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Against the Grain

Against the Grain

12:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays - Wednesdays

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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

Against tha Grain – November 25, 2009

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Ashraf Cassiem, a leader of the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign, talks about their work in South Africa fighting the eviction of shack dwellers, water cut-offs, and police brutality under the ANC government.  


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Against the Grain – November 24, 2009

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In "Tiny Kushner," a set of five one-act plays, Tony Kushner offers a number of ruminations on the value of psychotherapy, the relationship of ideas to suffering, and the uses of Dostoevsky. And playwright Charlie Varon has a new passion: audio collages.  


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Against the Grain – November 23, 2009

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Noam Chomsky talks with host Sasha Lilley about anarchism, the state, science and the Enlightenment.  


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Against the Grain – November 18, 2009

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Radical philosopher Simon Critchley talks with guest host Andrej Grubacic about neo-anarchism, Obama, and political mobilizations on the right and left.  


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Against the Grain – November 11, 2009

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Cari Carpenter finds in Sarah Winnemucca's book "Life Among the Piutes" both an alternative origin story of the US and a direct challenge to the myth of the vanishing Indian. Also, Andrea Smith talks about the role of indigenous ideas in anti-violence movement theorizing.  


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Against the Grain – November 10, 2009

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Greg Grandin, author of Empire's Workshop, talks about neoconservatism's roots in the US interventions in Central America in the 1980s.  With host Sasha Lilley.  


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Against the Grain – November 9, 2009

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Rebecca Smith is coauthor of a new report about the impact of US immigration enforcement on workers' rights. And Amy Bach asks whether Joe Sullivan, sentenced as a 13-year-old to life without parole, got a fair trial.  


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Against the Grain – November 4, 2009 at 12:00pm

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Against the Grain – November 3, 2009

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In his new book "Why I Am Not a Scientist," the anthropologist Jonathan Marks confronts "genohype" — the trumpeting of the power of genetics to explain human attributes and behavior.  


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Against the Grain – November 2, 2009

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Acclaimed science fiction writer Terry Bisson talks about the 150th anniversary of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, as well as his own radical activism and imprisonment.  And celebrated novelist Paco Ignacio Taibo II speaks about the dark years following the 1968 massacre of student protestors in Mexico City.  


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