Sasha Lilley

Sasha Lilley born 1975 is an English-born radio host, writer and journalist based in Oakland, California.

Career

Lilley is the editor of Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult, published by PM Press.[1] Lilley is a contributor to the Turbulence Collective's What Would it Mean to Win?, a collection of debates about the direction of the Global Justice Movement, published by PM Press.[2] She is the series editor of the political economy imprint Spectre.[3]

Lilley is a co-founder and host of the Pacifica Radio program Against the Grain.[4] From 2007-2009, she was the interim program director at KPFA. She directed Pacifica Radio’s coverage of the Winter Soldier hearings in Silver Spring, Maryland,[5] launched the War Comes Home,[6] about the human costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan occupations, curated the multimedia project “1968: The Year that Shook the World” commemorating 1968 with archival audio from the Pacifica Radio Archives, and launched the multimedia collaboration “Afghanistan 2008: Seven Years After the Taliban”.[7]

She has overseen national broadcasts,[8] including on torture under the Bush Administration,[9] the testimonials of survivors of Hurricane Katrina, and on the global financial crisis.[10]

Lilley was an editor, staff writer, and researcher at CorpWatch, reporting on the World Bank, labor struggles, and agribusiness.[11]

She has worked as an academic researcher and investigative journalist, including into US contracts in Iraq[12] following the American-led invasion.[13]

Personal

Lilley is married to PM Press and AK Press founder Ramsey Kanaan.

Books
  • Lilley, Sasha. Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult PM Press, 2011.
  • Turbulence Collective (ed.) What Would it Mean to Win? PM Press, 2010.
  • Lilley, Sasha, et al., Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth PM Press, 2012.

Misc
  • Lilley, Sasha. Theory and Practice: Conversations with Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn (DVD) PM Press, 2010.
gollark: So do I really *have* two books now?
gollark: I mean, see, in theory I had *two* books on amateur radio. But I can't find one of them now, and it may not even exist, while I know where one of them is.
gollark: So do you really *have* an antihaskell rap?
gollark: ++delete the antihaskell rap of the evil <@319753218592866315>
gollark: ~play haskell tutorial

References
  1. Lilley, S. "Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult" PM Press, 2011
  2. Turbulence Collective, "Move into the Light" PM Press, 2008
  3. PM Press, "Sasha Lilley"
  4. Golden Reel Nomination, Sasha Lilley and CS Soong “What’s Wrong with Tolerance?”
  5. Project Censored, Winter Soldier 2008: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations
  6. CounterSpin, "Sasha Lilley on The War Comes Home" 14 November 2008
  7. Common Dreams, "CorpWatch and KPFA Radio Launch 'Afghanistan 2008: Seven Years After the Taliban' Multimedia Project Collaboration.
  8. Bruce Brugmann, "God Bless KPFA" San Francisco Bay Guardian, 28 August 2008
  9. "KPFA Radio Broadcasts Live from the House Judiciary Committee Hearing on Torture"
  10. Pacifica Radio, "Capitalism and Its Discontents: A 5 Part Series on the Financial Meltdown" February 2009
  11. Lilley, Sasha."Paving the Amazon with Soy: World Bank Bows to Audit of Maggi Loan" CorpWatch; Lilley, Sasha.
  12. Chatterjee, Pratap. Iraq, Inc.: A Profitable Occupation Seven Stories Press, 2004
  13. Chatterjee, Pratap. Halliburton's Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War Nation Books, 2009
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