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This week, it’s all about music. For our last show of 2013, we’re bringing you musical treats to warm your souls this winter. We’re honoring our musical brothers and sisters, past and present, from Oakland to New York to our homelands in Asia and the Pacific Islands. We’ll start with a full feature interview with … Continued
On Tonights Installment: Those of you on the Twitterverse may have seen a surge of tweets labeled#NotYourAsianSidekick. What is it? What does it mean? In the studio to talk about the twitter movement and it’s translations to on the ground organizing is Cayden Mak, New Media Director of 18 Million Rising. Protestors gather in San Francisco’s … Continued
On tonight’s show: First up we’ll be hearing the San Francisco Solidarity Fast for Family, calling for national immigration reform. Then we go to Minnesota, where a female Professor of color who was reprimanded by her school administration for teaching a lesson on structural racism. Then back to the Bay where local Muslims are … Continued
On this special No THANKS broadcast of APEX Express, we say No Thanks to deportations and No Thanks to exploitation of immigrants. Immigrants rights protest during SF Obama visit.Photo by Vincent Pan. We rebroadcast a show looking at the immigration movement through the lens of artists with a discussion at the Migration NOW exhibition in February. But … Continued
On tonight’s show: We’ll be hearing about Taskforce Haiyan, a local effort to support the 4 million people in the Philippines who were displaced by Typhoon Haiyan. Taskforce Haiyan Then we’ll learn about Kearny Street Workshop’s artist reception in Oakland focusing on finding home where the heart is. Photo from makanamusic.com We’ll round out the … Continued
On tonight’s show we’ve put together a retrospective on Occupy for second anniversary of the Occupy Oakland General Strike, produced by Apex members during the encampment at Oscar Grant Plaza: Protestors with the Chinese Progressive Association are part of the 99% (Photo by Bea Quiz’em) We’ll revisit a sound collage from the early days of … Continued
The Revolutionary Optimists via thirdi.org. Tonight’s show spotlights the annual Thirdi South Asian film festival, this year celebrating 100 years of Indian cinema and women filmmakers. Tune in and find out about this year’s films centred around gender and sexuality and a country spotlight on Pakistan. Community calendar, news updates and more. With Host … Continued
ASPIRE member, Fiona. Photo by Robynn Takayama Last Thursday in San Francisco, undocumented immigrants and their supporters sat down in front of a deportation bus. It was part of an action to shut down Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. They managed to delay the bus for several hours, and 26 people were arrested. Apex Contributor … Continued
