This Is Hell!

Civil Society and Community Studies scholar Jennifer Gaddis on the politics of school lunch programs in America, and her book “The Labor of Lunch Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools” from University of California Press.

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520300033/the-labor-of-lunch#about-author

Journalist Peter Ward on capitalism’s push to space, the future of exploitation, accumulation and the rest of us on planet Earth, and his book “The Consequential Frontier: Challenging the Privatization of Space” from Melville House.

https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/the-consequential-frontier/

PLUS: Chuck watches a newscast collapse time.

Historian Vincent Brown on the geopolitics of the transatlantic slave trade and its resistance movements, seeing our history (and our present) beyond borders, and his book “Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War” from Harvard University Press.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674737570

PLUS: Chuck reads the news you didn’t, and this week in Rotten History.

Sociologist Kari Marie Norgaard on her book "Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People: Colonialism, Nature, and Social Action" from Rutgers University Press. PLUS: In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen stops breathing in 2020.

https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/salmon-and-acorns-feed-our-people/9780813584195

Intercept journalist Sharon Lerner on the right's gutting of toxic chemical regulations and her article "The War on the War on Cancer"

https://gate.sc/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheintercept.com%2F2020%2F01%2F12%2Fcancer-trump-administration-epa-carcinogens-regulations%2F&token=54e575-1-1579738455154

Intercept journalist Sharon Lerner on the right's gutting of toxic chemical regulations and her article "The War on the War on Cancer"

https://theintercept.com/2020/01/12/cancer-trump-administration-epa-carcinogens-regulations/

Journalist Kim Baca reports on the work of a Native American coalition to build tribal food sovereignty. [Rebroadcast Interview] / PLUS: Chuck beefs with a Central Illinois letter to the editor writer, and this week in Rotten History.

Sociologist Adaner Usmani on his paper "The Economic Origins of Mass Incarceration" for Catalyst Journal.

https://catalyst-journal.com/vol3/no3/the-economic-origins-of-mass-incarceration

PLUS: Chuck can't get high after not talking about his show.

Historian Maria Ryan explores the rise of irregular warfare in the 21st century, and her book “Full Spectrum Dominance: Irregular Warfare and the War on Terror” from Stanford University Press.

https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27429

PLUS: Chuck wonders who the Clintons were triangulating with on immigration.

Journalist Daniel Denvir on the rise of anti-immigrant politics on the right and center, and his book "All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It" from Verso Books.

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2858-all-american-nativism

PLUS: Chuck visits the future, and this week in Rotten History.