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Standing Up To the Madness
 Buy the Book

January 20, 2009

Washington, DC

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Award-winning journalist Amy Goodman, host of the daily, grassroots, global, radio/TV news hour Democracy Now!, is on a national speaking tour to mark DN!'s 13th anniversary and launch her third book with journalist David Goodman, Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times.

WHEN: 7pm - Midnight
WHERE: Smithsonian Institution National Postal Museum
Next to Union Station
Washington, D.C.
DESCRIPTION: Busboys and Poets & the Smithsonian National Postal Museum sponsor an Inaugural Peace Ball

Special Guest Host Harry Belafonte

Special Performances By:
Joan Baez
Graham Nash
Jackson Browne
Bernice Johnson Reagon & Toshi Reagon
Michael Franti & Spearhead
Angelique Kidjo
Fertile Ground
Holly Near & Emma's Revolution
Ayanna Gregory
Sekou da Misfit and Steve Connell

Special Appearances by:
Dick Gregory
Alice Walker, author, Color Purple
Eve Ensler, playwright, Vagina Monologues
Amy Goodman
Laura Flanders, Air America
Kim Crenshaw, Law Professor and Activist

Mistresses of Ceremonies: Verna Avery Brown and Kate Clinton

TICKETS: $1000 for tickets please go here.


MORE INFO: Peace Ball

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