Against the Grain – November 21, 2011
Robin D.G. Kelley discusses the ideas and legacy of Aime Cesaire, who took a radical anticolonial stance informed by his engagement with surrealism and Marxism. Cesaire also linked colonialism with fascism.
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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.
Robin D.G. Kelley discusses the ideas and legacy of Aime Cesaire, who took a radical anticolonial stance informed by his engagement with surrealism and Marxism. Cesaire also linked colonialism with fascism.
Indian writer and critic Arundhati Roy speaks with Sasha Lilley about armed struggle by Maoist tribal Naxalites against the Indian government, as well as Occupy Wall Street and anti-capitalism.
Martin Hart-Landsberg points out that free trade agreements, such as the one the US is poised to conclude with South Korea, are about much more than trade — they expand the power of big corporations and strip governments of their ability to regulate them.
Economic journalist Doug Henwood speaks with Sasha Lilley about the power of the owning class, American populism on the right and left, the problems with moving one’s money to small banks, and why the Federal Reserve isn’t the source of all economic evil.
As Todd Gitlin has recognized, anarchism is the reigning spirit of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Several guests weigh in on the core ideas and principles of anarchism, and Cindy Milstein describes anarchism on the ground, at Occupy Philly.
Sasha Lilley and Mitch Jeserich broadcast live from the Oakland general strike.
UC Davis professor Timothy Morton calls into question a host of ideas that undergird ecological thinking, including the taken-for-granted concept of “nature” and the holistic Gaian worldview.
Gifford Hartman, Cynthia Kaufman, and Eddie Yuen speak with Sasha Lilley about the 1946 Oakland general strike, the protest movements that are the antecedents of the Occupy Wall St movement, and what a general strike in Oakland might look like on Wednesday.
Geographer David Harvey talks about capital, crises, and organizing for life after capitalism.