Breaking The Sound Barrier

- We plan to advertise and promote this book through many outlets, both mainstream and independent, and including radio, print, and the web -These include major media such as the Keith Olberman's Countdown, Rachel Maddow, NPR, and blogs -Democracy Now! will aggressively promote this title -Haymarket Books has sponsored many events with Amy Goodman and will extend our collaboration to promote this title

Amy Goodman gives voice to the heroic stories of people the corporate media exclude and ignore.The award-winning host of the daily international current affairs programme Democracy Now! Breaks through the media's lies, sound-bites and silence in this wide-ranging new collection of articles. In a lively and accessible selection of texts, the voices often excluded from the mainstream are given a powerful platform - from courageous American soldiers who oppose the war to victims of police violence. Amy Goodman proves to the powerful that independent journalism can and should take part in the struggle for a just, better world.