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Against the Grain

12:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays to Wednesdays

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Award-winning 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 – April 28, 2009

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The influential thinker and sociologist Saskia Sassen talks about what she calls global cities; argues that it's too late to save the global financial system; and describes new landscapes of territory and power.  


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Against the Grain – April 27, 2009 at 1:00pm

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Against the Grain

Against the Grain – April 27, 2009

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Matthew Carr shares key insights from his book "The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism."


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Against the Grain – April 22, 2009

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U.C. Davis professor Clarence Walker talks about his new book "Mongrel Nation: The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings."  


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Against the Grain – April 21, 2009

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In his book "Moral Relativism," Steven Lukes asks whether we can, or should, abstain from judging other cultures' practices.  


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Against the Grain – April 20, 2009

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Nari Rhee talks about key factors that have shaped the political-economic development of the South Bay. And Robert Cherny and Catherine Powell discuss their new guide book to San Francisco labor landmarks.  


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Against the Grain – April 15, 2009

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On KPFA's 60th birthday, we present archived audio of two great dissidents: the writer and social activist James Baldwin, speaking in December 1964, and the Indonesian writer and long-time political prisoner Pramoedya Ananta Toer, being interviewed on KPFA in 1999.  


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Against the Grain – April 14, 2009

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Ian Buruma talks about his new novel "The China Lover." Also presented are portions of a talk given by Rachel Carson following the publication of her book "Silent Spring" in 1962.  


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Against the Grain – April 13, 2009

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Radhika Desai talks about the "new imperialism" of the 21st century and the usefulness of theories of imperialism forwarded during the early 20th century.  


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Against the Grain – April 8, 2009

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Adrian Burgos Jr. discusses the key roles played by Afro-Latinos in the racial integration of US baseball and the struggle against Jim Crow. And Octavio Solis talks about "Lydia," his new play about a Mexican immigrant family in El Paso in the 1970s.  


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