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Against the Grain

Literacy, Power, Identity

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What happens when missionaries try to get indigenous people to read and write English? Sometimes what results is very different than what the missionaries intended. Laura Rademaker describes how members of an aboriginal community in Australia resisted and repurposed English literacies. (Encore presentation.) Tony Ballantine, Lachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla, eds., Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing … Continued

Letters and Politics

The Banda Islands Genocide, Western Imperialism and the Root of Our Ecological Crisis

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Guest: Amitav Ghosh is an award winning novelist and essayist. In 2007 he was awarded India’s highest civilian award the Padma Shri.  He is the author of several books including Ibis Trilogy (Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire), The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Gun Island, and his latest, The Nutmeg’s Curse: … Continued

UpFront

John Deere strikers vote down new contract; Twin Cities approve rent control but won’t abolish police; SFPD draining city coffers with civil rights violations; Facebook Papers on India; Methane commitments made at COP 26

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On today’s show: 0:08 – Jonah Furman (@JonahFurman), joins us again to discuss the John Deere strike and the second contract proposal by the corporation which UAW workers just voted to reject. 0:20 – Minneapolis and Saint Paul both voted yes on some of the strongest rent control legislation in the country. Margaret Kaplan (@margaretkaplan), … Continued