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040904 Arundhati Roy - Seize the Time!

People have power but can exercise it most effectively when it is organised and collective. It's relatively easy for the state and big business to pick off and neutralise freelancers and lone operatives. It's when a movement forms that the state and the corporations can be challenged. Citizens in privileged societies like the US often complain that they feel helpless and can't do anything to shake the power structure. It's an odd complaint given the advantages most Americans have and poses a sharp contrast with other countries. With few resources, citizens in impoverished East Timor, Nicaragua, Haiti and India have risen and resisted oppression and overthrown tyrannies. But in the land of the free? 'Well, I'm kind of busy. Any beer in the fridge? What's on TV tonight?' Arundhati Roy's tonic for apathy? Get involved. Get active. Seize the time!

Arundhati Roy is the celebrated author of The God of Small Things, winner of the prestigious Booker Prize. The New York Times calls her, "India's most impassioned critic of globalisation and American influence." She is the winner of the Lannan Award for Cultural Freedom. Her latest books are The Chequebook and the Cruise Missile, with David Barsamian, and An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire.


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