https://znetwork.org/author/amygoodman/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Mon, 01 Sep 2025 15:32:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/amygoodman/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/labor-day-special-featuring-howard-zinn-voices-of-a-peoples-history-of-the-united-states/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/labor-day-special-featuring-howard-zinn-voices-of-a-peoples-history-of-the-united-states/#respond Mon, 01 Sep 2025 15:31:57 +0000 In 1980, historian Howard Zinn published his classic work, A People’s History of the United States. The book would go on to sell over a million copies and change the way many look at history in America. We begin today’s special with highlights from a production of Howard Zinn’s Voices of a People’s History of the United [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/labor-day-special-featuring-howard-zinn-voices-of-a-peoples-history-of-the-united-states/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/what-to-the-slave-is-the-4th-of-july-james-earl-jones-reads-frederick-douglasss-historic-speech/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/what-to-the-slave-is-the-4th-of-july-james-earl-jones-reads-frederick-douglasss-historic-speech/#respond Sat, 05 Jul 2025 14:41:39 +0000 We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, Douglass gave one of his most famous speeches, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” He was addressing [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/what-to-the-slave-is-the-4th-of-july-james-earl-jones-reads-frederick-douglasss-historic-speech/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/no-kings-millions-across-u-s-protest-trumps-power-grab-overshadowing-his-military-parade/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/no-kings-millions-across-u-s-protest-trumps-power-grab-overshadowing-his-military-parade/#respond Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:30:00 +0000 More than 5 million people joined No Kings Day protests Saturday in the largest day of action against President Trump since his return to office. Protests were held in over 2,100 cities and towns across the country. The protests coincided with a poorly attended, multimillion-dollar military parade on President Trump’s birthday, June 14. Democracy Now! spoke with [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/no-kings-millions-across-u-s-protest-trumps-power-grab-overshadowing-his-military-parade/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/kidnapped-1000-protest-after-masked-ice-agents-abduct-tufts-ph-d-student-rumeysa-ozturk/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/kidnapped-1000-protest-after-masked-ice-agents-abduct-tufts-ph-d-student-rumeysa-ozturk/#respond Fri, 28 Mar 2025 15:58:00 +0000 Over a thousand protesters gathered near Tufts University on Wednesday after masked plainclothes immigration agents snatched Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Ph.D. student and Fulbright scholar, from the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts. Surveillance video shows agents approaching her on the streets near her home Tuesday evening and handcuffing her while she screamed for help. Tufts University’s [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/kidnapped-1000-protest-after-masked-ice-agents-abduct-tufts-ph-d-student-rumeysa-ozturk/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/peoples-march-thousands-rally-against-trump-in-washington-ahead-of-second-inauguration/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/peoples-march-thousands-rally-against-trump-in-washington-ahead-of-second-inauguration/#respond Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:36:09 +0000 Ahead of President elect-Donald Trump’s second inauguration, thousands of people rallied in Washington, D.C., on Saturday at the People’s March to oppose his policies on immigration, abortion, LGBTQ rights, the climate crisis and more. We air voices of resistance from the protest. “All of us deserve to feel like human beings, and all of us deserve to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/peoples-march-thousands-rally-against-trump-in-washington-ahead-of-second-inauguration/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/imprisoned-for-50-years-amnesty-calls-for-leonard-peltiers-freedom-as-he-turns-80-behind-bars/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/imprisoned-for-50-years-amnesty-calls-for-leonard-peltiers-freedom-as-he-turns-80-behind-bars/#respond Sun, 15 Sep 2024 14:43:43 +0000 Supporters of Leonard Peltier are calling on President Biden to grant clemency to the Indigenous leader and activist, who marked his 80th birthday behind bars on Thursday after nearly a half-century in prison for a crime he says he did not commit. The ailing Peltier, who uses a walker and has serious health conditions, including [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/imprisoned-for-50-years-amnesty-calls-for-leonard-peltiers-freedom-as-he-turns-80-behind-bars/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/to-save-childrens-lives-harris-should-campaign-on-an-assault-weapons-ban/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/to-save-childrens-lives-harris-should-campaign-on-an-assault-weapons-ban/#respond Sat, 07 Sep 2024 15:47:12 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1272017 School shootings are recurring markers of a societal sickness, an unshakeable acceptance of violence and senseless death. The murder of two 14-year-old students and two teachers on Wednesday, and the wounding of nine others, at a mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, is the latest in this seemingly permanent contagion. Ninth-grader Colt [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/to-save-childrens-lives-harris-should-campaign-on-an-assault-weapons-ban/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/beware-the-republican-plot-to-steal-the-2024-election/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/beware-the-republican-plot-to-steal-the-2024-election/#respond