Saturday, November 26, 2005

From her essay "Confronting Empire"

What can we do?

We can hone our memory, we can learn from our history. We can continue to build public opinion until it becomes a deafening roar...

We can reinvent civil disobedience in a million different ways. In other words, we can come up with a million ways of becoming a collective pain in the ass...

Our strategy should be not only to confront Empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.

The corporate relvolution will collapse if we refuse to busy what they are selling- their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.

Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.


Arundhati Roy, February 2003.
An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire
(This book is amazing.)

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