Aí vai, meu povo, uma “retrospectiva cult” do ano que acaba de terminar, em forma de listão de prediletos-da-casa; aí estão reunidas algumas das novidades culturais que mais marcaram meu 2014: são álbuns nacionais e internacionais, filmes de ficção e documentários, além de livros publicados recentemente, que eu prezo pra...
Durante as últimas semanas, mergulhei de cabeça nas pesquisas, analógicas e digitais, on e off line, sobre dois temas essenciais para o Brasil de hoje e para o planeta de amanhã. A Agência Pública de Jornalismo Investigativo e o Greenpeace estavam oferecendo microbolsas de R$5.000 para realização de grandes...
THE EARTH WOMAN Arundhati Roy (1961 – ) “We belong nowhere”, Chako said. “We sail unanchored on troubled seas. We may never be allowed ashore. Our sorrows will never be sad enough. Our joys never happy enough. Our dreams never big enough. Our lives never important enough. To matter.”...
por Eduardo Carli de Moraes @ A Casa de Vidro.com Uma ampliação da consciência das interconexões que constituem o tecido da realidade parece-me um caminho recompensador para qualquer dentre nós que sente-se como um peregrino buscador de sabedoria. É claro que, como Zaratustra não tardou a descobrir (assim como seu...
“Nous n’avons pas toujours assez de force pour supporter les maux d’autrui.” LA ROCHEFOUCAULD (1613 – 1680) Here’s the trouble with solidarity, altruism, compassion, brotherhood and other values we often pay lip service to, while practising them so shabbily: it isn’t always easy or pleasant to join in a...
Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy (Buy One, Get One Free) by Arundhati Roy https://vimeo.com/97881169 Presented in New York City at The Riverside Church May 13, 2003 Sponsored by the Center for Economic and Social Rights Also published by Outlook India In these times, when we have to...
“The one fact that shocked me was that Noam Chomsky had searched mainstream U.S. media for 22 years for a single reference to American aggression in South Vietnam, and had found none. (…) I’m still taken aback at the extent of indoctrination and propaganda in the United States. It...
Photos from Arundhati Roy’s Broken Republic INDIA: THE WORLD’S BIGGEST DEMOCRACY? By E.C. Moraes @ Awestruck Wanderer 1998: while we were reaching the end of the 20th century, India was testing nuclear weapons. The civilization which gave to the world masters of wisdom such as Gandhi and Sidarta Gautama, Ambedkar and Tagore, was...
“She is one of the great writers and intellectuals of our time. I was thinking about what makes her a really great writer, a really great person, and a really great rebel: someone who listens more than she talks. Someone who goes to find where the silence is, and tries...