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AYPAL Youth Leaders Speak On OUSD Ethnic Studies Campaign On APEX Express tonight: It’s back-to-school season for most Bay Area students – so tonight we hear about a fierce campaign to transform the Oakland school district! We have a full-length interview with the incredible voices of AYPAL youth leaders! 9 API youth organizers, making up the … Continued
Partho Sarathi In this week’s APEX Express: Find out about how the Indian state is at war with its own people as it aims to be more and more of a neo-liberal economy. Bay-area based activist Anu Mandavilli from the Mining Zone People’s Solidarity Group (www.miningzone.org) interviews Indian activist Partho Sarathi Ray from the group … Continued
Drones or unmanned aircraft have been in use since at least since 2004 in Afghanistan, and in the Tribal Reigon on the boarder with Pakistan. It is estimated that every “drone strike” kills 10- 15 civilians for every 1 “suspected millitant” With some estimates out of Pakistani media that 5 thousand people have all … Continued
“Never give up,” is what the members of Bindlestiff studio, the long-time theatre group, live by. This strong constitution is what has kept them going since the closure of their space in 2003 (by San Francisco Redevelopment Agency) and gives them the strength for the final push for their landmark opening at the end of … Continued
Tonight on APEX Express, learn about an urgent and important issue of land grabs and the exploitation of mining industries in India. Preeti Mangala Shekar sits down in discussion with two US-based activists who are part of the Mining Zone People’s Solidarity Group (MZPSG), an activist research collective that has documented how POSCO, a Korean … Continued
Marie Choi speaks with three San Francisco workers who are organizing to end wage theft in the city. And, Ellen Choy sits down with Heera Lal Sharma, the chief executive and founder of Sahyog Sansthan, an organization committed to the socio-economic empowerment of small, marginal farmers among tribal and disadvantaged groups in Rajasthan, India With … Continued
This week on APEX, contributor R.J. sits in on a conversation at Commonwealth Club, where Jose Antonio Vargas shares a bit more about his story, and his efforts on Define American. (Special Thanks to Matt Ledesma, Jerome Reyes, and Charlene Tan for production help, and INFORUM at the Commonwealth Club) Contributor Robynn Takayama attends the … Continued
With Hosts Karl Jagbandhansingh, Ellen Choy and Marie Choi.
Joe Bataan at the Bayanihan Center on June 23, 2011 Bataan Nitollano was born in 1942, and grew up in Spanish Harlem, New York. In that time this Afro-Filipino hustled the streets, got caught up with the law, and did 5 years behind bars. When he came back out, he needed to find something … Continued