Sun, 01 Sep 2024 14:13:29 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1271690 The “Party of Lincoln,” as Republicans call themselves, seems intent on undermining just about everything President Abraham Lincoln lived and died for. This includes Republican efforts to upend the way elections are run, by restricting who gets to vote, how voting is conducted, and how votes are counted and certified. The outcome of the tight [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/beware-the-republican-plot-to-steal-the-2024-election/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/2024-paris-olympics-highlights-and-lowlights-from-hijab-bans-to-social-cleansing-to-boxing-gold/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/2024-paris-olympics-highlights-and-lowlights-from-hijab-bans-to-social-cleansing-to-boxing-gold/#respond Mon, 12 Aug 2024 15:37:13 +0000 With the 2024 Summer Olympics just concluded in Paris, we look at the highlights and lowlights of the past few weeks, both on and off the field. Journalist Shireen Ahmed discusses the victories for women in sport, including Dutch runner Sifan Hassan’s gold medal in the women’s marathon, which she accepted at the closing ceremony [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/2024-paris-olympics-highlights-and-lowlights-from-hijab-bans-to-social-cleansing-to-boxing-gold/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/uncommitted-co-chair-layla-elabed-on-meeting-kamala-harris-pressing-vp-for-arms-embargo-on-israel/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/uncommitted-co-chair-layla-elabed-on-meeting-kamala-harris-pressing-vp-for-arms-embargo-on-israel/#comments Sat, 10 Aug 2024 15:10:22 +0000 We speak with the co-chair of the Uncommitted National Movement, who briefly met with Vice President Kamala Harris this week as the Democratic presidential candidate is under pressure to define her platform on Palestine. Layla Elabed spoke with Harris before her rally in Michigan to press her on a ceasefire in Gaza and an arms [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/uncommitted-co-chair-layla-elabed-on-meeting-kamala-harris-pressing-vp-for-arms-embargo-on-israel/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/paris-olympics-slammed-for-social-cleansing-mass-displacement-militarization-greenwashing/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/paris-olympics-slammed-for-social-cleansing-mass-displacement-militarization-greenwashing/#respond Sat, 27 Jul 2024 15:58:30 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1269900 Just hours before Friday’s opening ceremony for the 2024 Summer Olympics, a series of apparently coordinated arson attacks were reported on France’s high-speed rail network. No one has claimed responsibility yet. Before the games, protests highlighted the displacement of thousands of migrants, unhoused people and other vulnerable communities as “social cleansing.” We go to Paris [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/paris-olympics-slammed-for-social-cleansing-mass-displacement-militarization-greenwashing/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/1000-protest-brooklyn-museum-for-israel-ties-nypd-throws-punches-arrests-34/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/1000-protest-brooklyn-museum-for-israel-ties-nypd-throws-punches-arrests-34/#respond Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1267396 At least a thousand pro-Palestinian protesters took over the Brooklyn Museum in New York on Friday, with a small group occupying the lobby while others unfurled banners on the facade of the building reading “Free Palestine: Divest from Genocide.” Police arrested at least 34 people, including Within Our Lifetime founder Nerdeen Kiswani, whose hijab was [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/1000-protest-brooklyn-museum-for-israel-ties-nypd-throws-punches-arrests-34/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-assault-on-gaza-proves-the-nakba-never-ended/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-assault-on-gaza-proves-the-nakba-never-ended/#respond Sat, 18 May 2024 15:27:31 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1266565 Palestinians and allies marked the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, May 15—the day after the state of Israel was formally declared. “Nakba” is Arabic for “catastrophe,” and is used to describe the murder, dispossession, and forced displacement Palestinians suffered in the years up to and including 1948. As many as 900,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-assault-on-gaza-proves-the-nakba-never-ended/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-happens-when-universities-engage-rather-than-arrest-gaza-protesters/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-happens-when-universities-engage-rather-than-arrest-gaza-protesters/#respond Sun, 12 May 2024 13:43:57 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1266242 What if universities negotiated with students engaged in Gaza solidarity protests, instead of calling the police to violently arrest them? A mass movement opposing Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza has spread like wildfire this Spring. Student organizers have issued demands ranging from university divestment from companies profiting from the war on Gaza and from Israel’s [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-happens-when-universities-engage-rather-than-arrest-gaza-protesters/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/12-arrested-outside-nycs-new-school-as-first-faculty-led-gaza-solidarity-encampment-continues/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/12-arrested-outside-nycs-new-school-as-first-faculty-led-gaza-solidarity-encampment-continues/#respond Sat, 11 May 2024 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1266168 The first faculty-led Gaza solidarity encampment