Saturday on This is Hell!
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9:15 - Journalist Jesse Eisinger examines the political consequences of business executive impunity.
Jesse is author of the new book The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives from Simon & Schuster.
10:05 - Valerie Vande Panne explores the time banks and informal economies of post-crash Detroit.
Valerie wrote the article Detroit’s Underground Economy:Where Capitalism Fails, Alternatives Take Root? for In These Times.
10:35 - Live from São Paulo, Brian Mier reports on the trial of former Brazil president Lula da Silva.
Brian will also report on squatting and striking in São Paulo, and the short doc he made covering organizing there this Spring.
11:05 - Writer Michael Deibert examines the quakes in Haiti's political and economic history.
Michael is author of the new book Haiti Will Not Perish: A Recent History from Zed Books.
12:05 - Julianne Tveten and Paul Blest explore the dark side of Silicon Valley's libertarian UBI business plan.
Julianne and Paul wrote the article Silicon Valley Will Not Save You for Current Affairs.
12:45 - In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen gets inapropriate about cultural appropriation.
Part of his ongoing series getting us yelled at online, I guess.