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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.
Its Spring funddrive time! We hear excerpts from the DVD "Whose Children Are These?", a documentary that examines the harrowing experience of three Muslim-American teenagers affected by Special Registration during a post 9/11 time. Organic, Free Range, Fresh, Progressive, Politically Sexy and Tasty. These words describe "The Cooking Show con Karimi y Castro". Concinero Karimi … Continued
Join the Pretty Buoyant DJs, Phatrick & Adriel Luis, as we celebrate May Day with a call in from Kiwi and Geologic, aka Prometheus Brown (Blue Scholars) as they report live from the People Power Tour. Sponsored by Bayan USA, the People Power Tour will touch down in cities across the United States with the … Continued
Hear about the upcoming May 1st International Worker’s Day Rally in Oakland. Also, find out about a Performance called "Refugee Nation", based on stories of Laotian refugees and their descendants. (http://refugeenation.blogspot.com/) Also, long time activist, Yuri Kochiyama about the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal (http://www.freemumia.com) Plus music, calendar and more! Contact: 510-848-6767×464;[email protected]; for more stories: www.apexexpress.org … Continued
We speak to longtime artist Flo Oy Wong as well as radio producer Robynn Takayama on the commemoration of her 70th birthday and 30 years as an artist. She has an upcoming exhibit at the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center that runs from May 1-25 at SomArts Main Gallery, 934 Brannan St. in San Francisco. … Continued
Conflict, culture and local communities surrounding Tibet. And, storyteller Brenda Wong Aoki and musician Mark Izu perform from their latest piece Ghosts and Girls.
Pacific Islanders in a war overseas, in a fight for self-determination at home. We call Pratap Chatterjee in the Middle East. Hear about Fijian truck drivers who have driven into Iraq over a hundred times but are now owed back pay, some un-able to return home. And, indigenous people from Guam fight to for a voice on an island that is still … Continued
Apex Express: Asian Pacific Islander radioIt’s the Year of the Rat, and Year of the Golden Pig has just passed. We reflect on the recent baby boom in 2007 all throughout Asia and locally. Recent mom, Chris Ree joins Apex to talk about how it’s like to raise babies in these current times.Also, we speak … Continued
The Pretty Buoyant Show is back in effect after a month long hiatus!Join hosts DJ Phatrick and Adriel Luis as we interview Japanese American filmmaker Tad Nakamura about his acclaimed film, PILGRIMAGE, which tells the story about how the rediscovery of a Japanese internment camp in the 60′ s galvanized the budding Asian American movement … Continued
