SCHEDULE OF ARUNDHATI ROY'S TALKS IN THE US : OCT-NOV 1999

SCHEDULE OF ARUNDHATI ROY'S TALKS IN THE US : OCT-NOV 1999

"For over half a century we've believed that Big Dams would deliver the
people of India from hunger and poverty. The opposite has happened."

Arundhati Roy

International Rivers Network invites you to hear Arundhati Roy, Booker Prize winner and author of "The God of Small Things," speak out about the struggle to protect India's Narmada River. DAMS AND THE COST OF LIVING

Scheduled Talks

Thursday Oct. 28, 7:30 pm
University of San Francisco
Gershwin Theater
San Francisco

Contact/Tickets
Friday Oct. 29, 7:30 pm
UC Berkeley
Wheeler Auditorium
Berkeley
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Monday, November 1, 7 pm
Booksigning at Barnes and Noble
Union Square
New York City
Tuesday, November 2, 6:30-8:30 pm
South Asia Journalists Association
New School
New York City
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Wednesday, November 3, 4-9 pm
Forum with Cultural Survival
Harvard University
Cambridge
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Arundhati Roy will speak about her new book "The Cost of Living," which includes the essay "The Greater Common Good" , a vigorous attack on the rationale and reality of the dams being built in the Narmada Valley.

HOW TO GET TICKETS

The Gershwin Theater appearance in San Francisco on October 28 is free, seating is on a first come basis. Sponsored by the Louise Davies Lecture Series.

The Wheeler Auditorium event at UC Berkeley on October 29 is $15, or $10 with student ID. Tickets for Wheeler available through CalPerformances 510-642-9988, or one hour before the event (subject to availability).

For more information on the Arundhati Roy events in the Bay Area, please contact Annie Ducmanis of IRN at (510) 848-1155, annie@irn.org, or visit IRN's website at www.irn.org.

For information about IRN's reception for Ms. Roy at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism prior to her talk at Wheeler Hall, please contact Mary Houghteling at 510.848.1155 or at mhoughteling@irn.org.

Ms. Roy's Berkeley appearances are co-sponsored by: UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, South and Southeast Asian Studies Department, Center for South Asia Studies, and Peace and Conflict Studies; and The Wallace Stegner Environmental Center at the San Francisco Main Public Library.

For info on the South Asia Journalists Assocation event in New York, please contact 212-854-5979, saja@columbia.edu or www.saja.org.

For more information on the Cambridge event, please contact 617-441-5400, csinc@cs.org or www.cs.org.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

For information on the Narmada struggle, go to www.narmada.org or email Sussane Wong.

Arundhati Roy's essay The Greater Common Good

Arundhati Roy's appearances are hosted by International Rivers Network (IRN), a Berkeley-based non-profit organization which supports local communities working to protect their rivers and watersheds. IRN works to halt destructive river development projects, and to encourage equitable and sustainable methods of meeting needs for water, energy and flood management.