{"id":283904,"date":"2025-01-06T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=283904"},"modified":"2024-12-30T05:41:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T05:41:34","slug":"powerful-5-min-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/01\/powerful-5-min-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful 5-Min Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>5 Dec 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Arundhati Roy delivers a passionate critique of the oppression faced by Palestinians: historical context and ongoing violence from Israel&#8217;s occupation. She calls for a broader understanding of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza , condemning the complicity of the USA and other powerful nations and challenging the idea of the US as a neutral mediator. Arundhati draws parallels to other groups fighting colonialism and apartheid. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Powerful Speech \u2764\ufe0f \ud83d\udcaa \ud83d\ude4c\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KhvimXcPPpY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Arundhati Roy, born Nov 24 1961, is an Indian novelist and political activist. She studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives. She is the author of the novels <\/em>The God of Small Things<em>, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize, and <\/em>The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.<em> A collection of her essays from the past twenty years, <\/em>My Seditious Heart<em>, was recently published by Haymarket Books. Roy was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in 2004 and has concentrated on penning down political issues being a critic of neo-imperialism and linked to anti-globalization movements. Roy\u2019s subversive nature has made her accustomed to criticism. <\/em>\u201cEach time I step out, I hear the snicker-snack of knives being sharpened but that\u2019s good. It keeps me sharp\u201d,<em> she said when interviewed by an Indian magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Dec 2024 &#8211; Arundhati Roy delivers a passionate critique of the oppression faced by Palestinians: historical context and ongoing violence from Israel&#8217;s occupation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[87,865,88,2414,2416,767,427],"class_list":["post-283904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-israel","tag-israeli-apartheid","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-middle-east","tag-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283904","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=283904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283905,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283904\/revisions\/283905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}