Arundhati Roy, Reading, 24 March 2010

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Arundhati Roy was born in 1959 in Shillong, India, and studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives. She is the author of the novel The God of Small Things, the story of young twins Rahel and Estha and their family, set in Kerala, India, during the late 1960s, when Communism rattled the age-old caste system. Roy received the Booker Prize for this book in 1997. She has written several nonfiction books, including The Cost of Living, Power Politics, War Talk, An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire, and Public Power in the Age of Empire. In addition to writing, she has worked as a film designer and screenplay writer in India. Roy was featured in the BBC television documentary "Dam/age," which is about the struggle against big dams in India. A collection of interviews with Arundhati Roy by David Barsamian was published as The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile. Her newest book, published by Haymarket, is Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers. Roy last read in Santa Fe in 2002, when she received the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize. Distributed by Tubemogul.

Connector of the Day: Arundhati Roy

Author Arundhati Roy talks about her writing career and political activism.

Talk - Ralph Nader - Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!

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Talk by Ralph Nader, founder of Public Citizen and author of "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!" given May 7, 2010 at Town Hall Seattle.

NADER: Weak regulations, not a shift in power

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Ralph Nader: The finance reform bill is a set of weak regulations; what's needed is a shift in power
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Lopes-Graça | Sinfonia per Orchestra

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Fernando Lopes-Graça (1906-1994)

Sinfonia per Orchestra (1944) Mov. I

photo: Estraga Albardas (in olhares.aeiou.pt)

Steven Kinzer: "Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America’s Future"

We turn now to America’s role in a changing Middle East. Israel has set up an internal inquiry into its deadly attack last month on the Gaza-bound flotilla of humanitarian aid ships. The attack left eight Turks and one Turkish-American dead. Meanwhile Turkey, along with Brazil, negotiated a nuclear fuel swap agreement with Iran and then voted against a UN Security Council resolution last week that imposed another round of sanctions on Iran. Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Stephen Kinzer is out with a new book that looks back into history to make sense of some of these shifting alliances in the Middle East and to chart a new vision for US foreign policy in the region.

Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future

Stephen Kinzer

The bestselling author of Overthrow offers a new and surprising vision for rebuilding America's strategic partnerships in the Middle East

What can the United States do to help realize its dream of a peaceful, democratic Middle East? Stephen Kinzer offers a surprising answer in this paradigm-shifting book. Two countries in the region, he argues, are America's logical partners in the twenty-first century: Turkey and Iran.

Besides proposing this new "power triangle," Kinzer also recommends that the United States reshape relations with its two traditional Middle East allies, Israel and Saudi Arabia. This book provides a penetrating, timely critique of America's approach to the world's most volatile region, and offers a startling alternative.

Kinzer is a master storyteller with an eye for grand characters and illuminating historical detail. In this book he introduces us to larger-than-life figures, like a Nebraska schoolteacher who became a martyr to democracy in Iran, a Turkish radical who transformed his country and Islam forever, and a colorful parade of princes, politicians, women of the world, spies, oppressors, liberators, and dreamers.

Kinzer's provocative new view of the Middle East is the rare book that will richly entertain while moving a vital policy debate beyond the stale alternatives of the last fifty years.

PERU SASIA - Entrevista al Presidente de FIARE, Banca Ética y Ciudadana

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El proyecto FIARE nace para construir una herramienta de intermediación financiera que permita dirigir el ahorro de personas, familias y organizaciones hacia proyectos que suponen una transformación de nuestra sociedad.
Fiare pretende rescatar el valor social del dinero y la actividad económica, poniéndolos al servicio de un mundo más justo, humano y sostenible.