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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.
This week on Apex Express, Sirch Chanthyasack and Sonny Le join us to discuss the upcoming US Census and why it is critical for APIs to be counted. Also, Carlo De La Cruz of the Asian Law Caucus talks about the new Citizens Redistricting Commission and the need for API's to apply by the newly extended deadline … Continued
This week on Apex Express, Jonathan Leong and Pawan Dhillon from the Asian American Donor Program join us to talk about their outreach to local API communities around stem cell and marrow donation. They are organizing a Hip Hop for Hope dance contest which will take place at the Palace of Fine Arts, with an application deadline of Wednesday … Continued
On tonight's show, hosts Preeti Shekar and Amit Pendyal talk with Tammy KoRobinson about the threat to media democracy under the new right regime in South Korea. We also feature an interview discussion with Sanjiv Pandita, labor rights activist and organizer with the Asia Monitor Resource Centre, a labor rights group based in Hong Kong. … Continued
This week on Apex Express, we commemorate the 100th anniversary of the opening of Angel Island's immigration station. On January 21, 1910, 200 Chinese immigrants were shipped from the Chinese Detention Shed located at First and Brannan Street in San Francisco to open the Angel Island Immigration Station. About 500,000 immigrants passed through the island from 1910 to … Continued
This week on Apex Express, We bring you a speech by noted writer, journalist, and filmmaker Tariq Ali delivered at the Twelfth Annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture at Hampshire College on November 17. His lecture is titled “Obama’s War in Afghanistan and Pakistan”.
This week on Apex Express, a report back from COP 15, the Conference of Parties Global convening that took place in Copenhagen, Denmark in early December. We will hear from a broad range of APIA movement leaders about their experiences in Copenhagen and their visions for climate justice. We'll hear about the waste pickers of … Continued
Apex Express comes to you live in the studio on New Years Eve. We will explore Oshogatsu, the Japanese New Year with Somei Yoshino Taiko Ensemble. And, hear how a Mother, Daughter and Granddaughter celebrate Japanese New Year in the Bay Area. Also, a look back at some highlights of 2009, with an honoring of … Continued
Mele Kalikimaka! Tonight we bring you an Aloha! Apex Holiday Music Mix. We feature Ukulele and Slack Key Guitar players and singers including Keola Beamer, George Kahumoku Jr, Genoa Keawe, Charles Ka'upu and more. Tune in and bring some Aloha cheer and the sweet and beautiful music from Hawaii to brighten your evening!
Thursday, December 17 marks the 65th year anniversary of Public Proclamation No. 21, which allowed Japanese interned in concentration camps to return home. On tonight's show, Jill Shiraki joins us to talk about Bay Area Pre-World War II Japanese America, and the results of Executive Order 9066. We also hear from Jill Togawa, of Purple … Continued
