In this 55 minute audio by U of Illinois scholar and activist Pauline Lippman, she explains how the bipartisan push to privatize education by starving existing public schools, introducing charter schools in the name of “choice” and destroying teacher unions is key to a radical re-fashioning of American society by our wealthy corporate elite, one that is disastrous for the rest of us, our communities and our children. Courtesy of KPFA's Against the Grain.
Against The Grain is a three times a week radio show on Berkeley's KPFK Radio.
Andrew Garber of the Brennan Center joins us to discuss a Georgia judge’s decision in favor of True the Vote, an organization whose mass challenges of voter eligibility limit the franchise,…
Most Martin Luther King birthday celebrations are tawdry displays of political cynicism and cooptation. The people must recapture the day from war criminals and their Black misleadership puppets
On the 220th anniversary of Haitian independence, we reprint the speech given at the first Solidarity Conference of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America by Haitian revolutionary, Paul…
The Democrats' rising star Gavin Newsom offers more of the same: Zionism and militarism.
"When I Grow Up" is the latest work from BAR's poet-in-residence.
