The ruthlessness and violence of capitalism and the commodification of a land that to the dentist is not only a living being a sacred joe is unsparing in his reporting documenting the evils imported into the den a culture from the outside that include alcoholism drug use domestic and Sexual Violence and suicide but by the end of the book the reader discovers that this is not only a book about the long efforts to extinguish indigenous communities and Indigenous Culture but it is a book about us about our demonic lust for profit at the cost of human life and ultimately the earth itself joining me from his home in Portland Oregon to discuss paying the land is joe sacco so joe what is it that drew you to this story which youve spent 4 years of your life documenting and telling. Well i wanted to do a book about Climate Change but i wanted to do something that was a little more sort of oblique. And i thought a do it about resource extraction and where resources extraction extract extract its
Comics journalism the marriage of rigorous reporting with meticulous drawing that delivers a visceral visual and emotional punch his books including palestine safe area gorazde footnotes and gaza the fixer and the great war have become classics repeatedly elevating journalism into art his latest book is paying the land a poignant and moving portrayal of the plight of the denny people of the Remote Canadian Northwest Territories their struggles against cultural genocide in the social economic and environmental destruction caused by the Extraction Industries. In the book he chronicles the battle by the dennett people to protect their identity and their communities the competing ethic of communal existence is pitted against the ruthlessness and violence of capitalism and the commodification of a land that to the dentist is not only a living being a sacred joe is unsparing you know is reporting documenting the evils imported into the den a culture from the outside that include alcoholism d
Contact. Welcomed on cantor today we discuss the book pain the land with its author. I look at my old interviews like the transcript and you see that often of interrupted people and when youre talking with the a dinny elder you really just let them talk you might ask a question and they might Start Talking about something and you think this doesnt really relate to my question. But they will get around to answering your question so in a way it was like a real lesson in patience in learning that there are other ways to listen in other ways to sort of. Deal with with someone than just sort of consciously interjecting and sort of corralling them into the speech you need to go. In the fall of 9095 i joined a convoy of french u. N. Peacekeepers traveling from the besieged city of sarajevo in bosnia to the besieged city of garage in the convoy i met another journalist. Who drew book one comics i knew a little about the world of comics but i knew something about the world of journalism. I watc
With attacks and rustle remains shots, egypt resist scrubbing diplomatic pressure to open the crossing with garza to allow humanitarian a in and people out israels Prime Minister. Meanwhile, vows and victory over him us, you will say will. And so that has belong, will pay a heavy price if its down to the banking this back in israel, following a whirlwind tour of the middle east, as the us scramble is to contain saliva from the conflict, the a call is now at 1600 gmc, thats 7 oclock in the evening in the gaza strip, my moving 1000 children have now been killed in just 9 days of all. Thats the highest death, told him all conflicts and gaza to this day. And it continues to climb, as hospitals are running out of fuel and supplies. At least 2808 palestinians have now been killed since of all south today. More than a 3rd of them all children. The desktop also includes Health Workers and journalists on these rarely site 1400 people have been killed and how most of military operation passing t
A half 1000, up to 9 days of relentless is riley attacks. And to runs, foreign minister tells how to 0 tie, ron will not remain and observe and was wanting is round to ended from 5 minutes of cost on the hello and welcome to the program. Its just past 5 am in gaza as the will with israel inches, its 10th day. These of the licensed pitch is coming out of the besieged strip. A large fi has broken out after more is riley and strikes authorities, the se 7 people have been killed. The death toll of palestinians is now more than 2600. 00 since october 7, when hum us attacked. Southern is around least a quarter of the fatalities at children. The un says its witnessing what it calls an unprecedented human catastrophe. Lets go to sarah. Hi, right to joins us live from occupied East Jerusalem. Hello this out. Weve seen a large blaze in gaza after another night have strikes. What update . Have you gone . So yeah, well im the, the 3 plays, which is huge. Um, it was a mazda 5 bull, was the result o