Against the Grain
12:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays - Wednesdays
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 – December 12, 2011
Historian Iain Boal talks about the history of struggles to reclaim public space and the commons–from the Diggers to occupiers in Athens–as activists attempt to shut down the West Coast ports.
Against the Grain – December 7, 2011
Philosopher of science Sandra Harding calls into question Western exceptionalism and triumphalism in the areas of science and technology.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – December 6, 2011
Former farm worker Frank Bardacke, author of “Trampling Out the Vintage: César Chávez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers,” speaks with Sasha Lilley about the rise and fall of the UFW, and the militancy of laborers who had a sense of their own power. The United Farm Workers Was More Than Cesar … Continued
Against the Grain – December 5, 2011
In “River of Shadows,” Rebecca Solnit combines a biography of the groundbreaking photographer Eadweard Muybridge with a larger story about the advent of modern technology and the radical transformations it wrought on human consciousness and whole societies.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – November 30, 2011
Sean Burns talks about the late labor historian and folklorist Archie Green, who was shaped by work and militant struggle on San Francisco’s docks.
Against the Grain – November 29, 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein describes the French Revolution’s enormous impact on the development, to the present day, of both radical and liberal ideology and action.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – November 28, 2011
Political scientist Corey Robin, author of “The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin,” speaks with Sasha Lilley about how the left misunderstands conservatism–to its detriment.
Against the Grain – November 23, 2011
James Russell describes the ideological forces behind the promotion of 401(k) plans, and charts the rise of what he calls a retirement industrial complex.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – November 22, 2011
WIlliam Adler speaks with Sasha Lilley about the life of Joe Hill — troubadour for the Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies — and the mystery surrounding the murder for which he was accused and executed in 1915.