APEX Express – June 8, 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.
APEX Express
7:00 PM Pacific Time: Thursdays
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.
APEX Express – June 1, 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.
Excerpts of the audiobook “People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zinn.
APEX Express with Host Miko Lee – May 4, 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.
Tonight, we celebrate May Day, or International Worker’s Day! We hear from Terry Valen and Lyle Prijoles with Filipino Community Center as well as Irma Shauf-Bajar with GABRIELA USA. They all make connections between immigrant rights and worker rights here in the U.S. and globally. We speak with two home care workers from Asian Immigrant … Continued
Tonight DJ Baagi joins us to spin music of resistance and solidarity from the Asian Diaspora worldwide, with a slight focus on South Asian musicians. We have sounds of the Asian underground and anti-racist solidarity between Asian and Afro Caribbeans in the U.K., our friend Kiwi Illafonte with Native Guns, radical immigrant stories from Ruby Ibarra, music … Continued
APEX Express – April 13, 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.
For this month’s South Asia spotlight, Preeti Shekar talks with author Sharanya Manivannan on her collection of short stories, The High Priestess Never Marries, and how this collection celebrates women’s desires and sexuality through a critical feminist lens. We also hear from Melissa Hung about Eat Chinatown
APEX Express – ZoomIn Korea and THAAD
This week, Marie Choi talks to Subratra Ghoshroy about high altitude missile defense systems, such as the one the U.S. is constructing in Korea called THAAD. Ghoshroy worked on missile defense for the United States government but then left after realizing their various problems. He talks to us about the history of “star wars” and what’s … Continued
Tonight, during Women’s History Month, we’re exploring disability: We talk with Alice Wong, founder of the Disability Visibility Project, and hear some excerpts from its tremendous collection of oral histories – stories told from the lived experiences of folks from the disability community. We talk with Carina Ho, a dancer paralyzed from her chest down, … Continued