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"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."  - author Arundhati Roy
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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, A LECTURE BY ARUNDHATI ROY

Scheduled Talks:

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

        Friday Oct. 29, 7:30 pm
        UC Berkeley
        Wheeler Auditorium
        Berkeley

        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

        Wednesday, November 3, 4-9 pm
        Forum with Cultural Survival
        Harvard University
        Cambridge

*see below for information on how to get tickets

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.

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HOW TO GET TICKETS
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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
our 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 more information on the Cambridge event, please contact
617-441-5400, csinc@cs.org or www.cs.org.

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

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FOR MORE INFORMATION
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For information on the Narmada struggle, go to www.narmada.org or email
swong@irn.org.

To read Arundhati Roy's essay "The Greater Common Good," go to
http://www.narmada.org/gcg/gcg.html.


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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.


Annie Ducmanis
International Rivers Network
ph: 510-848-1155
fax: 510-848-1008
e-mail: annie@irn.org
web: www.irn.org