Isabel Allende - Inspirational Message From A Passionate Woman

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 I've been fortunate to run across some excellant free video resources on the internet, one of which is TED, where I watched this newly-posted video featuring Isabel Allende last night.  TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design.  It's all about the latest and the greatest in those 3 areas.  The site is filled with lots of excellant informative, innovative, interesting, funny and novel bits of brain candy.  Throw away your tv.  If you have little knowledge of Al Gore, check him out in a speech he gives before the movie came out. 

Two other sites I'll mention before I post a short comment about this video.  FORA.tv and poptech.com, both a wealth of information by smart people.  I recently watched a formal debate between Oxford and Cambridge on the subject of The Internet as a Democratizer.  For someone like myself, with only highschooling, it was a highly entertaining, as well as informative, glimpse into life at that education level.  

I've seen Isabel Allende a couple of times before on DemocracyNow with Amy Goodman, and I didn't recall from those viewings that she was such a serious activist for women's rights.  When this vid starts, she talks about her experience as a flagbearer in one of the Olympics, along with Susan Sarandan and Sophia Loren among others, and I start to think, oh this is just a little bit of interesting fluff by a beautiful story teller.  I would have watched anyway, just because she is beautiful to listen to with that hint of accent.  However, the video does not disappoint.  Au contraire, mes amis,  the passion she speaks of is really alive in her and it emanates.  By the end she has told four other little stories along with the Olympics one, and concludes with an incredible message about passion and optimism, rousing the audience to there feet in spontaneous applause and gratitude.  Lots more to say about her, but, others surely know more, including the fact that she was/is related to the former Chilean President Salvador Allende who died in 1973 in a coup which saw Pinochet come to power.

18 valuable minutes spent for me.  I hope for you too.  Enjoy. 

It seems the video is too large for the NP system, so here are the links to the TED and Google Video showings.  If I've missed something about how to get it on the NP video link, I'll update it later.  Right now I'm too lazy to do the grunt work necessary to find out.

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/204 

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8989117925253727476&q=isabelle+allende&total=65&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2