{"id":424039,"date":"2021-11-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=53dee09900e625bea3799c56ef830bed"},"modified":"2021-11-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T00:00:00","slug":"watch-democracy-now-25th-anniversary-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/11\/19\/watch-democracy-now-25th-anniversary-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Democracy Now! 25th Anniversary Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \"Your donation will help keep this event free for our worldwide audience and will support our fearless, independent journalism throughout the year.\":\/donate_25th?campaign=evt25-20211119-live\r\n\r\nDemocracy Now! celebratd 25 years on the air with a virtual event on Tuesday Dec. 7th.\r\n\r\nSpecial guests included:\r\n\r\nbq. *Noam Chomsky*, world-renowned political dissident and author \r\n\r\nbq. *Angela Davis*, legendary activist and scholar\r\n\r\nbq. *Danny Devito*, Emmy Award-winning actor \r\n\r\nbq. *Mart\u00edn Espada*, National Book Award-winning poet\r\n\r\nbq. *Danny Glover*, actor and activist\r\n\r\nbq. *Winona LaDuke*, Indigenous leader \r\n\r\nbq. *Arundhati Roy*, the acclaimed Indian writer and activist.\r\n\r\nThe event also featured musical performances by the Grammy Award-winning Mexican singer & songwriter *Lila Downs* and *Tom Morello* of Rage Against the Machine. \r\n\r\nAmy Goodman, Juan Gonz\u00e1lez & Nermeen Shaikh hosted the virtual event.\r\n\r\n\"Please donate in honor of Democracy Now!\u2019s 25th anniversary today. If you can give $50 or more, you\u2019ll get to choose from some great 25th anniversary gifts!\":\/donate_25th?campaign=evt25-20211119-live&flow_type=one_time&gift=yes\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/live\/celebrate_25_years_of_democracy_now\">Democracy Now! Video<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH: Democracy Now! 25th Anniversary Celebration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424039"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430626,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424039\/revisions\/430626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}