Against the Grain

12.01.10 - 12:00pm

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Ruth Wilson Gilmore speaks about the prison industrial complex.

11.30.10 - 12:00pm

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They took over factories in Italy, fought neo-Nazis and the police to a standstill, militantly opposed nuclear proliferation, squatted large urban areas, and attempted to transform gender relations and the politics of everyday life. Radical scholar George Katsiaficas discusses the formidable European autonomist movements of the 1970s and ’80s.

11.29.10 - 12:00pm

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The meltdown of the US housing market is visible to anyone living in northern or central California, where foreclosed houses dot our urban, rural, and suburban landscapes. Journalist Alyssa Katz talks to Sasha Lilley about how the idea of owning one’s own house has been actively fostered by a government wanting to generate private economic … Continued

11.24.10 - 12:00pm

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11.23.10 - 12:00pm

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11.22.10 - 12:00pm

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Does buying fair trade products really help agricultural workers? Sarah Besky has done extensive fieldwork on tea plantations in Darjeeling, India.

11.15.10 - 12:00pm

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Resource economist Eugene Coyle and geographer David Harvey speak, respectively, about about cutting the work week and organizing ourselves for life after capitalism.

11.10.10 - 12:00pm

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Jodi Dean, a political scientist at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, discusses her new book “Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics.”

11.09.10 - 12:00pm

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11.08.10 - 12:00pm

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Mark Sawyer examines factors that inhibit Latino-Black collaboration, including anti-Black racism among many Latinos, African American parochialism, and narrow visions of racial/ethnic identity. He also identifies points of commonality and convergence.