Against the Grain – May 19, 2014
Sharon Strand Ellison on the value and methods of non-defensive communication.

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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 co-produced and co-hosted by Sasha Lilley and C. S. Soong.
Sharon Strand Ellison on the value and methods of non-defensive communication.
The new documentary film Bringing It Home makes the case for industrial hemp and hemp food products.
Marxist geographer Richard Walker talks about the rise and contours of California.
In excerpts from a rare radio interview, French economist Thomas Piketty discusses his magisterial history of wealth inequality — which has been causing a sensation on both the left and right — arguing that barring war, revolution, and other exceptional circumstances, capitalism tends to concentrate wealth ever further.