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DESCRIPTION:CHRIS HEDGES\nDays of Destruction, Days of Revolt\n\nChris Hedges, a senior 
 fellow with the Nation Institute and a hugely influential columnist for the 
 progressive news site Truthdig, is a Pulitzer-Prize winning author and 
 journalist whose books include War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, 
 American Fascists, and Empire of Illusion. He has spent nearly twenty years 
 as a foreign correspondent in the most troubled areas of Central America, 
 the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans. He has reported on our imperial 
 wars in the Middle East, the problems of peace in Israel and Palestine, and 
 the abject failure of American liberalism in the face of the corporate 
 takeover of the American government. Hedges is now a strikingly compelling 
 spokesperson for the progressive movement in the U.S. \n\nPulitzer 
 Prize-winning writer and graphic artist Joe Sacco has traveled to the most 
 depressed pockets of the United States to combine narrative nonfiction with 
 graphic art in DAYS OF DESTRUCTION, DAYS OF REVOLT.  They report from the 
 devastated coal fields of West Virginia, the Lakota reservation of Pine 
 Ridge in South Dakota, the streets of Camden, N.J. (the poorest per capita 
 city in the nation), and among undocumented agricultural workers in 
 Immokalee, Florida, to bring readers a true portrait of the vast and 
 growing zones of sacrifice imposed across the country by the marauding, 
 unchecked corporate state.\n\nDAYS OF DESTRUCTION, DAYS OF REVOLT 
 illustrates what happens when a society loses all sense of the sacred, when 
 nothing has intrinsic worth beyond monetary values. Hedges and Sacco 
 reflect back to America in searing portraits of its poorest, most exploited 
 citizens, to show what we are doing to ourselves as a nation. Their 
 collaboration considers what tens of millions of Americans will endure if 
 this country continues to configure itself in an oligarchic system of only 
 masters and serfs.\n\nHedges has sharply critiqued the Occupy Movement’s 
 acceptance of individuals concealing their faces and practicing violence. 
 He insists that unless we begin to stand fast around moral imperatives… 
 we will be complicit in our self-annihilation.  “As the centers of 
 American power were seized and hijacked by corporations, the media 
 continued to pay deference to systems of power that could no longer be 
 considered honest or democratic. The media treat criminals on Wall Street 
 as responsible members of the ruling class. They treat the criminals in the 
 White House and the Pentagon as statesmen.”\n\n$12 advance tickets: 
 http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/248641  :: 800-838-3006 \nor Pegasus 
 Books (3 locations), Marcus Books, Mrs. Dalloway’s, Moe’s Books, Walden 
 Pond, DIESEL, A Bookstore, and Modern Times  ($15 door)   KPFA 
 benefit\nInformation: www.kpfa.org/events    KPFA benefit\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/05/16/18713586.php
SUMMARY:Chris Hedges: Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
LOCATION:King Middle School\n1781 Rose St\nBerkeley, CA 94703
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/05/16/18713586.php
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