Against the Grain is a radio and web media project whose aim is to provide 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-hosted and co-produced by Sasha Lilley and C.S. Soong.

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Against the Grain - August 31, 2009 at 12:00pm
U.C. Santa Barbara sociologist Avery Gordon discusses the value of utopianism to leftist projects.

Against the Grain - August 26, 2009 at 12:00pm
U.C. Santa Cruz professor Dana Frank comments on the recent coup in Honduras and its aftermath, and also talks about her book "Local Girl Makes History: Exploring Northern California's Kitsch Monuments."

Against the Grain - August 25, 2009 at 12:00pm
Susan Crate and Kate Watters have written about several environmental justice struggles in the new volume "Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Former Soviet Union."

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