unlikely to convert any readers to that cause, or to attract any not already persuaded, it is a volume that might only appeal to those who already agree with it. As a moderate Democrat, I travel the Goodmans' path only partially. As one who has been paying attention during this long presidential political season, and as a person in his 60's who lived through most of the historical events summarized here, I did not really need it. Younger folks might find it more useful than I did.
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