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This Is Hell!
Manufacturing Dissent since 1996
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Apr 21, 2022 • 1h 3min
STAFF PICKS: The Power of Pleasure Activism / Adrienne Maree Brown
Writer adrienne maree brown explores the radical, liberatory potential of pleasure - to reclaim the self from the bounds of oppression, to restore our relationships with other people and the planet, and to imagine (and inhabit) the future worlds we hope to win with our activism.
adrienne is author of the book Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good from AK Press.
https://www.akpress.org/pleasure-activism.html

Apr 20, 2022 • 55min
STAFF PICKS: Sarah Ihmoud / Sheikh Jarrah and Beyond
Anthropologist Sarah Ihmoud on the dynamics of colonialist violence and domination against indigenous people in Palestine and across the globe, connecting those struggles across borders, and her article Sheikh Jarrah: The Question Before Us for Jadaliyya.
https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/42757/Sheikh-Jarrah-The-Question-Before-Us

Apr 19, 2022 • 1h 19min
STAFF PICKS: Ed Sutton & Natasha Lennard / Fascism - Where it comes from, and how to counter it
In another This is Limbo! episode, producer Sebastian muses about what drives fascism and presents two interviews, one with Antidote writer Ed Sutton and one with political analyst Natasha Lennard who both mused on these very questions themselves.

Apr 18, 2022 • 49min
STAFF PICKS: Jodi Dean / The left and party politics.
Alex replays Chuck's interview with theorist Jodi Dean on her book "Crowds and Party" from Verso Books. [First broadcast January 23 2016]

Apr 14, 2022 • 1h 20min
STAFF PICKS: Trevor Griffey / Financialization and the future of college teaching
Sebastian replays Chuck's interview with historian Trevor Griffey on his article "A New Deal for College Teachers and Teaching" written with Mia McIver for the American Association of University Professors website, and in an ALL NEW Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen introduces The Other White Pride: Calcium. [Griffey interview first broadcast May 4, 2021]
https://www.aaup.org/article/new-deal-college-teachers-and-teaching

Apr 13, 2022 • 1h 13min
STAFF PICKS: Gary Brecher + Mark Ames / Syria's war + Rich creeps
Dan replays interviews with Gary Brecher (The War Nerd) and Mark Ames. [First broadcast Oct 20 2012 and April 30 2011]

Apr 12, 2022 • 59min
STAFF PICKS: Cassie Thornton / Peer-to-peer feminist care.
Lindsey replays artist Cassie Thornton explores the revolutionary potential of The Hologram - a peer-to-peer system of care between people as equals in an unequal society. [First broadcast August 4, 2020]

Apr 11, 2022 • 1h 8min
STAFF PICKS: Adofo Minka / Prison uprisings and self emancipation.
Chuck returns! Plus Producer Alex replays Assistant Public Defender Adofo Minka on prisoner uprisings in St. Louis and across the United States [First broadcast April 29, 2021]

Mar 2, 2022 • 1h 32min
Cryptocurrency Will Not Liberate Us / Hadas Thier
Writer and Activist Hadas Thier talks to Chuck about her Dollars & Sense Article "Cryptocurrency Will Not Liberate Us." Jeff Dorchen sees a phantom. Or was it a famine? Everyone wrestles with how to pronounce "paczki."
http://dollarsandsense.org/archives/2022/0122thier.html

Mar 2, 2022 • 1h 17min
On cannabis corporatization / Mary Jane Gibson
Writer Mary Jane Gibson on her article "Inside California's Cannabis Crisis" for Rolling Stone.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/california-weed-cannabis-crisis-emerald-triangle-1302545/


