Against the Grain – March 7, 2006
A celebration of the third anniversary of this program, with highlights and excerpts from some of the most provocative analysis and commentary presented on Against the Grain over the past year.
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 – March 6, 2006
It was a cataclysmic event, the first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas. Laurent Dubois has written a book about this stunning eighteenth-century challenge to the order of master/slave relations; he discusses Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution.
Against the Grain – March 1, 2006
Iraq veteran and conscientious objector Aidan Delgado, whose unit was stationed at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison outside of Baghdad, talks about why he opposes the US occupation.
Against the Grain – February 28, 2006
What happens when indigenous people become pawns in a US-sponsored war? Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz talks about the Miskitu Indians, the Contras, and the Sandinistas of Nicaragua, the focus of much of the third volume of her memoir, Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War.
Against the Grain – February 27, 2006
A conversation with Frida Berrigan of the Arms Trade Resource Center about US military aid to Latin America and the proliferation of small arms.
Against the Grain – February 22, 2006
A conversation with Steve Wasserman, former editor at the Los Angeles Times, of that paper’s transformation under pressure from its corporate owner.
Against the Grain – February 21, 2006
Heather Raffo is author of 9 Parts of Desire, a one-woman play at Berkeley Repertory Theatre based on Raffo’s interviews with a number of Iraqi women since 1993. Brian Conroy stars in the one-man show The Vegan Monologues, at The Marsh on Wednesday. And "George W. Bush" and "Dick Cheney" will make an appearance.
Against the Grain – February 20, 2006
A discussion about global warming and the viability of renewable energy with Dan Kammen, head of UC Berkeley’s Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, and John Galloway of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Against the Grain – February 15, 2006
Organizers often talk about connecting the dots. Apparently isolated injustices, they argue, are all manifestations of the same system. Authors of the book Towards Land, Work & Power discuss how the political-economic system we live in works, on both the global and local level, and what we can do about it.
Against the Grain – February 14, 2006
How does personal psychology, as a discipline, look upon social concerns and social activism? Terry Kupers, a psychiatrist and faculty member of the Wright Institute, discusses mental health in the context of radical activism.