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GUESTS: Arundhati Roy, award winning writer and political commentator from India, Eduardo Galeano, award winning writer and political commentator from Uruguay

We spend the morning with two phenomenal writers and political commentators from entirely different parts of the world, who have taught us here in the US, what it means to use words not only as a form of expression but as a form of resistance.

Arundhati Roy is an Indian novelist and activist. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel The God of Small Things. Since then she concentrated her writing on political issues including the Narmada Dam project, India’s Nuclear Weapons, Enron’s activities in India, and more. She is a prominent figure in the anti-globalization movement and a vehement critic of neo-liberalism and neo-imperialism. Her collection of essays include “The End of Imagination,” “The Cost of Living,” and “The Algebra of Infinite Justice.” In 2004, Arundhati Roy was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize for her work in social campaigns and advocacy of non-violence.

Eduardo Galeano is an Uruguayan journalist whose books have been translated into many languages. His unique writing style combines documentary, fiction, journalism, political analysis, and history. He has denied that he is a historian, saying “I’m a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America above all and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia.” In 1973, a military coup took power in Uruguay and Galeano was imprisoned and later forced to flee. He settled in Argentina where he founded the cultural magazine, Crisis. He has written many books including Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire), Open Veins of Latin America, and his latest, “Voices of Time: A Life in Stories.”

Thank you gifts:

$80 – “We” featuring the words of Arundhati Roy. More information at www.weroy.com.

$100 – Conversation with Eduardo Galeano and Arundhati Roy. More information at www.haymarketbooks.org.