Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – September 27, 2011
Amy Sonnie and James Tracy reveal the little known story of poor and working class whites who organized themselves to demand social justice and oppose racism in the 1960s and 70s.
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 with Sasha Lilley – September 26, 2011
Timothy Brennan, author of “Secular Devotion,” talks about the politics of Neo-African music with Sasha Lilley.
Against the Grain – September 21, 2011
IT workers in India answer the calls of Western consumers seeking technical support. Radha Hegde examines what the new high-tech work environments are doing to gender relations, class distinctions, and cultural attitudes on the ground.
Against the Grain – September 20, 2011
Andrew Laties, author of “Rebel Bookseller,” talks about the life and death of the independent bookstore.
Against the Grain – September 19, 2011
The eminent radical historian and sociologist Robin Blackburn discusses his new book “An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln.”
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – September 14, 2011
Economic anthropologist and anarchist David Graeber speaks with Sasha Lilley about the politics of debt and how it conceals our social relations with each other.
Against the Grain – September 13, 2011
Jeff Conant dissects a highly touted policy that purports to address climate change by incentivizing the maintenance and protection of forests in the Global South.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – September 12, 2011
Richard Wolin, author of “The Wind from the East,” speaks to Sasha Lilley about the rise of Maoism following the upheavals of 1968 in France and its impact on the thinking of intellectuals like Sartre and Foucault.
Against the Grain – September 7, 2011
John Bowen calls recent condemnations of multiculturalism by European leaders misdirected and irresponsible. He also decries the targeting of European Muslims. And filmmaker Nicole Newnham considers the human costs of draconian US deportation policies.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – September 6, 2011
Noam Chomsky answers six questions about social change posed by writer John Berger, critic Chris Hedges, journalist Amira Hass, director Ken Loach, screenwriter Paul Laverty, and writer and poet Alice Walker.