Saturday on This is Hell!
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9:10 - Author Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor explores the revolutionary potential of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
Keeanga is author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation from Haymarket Books.
10:05 - Writer Sarah Kendzior reports on the tabloid spectacle of Trump's campaign through the Midwest.
Sarah wrote the recent articles Who won the Midwest? Not the people who live in it for the Globe and Mail and Trumpmenbashi: What Central Asia’s spectacular states can tell us about authoritarianism in America for The Diplomat.
10:35 - Live from São Paulo, Brian Mier sees a coup emerging from Brazil's current political crisis.
Brian will be talking about the Brasilwire piece Overthrowing Dilma Rousseff: It’s Class War, and Their Class is Winning and his own most recent writing Rio Olympics: A City within a City.
11:05 - Mark and Paul Engler explain why strategic nonviolence is the future of political protest.
Mark and Paul wrote the new book This is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century from Nation Books.
12:05 - Writer Shiyam Galyon highlights the revolutionary work Syrians are doing in between bombs.
Shiyam is author of the article Syrian Protests Bloom During Lull in Bombings posted at Warscapes.
12:45 - Jeff Dorchen laughs in the face of Death, or rather in the faces of other people's Deaths.
This is maybe about Garry Shandling. Or maybe about Rob Ford. Hopefully not about Phife Dawg.