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
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