"We" is a fast-paced 64-minute documentary that covers the world
politics of power, war, corporations, deception and exploitation.
It visualizes the words of Arundhati Roy, specifically her famous "Come September" speech, where she spoke on such things as the war on terror, corporate globalisation, justice and the growing civil unrest.
It's witty, moving, alarming and quite a lesson in modern history.
"We" is almost in the style of a continuous music video. The music used sets the pace and serves as wonderful background for the words of Ms. Roy and images of humanity in the world we all live in today.
"We" is a completely free documentary, created and released anonymously on the internet.
There are many ways to download and view it.
Download the Windows Media file (.wmv format) from weroy or if you'd like a TV quality copy, a DVD-R disc (containing extras) can also be obtained from the weroy website for a small donation.
Watch the preview here or see the complete film on Google (text may be a bit fuzzy).
Visit weroy.org
for more information about the documentary and the filmmaker.
Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy (born November 24, 1961) is an Indian novelist, activist and a world citizen. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel "The God of Small Things".
Roy was born in Shillong, Meghalaya to a Keralite Syrian Christian mother and a Bengali Hindu father, a tea planter by profession. She spent her childhood in Aymanam, in Kerala, schooling in Corpus Christi. She left Kerala for Delhi at age 16, and embarked on a homeless lifestyle, staying in a small hut with a tin roof within the walls of Delhi's Feroz Shah Kotla and making a living selling empty bottles. She then proceeded to study architecture at the Delhi School of Architecture, where she met her first husband, the architect Gerard Da Cunha.
"The God of Small Things" is the only novel written by Roy. Since winning the Booker Prize, she has concentrated her writing on political issues. These include the Narmada Dam project, India's Nuclear Weapons, corrupt power company Enron's activities in India. She is a figure-head of the anti-globalisation/alter-globalisation movement and a vehement critic of neo-imperialism.
In response to India's testing of nuclear weapons in Pokhran, Rajasthan, Roy wrote "The End of Imagination", a critique of the Indian government's nuclear policies. It was published in her collection "The Cost of Living", in which she also crusaded against India's massive hydroelectric dam projects in the central and western states of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. She has since devoted herself solely to nonfiction and politics, publishing two more collections of essays as well as working for social causes.
Roy was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in May 2004 for her work in social campaigns and advocacy of non-violence.
In June 2005 she took part in the World Tribunal on Iraq. In January 2006 she was awarded the Sahitya Akademi award for her collection of essays, "The Algebra of Infinite Justice", but declined to accept it.
