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Tomorrow morning, This is Hell airs live beginning at
9 AM (central) on WNUR 89.3 FM and all over the rest
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This weekend, we're separating the church from the state,
we'll try to figure out 'The Cost of being Black,' we're going
back to Gaza, we're re-visiting the case of past This is Hell
guest Norman Finkelstien, and we'll find out why radio went
so far to the right.

Our guests will be:

- Jeremy Leaming will talk with us about his article, "Christian
Reconstructionists Are Trying to Take Dominion in America --
and They Have Powerful Friends." Jeremy is a communications
associate for Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

- Phil Mazzocco is co-author of "The Cost of Being Black: White
Americans' Perceptions and the Question of Reparations." Phil has
a PhD in Social Psychology. Phil's research at the Ohio State
University focuses on the factors that underlie racial attitudes,
and especially racial policy attitudes.

- we'll speak with writer Ramzy Baroud about his recent writing,
"The Palestinian Left: A Lost Opportunity," and "Finding Lessons in
Gaza's Bloodshed." Ramzy is a Palestinian-American author and
editor of PalestineChronicle.com. His latest book is "The Second
Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle."

- Linda Brayer is an Israeli human rights lawyer who represented
Palestinians in the Israeli High Court of Justice for twelve years.
Lynda wrote the Counterpunch piece, "Norman Finkelstein and the
Catholic Church." Norman was on our program back in 2005.

- research director S. Derek Turner will tell us about the study his
group, Free Press, has done with the Center for American Progress,
"The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio." The report shows
how the right wing's grip on the airwaves is because of a failed market,

not a cultural revolution.

And our irregular correspondents will be:

- Nicholas Hale reads his 'Fool Britannia' live from Bristol ...

- and Jeff Dorchen will deliver a Moment of Truth.

Drop by and meet the host and staff of This is Hell from
3 PM to 8 PM tomorrow, Saturday, at Cary's Lounge,
2251 West Devon, the official listening - and gathering -
center of This is Hell.

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for future guests, comments on our show, issues or stories you
would like to hear discussed, or events that you would like us
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