{"id":8970,"date":"2011-12-02T20:39:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T01:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=8970"},"modified":"2011-12-02T20:42:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T01:42:23","slug":"arundhati-roy-the-people-who-created-the-crisis-will-not-be-the-ones-that-come-up-with-a-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/12\/02\/arundhati-roy-the-people-who-created-the-crisis-will-not-be-the-ones-that-come-up-with-a-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Arundhati Roy: The People Who Created the Crisis Will Not Be the Ones That Come Up With a Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Truth Out article, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/arundhati-roy-people-who-created-crisis-will-not-be-ones-come-solution\/1322765555\" title=\"Article from Truth Out\" target=\"_blank\">Arundhati Roy: &#8220;The People Who Created the Crisis Will Not Be the Ones That Come Up With a Solution&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> brings a perspective from India on our Occupy movement and the conditions it is trying to fight.  She also talked about what is going on in India of which I was not fully aware.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<em>The prize-winning author of The God of Small Things talks about why she is drawn to the Occupy movement and the need to reclaim language and meaning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>AG: At the same, occupying public spaces did capture the public imagination. Why do you think that is?<\/p>\n<p>AR: I think you had a whole subcutaneous discontent that these movements suddenly began to epitomise. The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it \u2013 and that is, as we all know, extremely important in any political movement. The Occupy sites became a way you could gauge the levels of anger and discontent.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Truth Out article, Arundhati Roy: &#8220;The People Who Created the Crisis Will Not Be the Ones That Come Up With a Solution&#8221; brings a perspective from India on our Occupy movement and the conditions it is trying to fight. She also talked about what is going on in India of which I was not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8972,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8970\/revisions\/8972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}