WORT-FM Community Radio presents award-winning radio journalist Amy Goodman for a public talk entitled "The Future of a Democratic Media", Saturday, February 1, 2003 at 7:30pm at the First Congregational Church, 1609 University Avenue - Madison, Wisconsin, plus a special guest appearance by political folksinger Dave Lippman, aka "George Schrub". Admission $5.00- $10.00 (sliding scale). All proceeds benefit WORT-FM Community Radio. Tickets available at the door.

Host of the daily national community radio and television program "Democracy Now!" http://www.democracynow.org, Amy Goodman is a 1998 recipient of the George Polk Award for the radio documentary "Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship," in which she and co-producer Jeremy Scahill exposed the oil company's role in the killing of two Nigerian villagers on May 28, 1998. They were also awarded the Golden Reel for Best National Documentary from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters. Project Censored selected the documentary as one of the "10 Most Censored Stories of 1998". Goodman has also won numerous awards for the radio documentary she co-produced with journalist Allan Nairn, MASSACRE: The Story of East Timor," including the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting, the Alfred I. DuPont- Columbia Silver Baton, the Armstrong Award, the Radio/Television News Directors Award, as well as awards from AP, UPI, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting . In 1991 Goodman and Nairn survived a massacre in East Timor in which Indonesian soldiers gunned down more than 250 Timorese. Amy Goodman has reported from Israel and the occupied territories, Cuba, Mexico, Haiti and was the first journalist ever to interview the jailed US citizen Lori Berenson, serving a life sentence in Peru. Goodman also broadcast the first US radio interview with imprisoned East Timor rebel leader Xanana Gusmao. In addition to her daily radio shows, Goodman speaks around the country on university campuses, as well as to human rights, church and community groups about media activism. She also runs workshops at community radio stations on grassroots coverage.

Satirical songster Dave Lippman takes to the road in his second millenium of musical satire, with the world's only known singing CIA agent, George Shrub, in hot pursuit. Current victims of his parody and thrust include the faith-based missile shields, Global Warnings, Sweatshops, the Information Towaway Lane, Sport Futility Vehicles, and of course, Wal-Mart. Get ready for high-end pop rewrites and some very wise cracks. Lippman's songs, released on numerous albums over the last 20 years, bear such bucolic and transcendent titles as "I Hate Walmart" "The Stocks They Are Exchangin'," "The Twelve Days of Bushmas," and "Battle Him in Public."