This is Hell!
Summary: Long-form interviews with writers, thinkers and workers from around the world and across the spectrum of experience.
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Podcasts:
Occupy Wall Street co-founder Micah White explains why political power will not be captured in the streets. Micah wrote the essay "Two Paths Forward" at his website, and the op-ed "Protests won't stop Trump. We need a movement that transforms into a party" for the Guardian. / In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen considers the election as failed hangover cure.
Journalist Trevor Timm explores the possibilities of President Trump's inherited surveillance state. Trevor's most recent Guardian op-eds are Obama has handed a surveillance state and war machine to a maniac and If Donald Trump gets his way, his administration will be disastrous. / PLUS: Question from Hell!
Journalist Michelle Chen profiles the millions of Americans who never had a vote. Michelle wrote the article For Millions, the Election was Always Lost for Dissent. / Doctor Zaher Sahloul reports on providing medical care to Syrians under fire in Aleppo. Dr. Sahloul wrote about his experiences in the op-ed I'm a doctor in Chicago. Here's what I saw when I went to help in Aleppo for the Guardian.
Writer Richard Seymour surveys the wrecked landscape of American politics after Trump. Richard and his fellow editors at Salvage wrote the essay "Saturn devours his young: President Trump." PLUS: Rotten History
Invisible Institute's Jamie Kalven details the mechanisms of silence within the Chicago Police Department. / In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen talks about his one unconscious non-racist reflex.
Writer George Ciccariello-Maher explores the past and future of radical politics in Venezuela. PLUS: Question from Hell!
CIP Americas director Laura Carlsen finds anger and organization two years after the crime of Ayotzinapa. / Political scientist Gustavo Setrini profiles the rising Primavera Estudiantil social movement in Paraguay.
Sociologist Peter Frase examines the future beyond climate change, capitalism and other disasters. Peter is author of the new book "Four Futures: Life After Capitalism" part of the Jacobin series from Verso Books. PLUS: Rotten History
Journalist Steve Horn reports on the Obama administration's opening of public lands for oil and gas drilling. / Our Man in Budapest, Todd Williams explains what the Hungarian migrant vote means and doesn't mean.
Media scholar Mara Einstein decodes the corporate hand behind news content on the internet. Mara is author of the new book "Black Ops Advertising: Native Ads, Content Marketing and the Covert World of the Digital Sell" from OR Books. PLUS: Rotten History
Jennifer Rutledge examines the global social policies behind school lunch programs. PLUS: Listener Mailbag.
Walter Mosley discusses his polemic "Folding The Red Into The Black: Or, Developing A Viable Untopia For Human Survival In The 21st Century" from OR Books.
Attorney Thomas Durkin examines the national security secrecy creeping into the judiciary system.
Sociologist Peter Ikeler discusses his book "Hard Sell: Work and Resistance in Retail Chains" from ILR Press.
Valerie Bergeron explores the case of missing and murdered indigenous women across Canada. Valérie is a public defender working the North of Quebec. / Sarah Jumping Eagle reports from the front lines of the No Dakota Access Pipeline protest. Sarah is a pediatrician, and one of the first pipeline resisters arrested in August.
