Amy Goodman, Author and TV/Radio Host, at Manhattanville College Oct. 21

Purchase, NY October 16, 2014 -- Manhattanville College invites the public to a unique evening conversation with Amy Goodman, the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, an award-winning independent news program airing daily on over 1,200 public television and radio stations world wide.

The event takes place on Tuesday, October 21 at 7 PM in the West Room at Reid Castle on Manhattanville’s campus in Purchase, NY.

Goodman’s fifth book, The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope, written with Denis Moynihan, rose to #11 on the New York Times bestseller list. This timely follow-up to her fourth New York Times bestseller, Breaking the Sound Barrier, gives voice to the many ordinary people standing up to corporate and government power.

The event is free and open to the public, and co-sponsored by the Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action.

Campus phone number is 914.694.2200.