Saturday lineup for 'This is Hell' looks promising

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from their website:

NEXT LIVE BROADCAST: Saturday, December 18th, 2004

This Is Hell airs live every Saturday from 9 AM to 1 PM (US central time) on WNUR 89.3 FM in Chicago, and live all over the rest of the world via RealPlayer and Windows Media Player. Just go to WNUR's web site (http://www.wnur.org) and click on either the RealAudio or Windowsmedia button found just beneath the heading, "Listen Online."

* Robert Jensen (http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/home.htm) returns to This is Hell for the first time since September 2001. Bob is a professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of "Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity" (City Lights Books) and is a member of the Nowar Collective (http://www.nowarcollective.com/) and the Third Coast Activist Resource Center (http://thirdcoastactivist.org/). Bob's most recent article is entitled, "Defeat for an empire," and appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1209-26.htm).

* live from Cochabamba, Bolivia, the Democracy Center's (http://democracyctr.org/) Jim Shultz will get us caught up on the ongoing struggle against privatization there. This week, the Center launched an e-campaign in support of Bechtel dropping their $25 million lawsuit against the people of Bolivia. Sign on to the campaign's petition by visiting their site.

* Mother Jones' writer Michael Scherer beat the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times to stories on US funds going to air cargo companies tied to a notorious Russian arms trafficker (http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2004/09/09_413.html), US corporations using Native American companies as fronts to secure no-bid contracts (http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/notebook/2004/11/11_400.html), and the resignation of a top Defense Department official who tried to steer Iraq wireless communication contracts to associates (http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/09/09_801.html).

* Patrick Doherty, associate editor and 'Quo Vadis' columnist at TomPaine.com (http://www.tompaine.com). In his Thursday, December 16th column "Popularity Or Progress?" (http://www.tompaine.com/articles/quo_vadis_popularity_or_progress.php), Patrick "proposes an alternative 'big idea' around which Dems - and liberals more broadly - could rally."


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1. gotta get some sleep ... kick