News & Public Affairs

At WMNF Peace Awards, Goodman critical of NYC Islamic Center controversy listen

Listen to this entire show:

Tags: peace, Islam, Park51, Amy Goodman, WMNF

Amy Goodman was keynote speaker at WMNF’s 2nd annual Peace Awards on Saturday. During her half-hour address she spoke about her arrest at the 2008 Republican National Convention, the death of her mother and the controversy surrounding the proposed Islamic Cultural Center in lower Manhattan. Goodman criticized opposition to what some media outlets, like MSNBC, still incorrectly call the “Ground Zero Mosque.”

We’ll make Goodman’s entire speech available as a thank-you gift during our fall f...