Episode 868
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Sep 26 2015
Many of us don't realize that access to death records is not something protected by our constitution. It depends on what state you live in. If you look across the 50 states of the US, there are states that don't allow people to get access to death records unless you are the next of kin. Even if you get those records, it's not always the case that those records are going to reveal the truth of what happened. I think perhaps more nefarious and difficult is we in this nation hold terrible ideas about people on the wrong side of the law. We often don't want to admit it, but we often believe that when people get arrested or go to jail and they lose their lives or they become sick or ill, we feel they deserved it somehow.
Terence Keel returns to discuss his new book from Beacon Press, The Coroner's Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.
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Sep 24 2015
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Here's what Chuck is reading this week to prepare for Saturday's show:
John Kay - Other People's Money: The Real Business of Finance [Public Affairs Books]
John Cassidy - Five Things Jeremy Corbyn Has Right [New Yorker]
Morten Jerven - Africa: Why Economists Get it Wrong [Zed Books]
Alice Dreger - Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science [Penguin]
Sep 18 2015
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Listen live tomorrow 9AM - 10:30AM Central on WNUR 89.3FM or stream here at thisishell.com
9:10 - Historian Ray Raphael explores the politics behind America's revolutionary moment.
Ray is co-author (along with Marie Raphael) of the book The Spirit of 74: How the American Revolution Began from the New Press.
9:50 - Filmmaker Leslee Udwin follows a rape, a backlash, and a political movement in India.
Leslee is the director of the documentary India's Daughter. She'll be screening and talking about the film on Wednesday night at the Siskel Film Center. Listen live to win tickets!
Sep 11 2015
Posted by Matthew Boedy
Listen live tomorrow 9AM - 1PM Central on WNUR 89.3FM or stream here at thisishell.com
9:15 - Economist Michael Hudson explains how finance became capitalism's driving force.
Michael is author of the new book Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy
10:05 - Jacobin editor Megan Erickson explores childhood in an age of austerity and division.
Megan's new book is Class War: The Privatization of Childhood from Verso Books.
11:05 - Sociologist Javier Auyero profiles daily life in Argentina's most dangerous neighborhood.
Javier is co-author (along with María Fernanda Berti) of In Harm's Way: The Dynamics of Urban Violence from Princeton University Press.
12:05 - Writer Michelle Chen looks to the present and future of digital labor organizing.
Michelle wrote the article The Unionization of Digital Media for The Nation.
12:45 - Jeff Dorchen bashes (from the left) a left-basher bashing from the left.
We're worried that many left turns puts Jeff on the right.
Sep 10 2015
Posted by Matthew Boedy
Here's what Chuck is reading this week to prepare for Saturday's show:
Michael Hudson - Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy
Megan Erickson - Class War: The Privatization of Childhood
Javier Auyero & María Fernanda Berti - In Harm's Way: The Dynamics of Urban Violence
Michelle Chen - The Unionization of Digital Media
Sep 4 2015
Posted by Matthew Boedy
Heather Exner-Pirot explains how a melting Arctic and international politics threaten indigenous land and political autonomy.
Heather wrote the chapter Whose Arctic Is it? in the Worldwatch Institute's report State of the World 2015: Confronting Hidden Threats to Sustainability.