Saturday on This is Hell!
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9:10 - Sociologist Kristen Hopewell explains how Brazil, China and India pushed back against the World Trade Organization.
Kristen is author of Breaking the WTO: How Emerging Powers Disrupted the Neoliberal Project from Stanford University Press.
10:00 - Our Man in San Juan, Dave Buchen considers Zika and the inevitability of conspiracies.
Dave's already had Zika, but the conspiracy interest is new.
10:30 - Writer Nazmul Sultan explores a new dimension of Islamic State terror in Bangladesh.
Nazmul wrote the Jacobin article Terror and Politics in Bangladesh.
11:05 - Journalist Matt Kennard tours the parallel world of work and protest in Special Economic Zones.
Matt is co-author of the investigation Inside the Corporate Utopias Where Capitalism Rules and Labor Laws Don’t Apply for In These Times.
12:10 - Journalist Anjali Kamat profiles the Baltimore Uprising, and all that happened (and didn't) after.
Anjali wrote the chapter "The Baltimore Uprising" in the Verso Books collection Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter.