Atlanta's brilliant, funny, radical, cutting-edge, well-loved,
internationally known, one-and-only underground newspaper,
The Great Speckled Bird, is having a 40th anniversary bash.
Co-op members, street sellers, staff, readers,
and fellow travelers all invited.

40th ANNIVERSARY of The Great Speckled Bird

Saturday, May 24, 2008

2:00-10:00pm

Location: B Complex 1272 Murphy, Atlanta, GA 30310
Admission: $7 (food, beer and refreshments at proletarian prices)

Speakers: Amy Goodman, Nan Orrock, Neill Herring, Ann Mauney  

Music:Sparky and Rhonda Rucker, exPAND Band

For a preview of the Bird historical exhibits: May 5-18. Fulton County Public Library (main branch), fourth floor, 1 Margaret Mitchell Square (intersection of Carnegie Way and Forsyth Street in downtown Atlanta). Includes covers, articles, cartoons and graphics from Atlanta’s radical, freaky underground paper.

Award-winning investigative reporter, national news program host and author Amy Goodman will be the keynote speaker at the BirdBlast, a 40-year anniversary party for Atlanta's underground newspaper The Great Speckled Bird.

Amy Goodman will celebrate independent media past, present and future, and sign her latest book: Standing Up to the Madness, Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times. She will also be celebrating the 12th anniversary of Democracy Now! a national daily, independent, award-winning news program, which she helped start in 1996. The program is broadcast at 5 p.m. weekdays in Atlanta on community radio station WRFG (89.3 FM) and on People TV (Channel 24) at 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. The program is also available on the Internet at www.democracy.org and on more than 700 stations nationwide.

Goodman and her brother, investigative journalist David Goodman, traveled the country to interview grassroots activists who have taken politics out of the hands of politicians. "Standing Up to the Madness tells the stories of everyday citizens who have challenged the government and prevailed," Goodman says, "and we offer advice on what you can do to help." Their previous award-winning books include Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them; and Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders and the People Who Fight Back.

The BirdBlast will also include live music, jugglers, fire sculpture, historic exhibits of Great Speckled Bird articles and graphics, and refreshments. Proceeds from the event will be donated to WRFG and Atlanta Progressive News, which are continuing the tradition of independent media in Atlanta. Admission will be $7. For more information see www.greatspeckledbird.org.

The Bird - the newspaper

History of the Bird

Great Speckled Memories

Georgia Encyclopedia Bird Article

Bird for sale - only $95

Dangerous radicals meet in secret

The Times of the Bird

Atlanta Strip Project

Where have all the hippies gone?

Procul Harum reviewed

Comix

Memoir of a Bird Seller

Hampton Grease Band

WRFG

Underground papers managed by the FBI

Underground Press

Bud Foote

Boyd Lewis

Roy Buchanan

Strip Archives

Digger Archives

The Bird - the song

Great Speckled Bird (on a dobro no less)

Lyrics

Liner Notes to The Great Speckled Bird Album