Whose Food? Our Food

Tonight on APEX Express, we talk with Kristyn Leach, a 33-year old Korean American farmer at Namu Farm in Sunol, CA. where she practices Korean Natural Farming. Sticking with our food theme, we hear from food writer for the East Bay Express, Luke Tsai. He wrote the cover story, “Cooking Other People’s Food” and we … Continued


With Greg Palast, a New York Times-bestselling author and a freelance journalist for the BBC as well as the British newspaper The Guardian. Throughout his career he has investigated and uncovered many instances of election fraud and political malfeasance, exposing the corporate interests and big-money involved in who gets elected in the United States. His most recent documentary, The Best … Continued


Host Cat Brooks speaks with Brooke Tepestra, an organizer with the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC), and Pastor Kenneth Glasgow of the Ordinary People’s Society, about the state of the nationwide prison strikes, and the reality of forced prison labor in this country. and Host Mitch Jeserich talks with Ellen Kreitzberg, professor at Santa Clara Law School … Continued


Protests Continue in San Diego After Police Kill Mentally Ill, Unarmed Ugandan Refugee Alfred Olango; Worse Than a Slaughterhouse: 250,000 Trapped in East Aleppo Amid Devastating Bombing Campaign; Study: People with Mental Illness are 16 Times More Likely to Be Killed During a Police Encounter; California Cop Who Shot Unarmed Black Man Was Demoted in … Continued


Against the Grain

Art About Debt

Cassie Thornton’s art investigates the nature of debt and the impact of economic regimes on individuals and society. In one project, Thornton hired someone to have breakdowns on her art school campus. Another project involved touching surfaces in bank lobbies and offices and using the dirt collected to create rubbings on paper. The Feminist Economics … Continued


With Arun Gupta, journalist and co-founder of The Indypendent and the Occupied Wall Street Journal. In this episode he speaks with Mitch Jerserich about the state of American politics. A long time third party voter, for the first time he urges voters to vote against Trump, in voting for Clinton. His latest article is The Left Underestimates the … Continued


“I Called You to Help Me, But You Killed My Brother”: Police Shoot Dead Unarmed African-American Man; What Drives Trump Supporters?: Sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild on Anger & Mourning of the Right; Alabama Guards Stage Work Strike Months After Prisoner Uprising at Overcrowded Holman Facility; Hunger Strikes, Marches & Work Stoppages: Unprecedented National Prison Strike … Continued