Author: Laura Flanders

The old media was driven by and for profits. What will new media stand on? More importantly, what will our media stand for? Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 1,400 public television and radio stations worldwide. She has co-authored six New York Times bestsellers, including Breaking the Sound Barrier and The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance and Hope. Her latest book is Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America. Also in this episode: The Ovarian Psycos Bicycle Brigade is an...

A special episode-length documentary filmed on location in Dinétah; the name of the land of the Navajo people, spanning parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah. 21 Billion tons of coal, the largest deposit in the US with an estimated value of 100 billion dollars, lay untouched in Dinétah until 1966. In that year, Peabody Coal Company leased the land in an agreement with a Hopi tribal council they helped form. In 1974, Congress passed the Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act, commonly known as “the relocation law.” It divided about 2 million acres of land previously shared between Diné...