{"id":224,"date":"2006-03-07T08:59:08","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T16:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=224"},"modified":"2006-03-07T09:33:38","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T17:33:38","slug":"war-is-a-force-that-gives-us-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2006\/03\/07\/war-is-a-force-that-gives-us-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;War is a Force that Gives us Meaning&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_03_07_hedges.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this talk<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Chris Hedges, Journalism Professor at Princeton University, author of &#8220;War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=35% src=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/resource\/25166\/war-cover.jpg\" alt=\"War is a Force that gives us meaning\" \/>We spend the morning with a special edition of Uprising, hearing the words of Chris Hedges, a Lecturer at Princeton University &#8211; he is the Ferris Professor of Journalism there. In a 2003 commencement speech at<br \/>\nRockford College, Illinois, Hedges denounced the US war on Iraq only to be booed off stage and forcibly escorted by security officers off of the campus, taken to his hotel room to pack his belongings, and put on a bus to leave town. Afterwords, his then employer, The New York Times, gave him the choice of staying true to his beliefs or conforming to the official story \u00e2\u20ac\u201c he chose the former.<\/p>\n<p>Having worked as a war correspondent for many media outlets for fifteen years, Chris Hedges has seen war, and its effects upon those who wage it, at close range. His reports from the front lines bear on the very nature of war itself, its causes, consequences, and the physical, emotional, and moral devastation it leaves in its wake.  Hedges shows how war seduces not just those on the front lines, but also entire societies \u00e2\u20ac\u201c corrupting politics, destroying culture, and perverting the most basic human desires. One of his latest books is entitled, &#8220;War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning.&#8221; Chris Hedges spoke recently in Southern California. The following presentation is one of a four part series recorded by Cheryll Roberts, Don Cannon, and Mansoor Sabbagh of Global Voices for Justice.<\/p>\n<p>To order this talk, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalvoicesforjustice.org\">www.globalvoicesforjustice.org<\/a> and or call 323.850.4464.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Chris Hedges, Journalism Professor at Princeton University, author of &#8220;War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning&#8221; We spend the morning with a special edition of Uprising, hearing the words of Chris Hedges, a Lecturer at Princeton University &#8211; he is the Ferris Professor of Journalism there. In a 2003 commencement speech at Rockford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}