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 – December 14, 2009 at 12:00pm
Historian Cal Winslow talks about divergent approaches to labor organizing and what the union movement can learn from labor militancy in the 1970s. With guest host Ramsey Kanaan.
Against the Grain – December 9, 2009
Kathleen Weaver, author of "Peruvian Rebel: The World of Magda Portal", talks with host Sasha Lilley about the pioneering poet, feminist, and revolutionary.
Against the Grain – December 8, 2009
Timothy Brennan, author of "Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz", speaks about the liberatory potential of African-derived music with host Sasha Lilley.
Against the Grain – December 7, 2009
In the new volume "Communities of Sense," David Joselit writes about class stratification in the suburbs, people's relationship to images, and ways in which collective life and civic engagement might be fostered.
Against the Grain – December 1, 2009
Malalai Joya, one of the few women to be elected to the Afghan parliament, later expelled for her radicalism, speaks out against the US occupation of Afghanistan.
Against the Grain – November 30, 2009
The British historian Peter Clarke discusses his new book "Keynes: The Rise, Fall, and Return of the 20th Century's Most Influential Economist."
Against tha Grain – November 25, 2009
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.
Against the Grain – November 24, 2009
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.