APEX Express – January 26, 2017
A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists.
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Apex Express is a proud collective member of AACRE, Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality. AACRE focuses on long-term movement building, capacity infrastructure, and leadership support for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders committed to social justice.
Tonight’s APEX is a music show dedicated to fueling the movement. We’ll hear from our recent favorite bands like Bandung 55 and Digma and Bhi Bhiman. We’ll also flash back to now defunct movement bands like From Monuments to Masses and Diskarte Namin. We’ll even go way back in the rolodecks to hear from The … Continued
Tonight on APEX Express we talk with two members of Asian Prisoner Support Committee about their focus for this year. We hear from healthcare workers at Kaiser and San Francisco General about Saturday’s national day of action that Bernie Sanders is calling “Our First Stand: Save Health Care.” And we talk with Kung Feng at Jobs With … Continued
On our new year spotlight, we look internationally at India and China exploring human rights issues and the complexity of micro finance. Preeti Shekar talks with feminist author and academic Kalpana Karunakaran about her book: Women, Microfinance and the State in Neoliberal India. We examine how the politics of neoliberal economics impact women’s rights and … Continued
APEX Express – December 29, 2016
A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists.
Guest contributor Oliver Saria talks with Anirvan Chatterjee with the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour. Anirvan published an op-ed entitled “Post-election hate in Berkeley: 14 troubling stories and 5 ways to respond.” Their discussion brings us hope as we wind down 2016 and prepare for the new year. We also hear from Japanese … Continued
Know your rights with the Asian Law Caucus and a health clinic goes up at Standing Rock. Tonight on APEX Express, Saira Hussein, a staff attorney at Asian Law Caucus, talks about how we prepare for a Trump administration. She goes over special registration for Muslims, what to do if ICE shows up at your door, and … Continued
Tonight, we think about the things we are thankful for. We talk with writer, chef, and environmental activist, Aileen Suzara. She is the winner of the 2016 Thomas I. Yamashita Prize, which goes to a social change activist/scholar whose work serves as a bridge between the academy and the community. Collaborating with Filipino Advocates for Justice, Aileen … Continued
Tonight we break down the narrative of the Trump campaign and how it’s hitting communities of color across the nation. We speak with artists and activists about this collective moment of grief and fear including: Jeff Chang writes extensively on culture, politics, the arts, and music. His books include: American Book Award Winner, Can’t Stop Won’t … Continued
Before many people made it to the polls on Tuesday, allies of the water protectors blocked traffic at a major intersection in San Francisco. Banners read, “What they do to the water, they do to us.” That is just one of the messages allies brought back from Standing Rock. Pam Tau Lee and Cece Carpio … Continued