A Conversation with John Roosa, Vincent Bevins, and Krithika Varagur, hosted by Joseph Nevins October 1, 2020, 7:00 p.m. (US Eastern Daylight Time), Online via Zoom http://www.ShelterAndSolidarity.org/join (register for Zoom link)
October 1 marks the fifty-fifth anniversary of the beginning of one of the worst episodes of mass murder in the twentieth century: the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Indonesians in 1965-1966. Organized and directed by Indonesia’s military, the killings targeted people associated with the country’s communist party, the world’s largest outside of China and the Soviet Union. The dismembering of a large part of Indonesia’s political spectrum reshaped politics not only in Indonesia, but around the world, foreclosing on a political pathway that might have produced greater justice and more equitable outcomes in the Global South. Despite the enormity of these events, and the sordid U.S. role of support, the killings in Indonesia are little-known in the United States and beyond. And within Indonesia, a country in which the outsized power of the military endures, there has been no accountability for the slaughter. This show will explore what took place in Indonesia in the mid-1960s, and its significance for the sprawling country and the larger world; the enforced silence surrounding these events in much of Indonesian society since that time; and their present-day manifestations and efforts aimed at accountability. In doing so, the show brings together three guests: Vincent Bevins, author of "The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade & the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World"; John Roosa, author of "Buried Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965-1966 in Indonesia"; and Krithika Varagur, author of "The Call: Inside the Global Saudi Religious Project." Joseph Nevins will host the conversation. Sponsors: *Socialism and Democracy*, *encuentro5*, Hard Ball Press, and the Community Church of Boston -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#2052): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/2052 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/77196420/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
