Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco Chronicle Mining Catastrophes in West Virginia
Depression Country
Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges and illustrator Joe Sacco spent years chronicling life in the âsacrifice zonesâ in the American Dream, where human beings and natural resources are used and then discarded by corporations. The result is Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, which culminates in the Occupy Wall Street movement. In the excerpt below, they detail the effects of coal mining in West Virginia, a state destroyed by mountaintop removal also. Plus, a dying miner tells the story of his life, illustrated by Sacco.
