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Against the Grain

12:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays to Wednesdays

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Award-winning 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.

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Against the Grain – May 12, 2004

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Who would want to forget the largest worldwide protest mobilization ever? Not the creators of the volume 2/15, which records in photos and words the marches and protests on and around February 15, 2003. Three of the creators spoke with C.S.


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Against the Grain – May 11, 2004

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Pablo Neruda, the most widely-read political poet of our time, would have turned one hundred this year. Mark Eisner, editor of a new collection of Neruda’s poetry, and Neruda scholar Jaime Concha discuss the legendary Chilean’s poetry, politics, and humanity.


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Against the Grain – May 10, 2004

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Guardian columnist George Monbiot talks about his manifesto for taking on corporate globalization and institutions like the IMF and World Bank.


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Against the Grain – May 5, 2004

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What’s wrong with the left call to "just do something", regardless of whether much thought has been put into it? Liza Featherstone and Christian Parenti talk about what they term "activistism" and anti-intellectualism on the left.


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Against the Grain – May 4, 2004

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A conversation with Ruth Ozeki, whose latest novel All Over Creation is about genetic engineering, eco-activism, family dynamics, and reckoning with one’s past.


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Against the Grain – May 3, 2004

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Robert McChesney speaks about the political economy of the media and his new book The Problem of the Media.


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Against the Grain – April 27, 2004

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It was far from just a chess match. Cold War politics, clashing tempers, and bizarre convictions pervaded the 1972 Fischer-Spassky chess championship match in Iceland. David Edmonds and John Eidinow have written an investigative account of the turbulent showdown in Rejkavik entitled Bobby Fischer Goes to War.


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Against the Grain – April 26, 2004

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The whole world should have said, ‘Thank you, Ariel; now we have a chance to begin the construction of a peaceful Palestinian state’." That’s what George W. Bush said in support of Ariel Sharon’s "disengagement" proposal. Author Roane Carey dissects the plan that would deny the Palestinians the right of return and would make permanent … Continued


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Against the Grain – April 21, 2004

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KPFA premiere of "Under Attack: Arab, Muslim & South Asian Communities Since September 11th," plus a conversation about the Supreme Court’s deliberations on the imprisonment of "enemy combatants" in Guantanamo and an update on the situation of immigrants targeted by the Patriot Act.


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Against the Grain – April 20, 2004

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Brian Copeland talks about his one-man show "Not a Genuine Black Man" which deals with life in the early 1970s in racist San Leandro. Also, graphic artist Peter Kuper speaks about his new cartoon version of Kafka’s Metamorphosis.


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