in the United States was launched Wednesday at The New School in New York City, where nearly two dozen professors and lecturers pitched tents inside the lobby of the university’s main building on Fifth Avenue. The encampment is named after the Palestinian writer, poet and professor Refaat Alareer, who [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/12-arrested-outside-nycs-new-school-as-first-faculty-led-gaza-solidarity-encampment-continues/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/we-dont-want-to-trade-in-the-blood-of-palestinians-voices-of-students-profs-at-columbia-protest/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/we-dont-want-to-trade-in-the-blood-of-palestinians-voices-of-students-profs-at-columbia-protest/#respond Wed, 01 May 2024 19:43:55 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1265801 Nearly 300 peaceful protesters were arrested over the weekend as student-led Gaza solidarity encampments across U.S. university and college campuses face an intensifying crackdown. Democracy Now! spoke with Columbia University professors and students Monday as they were threatened with suspension but voted to continue the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, which began almost two weeks ago. “Hundreds of our [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/we-dont-want-to-trade-in-the-blood-of-palestinians-voices-of-students-profs-at-columbia-protest/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/returning-to-draconian-abortion-bans-doesnt-make-america-great/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/returning-to-draconian-abortion-bans-doesnt-make-america-great/#respond Sun, 14 Apr 2024 14:27:02 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1265011 “When exactly was America great?” is a common question often asked of Donald Trump loyalists sporting MAGA (Make America Great Again) hats. The Republican-dominated Arizona Supreme Court has an answer: 1864. Put aside that the nation was embroiled in a civil war, millions of people were brutally enslaved, native populations were being driven from their [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/returning-to-draconian-abortion-bans-doesnt-make-america-great/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/haiti-honduras-and-us-hegemony/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/haiti-honduras-and-us-hegemony/#respond Sun, 17 Mar 2024 14:53:17 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1263753 Haiti and Honduras have made headlines in the last few weeks. Honduras’ former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, was just convicted in a US court of drug trafficking. He faces life in prison. Haiti is a nation without a government, as armed groups have united against the US-backed, unelected Prime Minister installed after the assassination of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/haiti-honduras-and-us-hegemony/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mourning-two-principled-opponents-of-war/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mourning-two-principled-opponents-of-war/#respond Sun, 03 Mar 2024 16:31:06 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1263052 The world recently lost two principled opponents of war, but under drastically different circumstances. Johan Galtung died on February 17 at the age of 93. The Norwegian sociologist was known as the father of peace studies and spent his life researching conflicts and fostering dialog in pursuit of peace. Aaron Bushnell was just 25 years old. He was [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mourning-two-principled-opponents-of-war/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-genocide-takes-place-as-the-us-president-stands-in-support/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-genocide-takes-place-as-the-us-president-stands-in-support/#respond Sun, 21 Jan 2024 15:13:44 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1261029 In 1948, the newly-formed United Nations marked the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The Genocide Convention was a response to WWII’s Holocaust, when six million European Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany. Raphael Lemkin, a Polish lawyer [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-genocide-takes-place-as-the-us-president-stands-in-support/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/free-the-truth-the-belmarsh-tribunal-on-julian-assange-defending-press-freedom/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/free-the-truth-the-belmarsh-tribunal-on-julian-assange-defending-press-freedom/#respond Mon, 01 Jan 2024 15:31:20 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1260082 In a New Year’s Day special broadcast, we air highlights from the Belmarsh Tribunal held last month in Washington, D.C., where journalists, lawyers, activists and other expert witnesses made the case to free Julian Assange from prison in the United Kingdom. The WikiLeaks founder has been jailed at London’s Belmarsh prison since 2019, awaiting possible [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/free-the-truth-the-belmarsh-tribunal-on-julian-assange-defending-press-freedom/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/doctors-without-borders-demands-permanent-ceasefire-in-gaza-medical-aid-for-wounded/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/doctors-without-borders-demands-permanent-ceasefire-in-gaza-medical-aid-for-wounded/#respond Fri, 01 Dec 2023 17:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1258643 An update from Avril Benoît, executive director of Doctors Without Borders, on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and violence hospitals are facing in the occupied West Bank. Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinian children Wednesday during a raid on the Jenin refugee camp, and medical workers say they were blocked from reaching the camp to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/doctors-without-borders-demands-permanent-ceasefire-in-gaza-medical-aid-for-wounded/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/does-bidenomics-include-deadly-poverty/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/does-bidenomics-include-deadly-poverty/#respond Sat, 01 Jul 2023 15:04:18 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1248748 President Joe Biden has embraced the term “Bidenomics,” despite its origins as attempted disparagement from pundits in the fever swamps of Fox News, The Wall Street Journal’s editorial pages, and other MAGA sinkholes. Biden invoked “Bidenomics” in an address he gave Wednesday, happily taking credit for the state of the economy. In his opening remarks, he referenced [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/does-bidenomics-include-deadly-poverty/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/from-teacher-union-organizer-to-mayor-brandon-johnson-wins-chicago-race-in-upset-victory/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/from-teacher-union-organizer-to-mayor-brandon-johnson-wins-chicago-race-in-upset-victory/#respond Thu, 06 Apr 2023 15:33:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1243004 We get an update on a major victory for progressives in Chicago’s mayoral race, where union organizer and former teacher Brandon Johnson narrowly defeated Paul Vallas in a runoff election Tuesday. Johnson called for community investment, while Vallas, who was backed by the police union, focused his campaign on crime. “Now comes the difficult part [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/from-teacher-union-organizer-to-mayor-brandon-johnson-wins-chicago-race-in-upset-victory/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/starbucks-ceo-grilled-on-companys-union-busting-tactics/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/starbucks-ceo-grilled-on-companys-union-busting-tactics/#respond Fri, 31 Mar 2023 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1242566 Just weeks after the National Labor Relations Board accused Starbucks of engaging in “egregious and widespread misconduct” to prevent employees from unionizing, the company’s longtime CEO Howard Schultz appeared before the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Wednesday to answer questions. Committee Chair Bernie Sanders of Vermont grilled Schultz on the company’s union-busting record and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/starbucks-ceo-grilled-on-companys-union-busting-tactics/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/belmarsh-tribunal-makes-the-case-for-julian-assanges-immediate-release/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/belmarsh-tribunal-makes-the-case-for-julian-assanges-immediate-release/#respond Sat, 28 Jan 2023 17:04:40 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1238122 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/belmarsh-tribunal-makes-the-case-for-julian-assanges-immediate-release/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/belmarsh-tribunal-on-julian-assange-press-freedom-more/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/belmarsh-tribunal-on-julian-assange-press-freedom-more/#respond Sat, 21 Jan 2023 15:19:14 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1237482 Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman and Srecko Horvat, the co-founder of DiEM25, chair the tribunal, which is being organized by Progressive International and the Wau Holland Foundation. Members of the tribunal include: Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Noam Chomsky, linguist and activist Jeremy Corbyn, member of U.K. Parliament and founder of the Peace and Justice Project [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/belmarsh-tribunal-on-julian-assange-press-freedom-more/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ralph-nader-tells-democrats-crush-the-gop/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ralph-nader-tells-democrats-crush-the-gop/#respond Sat, 29 Oct 2022 14:55:37 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1224007 Ralph Nader, the legendary consumer advocate and former Green Party presidential candidate, has a message for the Democrats: Crush the GOP in 2022. Nader sees the Republican Party’s embrace of authoritarianism as an existential moment for U.S. democracy, and the midterm elections as the key moment to defeat this rising tide of fascism. “This is clearly the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ralph-nader-tells-democrats-crush-the-gop/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/medicare-for-all-a-timely-prescription/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/medicare-for-all-a-timely-prescription/#respond Fri, 21 Oct 2022 11:55:37 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1223301 Early voting in the 2022 midterm elections has begun in many states, and inflation, the economy and recession are top concerns for most voters, according to polls. Democratic political consultant James Carville’s 1992 presidential campaign quip, “It’s the economy, stupid,” has been getting lots of use lately. If true, it’s odd that healthcare has hardly [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/medicare-for-all-a-timely-prescription/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/jamaica-antigua-renew-call-for-reparations-for-slavery/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/jamaica-antigua-renew-call-for-reparations-for-slavery/#respond Wed, 14 Sep 2022 13:06:40 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1219999 We look at how the death of Queen Elizabeth II is prompting former British colonies in the Caribbean to replace the British monarch as their head of state. Antigua and Barbuda’s prime minister has vowed to hold a referendum soon on whether to become a republic, and Jamaica’s ruling Labour Party also plans a vote. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/jamaica-antigua-renew-call-for-reparations-for-slavery/feed/ 0