Saturday on This is Hell!
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9:10 - Sociologist Forrest Stuart examines the harsh policing of poverty in LA's Skid Row.
Forrest is author of the book Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row -from University of Chicago Press.
10:05 - PEN America's Omar Safadi explores the tension between inclusion and free speech on campus.
PEN America released the investigative report And Campus for All: Diversity, Inclusion, and Free Speech at U.S. Universities.
11:05 - Writer Thomas Frank explains how the beltway media wrote off Bernie Sanders from page one.
Tom wrote the Harper's cover story Swat Team: The media’s extermination of Bernie Sanders, and real reform
12:05 - Journalist Greg Palast investigates Crosscheck, a massive Republican vote erasing program.
Greg's latest documentary The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Movie is screening in theaters and available online now.
12:45 - In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen drinks the tears of Saint Peter.
If you squint real hard you can sort of see Jeff pictured in Caravaggio's The Denial of Saint Peter.