Days of Destruction Days of Revolt

By Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco

This book attempts a peak into the lives of the less fortunate. These are those poor souls who are not riding the.prosperity wave advertised on TV that they tell you is so easy to get. These people are the victims of our winner take all system of wealth creation at all cost paradigm that we embrace.

First stop, the Indian Reservation in White Clay Nebraska. Here the remnants of the Indian Wars sit in filth and destitution and sip the firewater that soothes their tortutred souls. Ask any Indian about equality in America, they will tell you the truth.

Then off to "The Rez" for a peek. Sacco's drawings are right on.

Pg 17 Great quote here. When the chronically underfunded Indian Health Service claims yet another victim this Charlie DeSersa, a lawyer who defends indians, states,"The callousness of the wealthy and their [paid] servants in Congress sickens me." Let them eat cake indeed.

Pg 24 Wow its like half comic book and half real book with Sacco's cartoons.

Pg 40 In 1973 the American Indian Movement attempted to take over the Wounded Knee Reservation. While the seige was happening, Marlon Brando who was winning an Oscar for Cuckoos Nest let an Indian speak instead of him. This was heady stuff for the early 1970's. In 1974 the movie "The Trial of Billy Jack" came out  and brought the.plight of the Indians to a mass audience. I loved the movie and especially that haunting song One Tin Soldier. It still takes me back to that drive-in (which is now closed of course) and my 13 yr old self watching from the back seat.of my father's car rooting for Billy Jack while he kicked ass and stood up for the Indian underdogs.

Pg 54 So it was with the Indian is how it will be for us. The author reminds us that now we are every bit as dependent on the government as we forced the indians to be. What will be our future?

Pg 59 chapter two: Next stop Camden NJ.

Pg 77 "Camden is the poster child for postindustrial America. It is a window into the dead end that will come to more and more Americans as corporarions 'harvest' what is left of the nation fpr short-term profit and leave behind the wreckage and environmental disaster." Well that about says it all. It will be welcome to the new America, the coporatacracy where you will be used in the way we need you, until we no longer have a need for you. For the.only thing worse than being exploited is having so little there is nothing left to exploit.

Camden is bleak indeed.

Pg 115 next stop West Va and what King Coal hath wrought.