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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 produced and hosted by Sasha Lilley.
It’s a madcap, brilliant, and wild film that nearly was lost to the proverbial dustbin of history. The Soviet Georgian film “My Grandmother,” directed by Kote Mikaberidze, lampooned Soviet bureaucracy and was banned a year after its release in 1929. Composer Beth Custer, archivist Steve Seid, and Andrei Khrenov, Russian film historian and nephew of … Continued
We know what the Left is against. But what should it be for? George Monbiot’s book Manifesto for a New World Order sets forth concrete proposals for moving forward; it also examines a number of debates within the Left
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Geographer Jared Diamond talks about why societies collapse.
Radical scholar Mike Davis talks about the ecological and economic factors that could lead to a bird flu pandemic.
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.)
