Against the Grain – March 15, 2011
Gary Rivlin is the author of “Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. — How the Working Poor Became Big Business.”
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 14, 2011
Labor journalist and organizer Steve Early talks to Sasha Lilley about rank and file labor struggles in Wisconsin. And he considers the trajectory of Sixties activists in unions, from radicalism to bureaucratism, and the cost of the US occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan to workers in this country.
Against the Grain – March 9, 2011
Don Lattin, author of “The Harvard Psychedelic Club,” talks about how the lives of Timothy Leary, Huston Smith, Ram Dass, and Andrew Weil intersected in the 1960s. (First-time presentation of the full-length interview.)
Against the Grain – March 8, 2011
Feminist historian Sheila Rowbotham talks to Sasha Lilley about the utopian socialists, free love advocates, birth control campaigners, and trade unionists who transformed the status of women at the turn of the last century.
Against the Grain – March 7, 2011
Robert Meeropol, son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, talks about WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, and US law on espionage and conspiracy.
Against the Grain – March 2, 2011
Sasha Lilley discusses her new volume of collected interviews about political economy and left resistance; it’s entitled “Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult.”
Against the Grain – March 1, 2011
Who or what prophesied the end of the world in 2012? Does such a prophecy even exist? John Major Jenkins is the author of “The 2012 Story: The Myths, Fallacies, and Truth Behind the Most Intriguing Date in History.”
Against the Grain – February 22, 2011
Noam Chomsky discusses conspiracy theories, Betsy Hartmann talks about whether overpopulation is the cause of environmental destruction, and Raj Patel weighs in on the commons