Against the Grain – April 18, 2006
Set in India and New York City, Kiran Desai’s extraordinary new novel "The Inheritance of Loss" explores issues of class and caste relations, the post-colonial mentality, and struggles for political autonomy.
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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 – April 17, 2006
The debate over immigration, even on the left, seems to be lacking in essential information about the economics of migration. Nigel Harris, professor of economics at University College London, and Mexican economist Julio Huato discuss migration, labor solidarity, and the complete removal of immigration controls.
Against the Grain – April 12, 2006
KPFA historian, Matthew Lasar talks about his latest book, Uneasy Listening: Pacifica Radio’s Civil War.
Against the Grain – April 11, 2006
What is the significance of the student-worker alliance that brought millions out into the streets of France to protest the government’s youth labor law? Rick Woolf talks about the activist victory against neoliberalism. And later Sydney Levy of Media Alliance discusses the concerns his orgaization has with the successful Google/ Earthlink bid to create a … Continued
Against the Grain – April 10, 2006
In his book "No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America," U.C. Berkeley professor Waldo Martin examines the role of black culture, including music, art and dance, in fueling and enriching the civil rights and Black Power movements.
Against the Grain – April 5, 2006
David Edmonds and John Eidinow have produced their second book about philosophers in conflict. In Rousseau’s Dog, they document the stormy falling-out between Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume. In their earlier Wittgenstein’s Poker, the bitter antagonists are Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper.
Against the Grain – April 4, 2006
A debate on the viability of the plant-based petroleum substitute ethanol, with scientists Alexander Farrell and Tad Patzek, as well as Nathaniel Greene from the Natural Resources Defense Council and Mike Ewall of the Energy Justice Network.
Against the Grain – April 3, 2006
Why did women involved in anarchist movements during the Spanish Civil War years of the 1930’s establish their own organization, called Mujeres Libres? Martha Ackelsberg discusses her book Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women.
Against the Grain – March 29, 2006
There’s a kind of war being waged on the US-Mexico border, and the victims are defenseless civilians. Jose Palafox connects the dots between border policy, corporate globalization, trade pacts, and anti-immigrant sentiment. Sanctuary movement co-founder John Fife describes efforts to prevent migrant deaths along the border.
Against the Grain – March 28, 2006
Acclaimed radical historian Robert Brenner talks about whether the invasion of Iraq can be explained as simply an act of imperialism within a long tradition or if it represents a substantive change from prior US foreign policy.