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
Red line delays next, allison and steve. Thank you very much. And the time everywhere but at surprise treingt is 7 00 and were starting with sunning victory in dopely red conservative Alabama Democrats picked the open seat in Alabama Senate race. Doug jones bet roy hoor in most wapd and controversial of the year. Annie yu live on capitol hill with the latest on how things played out last night, annie, good morning. And good morning, allison and steve. This is a big victory for the democrats and as you mentioned, alabama traditionally a red state and so moving forward, here on capitol hill, were talking about doug jones big win and give the gop just a 51 to 9 edge in u. S. Senate and victory was fueled by huge turnout and a strong turnout and heavily africanamerican counties and meanwhile Roy Moore Says its not over and vowing to keep fighting. Im truly overwhelmed. Im truly, truly overwhelmed. And struggled forwards after a win last night became clear. Alabama has been at a cross road.
Things appear clearing up this morning thankfully. All that after a dusting of snow we got yesterday but you can still feel that winter chill in the air. Gary, are we going to get more or will it go away . In terms of the snow, i think thats all gone and you know what, too, i think really the big headline this morning is were still going o be cool today but look, coming our way i think were going to be trending warmer around here the next several days and it does look like before this warmer trend goes away, we may actually touch 60 degrees again before well, over the next couple days or so. Let me show you whats happening. Basically a warmer trend begins today. Temperatures will be in the upper 40s and the low 50s. Temperatures right now are kind of cold but you know what, some of these numbers have been going up a little bit during the overnight. Actually last hour it was a lot warmer than it is in places now. Right now with this clearing skies, the sun is coming up, thats very, very