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 – August 31, 2011
Immanuel Ness, co-editor of “Ours to Master and to Own: Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present,” talks with Sasha Lilley about the history and potentialities of workers’ councils.
Against the Grain – August 30, 2011
August Wilson wrote a 10-play, decade-by-decade exploration of the African American experience in the 20th century. Sandra Shannon discusses Wilson’s life and work. Kent Gash directs a production of Wilson’s play “Seven Guitars,” set in 1948.
Against the Grain – August 29, 2011
Ben Rawlence of Human Rights Watch has written a penetrating report about armed conflict, famine, and human rights abuses in Somalia. Also, Anna Deavere Smith talks about her new solo show “Let Me Down Easy.”
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – August 24, 2011
Steve Early, longtime former organizer for the Communications Workers of America, talks about the uphill battle labor faces, at Verizon and elsewhere, to hold the line in the face of anti-union actions.
Against the Grain – August 23, 2011
In troubled times like these, the political economist and activist David McNally is encouraged and inspired by recent experiments in radical democracy and participatory decision making in places like Cochabamba, Tunisia, and Egypt.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – August 17, 2011
Corey Robin, author of “Fear: The History of a Political Idea,” talks with Sasha Lilley about the ways that fear has been conceived by modern thinkers and the political uses to which it is put.
Against the Grain – August 16, 2011
Murali Balaji, author of “The Professor and the Pupil”, talks about the friendship and political evolution of radical African American giants W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson.
Against the Grain – August 15, 2011
Journalist Tina Gerhardt speaks with Sasha Lilley about nuclear power after Fukushima, in light of the decisions by Germany, Italy, and Switzerland, and potentially Japan, to phase it out.