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Damien Echols: Innocent on Death Row—How I Survived 18 Years | Big Think

By Damien Echols — 2018

Damien Echols was a member of the West Memphis Three, a group of young men who were wrongfully convicted of murdering three children. He served nearly 20 years on death row before being exonerated and released. See more...

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Public Power in the Age of Empire

An inspiring exegesis on the roles of democracy and activism in a violent times.

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Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers

This series of essays examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India. It looks closely at how religious majoritarianism, cultural nationalism, and neo-fascism simmer just under the surface of a country that projects itself as the world's largest democracy.

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Things that Can and Cannot Be Said: Essays and Conversations

In late 2014, Arundhati Roy, John Cusack, and Daniel Ellsberg travelled to Moscow to meet with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. The result was a series of essays and dialogues in which Roy and Cusack reflect on their conversations with Snowden.

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My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction

My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights, and freedoms in an increasingly hostile world.

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