It is now my great pleasure to introduce our guest tonight, chris hedges. Hes a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who has reported on wars and insurgencies in central the persian gulf and the balkans. He became, the New York Times middle east bureau chief in 1991, and then the Balkan Bureau chief for the times in 1995. And because war is our topic tonight, its worth saying that chris has been held captive, has experienced the full force of war firsthand. What maybe fewer people know is that he is also an ordained presbyterian minister who, for many years now has been teaching inmates in new jersey prisons and who works tirelessly, tirelessly on behalf of those inmates in and when they are released released. His recent book, our class and transformation in an american prison, which you can see in the back there, comes out of that experience. Chris is the author of, many other bestselling and often prescient books. These include american fascists, the christian right and the war on ameri
It is now my great pleasure to introduce our guest tonight, chris hedges. Hes a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who has reported on wars and insurgencies in central the persian gulf and the balkans. He became, the New York Times middle east bureau chief in 1991, and then the Balkan Bureau chief for the times in 1995. And because war is our topic tonight, its worth saying that chris has been held captive, has experienced the full force of war firsthand. What maybe fewer people know is that he is also an ordained presbyterian minister who, for many years now has been teaching inmates in new jersey prisons and who works tirelessly, tirelessly on behalf of those inmates in and when they are released released. His recent book, our class and transformation in an american prison, which you can see in the back there, comes out of that experience. Chris is the author of, many other bestselling and often prescient books. These include american fascists, the christian right and the war on ameri
Our class is about a drama class taught in prison and about the teaching and learning about the prison and he people who have to live in it and around it and who are trying to survive its violence and trauma and play cage was begun there with the full participation of the class in realize in a series of public performances. We hear the voices of the students read over. They work to find their own stories and have the courage to dramatize them. This book is full of hard stories. It dares every complacency about what the society does to people. On the title page, and i see the copies of the book around the room. So you should look at this. I want you to look at the book that you just grabbed. Theres a photograph of all the students in the class and i find it really good to see their faces. Another thing i want to point out when you pick up your copy of cage, theres in addition to the wonderful introduction by boris, dont miss the section called play wrights on the inside and play wrights
Our class is about a drama class taught in prison and about the teaching and learning about the prison and he people who have to live in it and around it and who are trying to survive its violence and trauma and play cage was begun there with the full participation of the class in realize in a series of public performances. We hear the voices of the students read over. They work to find their own stories and have the courage to dramatize them. This book is full of hard stories. It dares every complacency about what the society does to people. On the title page, and i see the copies of the book around the room. So you should look at this. I want you to look at the book that you just grabbed. Theres a photograph of all the students in the class and i find it really good to see their faces. Another thing i want to point out when you pick up your copy of cage, theres in addition to the wonderful introduction by boris, dont miss the section called play wrights on the inside and play wrights
Our class is about a drama class taught in prison and about the teaching and learning about the prison and he people who have to live in it and around it and who are trying to survive its violence and trauma and play cage was begun there with the full participation of the class in realize in a series of public performances. We hear the voices of the students read over. They work to find their own stories and have the courage to dramatize them. This book is full of hard stories. It dares every complacency about what the society does to people. On the title page, and i see the copies of the book around the room. So you should look at this. I want you to look at the book that you just grabbed. Theres a photograph of all the students in the class and i find it really good to see their faces. Another thing i want to point out when you pick up your copy of cage, theres in addition to the wonderful introduction by boris, dont miss the section called play wrights on the inside and play wrights