Against the Grain – April 4, 2012
Selma James argues that unwaged work is indispensable to capitalist production; she also discusses the relationship of gender to class.
Against the Grain
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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 produced and hosted by Sasha Lilley.
Against the Grain – April 3, 2012
Acclaimed poet Adrienne Rich, who died last week, discusses her childhood, poetry, race, and sexuality in this interview from 1983.
Against the Grain – April 2, 2012
The social historian Peter Linebaugh talks about the machine-breaking Luddites, the fencing off of the commons, and the radical message of Magna Carta.
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.