{"id":9258,"date":"2009-08-05T09:35:55","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T16:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=9258"},"modified":"2009-08-05T09:40:19","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T16:40:19","slug":"mirrors-stories-of-almost-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/08\/05\/mirrors-stories-of-almost-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-080509\/2009_08_05_uprising.MP3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=40% src=\"http:\/\/www.kpfk.org\/pledge\/catalog\/images\/MIrrors_Galeano.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> Eduardo Galeano, the acclaimed author, journalist and historian from Uruguay, was introduced to a larger audience earlier this year when Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gifted his book \u201cOpen Veins of Latin America,\u201d to President Barack Obama. The much publicized exchange, which took place at the Summit of the Americas, propelled the book that outlines \u201c500 centuries of the pillage of a continent\u201d to number #2 on the Amazon.com bestseller list. For readers who just learned of his name this year, Galeano gifted the literary world with his latest ambitious effort, \u201cMirrors:Stories of Almost Everyone.\u201d Translated into English and published by Nation Books, \u201cMirrors,\u201d asks readers to gaze into the reflections of human history all too often ignored. Innovatively written in potent prose, Galeano\u2019s book weaves more than six hundred short stories in a compelling retelling the past of our centuries and civilizations. Far from a dispassionate tome, \u201cMirrors\u201d is an affront to establishment history, making its arguments succinctly and profoundly in vignettes colored with humor and a keen sense of irony. John Berger has said, \u201cTo publish Eduardo Galeano is to publish the enemy: the enemy of lies, indifference, above all of forgetfulness. Thanks to him, our crimes will be remembered. His tenderness is devastating, his truthfulness furious.\u201d Galeano\u2019s other works include among others, the trilogy \u201cMemory of Fire,\u201d \u201cSoccer in Sun and Shadow,\u201d  and \u201cVoices in Time.\u201d Galeano spoke about his latest book \u201cMirrors,\u201d earlier this summer in Northern California before a sold out crowd assembled at the First Congregational Church of Berkeley. Special thanks to our sister station KPFA for the recording of this speech.<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Eduardo Galeano, author of &#8220;Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eduardo Galeano, the acclaimed author, journalist and historian from Uruguay, was introduced to a larger audience earlier this year when Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gifted his book \u201cOpen Veins of Latin America,\u201d to President Barack Obama. The much publicized exchange, which took place at the Summit of the Americas, propelled the book that outlines \u201c500 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}