![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Seventy-seven percent or 75 percent of the city budget is spent on police and fire. The only sort of economic activity are the roughly 100 open-air drug markets, and you see the descent. It, you know, it looks like somebody bombed it. ![]() You can drive down whole streets of old row houses - just gaping, you know, windowless, destroyed. "And the consequences of that are played on the streets of Camden. NPR's Neal Conan talks with Hedges about the book, and the signs of hope he finds in social movements like Occupy Wall Street.Ĭhris Hedges is also the author of The Death of the Liberal Class. With cartoonist Sacco, Hedges describes places and people at the bottom of the American economy and argues that without profound change, too many other places will join them soon. and Immokalee, Fla., as sacrifice zones, parts of the country where human beings and natural resources have been used and then abandoned, where wrenching change has spawned hopelessness, desperation and ravaged landscapes. Hedges describes places such as Pine Ridge, S.D. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, written with co-author Joe Sacco, critiques an economic system that they say abandons too many Americans. In his latest book, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Chris Hedges takes a look at the tensions that arise between profit, progress, technology and the pursuit of the American dream. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Days Of Destruction, Days Of Revolt Author Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco ![]()
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