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LIVE BROADCAST: Saturday, February 5th, 2005
This Is Hell airs live every Saturday from 9 AM to 1 PM (US central time) on WNUR 89.3 FM Evanston/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."
This week's guests include:
* Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic Magazine (
http://www.skeptic.com/), executive director of the Skeptics Society, the host of the Skeptics Lecture Series at the California Institute of Technology, and author of "Science friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown" (Times Books).
* live from China, Jehangir Pocha, the Beijing-based correspondent for The Boston Globe, who also contributes to In These Times and several other publications. We'll be discussing Jehangir's recent work, including his piece in the January 31st issue of In These Times entitled, 'Axis of Oil' (
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1909/).
* Alan Simpson, Member of Parliament for Nottingham South in Britain's House of Commons. Alan will be on to discuss, among other things, his article, "The Problem of Power and Riches" (
http://people-link5.inch.com/pipermail/portside/Week-of-Mon-20050131/007202.html). He has published several books on racism, housing policy, inner-city policing, employment policy and Europe.
* Elena Sassower, coordinator Center for Judicial Accountability (
http://www.judgewatch.org/), will tell us about the work of her organization and the six-month sentence she recently served for 'disrupting Congress' while trying to testify at a judicial appointment hearing on Capitol Hill.
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