CHRIS HEDGES: Mass Incarceration, Police Brutality, Resistance & Social Transformation
Channel: FanSmiles
Date: 2021-04-30

On Thursday, October 9th, award-winning journalist Chris Hedges was the guest speaker at the general assembly meeting of the People’s Organization for Progress.
Hedges has authored 12 books, including his NY Times best seller ‘Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt,’ best seller ‘War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning,’ which was a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Award, and arguably his most courageous work ‘Collateral Damage,’ where American veterans were interviewed and disclosed atrocities by U.S. troops in Iraq.
 
His web-page, TruthDig, (http://www.truthdig.org/) whose columns, essays and reviews, make it a very popular critical dialogue vehicle among left of center circles. TruthDig also spotlighted the analysis and activism of P.O.P. chairman Lawrence Hamm in a recent column on the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and the protest fury it triggered.
http://www.truthdig.com/tag/lawrence+hamm
 
In 2012, Hedges legally challenged the Obama Administration over the constitutionality of a key provision of the National Defense Authorization Act, section 1021 which allowed presidential authority for indefinite detention without habeas corpus. Joined by Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg in the suit, a federal judge agreed with their claim, only for it to get overturned by the Obama Administration on appeal! He also engaged in civil disobedience in support of an Occupy Wall Street demonstration, particularly targeting investment firm Goldman Sachs.
 
His subject for the evening is ‘Mass Incarceration, Police Brutality, Resistance and Social Transformation’…