Activist Journalist Amy Goodman Weirdly Detained At Canadian Border

Video: Vancouver Public Library Annouces Amy Goodman Delay
Note how the audience member knows it’s about the Olympics, and the knowing reaction to that suggestion. Also note how else you know you’re in Vancouver: The organizers suggests people go out for coffee or sushi. Funny. From Vancouver Media Co-Op. See below:

Video: Amy Goodman arrested at the RNC
This is a pretty shocking video, particularly knowing that Goodman was not part of some angry mob but approaching police as a clearly-credentialed member of the press with a nonviolent, calm request to speak to a supervisor. She is just grabbed, by a guy with a club, cuffed and led away. Chilling.

Video: Amy Goodman Discusses The Border Incident At An Event
Note the knowing laughter when she starts describing the questions about the Olympics. Goodman: “Do you all just constantly talk about the Olympics?!?” Funny. This is a more lighthearted version, with a few jokes. Still, she calls it “a very serious violation” and says she is “stunned” and “troubled” by it. The video was shot on the next stop on her lecture tour, in Victoria B.C.

Related:
U.S. journalist grilled at Canada border crossing [CBC]
Dave Zirin: Amy Goodman And Canada’s Olympic Paranoia [Huffington Post]
Amy Goodman detained at Border, questioned about Olympics [Vancouver Media Co-Op]
“Democracy Now’s” Amy Goodman detained by Canadians over…the Olympics? [The In Box]

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