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.
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.
A conversation with Frida Berrigan of the Arms Trade Resource Center about US military aid to Latin America and the proliferation of small arms.
A conversation with Steve Wasserman, former editor at the Los Angeles Times, of that paper’s transformation under pressure from its corporate owner.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
