Against the Grain – December 23, 2009
A look at the direct action movement to shut down coal production with Ted Nace, author of "Climate Hope: On the Front Lines of the Fight Against Coal", and guest host Ramsey Kanaan.
12:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays to 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.
A look at the direct action movement to shut down coal production with Ted Nace, author of "Climate Hope: On the Front Lines of the Fight Against Coal", and guest host Ramsey Kanaan.
Greg Grandin, author of "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City," speaks with host Sasha Lilley.
George Monbiot and activists Tadzio Mueller and Andre Pugsy speak about the politics and economics of global warming at the Klimaforum, the counter summit to the UN conference on climate change, in Copenhagen. With host Sasha Lilley.
Historian Cal Winslow talks about divergent approaches to labor organizing and what the union movement can learn from labor militancy in the 1970s. With guest host Ramsey Kanaan.
Kathleen Weaver, author of "Peruvian Rebel: The World of Magda Portal", talks with host Sasha Lilley about the pioneering poet, feminist, and revolutionary.
Timothy Brennan, author of "Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz", speaks about the liberatory potential of African-derived music with host Sasha Lilley.
In the new volume "Communities of Sense," David Joselit writes about class stratification in the suburbs, people's relationship to images, and ways in which collective life and civic engagement might be fostered.
Malalai Joya, one of the few women to be elected to the Afghan parliament, later expelled for her radicalism, speaks out against the US occupation of Afghanistan.