Against the Grain – June 14, 2011
Leslie Martin, one of the scientists who analyzed data from a ground breaking 80 year study, discusses the project’s findings about what social and personal characteristics are associated with long lives.
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 – June 13, 2011
Jeffrey Webber, author of “From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia,” talks about how the government of Evo Morales and the Movement Toward Socialism, or MAS, has not lived up the radical promise of the upheaval that brought it to power.
Against the Grain – June 8, 2011
U.C. Berkeley professor Loic Wacquant describes the rise of the punitive state, the real functions of prisons (their purpose is not, he argues, to fight crime), and the relationship between penal policy and welfare/workfare policy. He also assails the notion of a Prison Industrial Complex as disconnected from reality.
Against the Grain – June 7, 2011
James Cockcroft’s new book “Mexico’s Revolution Then and Now” begins with the Revolution of 1910-1917 and culminates in a discussion of current-day struggles, both in Mexico and among immigrants in the US.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – June 6, 2011
Israeli historian Ilan Pappe talks about the dispossession of the Palestinian people through the creation of the state of Israel and how the “peace process” furthers that agenda.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – June 1, 2011
Investigative journalist Scott Carney speaks to Sasha Lilley about his book “The Red Market On the Trail of the World’s Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers.”
Against the Grain – May 31, 2011
The influential world-systems theorist Immanuel Wallerstein comments on the popular uprisings in the Arab world, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the current state of US power and global influence.
Against the Grain – May 24, 2011
John Muir Laws tells fascinating stories about the flora and fauna of the Bay Area; he’s written and illustrated a stunning set of pocket guides to the region’s many plant and animal species.