This Saturday, September 6th, we return with our regular live unedited and completely uninterrupted four hour broadcast of This is Hell! beginning at 9 AM (central) on WNUR 89.3 FM Chicago, and streaming live around the world at http://www.wnur.org. Every show is podcast, just visit our Archives.

Our guests include Mark Weisbrot discusses "Oil Drilling In Environmentally Sensitive Areas: The Role of the Media"; Matt Kennard on neo-Nazis and white supremacists in the US military; Jessica Montell tells us about human rights abuses in the Occupied Territories; Alaskan reporter Gregg Erickson gives us some background on Sarah Palin; on top of all that, we have Counterpunch's Alexander Cockburn.

Read more about this week's guest and irregular correspondents by scrolling down to This Saturday.

Also this Saturday, September 6th, WE'RE BACK AT CARY'S LOUNGE - 2251 West Devon - for a meet & greet with our listeners from 4 PM to 8 PM. Drop by and meet your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz, plus other staff and listeners of This is Hell!

This week's QUESTION FROM HELL! for our listeners is ... "what are you gay for?"

In the spirit of African-Americans attempt at re-claiming the ‘n’ word; in the spirit of the disabled who are trying to reclaim the word retarded - at least that’s what E. Brown, president of the National Alliance of the Disabled told us some nine years ago - we will now try and re-claim the word ‘gay’ from those who use it as a derogatory term meaning overly effeminate. Instead, we hope to re-claim 'gay' to mean an expression of passionate love. A love that some, sadly, in our society may disapprove.
So, 'what are you gay for?'
Send your responses by Noon Saturday, to thisishell@wnur.org and we’ll read at least a portion on the air.

Sunday, September 7th, This is Hell! irregular correspondent John K. Wilson (http://www.obamapolitics.com) discusses his book "Barack Obama: The Improbable Quest" on C-SPAN2's 'Book TV' from 11 AM till 12:30 PM.
This program repeats at 11 PM.
For more information on John's work, visit http://www.collegefreedom.org.

We've finally updated the Events calendar!

There's plenty of stuff to do including events featuring past This is Hell guests Steven Kinzer, Dave Zirin, Paul Street, Tom Frank, Bill Fletcher, David Moberg, and Naomi Klein.

And featuring organizations featured on This is Hell! like Labor Notes, Iraq Veterans Against the War, In These Times and the Center for Neighborhood Technology.

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Podcasters! our last show is online right now. Listen by clicking here. And if you want to listen in regular MP3, just click here.

On our last podcast, Phil Butler, a decorated US Air Force pilot and former Vietnam POW, told us why he won't be voting for John McCain.

Feel free to peruse our vast vault of past Hell podcasts by clicking on Archives.

The devolution will not be televised, it will be podcast every Saturday right after the show.

'Radical Pessimist' Kevan Harris, one of This is Hell's irregular correspondents, has a blog on his travels this summer in the Middle East, including a recent stay in Iran. You can read it at http://www.nodoctors.com.

Producer Drew Colglazier is blogging at http://milliondollarhandshake.blogspot.com.

Producer Laura Mayer is audio blogging at http://www.lauramayer.com.

And another irregular correspondent Nicholas Hale, who hosts the Fool Britannia segment, has a blog at http://foolbrit.blog.co.uk.

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This is Hell! broadcasts live this Saturday beginning at 9 AM (US central). You can also hear us live online via WNUR's web site (http://www.wnur.org) under the heading, "Listen Online."

Our guests this Saturday will be:

• Mark Weisbrot, co-director at the Center for Economic Policy Research, who has just co-authored a report entitled, "Oil Drilling In Environmentally Sensitive Areas: The Role of the Media."
• Matt Kennard is a writer who, while studying for his Master's in Investigative Journalism at Columbia University in New York. looked into the increasingly liberal attitude of the US military to allow neo-Nazis and white supremacists to serve in the armed forces.
  Read Matt's work at http://nazisinthemilitary.com/
• Jessica Montell, executive director of B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. Jessica will discuss her group's work on human rights and their "Shooting Back" project.
  Here's how B'Tselem describes the project: "In January 2007, B'Tselem launched "Shooting Back", a video advocacy project focusing on the Occupied Territories. We provide Palestinians living in high-conflict areas with video cameras, with the goal of bringing the reality of their lives under occupation to the attention of the Israeli and international public, exposing and seeking redress for violations of human rights."
• author Alexander Cockburn of Counterpunch.
• as a reporter, Gregg Erickson (http://www.ericksoneconomics.com) has covered Sarah Palin for over 20 months. Gregg is an independent economic consultant serving clients in "government, business and the legal profession." He is also editor-at-large and reporter for the Alaska Budget Report, a newsletter covering the state's the state budget, economy and government. And Gregg's a columnist for the Anchorage Daily News and the Juneau Empire.

And our irregular correspondents will be:

• Jeff Dorchen will deliver a Moment of Truth ...
• Danny Muller will tell us what he saw at the two party conventions ...
• and Elvis DeMorrow finds John McCain in the Konspiracy Korner.

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