{"id":15768,"date":"2011-11-21T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=15768"},"modified":"2018-12-15T08:53:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T08:53:00","slug":"arundhati-roy-%e2%80%9coccupy-wall-street-is-so-important-because-it-is-in-the-heart-of-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2011\/11\/arundhati-roy-%e2%80%9coccupy-wall-street-is-so-important-because-it-is-in-the-heart-of-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Arundhati Roy: \u201cOccupy Wall Street Is So Important Because It Is In the Heart of Empire&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned Indian writer and global justice activist Arundhati Roy is preparing to address Occupy Wall Street on Wednesday [16 Nov 2011]. She recently joined us in the studio to talk about the Occupy movement. &#8220;What they are doing becomes so important because it is in the heart of empire, or what used to be empire,&#8221; Roy said. &#8220;And to criticize and to protest against the model that the rest of the world is aspiring to is a very important and very serious business. So&#8230; it makes me very, very hopeful that after a long time you are seeing some nascent, real political anger here.&#8221; She also discussed her new book, &#8220;Walking with the Comrades,&#8221; a chronicle of her time in the forests of India alongside rebel guerillas who are resisting a brutal military campaign by the Indian government.<\/p>\n<p>For the complete interview, read the transcript, download the podcast, and for additional Democracy Now! reports about the Occupy Wall Street movement, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/tags\/occupy_wall_street\" title=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/tags\/occupy_wall_street\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/tags\/occupy_wall_street<\/a><\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W1iwoHUIKvo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned Indian writer and global justice activist Arundhati Roy is preparing to address Occupy Wall Street on Wednesday [16 Nov 2011]. She recently joined us in the studio to talk about the Occupy movement. &#8220;What they are doing becomes so important because it is in the heart of empire, or what used to be empire,&#8221; Roy said. &#8220;And to criticize and to protest against the model that the rest of the world is aspiring to is a very important and very serious business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}