A primary focus for those discussions we have a tough so today so lets go and dive right a. Big stimulus this week as the g. O. P. Rolled out their new one trillion dollar Coronavirus Relief package bill on monday Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell unveiled that plan dubbed the heels are. We manage Senate Republicans ministration have been consulting over the last few weeks to come up with a realistic proposal. With what we think is an appropriate amount of Additional Debt to be good to the economy at this time. We think it is about a trillion dollars. And weve allocated it in a way that we think makes the most. For the country at this particular time. Already theres a split between Senate Republicans on the bill but next come to go sheesh and what the democrats this is ahead of some looming deadlines all Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer called the relief package totally inadequate perhaps the most controversial is the unemployment a that runs out on friday and Unemployment Ins
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
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