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As many of you know, we currently have one of Arundhati Roy's quotes in the masthead of our blog which is:
"Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness -- and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we're being brainwashed to believe."-Arundhati Roy
So it goes without saying that we encourage you to see her tonight...or forward this to your friends who may be in the Pacific Northwest!
The below Excerpt is from elliottbaybookwebsite:
Co-presented with SEATTLE ARTS & LECTURES. We are delighted and honored to again help present one of the most vital, arresting writers at work in the world today, Arundhati Roy. The Booker Prize-winning author of the 1997 novel, The God of Small Things, and the author, since, of a series of compelling, political non-fiction books, it is with the most recent of these, Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers (Haymarket Books), that she visits Seattle this evening. "After so much celebratory salesmanship about India the 'emerging market,' Roy draws us into India the actual country, peeling away the gloss until we are confronted with perhaps the most challenging question of our time: who and what are we willing to sacrifice in the name of development? Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time." - Naomi Klein. "Arundhati Roy, the direct descendant of Antigone, resists and denounces all tyrannies, pleads for their victims, and unflinchingly questions the tragic. Reflect with her on the questions she receives from the political world today." - John Berger. Tickets and information are available via Seattle Arts Lectures at www.lectures.org or (206) 621-2230. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca).
Location:
The Elliott Bay Book Company 101 S. Main St.
Seattle, Washington 98104
End of Excerpt.
Videos
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One of my personal favorites ---> Public Power in the Age of Empire: War, Resistance and the Presidency (Democracy Now! / August 23rd 2004)
Arundhati Roy on India, Iraq, U.S. Empire and Dissent
(Democracy Now! / May 23rd 2006)
Baby Bush Go Home: Arundhati Roy on Massive Protests Against Bush's Visit to India
(Democracy Now! / March 3rd 2006)
(Democracy Now! / March 3rd 2006)
Crashing the Party: Famed Indian Writer Arundhati Roy Goes Inside the RNC (Democracy Now! / September 2nd 2004)
Arundhati Roy and David Barsamian at Seattle Town Hall (August 2004)
Indian Elections, Her Support for the Iraqi Resistance & the Privatization of War (Democracy Now! / January 21st 2004)
Arundhati Roy Addresses Tens of Thousands At World Social Forum in Bombay (Democracy Now! / January 20th 2004)
Speech: “Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy, Buy One Get One Free” (Democracy Now! / October 24th 2003)
Come September: Arundhati Roy Speaks Out On Iraq, U.S. Foreign Policy, Palestine & Corporate Globalization
(Democracy Now! / October 15th 2002)
(Democracy Now! / October 15th 2002)
