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Against the Grain - June 28, 2006 at 12:00pm
Victor Navasky, longtime editor and publisher of "The Nation" magazine discusses the media, politics, and more...

Against the Grain - June 27, 2006 at 12:00pm
Elizabeth Kolbert: Can climate change be reversed?

Against the Grain - June 26, 2006 at 12:00pm
David Noble: Has the biblical myth of the promised land influenced notions of progress, technology, and the market?

Against the Grain - June 21, 2006 at 12:00pm
Matias Vernengo and Claudio Albertani on the policies of the Latin American left.

Against the Grain - June 20, 2006 at 12:00pm
A conversation with radical public intellectual, author, and filmmaker Tariq Ali.

Against the Grain - June 19, 2006 at 12:00pm
Jeff Faux on trade agreements that benefit only corporate investors.

Against the Grain - June 14, 2006 at 12:00pm
Organizing Immigrant Labor

Against the Grain - June 13, 2006 at 12:00pm
Charles Briggs: What happens when poor indigenous people are blamed for an epidemic, as they were in Venezuela in the early 1990s?

Against the Grain - June 12, 2006 at 12:00pm
Aaron Glantz, author of "How America Lost Iraq," talks about the massacre by US troops of Iraqi civilians in Haditha.

Against the Grain - June 7, 2006 at 12:00pm
40 years after the founding of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, Yerba Buena Center presents an exhibition of artworks inspired by that movement.

Against the Grain - June 6, 2006 at 12:00pm
A look at the state of the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico.

Against the Grain - June 5, 2006 at 12:00pm
SF State lecturer Ann Robertson: "How would a socialist system operate, and in what ways would it be an improvement over what we have now?"