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 – January 18, 2010 at 12:00pm
t was a cataclysmic event, the first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas. In 1791 brutally exploited slaves on a small Caribbean island rose up and eventually won emancipation. Their story, a legacy that has inspired and instructed people and nations for centuries, is told in Laurent Dubois’s Avengers of the New World.
Against the Grain – January 12, 2010
David Austin, editor of “You Don’t Play With Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James”, talks with host Sasha Lilley about the ideas and life of the Trinidadian historian, Marxist, playwright, cultural critic, and activist CLR James.
Against the Grain – January 11, 2010
Environmental historian Marco Armiero describes the tumultuous garbage struggles in Italy's polluted Campania region. The struggles, he asserts, are about corporate and state power, environmental justice, and popular resistance.
Against the Grain – January 6, 2010
In their new book "The Spirit Level," Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett contend that one common factor links the healthiest and happiest societies: the degree of equality in incomes among their members.
Against the Grain – January 5, 2010
Acclaimed Marxist geographer David Harvey speaks about the role of urbanization and cities under capitalism.
Against the Grain – January 4, 2010
Longtime labor organizer and journalist Steve Early, author of “Embedded with Organized Labor”, talks to guest host Ramsey Kanaan about how workers and the union movement are fairing under Obama.
Against the Grain – December 30, 2009
Terrorism is routinely condemned; should we try to understand it as well? Matthew Carr is author of "The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism."
Against the Grain – December 29, 2009
Debal Deb discusses his new book "Beyond Developmentality: Constructing Inclusive Freedom and Sustainability."