STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE!

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Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live The Progressive Magazine and WORT-FM Community Radio Present Steal This Story, Please! A new documentary film about Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! @ Tickets will be available at the door only or by calling (608) 241-8633. The Progressive magazine & WORT-FM Community Radio Present Steal This Story, Please! A new documentary film about Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! Amy Goodman and the film’s Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal will be on hand for a talkback after the screening. Box Office: 6:15 PM | Doors: 6:30 PM | Movie: 7:30 PM Tickets cannot be mailed for this event. If ordering in advance, please select “will call” or purchase the day of at the box office. Film Synopsis With shrinking newsrooms, media monopolization, weaponized social media, and a president deliberately eroding public trust in truth and reality, STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE! offers an intimate counterpoint, showing how independent media is essential to a functioning democracy. Set against some of the most consequential stories of our time—from the war in Gaza to the global climate catastrophe—the film follows the intrepid independent journalist Amy Goodman over 30 years. As she becomes a leader in the movement for independent media that amplifies voices excluded from the mainstream, she faces off against forces trying to silence her. 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 and online at democracynow.org. Democracy Now! Airs every weekday afternoon on WORT 89.9FM in Madison, Wisconsin on online at wortfm.org. The Progressive is a 117-year-old national magazine based in Madison, Wisconsin publishing bi-monthly in print and daily online at progressive.org. Amy Goodman and the film’s Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning directors Tia Lessin and…