{"id":22254,"date":"2012-07-26T19:29:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T23:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=22254"},"modified":"2012-07-26T19:33:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T23:33:09","slug":"capitalisms-sacrifice-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2012\/capitalisms-sacrifice-zones\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitalism&#8217;s &#8220;Sacrifice Zones&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><em>Editor&#8217;s note<\/em>: \u00a0Watch this spellbinding interview by Bill Moyers with Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges, a former bureau chief for the NY Times. \u00a0Those of you fighting Big Wind will resonate to the theme, &#8220;capitalism&#8217;s sacrifice zones.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Notice Hedges&#8217;s call for civil disobedience. \u00a0Hear hear!<\/p>\n<p>Our thanks to Dr. Sarah Laurie for bringing this interview to our attention.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/46079178?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/46079178\">Bill Moyers and Chris Hedges on Capitalism\u2019s \u2018Sacrifice Zones\u2019<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user9013478\">BillMoyers.com<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 \u201csacrifice zones,\u201d and joins Bill this week on Moyers &amp; Company to explore how areas like Camden, New Jersey; Immokalee, Florida; and parts of West Virginia suffer while the corporations that plundered them thrive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are areas that have been destroyed for quarterly profit. We&#8217;re talking about environmentally destroyed, communities destroyed, human beings destroyed, families destroyed,\u201d Hedges tells Bill. \u201cIt&#8217;s the willingness on the part of people who seek personal enrichment to destroy other human beings\u2026 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The broadcast includes images from Hedges&#8217; collaboration with comics artist and journalist Joe Sacco, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, which is an illustrated account of their travels through America\u2019s sacrifice zones. Kirkus Reviews calls it an &#8220;unabashedly polemic, angry manifesto that is certain to open eyes, intensify outrage and incite argument about corporate greed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A columnist for Truthdig, Hedges also describes the difference between truth and news. \u201cThe really great reporters &#8212; and I&#8217;ve seen them in all sorts of news organizations &#8212; are management headaches because they care about truth at the expense of their own career,\u201d Hedges says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: \u00a0Watch this spellbinding interview by Bill Moyers with Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges, a former bureau chief for the NY Times. \u00a0Those of you fighting Big Wind will resonate to the theme, &#8220;capitalism&#8217;s sacrifice zones.&#8221; Notice Hedges&#8217;s call for civil disobedience. \u00a0Hear hear! Our thanks to Dr. Sarah Laurie for bringing this interview to our attention. Bill Moyers and Chris Hedges on Capitalism\u2019s \u2018Sacrifice Zones\u2019 from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo. 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 \u201csacrifice zones,\u201d and joins Bill this week on Moyers &amp; Company to explore how areas like Camden, New Jersey; Immokalee, Florida; and parts of West Virginia suffer while the corporations that plundered them thrive. \u201cThese are areas that have been destroyed for quarterly profit. We&#8217;re talking about environmentally destroyed, communities destroyed, human beings destroyed, families destroyed,\u201d Hedges tells Bill. \u201cIt&#8217;s the willingness on the part of people who seek personal enrichment to destroy other human beings\u2026 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.\u201d The broadcast includes images from Hedges&#8217; collaboration with comics artist and journalist Joe Sacco, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, which is an illustrated account of their travels through America\u2019s sacrifice zones. Kirkus Reviews calls it an &#8220;unabashedly polemic, angry manifesto that is certain to open eyes, intensify outrage and incite argument about corporate greed.&#8221; A columnist for Truthdig, Hedges also describes the difference between truth and news. \u201cThe really great reporters &#8212; and I&#8217;ve seen them in all sorts of news organizations &#8212; are management headaches because they care<a href=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2012\/capitalisms-sacrifice-zones\/#rdmore\" >Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[171,157,175,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}