Chris Hedges on Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

Journalist Chris Hedges and graphic artist Joe Sacco traveled to the most depressed pockets of the United States to combine narrative nonfiction with graphic art in their book Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (www.daysofdestructiondaysofrevolt.com). Together they report from the vast and growing zones of sacrifice imposed across the U.S. by the corporate state. From the streets of Camden, New Jersey, the devastated coal fields of West Virginia, the Lakota reservation of Pine Ridge, South Dakota and among undocumented agricultural workers in Florida, Hedges and Sacco offer a ground up view of existence when the marketplace rules, when corporate capitalism is unregulated and unfettered.

[@wyndyjknoxcarr9992]

The manga-style illustrations for the Guatemalan agricultural slave in Florida were excellent. Outstanding story, interviewing and publication. Missed you at Town Hall in Seattle, but support the book and your work. Write (and draw!) On!

[@RubberDragonClips]

well done, nice work.

[@cmasseylynch]

good one ...i feel sorry for those people...and those graves that were bulldozed over by the coal companies,without any respect for the dead.
disrepect for the living
disrepect for the dead
disrepect for the planet

[@vladdrac88]

Sowing the seeds of their own destruction and violent revolution. Truly the love of money is the root of all evil.

[@mexicanreformist1522]

Crony capitalism has heavily seeped into our economies throughout the worlds, and it's not easily removed. Societies need to be educated enough to acknowledge that people need to come together to fight as one. Otherwise we'll squabble over issues that don't matter in the bigger scheme of things. By looking at the bigger picture we can make efforts to tackle these issues.

[@mns8732]

MexicanReformist : pick another name , you'd be more believable.

[@wolfnotsheep]

West Virginia is not an example of 'unfettered capitalism', it is an example of special rights being bestowed upon corporations (i.e. corporate personhood and privatized armies [remember the Pinkertons?]) to elevate them to an oligarchy ruling over the people; a people made so poor and destitute by lack of education and low wages that amount to little more than sharecroppers.

[@Quietloud]

And to believe they keep voting Republican. Not that the Democratic party would do much more....

[@DigiLusionist]

Michigan, Illinois, California, Ohio... Bastions of Progressive policy in action. Not corporate greed or destruction, but Democrat over-regulation, over-taxation, and unionized extortion.
Revising history is a Progressive tendency.

[@jacknapier5188]

Yes, repealing Glass-Steagall and the implementation of a multitude of other neoliberal economic policies has done absolute wonders for working people.

[@shawnburnham1]

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[@Tyler380]

Short term profit and GREED!