Against the Grain – February 7, 2006
A conversation with Pacifica historian Matthew Lasar about his new book Uneasy Listening: Pacifica’s Civil War and the battle against the Pacifica National Board, which led to the shutdown of KPFA in 1999.
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 produced and hosted by Sasha Lilley.
Against the Grain – February 1, 2006
How do we measure the impact of humans on the planet? Justin Kitzes of the Global Footprint Network describes a useful tool called the Ecological Footprint.
Against the Grain – January 31, 2006
The film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room examines the rise and fall of the Enron, leading to one of the biggest corporate corruption scandals in US history and the current trial of former CEOs and friends of George W Bush, Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling.
Against the Grain – January 30, 2006
Just who is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, and why are leftists around the world looking to him for hope and inspiration? Michael McCaughan, a veteran Latin American correspondent, discusses Chavez, the subject of his book The Battle of Venezuela.
Against the Grain – January 25, 2006
A new film by Robert Greenwald, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, tells the real story of the corrosive effects that Wal-Mart wreaks upon workers and communities.
Against the Grain – January 24, 2006
Geographer Jared Diamond talks about why societies collapse.
Against the Grain – January 23, 2006
Radical scholar Mike Davis talks about the ecological and economic factors that could lead to a bird flu pandemic.
Against the Grain – January 18, 2006
Louise Erdrich spins lyrical, moving stories that interlock and interweave and focus mostly on Native Americans, mostly on the North Plains. In her new novel The Painted Drum, which explores themes of loss, connection and heroism, Erdrich inserts pointed references to racial and political concerns. (Encore presentation.)
Against the Grain – January 17, 2006
Women in Afghanistan have suffered unimaginable abuses. Has anything changed since the US invasion in late 2001? Sonali Kolhatkar, boardmember of the Afghan Women’s Mission, gave a recent talk about the current status of women’s rights in Afghanistan and the history of U.S. policy toward that nation.
Against the Grain – January 16, 2006
Nonviolence according to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi was not, of course, simply an absence of violence. The two men developed, in different locales and contexts, theories and practices of nonviolence explained by Clayborne Carson and Dennis Dalton.