We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Arundhati Roy speaks out against Indian rape culture

Click here to access source of video from Channel 4 (England) via YouTube.

This English TV station interviews Arundhati Roy regarding her views of the recent rape and killing of Indian women that has been in the news recently. She, unlike the way it has been reported in mainstream media, sees it as an unexceptional example of class war that frequently is committed by the military and police forces in India.