Saturday on This is Hell!
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9:20 - Anthropologist Jason Hickel traces a new, 500 year history of global inequality.
Jason is author of The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets from Norton Books.
10:05 - Live from São Paulo, Brian Mier reports on the strike wave sweeping Brazil.
Brian translated the recent articles Truckers’ strike: not perfect but demands are legitimate and Trucker Strike: Petrobras’ Dismantlement Leads Brazil to Chaos for Brasilwire.
10:35 - Journalist Victoria Law examines the dark business of immigrant detainee labor.
Victoria wrote the feature Investigation: Corporations Are Profiting From Immigrant Detainees’ Labor. Some Say It’s Slavery. for In These Times.
11:05 - Writers Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson connect Black resistance to the building of a new world.
Zoé and William are authors of As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation from AK Press.
12:05 - Anthropologist Kathryn Dudley finds death and dispossession on the American farm.
Kathryn wrote the article Traumas of Dispossesion for Jacobin.
12:45 - In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen snorkels around in a sea of lies.