Chris Hedges imagines next Occupy

from NOW Toronto:


Chris Hedges imagines next Occupy
Interview with the social movements guru

By Paul Weinberg


Through his signature owlish metal-rimmed glasses, former foreign correspondent and Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges surveys a packed hall of rapt listeners at U of T’s Innis Town Hall.

He’s just been asked what activists ought to do following the apparent dissipation of the Occupy uprising. “I am not going tell people what to do,’’ he says. “I just tell what I do.”

Hedges is being modest, of course. The “minister pretending to be a journalist,” as some have called him, is probably the most read movement commentator in North America these days on all matters of protest against privilege and power. He’s already spilled thousands of words of advice to Occupy – dump the black bloc, keep faith with non-violence – in his weekly column at Truthdig.com.

The Princeton-based writer is in T.O. on a tour promoting his 12th book, Days Of Destruction, Days Of Revolt, authored with graphic artist Joe Sacco. ................(more)

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