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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.
For this week: Thanks to Making Contact, Guest Producer Pauline Bartolone and Correspondent Momo Chang take us into the toxic truth about nail salons, they talk to nail salon workers, medical experts, and policymakers on the move to safeguard workers’ health, and help salons go green. APEX Producer Robynn Takayama explores the details and issues … Continued
On tonight’s show we highlight youth voices. Marie Choi brings us a segment featuring the Chinese Progressive Association‘s delegation to the U.S./Mexico border. Ellen Choy brings us the voices of the SAFIRE young women of Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice. Karl Jagbandhansingh hosts. Tune in!
API Women artists in Spoken Word & Music.
Janice Mirikitani is recognized as a visionary, community activist, leader, poet, and editor. She’s the founding president of the Glide Foundation, and has developed programs that empower San Francisco’s poor and marginalized communities to make meaningful changes in their lives. She was named San Francisco Poet Laureate in 2000 and has authored four books of … Continued
Continuing with our Leaders in the Community Series for pledge drive, we feature Nancy Hom. Nancy is an artist, writer, organizer, and arts administrator who has created numerous images for community events, political and social causes, and children’s books. After exploring silk screening and illustration, she is now a mixed-media artist and for the past … Continued
Grace Lee Boggs and Michael Hardt discussed themes from Grace’s new book “The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-first Century”. This was at the “Asian American Movement Building Conference:Out of the Margins”, held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in late March. The book was released last month and co-authored by Scott … Continued
We interview Eric Nakamura, publisher of Giant Robot magazine. Along with Martin Wong, the two began a long and earnest love affair with Asian popular culture and brought it to America with their publication and Giant Robot stores in New York, Los Angeles, and until April 26, 2011, San Francisco. The closing of the San … Continued
Tonight, we offer a critical look at what is happening in Japan. We talk with Hiroshi Fukurai, a professor at UC Santa Cruz in Sociology. He’s originally from Sendai, the epicenter of the monstrous 9.0 earthquake last month, and where many of his family still reside. He talks with us about the nuclear power system … Continued
On this show, we start off with a poem from Isle Yi Park in celebration of National Poetry month. Park’s piece comes from her album entitled Work Is Love. APEX will begin a series of interviews trying to gain some insight and orientation with all that’s been going on in Japan. For the April 21 show, … Continued
This week we bring you another packed show featuring powerful community voices: Police Brutality in Oakland: While we continue to heal from the murder of Oscar Grant, Oakland youth of color continue to be targeted by racial profiling and police brutality. This week we bring you a dynamic interview with Sarn Saechao, a Mien youth … Continued
