Against the Grain – December 19, 2007
Environmental justice activist Azibuike Akaba asks whether New Orleans should be rebuilt. And ethnic studies professor Dylan Rodriguez explores the meaning of "disaster" in the context of white racial dominance.
Against the Grain
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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.
Against the Grain – December 18, 2007
Political scientist Stephen Zunes discusses Hillary Clinton’s positions on Iraq, militarism, and international law. And labor scholar Stephanie Luce describes what’s happened to working-class women in recent years.
Against the Grain – December 17, 2007
Glenn Switkes and Aviva Imhof of International Rivers discuss Brazilian government plans to build dams on the Madeira River, the Amazon’s most important tributary. And acclaimed novelist and British leftist China Miéville shares his thoughts about libertarian seasteading; he also describes recent proposals for floating utopias.
Against the Grain – December 12, 2007
Veteran scholar, author and activist Stanley Aronowitz discusses his latest book "Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future."
Against the Grain – December 11, 2007
Landscapes of wealth and geographies of exclusion in this turbo-capitalist era are explored in the book "Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism." Jon Wiener examines the environmental record of Ted Turner, this nation’s largest landowner. Rebecca Schoenkopf sounds off about Orange County’s politics and its affluent youth. And Sara Lipton explains how monastic retreats echo and … Continued