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 – Nato Thompson and Debra Lynn Bassett
Nato Thompson talks about his new book "Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism." And Debra Lynn Bassett talks about how and why rural lives and conditions tend to get ignored by policymakers.
Against the Grain – March 9, 2009
In her new book "Screening Sex," U.C. Berkeley professor Linda Williams describes how and why the depiction of sexual themes and activities in American films has changed and developed over time.
Against the Grain – “The Threat of Race: Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism”
In his new book "The Threat of Race: Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism," David Theo Goldberg examines how race is mobilized politically and how racism operates in today's world.
Against the Grain – March 3, 2009
Koohan Paik and Jerry Mander's new book is "The Superferry Chronicles: Hawaii's Uprising Against Militarism, Commercialism and the Desecration of the Earth."
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Jeremy Brecher and Tim Costello discuss the nature of the ongoing economic crisis, the solution-generating potential of people's movements, and the status of labor in China.
Against the Grain – February 25, 2009
Rory Cox talks about the perils of importing liquefied natural gas into California. And Lester Rowntree explains how global warming is affecting, and will affect, the Bay Area.
Against the Grain – The Stoics on Achieving Tranquility
In this first-time airing of C.S. Soong's full-length interview with William Irvine, the Wright State philosophy professor talks about his book "A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy."
Against the Grain – February 23, 2009 at 12:00pm
Gretchen Gordon describes Bolivian peoples' resistance to efforts by foreign energy companies, often abetted by Bolivian governments, to control that nation's oil and natural gas resources. And George Packer's play "Betrayed" portrays the plight of three Iraqis who accept jobs with the US occupiers.
Against the Grain – February 18, 2009
A encore broadcast of the special program Capitalism and Its Discontents, looking at recent strikes in France, the World Social Forum in Brazil with Andrej Grubacic, and a look at finance capital and the economic crisis with Richard Walker. Hosted by Sasha Lilley.