Against the Grain

Going to Waste

Prodigious amounts of usable and edible waste are produced by commercial enterprises. They, and the capitalist system, try to keep that waste out of public view. Alex Barnard and Marie Mourad discuss the politics of waste and describe efforts, by freegans and Disco Soupe and others, to recover and reclaim and, in some cases, live … Continued


Democracy Now! (Rebroadcast)

Democracy Now – April 29, 2015

“You Can Replace Property, You Can’t Replace a Life”: Voices of the Unheard in the Baltimore Streets; Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Marks 100th Anniversary as War Rages on Worldwide; Japan Agrees to New Military Cooperation Plan with United States Despite Its Pacifist Constitution; From Police Violence to Boko Haram, African Activist Says … Continued


Democracy Now!

You Can Replace Property, You Can’t Replace a Life

“You Can Replace Property, You Can’t Replace a Life”: Voices of the Unheard in the Baltimore Streets; Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Marks 100th Anniversary as War Rages on Worldwide; Japan Agrees to New Military Cooperation Plan with United States Despite Its Pacifist Constitution; From Police Violence to Boko Haram, African Activist Says … Continued