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CHRIS HEDGES on Deflating the Ruling Elite through Civil Disobedience [ENCORE] /271

For The Wild

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The Power of Civil Disobedience

i agree on the power and potency of civil disobedience, especially during this time. Now, i'd like to move on to a question around poverty. And i know that being poor in this country is not only incredibly expensive to the individual, but it's ultimately in a life that's in constant crisis. I mean, she nobody works harder in this country than the poor. They're often working three jobs, 70, 80 hours a week. These are jobs that are physically very punishing. Ah, you have created huge pools of what harmarks would call redundant or surplus labor. Then you need forms of social control, because they are no jobs. That's how you get an explosion of the

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