Against the Grain – January 25, 2006
A new film by Robert Greenwald, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, tells the real story of the corrosive effects that Wal-Mart wreaks upon workers and communities.
Against the Grain
12:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays to Wednesdays
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 – January 24, 2006
Geographer Jared Diamond talks about why societies collapse.
Against the Grain – January 23, 2006
Radical scholar Mike Davis talks about the ecological and economic factors that could lead to a bird flu pandemic.
Against the Grain – January 18, 2006
Louise Erdrich spins lyrical, moving stories that interlock and interweave and focus mostly on Native Americans, mostly on the North Plains. In her new novel The Painted Drum, which explores themes of loss, connection and heroism, Erdrich inserts pointed references to racial and political concerns. (Encore presentation.)
Against the Grain – January 17, 2006
Women in Afghanistan have suffered unimaginable abuses. Has anything changed since the US invasion in late 2001? Sonali Kolhatkar, boardmember of the Afghan Women’s Mission, gave a recent talk about the current status of women’s rights in Afghanistan and the history of U.S. policy toward that nation.
Against the Grain – January 16, 2006
Nonviolence according to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi was not, of course, simply an absence of violence. The two men developed, in different locales and contexts, theories and practices of nonviolence explained by Clayborne Carson and Dennis Dalton.
Against the Grain – January 4, 2006
A look at the election as president of Bolivia of indigenous leftist leader Evo Morales and the obstacles that he may face, with Larry Birns of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs and journalist Daphne Eviatar.
Against the Grain – January 3, 2006
Has the US become a fascist state? Henry Giroux is author of a new book entitled Against the New Authoritarianism.
Against the Grain – January 2, 2006
Deeply engaged with issues of race, culture and identity, the award-winning writer Charles Johnson is a philosopher by training. His latest book, a collection of short stories, touches upon more than a few questions about life’s meaning, social justice, and navigating difference. (Encore presentation.)
Against the Grain – December 28, 2005
Host Sasha Lilley speaks with Lila Rajiva, author of The Language of Empire: Abu Ghraib and the American Media, about US torture of prisoners in Iraq, Guantanamo, and elsewhere under the guise of the "war on terror".