Against the Grain – May 29, 2012
A discussion of the legendary San Francisco radical performance and art space, Komotion, with Robin Ballinger and Mat Callahan.

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 produced and hosted by Sasha Lilley.
A discussion of the legendary San Francisco radical performance and art space, Komotion, with Robin Ballinger and Mat Callahan.
Dean Baker discusses stimulus measures and “the need to get the dollar down”; Richard Wolff talks about the pattern of bailouts, government borrowing, deficits, and austerity.
The social critic and philosopher Richard Lichtman gave a presentation last Friday entitled “Cry the Corrupted Country: Reflections on the Psychopathology of Capitalism.”
In a recent public presentation, Richard Lichtman spoke about the rise of corporations, ruling-class ideology, and the incompatibility between capitalism and democracy.
A look at moments in radical social history, from Rosa Luxemburg and the German Revolution, to the environmental movement in the Bay Area.
Selma James on Unwaged Work; Peter Linebaugh on the Luddites
Litigator Michelle Alexander talks to Sasha Lilley about her book “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.”