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APEX Express is a weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asian and Pasifika folx from all corners of the community. We are dedicated to highlighting the artists and changemakers that make up our diverse community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, artists, and activists and airs each week on KPFA 94.1FM.
We’re super excited because we are launching a new regular segment on APEX Express! Apex Updates: headlines from around the globe. Narika Vigil for Delhi Rape Victim Also, in response to the gang rape in Delhi, APEX contributor Preeti Mangala Shekar joins us with another hat on as director of Narika. She joins Amita Swadhin … Continued
Anthem Salgado will not let you believe that artists should be starving. In fact, he’s been hustling himself to preach the gospel of creative entrepreneurship for artists. He has a website, Artofhustle.com, with a wealth of information on money, marketing, management, and mindset and he also has a podcast where he talks with leaders in … Continued
Happy Holidays from the APEX Express Collective. Contributor R.J. Lozada compiles different stories from the bay, the country, and around the globe. Every month, a moment, a story-either read on your facebook feed, heard in your conversations, or viewed on broadcast. You’re invited to tune in, and a take an hour to reflect on 2012.
Tonight we have a special music show that features some of the best Asian American performers around! Melissa Hung, founding editor of Hyphen magazine, got her first taste of journalism by interviewing Sooyoung Park when he was the frontman for Chicago-based indie rock band Seam. Tonight, she returns to her roots and interviews Sooyoung about … Continued
Peace APEX family! Tune in this Thursday for a special music show! As a thanks to you, our listeners and supporters, especially as we’ll be coming off of the fund drive, I decided to pull together a show of some of the best revolutionary music selections from this year. The cultural warriors that are using … Continued
Tonight, we feature two amazing independent films, a documentary and a narrative, that embody the values that we have at APEX Express: to be part of a broader social movement for justice and collective liberation for all oppressed people. Enemy Alien tells the gripping story of the fight to free Farouk Abdel-Muhti, a Palestinian-born human rights … Continued
On tonight’s show, Karl Jagbandhansingh interviews Chizu Hamada, a new activist who thinks we should all heed the wake up call of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. She organizes with the No Nukes Action Committee which organizes protests on the 11th of each month at the Japanese Consulate (50 Fremont St., San Francisco). Then, a look … Continued
Thank you for tuning in during this NO THANKS colonizers show. We hope this show will inspire you to rethink occupation and colonization. As bombs drop on Gaza, our hearts go out to Palestine. Tonight we kick things off with sound from a recent community forum that highlights the deep connections between the Asian … Continued
This past month we saw incredible shows of grassroots power across the country. On this week’s APEX Express, we hear stories about how grassroots efforts both led major relief efforts for immigrant communities in the aftermath of Sandy, and helped gain major wins for API communities in the 2012 elections. Including interviews with: Helena … Continued
Purple States by DJ Cousin Cole APEX Contributor Marie Choi got on the phone with organizers and residents from around the Bay Area to bring us a highlights this week’s local races in Oakland, San Francisco, and Berkeley, and highlights from the elections. We hear from Jen-Mei Wu of Liberating Ourselves Locally, Timmy Lu of … Continued
