This Is Hell!

Recent interviews on alternative economics.

Mary Mellor on reclaiming money for the public good [4:25]

Curtis White on resisting tomorrow’s robot economy. [41:04]

David Frayne on reclaiming productivity from work. [1:23:50]

Annie McClanahan on the promise of debt resistance. [2:04:47]

Kali Akuno and Ajamu Nangwaya on building a solidarity economy. [2:52:16]

Correspondent Karina Moreno explores the intersection of immigration policy and professional baseball. Karina co-wrote the article "Baseball, Latino America's pastime, faces new challenges in age of Trump" with Mike Elk for The Guardian. / In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen asks why the US took the Vietnam War as a problem-solving model.

Geographer Katharyne Mitchell explains how neoliberal schools manufacture compliant workers. Katharyne is author of "Making Workers: Radical Geographies of Education" from Pluto Press. PLUS: Question From Hell!

Organizer Janae Bonsu reports on the use and abuse of Chicago's massive Gang Database. Janae is the lead author of the report "Tracked & Targeted: Early Findings on Chicago’s Gang Database." / Writer Pearl Ahrens traces the boundaries between the French state and the free zone of ZAD. Pearl wrote the article A Free Zone Unlike Any Other for Salvage.

Consultation culture [20:58] / Against Chicago's gang database [1:02:02] / The non-state of ZAD [1:36:41] / Geographies of resistance [2:08:16] / Béisbol politics [3:11:39] / From Egypt to Sandy Hook [3:46:20]

Writer Liza Featherstone examines the role of focus groups, between capital and consumer. Liza is author of "Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation" from OR Books.

Policy researcher Stacy Mitchell examines the rise of Amazon's ascendant monopoly. Stacy Mitchell wrote the article "Amazon Doesn’t Just Want to Dominate the Market—It Wants to Become the Market" for The Nation. / In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen picks up after that lazy Dalai Lama.

Historian Annelise Orleck explains how a low-wage labor movement went global.

Annelise is author of "We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages" from Beacon Press.

Journalist Jaimee A. Swift connects Marielle Franco's murder to a history of gendered, racialized state violence. Jaimee wrote the article "Marielle Franco, Black Queer Women, and Police Violence in Brazil" for Black Perspectives. / Journalist Kim Baca reports on a Native American campaign towards food sovereignty. Kim wrote the article "A Native Coalition is Fighting for a Better 2018 Farm Bill" for In These Times.

The new state extremism [15:09] / The murder of Marielle Franco [1:02:00] / To Native food sovereignty [1:34:32] / The low-wage labor movement [2:05:50] / Amazon is the market [3:06:09] / Dalai Lemma [3:45:57]