#VANNEWS
Amy Goodman detained at border services
Breaking The Sound Barrier
(Haymarket Books,
2009;
$16.00)
Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! launched her new book Breaking The Sound Barrier at an event co-hosted by community radio stations CJSF, Co-op Radio and CiTR in Vancouver, B.C. last night. Despite being detained by Canadian border services delaying her book launch by over an hour Amy Goodman delivered an impassioned lecture to a standing room only audience.
Goodman's 90-minute lecture touched on topics including the U.S. health care debate, the recent death of her mother, her arrest at the Republican National Convention, the importance of independent media, the upcoming summit in Copenhagen and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Walt Whitman's Secret: George Fetherling
Jun 2 2010 - 7:30pm
Jun 2 2010 - 9:00pm
Location
Alma VanDusen Room, Lower Level
Central Library
Vancouver, BC Canada
49° 14' 54.6828" N, 123° 6' 31.68" W
See map: Google Maps
In George Fetherling's wonderfully imagined novel, Walt Whitman's secret isn't his homosexuality but another one entirely. It's a political secret, one that the greatest American poet of the nineteenth century has pledged himself to keep.
End poverty. It's not a game
A placard posted at the Olympic Tent Village in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
