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 with Sasha Lilley – March 27, 2012
Sarah Schulman, author of “The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination,” talks to Sasha Lilley about the political consequences of AIDS, including facilitating massive gentrification.
Against the Grain – March 26, 2012
Angela Davis and Grace Lee Boggs share their thoughts about revolution — what it requires, what it ought to encompass. And Daniel Rasmussen discusses his book “American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt.”
Against the Grain – March 21, 2012
Loic Wacquant reveals what’s behind the unprecedented boom in incarceration; he also confronts the notion of a prison-industrial complex.
Against the Grain – March 20, 2012
Two movement elders, Grace Lee Boggs and Angela Davis, recently shared the stage in Berkeley. And in Alex Gilvarry’s debut novel, a Filipino immigrant to the US ends up in Guantanamo.
Against the Grain – March 19, 2012
Gary Rivlin is the author of “Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. — How the Working Poor Became Big Business.”
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – March 14, 2012
Scholar and medical doctor Robert Aronowitz has written a social history of breast cancer, “Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society.” He talks to Sasha Lilley about how the tremendous fear of the disease has changed over time — and how the push for ever more screening has increased fear without necessarily reducing cancer deaths.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – March 12, 2012
Anthropologist Gerald Creed, editor of “The Seductions of Community, speaks with Sasha Lilley about what might be wrong with the notion of “community” and the uses the term is put to.
Against the Grain – March 7, 2012
Money, according to David Hawkes, is a symbol of human labor power. Understanding that symbol, and our belief in it, is key to grasping the ideological underpinnings of two activities that dominate today’s world: lending and finance.