Forum Post: Must See Video: Capitalism’s ‘Sacrifice Zones’ With Bill Moyers & Chris Hedges
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Must See Video: Capitalism’s ‘Sacrifice Zones’ With Bill Moyers & Chris Hedges
July 20, 2012
Bill and journalist Chris Hedges talk about parts of America “that have been destroyed for quarterly profit.”
http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-capitalism’s-‘sacrifice-zones’/
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/chris_hedges_on_moyers_company_20120722/
There are forgotten corners of this country where Americans are trapped in endless cycles of poverty, powerlessness, and despair as a direct result of capitalistic greed. Journalist Chris Hedges calls these places “sacrifice zones,” and joins Bill this week on Moyers & Company to explore how areas like Camden, New Jersey; Immokalee, Florida; and parts of West Virginia suffer while the corporations that plundered them thrive.
“These are areas that have been destroyed for quarterly profit. We’re talking about environmentally destroyed, communities destroyed, human beings destroyed, families destroyed,” Hedges tells Bill.
“It’s the willingness on the part of people who seek personal enrichment to destroy other human beings… And because the mechanisms of governance can no longer control them, there is nothing now within the formal mechanisms of power to stop them from creating essentially a corporate oligarchic state.”
The broadcast includes a visit with comics artist and journalist Joe Sacco, who collaborated with Hedges on Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, an illustrated account of their travels through America’s sacrifice zones. Kirkus Reviews calls it an “unabashedly polemic, angry manifesto that is certain to open eyes, intensify outrage and incite argument about corporate greed.”
A columnist for Truthdig, Hedges also describes the difference between truth and news. “The really great reporters — and I’ve seen them in all sorts of news organizations — are management headaches because they care about truth at the expense of their own career,” Hedges says.
http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-capitalism’s-‘sacrifice-zones’/
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/chris_hedges_on_moyers_company_20120722/
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