[fvc-wat-announce] If you missed Chris Hedges speak at CIGI

[Sharon Sommerville]

Good Morning FairVoters,

On Wednesday night, Chris Hedges spoke at CIGI in Waterloo.  Hedges is an
American journalist & author who reported on the Middle East for the New
York Times for 15 years, is an ordained Presbyterian minister (Harvard
Divinity School) and has taught at Columbia, Princeton and UoT.  He teaches
in prisons in New Jersey and has been influenced by the teachings & work of
Dorothy Day who co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement.

His talk addressed the foundation of the current political, social and
economic situation in the US and the direction that the US is heading. His
views are an insightful & powerful analysis of the state of democracy in
the US and have great relevance to Canada.  Should you be interested, here
is the link to the video of Mr. Hedges talk:

https://www.cigionline.org/multimedia/collapse-american-empire

if you don't have time to watch the video, MacLean's published an interview
with him this week. Here is the link to that article:

https://www.macleans.ca/politics/worldpolitics/why-the-american-empire-has-lost-control-and-its-failure-is-imminent/?utm_source=nl&utm_medium=em&utm_campaign=mme_daily&utm_content=202044&utm_term=0&sfi=f9efe055-c3e0-429b-834c-c1b434d24857

Best wishes,

Sharon
for FVC-WR
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