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Lädt ... Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (Original 2012; 2012. Auflage)von Chris Hedges, Joe Sacco (Illustrator)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Hedges's books and articles tend strongly toward polemics and the final chapter here on Occupy Wall Street and Zuccotti (Liberty) Park certainly is. But the first four chapters on Pine Ridge, Camden, West Virginia, and Immokalee are solid pieces of reportage - made even better by Joe Sacco’s excellent graphic strips. Read it and weep. ( ) This is an interesting book about Pine Ridge, Indian Country; Camden, NJ; a mining town; farm laboring wage slaves; and Occupy Wall Street. The best parts are the personal stories, Studs Terkel-style, which are illustrated into comic book panels. They show the incredible dignity and humor that people can have despite being mired in poverty, sexual abuse, and addiction in the USA. It's all interesting information that you need to know, but it was so bleak and depressing that I had to skim some parts. At the end when we get to the Occupy movement in Zucotti park, it gets a bit more cheerful. And I had to smile at the earnest descriptions of how decisions are reached in the general assembly (the stack, hand signals, etc), as if all those things were brand new instead of well over a decade old. I also rolled my eyes at a few other things. (The authors say agents provacateurs started the Black Bloc. Please! And also that the best tactic, still, is to have peaceful demonstrations that goad the police into rioting because the world will be dismayed and horrified to learn about it.) Overall, though, I liked this book. There is the "family-friendly" version of America, as seen on TV, and then there have always been the unpleasant realities that we'd rather keep out of sight especially when the scope of these realities is deepening and widening thanks to mercenary corporatism. Together, Chris Hedges, the outspoken firebrand activist-writer and Joe Sacco, the visual-graphic conflict-journalist, take us unsparingly to panoramas that are not nightmarish dystopias, at least not fictional ones. We discover that the American dream and standard-of-living has been seriously downgraded in the quarters that have already sustained oppression for generations. We now have cities so totally in debt that there is no extant infrastructure, we have environmental devastation with no benefit and no recompense for those most affected, and we have organized crime that claims to be a societal stratum and offers up, as the only option, cannibalistic-victimization of the weakest amongst economically segregated racial groups. Surprisingly sweet stories of resilience exist in the face of these brutalities, these faceless paper atrocities. Love and culture survive and, perhaps, are strengthened. We learn that those who realize that our monetary overlords only care for their own are learning that knowledge, informal connectedness can cause the blinkered plutocrats cognitive disconnection. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"Camden, New Jersey, with a population of 70,390, is per capita the poorest city in the nation. It is also the most dangerous. The city's real unemployment - hard to estimate, since many residents have been severed from the formal economy for generations - is probably 30 to 40 percent. The median household income is $24,600. There is a 70 percent high school dropout rate, with only 13 percent of students managing to pass the state's proficiency exams in math. The city is planning $28 million in draconian budget cuts, with officials talking about cutting 25 percent from every department, including layoffs of nearly half the police force. The proposed slashing of the public library budget by almost two-thirds has left the viability of the library system in doubt. There are perhaps a hundred open-air drug markets, most run by gangs like the Bloods, the Latin Kings, and MS-13. Camden is awash in guns, easily purchased across the river in Pennsylvania, where gun laws are lax.Camden, like America, was once an industrial giant. It employed some 36,000 workers in its shipyards during World War II and built some of the nation's largest warships. It was the home to major industries, from RCA Victor to Campbell's Soup. It was a destination for immigrants and upwardly mobile lower middle class families. Camden now resembles a penal colony.In Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges and American Book Award winning cartoonist Joe Sacco show how places like Camden, a poster child of postindustrial decay, stand as a warning of what huge pockets of the United States will turn into if we cement in place a permanent underclass. In addition to Camden, Hedges and Sacco report from the coal fields of West Virginia, Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and undocumented farm worker colonies in California. With unemployment and underemployment combined at far over ten percent, as Congress proposes to slash Medicare and Medicaid, Food Stamps, Pell Grants, Social Security, and other social services, Hedges and Sacco warn of a bleak near future-where cities and states fall easily into bankruptcy, neofeudalism reigns, and the nation's working and middle classes are decimated. A shocking report from the frontlines of poverty in America, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is a clarion call for reform"--
"In the vein of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Chris Hedges and American Book Award winning cartoonist Joe Sacco bring us a searing on-the-ground report on the crisis gripping underclass America and crime-ridden poverty enclaves--in prisons, urban slums, and rural communities--metastasizing around the nation"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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