Arundhati Roy Interview

Arundhati Roy, acclaimed Indian author and activist, is in Western New York this week to participate in two speaking events. Just Buffalo Literary Center organized the Wednesday and Thursday evening events as part of their program to engage the community in discussion on one particular book. This year Just Buffalo chose Roy's God of Small Things. In addition to her fiction, Arhundhati Roy, has spoken and written extensively on the Global Justice movement, her latest work is entitled "The Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire." Rochester Indymedia was able to interview Arundhati Roy Wednesday, the following are audio files from the interview in MP3 and Ogg formats.

1) Victimization and Power
Free Speech and Corporate Control

2) What kinds of protests are effective?
Nationalism
American Poverty vs. Global Poverty

3) Corporate Media, Independant Media and Crisis
Iraq War - Protest in America

4) Technological Development in India
Peace Movements and Violence Resistance


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