2004 lecture by Amy Goodman at Fountain Street Church: The US military occupation of Iraq and media coverage

Editor’s note: I have been working with Fountain Street Church and looking at a substantial amount of archival materials they have. Today’s post is only possible because Fountain Street Church has provided me access to their archives and they want this information to be public and available to the community. I will be hosting the archival material on the Grand Rapids People’s History Project site, but also posting here on GRIID. This is the second in a series of postings from the archival material at Fountain Street Church.

Earlier this year I posted a transcript of a lecture from Kwame Ture, known as Stokely Carmichael when he spoke at Fountain Street Church in May of 1967, which you can read here. Two weeks ago, I posted a audio recording of civil rights activist James Meredith who spoke in 1967 at Fountain Street Church and last week I posted another audio recording of civil rights activists Dick Gregory.

Today, I want to share a video recording of Amy Goodman who spoke at Fountain Street Church in May of 2004. Goodman was invited by the Community Media Center as part of a two-day Media & Democracy Conference. 

The 2 hour video begins with a documentary that Democracy NOW! Produced about US media coverage of the start of the US occupation of Iraq in 2003. After the documentary and a few introductions, Amy Goodman addresses the packed audience at Fountain Street Church.