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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.
Can climate change be reversed? If not, are humans doomed to extinction? Elizabeth Kolbert lays out the cold, hard facts in her new book "Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change." Kolbert’s book has been called "nothing less than a ‘Silent Spring’ for our time."
Has the biblical myth of the promised land influenced past and present notions of progress, technology, and the market? Activist and scholar David Noble thinks it has, to our great detriment. In his book "Beyond the Promised Land: The Movement and the Myth," Noble explains the mythological foundations of the Western imagination, and why need … Continued
Latin American Left Brazilian economist Matias Vernengo and Mexican scholar Claudio Albertani talk about the promise and reality of the economic policies of Latin American leftists like Brazil’s Inacio Lula da Silva and Mexican presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador. With host Sasha Lilley.
Tariq Ali’s Life and Times A conversation with radical public intellectual, author, and filmmaker Tariq Ali about his life and times. Ali discusses his recently re-issued memoir Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties, as well as the occupation of Iraq, with host Sasha Lilley.
Jeff Faux, author of "The Global Class War: How America’s Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future – and What It Will Take to Win It Back", talks to host Sasha Lilley about trade agreements that benefit only corporate investors.
In a world of low wage, decentralized work, in which union membership continues to decline and regulations and labor laws are ever-more eviscerated, what can such workers do who want to know their rights, organize themselves, and act collectively? Janice Fine and Patricia Loya discuss how worker centers provide one possible solution. With host Sasha … Continued
An outbreak of disease is one thing; how people and officials respond to it is another. What happens when poor indigenous people are blamed for an epidemic, as they were in Venezuela in the early 1990s? In his book Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling During a Medical Nightmare, Charles Briggs examines why … Continued
Aaron Glantz, author of "How America Lost Iraq," talks about the massacre by US troops of Iraqi civilians in Haditha is just the tip of the iceberg.
Forty years after the founding of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presents an exhibition of artworks and artifacts inspired by that movement. Curator Rene de Guzman, informal Party historian Bill Jennings, and two artists from the exhibition discuss their contributions to Black Panther Rank and File.
A look at the state of the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico and the Other Campaign/La Otra Campaña, which the Zapatistas have launched. With activists Mary Ann Tenuto Sanchez of the Chiapas Support Committee, just back from Chiapas, and Brooklyn-based organizer RJ Maccani.
