Against the Grain – June 12, 2006
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.
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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 – June 7, 2006
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.
Against the Grain – June 6, 2006
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.
Against the Grain – June 5, 2006
How would a socialist system operate, and in what ways would it be an improvement over what we have now? San Francisco State lecturer Ann Robertson addresses these questions, and discusses strategic and philosophical differences between Karl Marx and the prominent anarchist Mikhail Bakunin.
Against the Grain – May 31, 2006
How soon should US and other foreign troops leave Iraq? In his new book Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal, Anthony Arnove argues that the occupation should end immediately, and that nothing positive can result from a continued US presence in Iraq.
Against the Grain – May 30, 2006
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of one of the most important poems in US history — "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg. The poem set off a storm of controversy, leading to the arrest and eventual acquittal of City Lights Books publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and was famously aired on KPFA.
Against the Grain – May 24, 2006
C.S. talks with the maker of the documentary film "Arna’s Children," which recounts how a Jewish woman named Arna opened a theater group for Palestinian children in Jenin, and follows what happens as Arna’s students grow up to participate in the Palestinian resistance. The program also features comments by Mariam Shahin, the author of "Palestine: … Continued
Against the Grain – May 23, 2006
It’s been called history’s most important political document and it’s the second best-selling book in the world after the Bible. It’s The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, and it’s been rediscovered in recent years by Wall Street Bankers and radical activists alike. Phil Gasper, author of an annotated new version, talks … Continued
Against the Grain – May 22, 2006
John Vaillant talks about his book "The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed," which both recounts an extraordinary set of events in the wilds of British Columbia and tells the larger story of what humans have done to the world’s forests, and to the environment more generally.