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Against the Grain

Against the Grain

12:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays - Wednesdays

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Acclaimed program of ideas, in-depth analysis, and commentary on a variety of matters—political, economic, social, and cultural—important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. Against the Grain is co-produced and co-hosted by Sasha Lilley and C. S. Soong.

Against the Grain

Against the Grain – February 12, 2013 at 12:00pm

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Against the Grain – February 11, 2013

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Medical anthropologist Marcia Inhorn discusses the return of many infertile Muslim and Arab couples to their countries of origin for treatment.


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Against the Grain – February 6, 2013

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Alexander Poster speaks about the political uses of US disaster aid.


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Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – February 5, 2013

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Marxist georgrapher David Harvey, author of “The Enigma of Capital,” speaks about capitalism, crisis, and urbanization.


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Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – February 4, 2013

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Historian of science Robert Proctor, author of “Golden Holocaust,” discusses why cigarettes may be the world’s deadliest invention in this encore presentation.


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Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – January 30, 2013

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Roderick A. Ferguson, professor of race and critical theory, explores how the demands of social movements for the inclusion of women and people of color in the academy were absorbed by universities, capital, and the state.


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Against the Grain – January 29, 2013

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Several highlights from the past year, including David Hawkes on money, Suzanne Guerlac on the “open society,” Eric Keenaghan on Emerson and “the common,” Julie Guthman on food politics, and Jessica Henry on “death-in-prison” sentences.


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Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – January 28, 2013

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Performance artist and poet Shailja Patel discusses the experience of migration and empire, as refracted through her own life and that of her family, Kenyans of South Asian descent.


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Against the Grain – January 23, 2013

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Koohan Paik describes this nation’s anti-China stance, its militarization of the Asia-Pacific region, and grassroots resistance in South Korea and beyond. Also, Part Two of an interview with Ron Glass about the Brazilian educator and thinker Paulo Freire.


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Against the Grain – January 22, 2013 at 12:00pm

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