APEX Express – March 8, 2007
Women’s Day Celebration: Asian Pacific Islander women in Women of Color and CAAM Film Festivals. Jane Kim – San Francisco School Board Member – on education, inflammatory Asian Week column.

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Women’s Day Celebration: Asian Pacific Islander women in Women of Color and CAAM Film Festivals. Jane Kim – San Francisco School Board Member – on education, inflammatory Asian Week column.
API hip hop artists help victims in the Philippines; hip-hop chronicler Jeff Chang talks about his new compilation "Total Chaos" that examines what’s beyond the music ; a live DJ set featuring Un/de/Fine
A road trip reveals racial violence and crippling stereotypes across the post-Sept. 11 American landscape. The murder of a family friend began Sikh American Valarie Kaur’s journey. Apex talks with Kaur about her film "Divided We Fall" that documents her road trip (see www.dwf-film.com). And, anti-miscegenation laws creates a hidden past in the play "Uncle … Continued
Roger Adhikary of the Association of Nepalese in America joins APEX Express to discuss Nepal’s peace accord with Maoist rebels. Professor Gary Y. Okihiro of Columbia University talks about his newly published collection of Doothea Lange photos of Second World War internment of Japanese Americans while former Guantanamo Bay chaplain James Yee discusses the plight … Continued
A talk by ecologist David Suzuki.
Maxine Hong Kingston’s "Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace", Hip-Hop Journalist Jeff Chang, and Native Guns!
Surveillance, sub-contract workers and more… Hear the back-story about why a young Pakistani American was caught up in the courts as we continue our coverage of the FBI’s targeting of an immigrant community. Also, learn of Asian sub-contract laborers providing low-wage services to US forces in the war. Plus, Asian inner-city youths are often over-looked, … Continued
Hip Hop, Health, and Cars! As we roll into 2007, we will be speaking with Will Orbase, media consultant with Project RIDE, a non-profit youth leadership and public health organization revealing the tobacco industry’s role in the import car culture and how it affects the APA community. And on the hip hop front, we will … Continued