“Amy Goodman has taken investigative journalism to new heights.”
—Noam Chomsky, author 9/11 and Hegemony or Survival

“You want public broadcasting to be balanced against all these elite establishment voices that get heard? Get Amy Goodman on public television.”
—Bill Moyers, Emmy-award winning PBS journalist

“What journalism should be: beholden to the interests of people, not power and profit.”
—Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things

“At times when people are told to ‘watch what they say,’ Amy Goodman is not afraid to speak truth to power. She does it every day.”
—Susan Sarandon, actress

“I heard you were a firebrand. Well bring it, baby!”
—Stephen Colbert,The Colbert Report

“[Carries] the great muckraking traditon of Upton Sinclair, George Seldes, and I.F. Stone into the electronic age.”
—Howard Zinn, historian and author, A People’s History of the United States

“Amy Goodman continues the quest for global justice and awareness by bringing us stories and a perspective that we don’t normally get from the mainstream media.”
—Danny Glover, actor

THE RULERS TAKE EXCEPTION TO AMY GOODMAN:

“Hostile, combative, and even disrespectful.”
—President Bill Clinton

“A threat to national security.”
—The Indonesian military

“I have advised my mother to talk to no reporters because of... people like you.”
—Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich

PRAISE FOR STANDING UP TO THE MADNESS:

“Amy and David Goodman have written a wondrous and vital book. The title itself -- Standing up to the Madness -- tips us off that we are far better off as humans if we get the facts and know our history, and stand up for a world of Peace, Grace, Beauty and Sanity.”
—Studs Terkel, author

“ Trust Amy Goodman and her brother David Goodman to find the fierce and fearless voices that must awaken us from sleep.”
—Alice Walker, author, The Color Purple

“ Amy Goodman doesn’t practice trickle-down journalism. She goes where the silence is, she breaks the sound barrier. …She believes the media should be a sanctuary for dissent, the Underground Railroad tunneling beneath the plantation.”
—Bill Moyers, host, Bill Moyers Journal

“Standing Up to the Madness is a hopeful story about how to fix what’s wrong in our world. Read this book. Get outraged. Get inspired. Then do like the heroes who Amy and David Goodman write about: stand up and fight to make the world a better, more peaceful and just place.”
—Tim Robbins, actor and activist