This is one stellar human being. If I were ever to wax rhapsodic about anyone, she would be the one. First, I’d like to say that – unlike most icons of the left – she has proposed collective action against corporate warmonger criminals and the media they control:


“It would be naïve to imagine that we can directly confront Empire. Our strategy must be to isolate Empire's working parts and disable them one by one. No target is too small. No victory too insignificant. We could reverse the idea of the economic sanctions imposed on poor countries by Empire and its Allies. We could impose a regime of Peoples' Sanctions on every corporate house that has been awarded with a contract in postwar Iraq, just as activists in this country and around the world targeted institutions of apartheid. Each one of them should be named, exposed, and boycotted. Forced out of business. That could be our response to the Shock and Awe campaign. It would be a great beginning.

Another urgent challenge is to expose the corporate media for the boardroom bulletin that it really is. We need to create a universe of alternative information. We need to support independent media like Democracy Now!, Alternative Radio, and South End Press.”


I’m not saying this is the only thing people should do (and either is she) but as she notes above: it’s a good start. Roy is an author, activist, social critic – the list goes on and on -- and she does it all with wit, conscience, a deep thoughtfulness, and humor. And she is beautiful. And she has a mellifluous voice. And a beguiling accent...OK, enough already. You get the idea.

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