Saturday on This is Hell!
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9:20 - Activist Andrew Dobbs explains why workers and the poor lose every election - including this one.
Andrew wrote the article No, Voting Democrat is Not “Harm Reduction” at Medium.
10:05 - Writer Pavlos Roufos reviews eight years of disaster for Greece under Europe's austerity regime.
Pavlos is author of the book A Happy Future is a Thing of the Past: The Greek Crisis and Other Disasters from Reaktion Books [UK] / University of Chicago Press [US]
11:05 - Organizer Tom Hansen explores the future of socialism and the state under Cuba's new constitution.
Tom wrote the article Challenges for Cuba's New Constitution for the Mexico Solidarity Network's website.
12:00 - Researcher Anna Pigott exposes the engine powering the Anthropocene - it's capitalism, not us.
Anna Pigott wrote the article Capitalism is killing the world’s wildlife populations, not ‘humanity’ for The Conversation.
12:40 - In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen goes - and possibly stays - bats.
Jeff told me he's gonna do a cuss towards the end of this one, so hopefully the dump button works or no one is listening.
1:00 - Political scientist Leah Stokes examines the wide ideological gap between Congress and US citizens
Leah is co-author of the paper Legislative Staff and Representation in Congress in the American Political Science Review.