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Episode # 676 - December 10, 2010 [ 3:52:47 | 213.12 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1578)

Saturday, December 10, This is Hell! broadcast a live four hour show beginning at 9 AM (central) over-the-air on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live and podcast here.

Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed …

• Jeffrey D. Clements is the co-founder and general counsel of Free Speech for People, a national, nonpartisan campaign to overturn Citizens United and pass the People’s Rights Amendment. Jeff is a former assistant attorney general of Massachusetts. His latest book is, “Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do About It” (Berret-Koehler).

• live from Durban, political economist Patrick Bond is a professor in the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Patrick is head of the Centre for Civil Society in Durban. He is author and editor of the just-released books “Politics of Climate Justice” (UKZN Press) and “Durban’s Climate Gamble: Trading carbon, betting the earth” (UNISA Press). He’s also an adviser on the film “Carbon Markets, Trading Our Future.” He recently wrote the article, “The Politics of Durban: A Dirty Deal Coming Down in Durban.”

• live from Paris, Diana Johnstone was European editor of In These Times from 1979 to 1990, and continues to be a correspondent for the publication. Diana was press officer of the Green group in the European Parliament from 1990 to 1996. She is the author of the 2003 title, “Fools’ Crusade: Yugoslavia, Nato, and Western Delusions” (Monthly Review Press). Her most recent writing includes, “As the ‘Humanitarian Warriors’ Gloat … Here’s the Key Question in the Libyan War.”

• live from Montreal, Devlin Kuyek is a lead researcher and activist with GRAIN, a small international organization based in Barcelona, Spain that works with social movements around the world in defense of peasant agriculture and food sovereignty. Devlin is author of, “Good Crop/Bad Crop: Seed politics and the future of food in Canada” (Between the Lines). He is also a member of the steering committee of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network. This week, GRAIN won the Right Livelihood Award, often called the ‘alternative Nobel.’ GRAIN was recognized “for their worldwide work to protect the livelihoods and rights of farming communities and to expose the massive purchases of farmland in developing countries by foreign financial interests.”

Our irregular correspondents were …

• live from the hermetically sealed clean rooms at URL Labs, LaddieO.com gives a report on science and tech stuff …
• and live from Los Angeles, Jeff Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth.