Lumpen Special • 05-08-2026 • Histories & Futures of Independent Media: Amy Goodman & Tia Lessin

Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, and Tia Lessin, co-director and producer of Steal This Story, Please!, join Ed Marszewski, Founding Director of Public Media Institute and makers of Lumpen Radio, for a conversation on the power of independent media, the importance of telling our own stories, and the daily work of building journalism that refuses to look away. Their new documentary Steal This Story, Please! follows decades of reporting through war, protest, climate crisis, occupation, police repression, and the fight for truly independent media.

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