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This Day in Hell
This is Hell airs live, Saturday, March 18th, from 9 AM till 1 PM (US central time) on WNUR 89.3 FM Evanston/Chicago. We also are broadcast live online via WNUR's web site (
http://www.wnur.org) under the heading, "Listen Online." You can also listen to past shows in our Archives broadcast in several formats including our podcast.
This Saturday, we'll talk with the man who started Air America and we'll learn about this week's disastrous oil spill in Alaska and how the Senate opened up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling. We'll discuss the South Dakota abortion ban from a Native American women's health leader. In the wake of last Friday's 100,000 plus person march and rally for immigrants rights here in Chicago, we'll speak with an immigrants' rights activist. And we'll get you all pumped up for this weekend's antiwar marches by hearing from one of the few unembedded journalists who was in Iraq, followed by a live report from the antiwar protests in DC..
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This past Saturday's broadcast is now podcast online.
Last week, we talked about how $800 billion could be saved in the Medicare prescription plan, we learned how the neocons caused Iraq's sectarian violence, we were reminded of what a bad idea privatization is, and we went back in the voting booth to find the future of voting reform.
To listen to this week's show, already posted online, just go to our Archives.
Since 1999, This is Hell has been covering the problems with privatization, the misconceptions US foreign policy embraces when it comes to the Middle East, and the problems with our voting system. During the broadcast, we asked our listeners to email us and tell us what progress, if any, they have seen in the last seven years and what you - our listening audience - believe could be done to address these problems.
We've already heard from some of you freaks, and we'd love to hear from more of you. So drop us a line by emailing us here.
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The Events section is up-to-date, as of Friday, March 17th, with over 125 things to do.
The Headlines section now covers stories through Thursday night, March 16th . There's plenty of news in our Headlines that was not covered anywhere else, so check the last seven days of posted headlines to read all the news that will give you fits.
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NEXT LIVE BROADCAST: Saturday, March 18th, 2006
This Saturday's live four hour broadcast, beginning at 9 AM (central), will include interviews with ... * Sheldon Drobny is co-founder of Air America Radio and author of "Road to Air America: Breaking the Right Wing Stranglehold on Our Nation's Air Waves" (Select Books). This week, in response to George Clooney's HuffingtonPost piece, "I'm A Liberal. There I Said It," Sheldon wrote, "It's All About Money, Mr. Clooney," at the same web site.
* Pete Rafle, senior director for advocacy communications a The Wilderness Society, will tell us about this week's disastrous oil spill on Alaska's North Slope and a provision that was passed in last night's budget bill allowing for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
* Charon Asetoyer, founder and executive director of the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center, a grassroots women's health institute on the Yankton Dakota Reservation in South Dakota. An internationally recognized leader in women's health issues. On March 6th, South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signed into law a bill banning all abortion.
* Alheli Herrera, youth organizer at the Illinois Commission for Immigrant and Refugee Rights will tell us all about last week's protests that took over the street's of Chicago's West Loop last Friday, the notorious Sensenbrenner bill (HR 4437), and her work on the 'Dream Act' which will helps immigrants' children who have grown up in the US to become citizens.
* unembedded journalist Dahr Jamail returns to This is Hell. Dahr spent a total of eight months in occupied Iraq as one of only a few independent US journalists in-country.* and we'll wrap up the morning's show by speaking with a member of the DC Anti-War Network who will be on their way to the capital's huge antiwar protest that begins right when we go off the air at 1 PM (central).
Jeff Dorchen will deliver his Moment of Truth and around Noon, Elvis DeMorrow of the Oakland-based noise band No Doctors will tell us what's happening in his Konspiracy Korner.
Go ahead and email us any comments on our show, questions for our guests, suggestions for future guests, events you'd like us to post, or news stories you'd like to share with our listeners, by clicking here.