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Beautiful Day is a feel good, uplifting pop rock song that serves as a reminder to all of us that it is always possible to be optimistic.

Its a Beautiful Day

Its A Beautiful Day

Dorothy Roberts is an award-winning author and expert on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues concerning reproduction, bioethics, and child welfare. She is a professor of law and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Chuck Mertz interviews Roberts about her latest book, TORN APART: How the child welfare system destroys black families—and how abolition can build a safer world. 

TORN APART available Now at Basic Books https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/dorothy-roberts/torn-apart/9781541675445/

Family Policing Punishes Poor Families and Protects White Supremacy  / Dorothy Roberts

This song was inspired by gangster and florist Charles Dean O'Banion (shot dead in his flower shop on November 10, 1924) and the long defunct Chicago punk bar named after him.

Blood On The Roses (remix)

In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen thinks about what 400 years of capitalist domination over Black people in America has done to capitalism, Black people and America, and the owners, the cops, the plants and our own human nature.

Read the transcript here: https://thisishell.com/announcements/556

Moment of Truth: Fear of a Black Wilderness.

Historian Adam Goodman on his new book "The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants" from Princeton University Press.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691182155/the-deportation-machine

1191: Expulsion politics / Adam Goodman

Writer Connor Woodman on his Verso blog series "The Imperial Boomerang" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen wonders if we can pretend our way to justice.

1192: The imperial boomerang / Connor Woodman

Released on Linear Obsessional's free download label, my album The Terminal Beach was first conceived in the early 80's.  It is a personal story as much as an attempt to capture JG Ballard's short story.  

A man maroons himself upon a former nuclear test atoll in the Pacific.  The small landscape is festooned with concrete structures.  Lakes, bunkers and two thousand blocks.  Wrecked bombers and more structures than even Ballard gets time to write about.  A story written in the shadow of the cold war, it perfectly captured who and what I was in my early 20's.  Come with me here, and see the sights?

07 The dark, undersea organ

Writer Ben Ehrenreich on the value of life and time before the collapse, and his book "Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time" via Counterpoint Press, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen wants to sell you another improved fascism.

https://www.counterpointpress.com/dd-product/desert-notebooks/

1207: Time at the end of time / Ben Ehrenreich

Historian Gerald Horne explores the terrains of race, religion, capital and slavery across the 16th century trans-Atlantic world - as European powers pillaged Africa and the Americas of both people and resources, their destruction created the enduring formations of life in the 21st century - White supremacy and rapacious capitalism.

Gerald is author of the book The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century from Monthly Review Press.

https://monthlyreview.org/product/the-dawning-of-the-apocalypse/

Moment of Truth: Fear of a Black Wilderness.

This Is Hell!

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