Against the Grain – May 7, 2012
Richard Lichtman explains what Karl Marx meant when he used the term “alienation” to describe the condition and consciousness of workers under capitalism.
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 produced and hosted by Sasha Lilley.
Against the Grain – May 2, 2012
A new documentary features previously unseen footage of Stokeley Carmichael, Angela Davis, and other African American militants, and commentary by Robin DG Kelley, Talib Kweli, Harry Belafonte, Kathleen Cleaver, and Erykah Badu about the trajectory of black struggles from the late 1960s to the 70s.
Against the Grain – May 1, 2012
Sasha Lilley and Mitch Jeserich host live coverage of International Workers’ Day from downtown Oakland.
Against the Grain – April 30, 2012
According to U.C. Berkeley professor Margaret Weir, long-held assumptions about poverty and inequality in US metropolitan areas no longer hold up. Weir describes how the social and political geography of poverty has shifted in recent years.
Against the Grain – April 25, 2012
Mexico-based journalist John Gibler talks about the the political economy of the US-Mexico drug trade.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – April 24, 2012
Joey Cain, guest curator of an exhibition at the San Francisco Public Library, talks to Sasha Lilley about the life of Harry Hay, the communist father of the gay liberation movement.
Against the Grain – April 23, 2012
Nancy Cohen, author of Delirium, argues that the backlash to the sexual revolution has fueled American politics for over three decades.
Against the Grain – April 18, 2012
The lives of recent immigrants, notes UC Berkeley’s Leti Volpp, are often framed as a battle between “tradition” and “modernity.” But blaming, for example, interpersonal violence in immigrant communities on regressive non-Western cultures is deeply problematic.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – April 17, 2012
Translator and biographer Richard Greeman talks about the writer and revolutionary Victor Serge–from his anarchist youth in France, his involvement with the Bolshevik Revolution, his imprisonment in Stalin’s gulag, and his dissident Marxism in the darkest days of the 20th century.
Against the Grain – April 16, 2012
Notre Dame economist David Ruccio shares his perspective on the economic crisis, income inequalities, corporate taxation, the focus on deficits, austerity in Greece, and more.