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６月２８日付の情報です。
イラク問題について、イラク国際戦犯民衆法定などについて短い記事が出ていました。
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/23191/

　スピーチが吹き込まれたCDを手に入れました。

　Arundhati Roy Come Septem ber
In Conversation with Haward Zinn
AK Press
Alternative Tetacles Records

Aka 035 CD
VIRUS 303CD

いい感じのスピーチで、原稿を読むだけでなく、聞いてみる価値があると思います。

ロイが受賞を拒否した賞の選考委員会に対するファックス内容を転載します。



Roy refuses Sahitya Akademi Award

January 13, 2006

Arundhati Roy refuses Sahitya Akademi Award
A letter to the Chairman
13th January 2006

To:

The Chairman,
Sahitya Akademi,
Rabindra Bhavan
New Delhi

Fax No. 011-23382428

Dear Sir,

I thank the jury of the Sahitya Akademi for giving me this year's Sahitya Akademi Award for my book The Algebra of Infinite Justice. I am proud that the jury felt that a collection of political essays deserved to be given India's most prestigious literary prize. [nb: The title essay and the majority of the essays comprising The Algebra of Infinite Justice, published in India by Penguin India, are also published in the United States in the book Power Politics (South End Press, 2001).]

These essays, written between 1998 and 2001, are deeply critical of some of the major policies of the Indian State—on big dams, nuclear weapons, increasing militarization and on economic neo-liberalism. However, even today this incumbent government shows a continuing commitment to these policies and is clearly prepared to implement them ruthlessly and violently, whatever the cost.

In the last few months, apart from the growing numbers of farmers' suicides (now running into tens of thousands) and the forcible eviction of people from their lands and livelihoods (in the hundreds of thousands), we have witnessed the police brutalization of industrial workers in Gurgaon, the killing of a dozen people protesting against a dam in Manipur, and the killing of another dozen people protesting their displacement by a steel plant in Orissa. Even as we call ourselves a democracy, Indian security forces control and administer Kashmir, Manipur and Nagaland—and the numbers of the dead and disappeared continue to mount.

The Algebra of Infinite Justice is also critical of US foreign policy, particularly in the aftermath of the September 11th 2001 attacks in New York and Washington. This present Indian government too has seen it fit to declare itself an ally of the US government, thereby condoning the American invasion of Afghanistan and its illegal occupation of Iraq, which, under the Nuremburg principles, constitutes the supreme crime of a war of aggression.

I have a great deal of respect for the Sahitya Akademi, for the members of this year's Jury and for many of the writers who have received these awards in the past. But to register my protest and re-affirm my disagreement—indeed my absolute disgust—with these policies of the Indian Government, I must refuse to accept the 2005 Sahitya Akademi Award.

Sincerely,

Arundhati Roy

３月３日付け、Democracy Nowのインタビューです。

Baby Bush Go Home: Arundhati Roy on Massive Protests Against Bush's Visit to India
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/03/151200

ロイの有名なスピーチのＤＶＤです。とても良かったです。
また、史学者であり、People's History of the United Statesの著者としても有名なHoward Zinnとの対談も含まれています。
http://www.akpress.org/2004/items/instantmixdvd

YouTubeに多数ビデオがありますね。弱々しい女性が語るところがいい。実はそれが強み、みたいな。

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZw8goUs9Vo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn9Fytncuok&mode=related&search=

何もエゴが感じられない。クリアーな知性があるだけ。素晴らしい。