Corporate Plunder and Popular Revolt

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New World Notes News
Vol. 5, No. 36-37 -- September 8, 2012

This fortnight in New World Notes, radio program #236-237, September 11 & 18, 2012

Corporate Plunder and
Popular Revolt
(in two parts)

In brief

Journalist Chris Hedges traces the rise of the Corporate State, the destruction of democracy, and the corporate plunder of society. And he surveys successful examples of nonviolent popular rebellion.

In Part One he discusses how corporations subverted democracy in the US since 1914. And he takes us to some of America's "sacrifice zones"--areas devastated by unrestrained corporate plunder. He concludes with a scathing critique of the Democratic Party for selling out the people to the corporations.

In Part Two Hedges discusses the Obama Administration's assault on civil liberties--a way of suppressing both dissent and popular resistance to corporate plunder, he believes. He ends with examples of nonviolent popular resistance toppling oppressive systems--for instance in East Germany and Czechoslovakia.

Above: Joe Sacco (illustrator) and Chris Hedges (writer).
They co-authored Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt.
Below: Occupy Wall Street, 2012.

Notes, credits, & links

Chris Hedges spoke in Seattle on June 29, 2011. Our installments contain most of the full talk, broadcast by Mike McCormick on Mind Over Matters.  Thanks yet again to Mike.

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Above: Streetcorner in Camden, New Jersey, by Joe Sacco. Below: Copenhagen, 2012.

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• September 25 & October 2 -- The Crisis of Civilization

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