?”what they are doing becomes so important because it is in the heart of empire, or what used to be empire, and to criticize and to protest against the model that the rest of the world is aspiring to is a very important and a very serious business. …it makes me very, very hopeful that after a long time you’re seeing some nascent political, real political anger here. …to me, the forests of central india and the protesters in wall street are connected by a big pipeline, and i am one of those people in that pipeline.” (arundhati roy)
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