Please join our post-election Town Hall Meeting. We begin with forty-five minutes of on-stage conversation between Amy Goodman, Larry Diamond, David Dill and John McManus before opening up the microphones for audience questions and comments.
LARRY DIAMOND
Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, co-editor of the Journal of Democracy,
and co-director of the International Forum for Democratic Studies at
the National Endowment for Democracy. From January to April 2004, he
served as Senior Advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in
Baghdad. Diamond published “What Went Wrong in Iraq” in the
September/October 2004 Foreign Affairs.
DAVID DILL
David Dill is Professor of Computer Science
at Stanford University with a primary research focus on the theory and
application of formal verification techniques to system designs. In
2003, he turned a critical eye to electronic voting systems, founding
VerifiedVoting.org to champion transparent and publicly verifiable
elections.
JOHN MCMANUS AMY GOODMAN (moderator)
John McManus is the director of Grade the
News, a media research project focusing on the quality of the news
media in the San Francisco Bay Area. A former newspaper reporter and
journalism professor, McManus has written extensively about
communication, and particularly about how markets shape news.
Amy Goodman is the host of Pacifica Radio's daily newsmagazine Democracy Now!
After graduating from Harvard with a degree in anthropology in 1984,
she went to New York City and found WBAI on her radio dial. She began
volunteering at the station and a few years later became the station's
news director. She never left.