bsmall2May 27
> The theme of much of what I write... the relationship between power and powerlessness and the endless, circular conflict..
> ... my writing is.. about power. About the paranoia and ruthlessness of power. About the physics of power. I believe that the accumulation of vast unfettered power by a State or a country, a corporation or an institution – or even an individual, a spouse, a friend, a sibling – regardless of ideology, results in excesses such as the ones I will recount here.
https://dharma-records.buddhasasana.net/texts/arundhati-roys-speech-come-september
#PowerImbalance #ArundhatiRoy #ComeSeptember
Arundhati Roy’s Speech: Come September – Dharma Records

bs2Aug 21, 2024
> Think of it this way: in India there are some pretty reprehensible social practices against “untouchables”, against Christians and Muslims, against women. Pakistan and Bangladesh have even worse ways of dealing with minority communities and women. Should they be bombed? Should Delhi, #Islamabad and #Dhaka be destroyed? Is it possible to bomb bigotry out of India? Can we bomb our way to a feminist paradise?
https://dharma-records.buddhasasana.net/texts/arundhati-roys-speech-come-september
#ArundhatiRoy #ComeSeptember
#FeministBombs #FeministBombing
Arundhati Roy’s Speech: Come September – Dharma Records

Show threadbs2Dec 20, 2023
Arundhati Roy in 2002
> They live with no semblance of dignity. With not much hope in sight. They have no control over their lands, their security, their movement, their communication, their water supply. So when accords are signed, and words like “autonomy” and even “statehood” bandied about, it’s always worth asking: What sort of autonomy? What sort of State? What sort of rights will its citizens have?
#ArundhatiRoy in #ComeSeptember makes me see a pattern from #HannahArendt's view of WWI..
bs2Dec 20, 2023
2002 speech Come September
> Although Palestinian attacks strike terror into Israeli citizens, they provide the perfect cover for the Israeli government’s daily incursions into Palestinian territory, the perfect excuse for old-fashioned, nineteenth-century colonialism, dressed up as a new fashioned, twenty-first century “war”.
https://dharma-records.buddhasasana.net/texts/arundhati-roys-speech-come-september
#ArundhatiRoy #ComeSeptember
Arundhati Roy’s Speech: Come September – Dharma Records

QuirkyFilmsNov 23, 2023
#TakingABreakFromFilming
#ComeSeptember (1961)
Younger generation vs. "older" folks on vacation at an Italian villa.
#RockHudson on a break on set in Portofino, Italy (1960)
#FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬
bs2Oct 10, 2023
> Palestine was once a secular bulwark in the Middle East. But now the.. P.L.O., is losing ground to # Hamas..
The world is called upon to condemn suicide bombers. But can we ignore the long road they have journeyed on before they have arrived at this destination? September 11, 1922 to September 11, 2002 – eighty years[^1] is a long time to have been waging war.
https://dharma-records.buddhasasana.net/texts/arundhati-roys-speech-come-september
^1 #HundredYearWar #Palestine #Israel #ArundhatiRoy #ComeSeptember #September11th #911
Arundhati Roy’s Speech: Come September – Dharma Records

Show threadBrian SmallJul 24, 2023

.> After the coup President Allende was found dead inside the presidential palace. Whether he was killed or whether he killed himself, we’ll never know. In the regime of terror that ensured, thousands of people were killed. Many more simply “disappeared”. Firing squads conducted public executions. Concentration camps and torture chambers were opened across the country. The dead were buried in mine shafts and unmarked graves. For seventeen years the people of Chile lived in dread of the midnight knock, of routine “disappearances”, of sudden arrest and torture. Chileans tell the story of how the musician Victor Jara had his hands cut off in front of a crowd in the Santiago stadium. Before they shot him, Pinochet’s soldiers threw his guitar at him and mockingly asked him to play.
.> In 1999, following the arrest of General Pinochet in Britain, thousands of secret documents were declassified by the U.S. government. They contain unequivocal evidence of the CIA’s involvement in the coup as well as the fact that the U.S. government had detailed information about the situation in Chile during General Pinochet’s reign. Yet, Kissinger assured the general of his support: “In the United States as you know, we are sympathetic to what you’re trying to do,” he said. “We wish your government well.” https://dharma-records.buddhasasana.net/texts/arundhati-roys-speech-come-september

#ArundhatiRoy in #ComeSeptember on #VictorJara #Pinochet and #HenryKissinger #USApolicy with #GeneralPInochet in #Santiago
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Arundhati Roy’s Speech: Come September – Dharma Records

Brian SmallJul 17, 2023

.> ZINN: I think your coming here does that. Not only your writing does that but your coming here and us listening to you and knowing that we are part of a 'carass'. Have any you have read Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle? Kurt Vonnegut is remarkable?this remarkable, interesting, odd mind. In Cat's Cradle he talks about a 'carass'. A carass is when people feel an affinity with one another. They don't know exactly why but it crosses all lines. It crosses national, racial, sexual... it crosses all lines. That's what we depend on. - https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0211/S00035/arundhati-roy-howard-zinn-new-mexico-transcript.htm
#HowardZinn with #ArundhatiRoy talking after teh #ComeSeptember speech, talking about #KurtVonnegut's #CatsCradle and the #Carass or #Karass #ZinnOnVonnegut
- https://collectiveliberation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Come_September_Roy_020918_transcript.pdf

Arundhati Roy, Howard Zinn - New Mexico Transcript | Scoop News

Transcription of Arundhati Roy reading and Ms. Roy and Howard Zinn in conversation Lensic Performing Arts Center Santa Fe, New Mexico 18 September 2002

DoubleChinnerMay 3, 2023
I KNEW IT HAD TO BE NUNS!!! GAWD THIS MOVIE! #ComeSeptember #TCMParty
DoubleChinnerMay 3, 2023
The Wise 20YO, hip to the trends these days, suggests that #ComeSeptember should have been named “No Nut November.” Whatever that means. #TCMParty