AMY GOODMAN: We play a clip of what Arundhati Roy had to say.

ARUNDHATI ROY: What happened in Cancun was very important, and what it taught us was the importance of globalized resistance. We must understand that no single country alone can stand up to corporate globalization. It doesn’t matter if that country is headed by Nelson Mandela. It doesn’t matter if that country is headed by Lula. If all of us gathered here and at the Mumbai resistance are really against imperialism, if we are really against neoliberalism, then I think we should turn our gaze on Iraq, because Iraq is the culmination of both imperialism and neoliberalism. And Bush —- and George Bush believes that Iraq can be occupied and colonized like Afghanistan has been, like Tibet has been, like Chechnya has been, like East Timor once was, like Palestine still is. He should just wait and all of us will go home. But I think we need a global victory here. It’s not good enough for us to be right. It’s not good enough for us to keep saying -—. We need to win something. And in order to win something, we need to agree about something. Even if it’s a small, simple thing. So, I think if we are against imperialism, if we are against neoliberalism, then we must not just support the resistance in Iraq, we must become the resistance in Iraq. So, I suggest, it’s a question — it’s a question of bringing our collective wisdom to bear on one single project. The project of the New American Century seeks to perpetrate inequity and establish American hegemony at any price. The World Social Forum demands justice and survival. For these reason, we must consider ourselves at war. Thank you.

AMY GOODMAN: Arundhati Roy, speaking in Bombay at the World Social Forum. Tens of thousands of people are gathered there. For the first time being held in India. It has been held in Brazil.