7:00 PM Pacific Time: Thursdays
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.
Bay Area activist Christine Ahn has just returned from a trip to Korea with an 18-member U.S. delegation organized by Koreans Against War and Neoliberalism. They traveled to Korea to oppose the expansion of Camp Humphrey, the US military base in Pyeongtaek, and to protest the proposed Korea-US Free Trade Agreement. Christine shares testimony about … Continued
Hip Hop & Global Justice! Tune in as we discuss the recent verdict of the Subic Rape Case where one out of four US marines convicted of raping a 22-year old Filipina was found guilty while the others were acquitted for lack of evidence. We will be speaking with BABAE (www.babaesf.org) an SF-based Filipino Women’s … Continued
A pioneering small school currently faces a possible closing by the school district. Hear the current situation about the struggle to save East Oakland Community High School. Apex’s Jay Pugao talks with Dr. Wayne Yang, one of the founders of East Oakland Community High School. And, indefinite detention for non-US citizens? Learn more about this … Continued
What’s the tie between the Asian American movement and the Black Panther Party? We talk with Party founder Bobby Seal and Greg Morozumi, curator of an exhibit on the Panthers. Also, hear about a place where native Hawaiians and indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest met to work and live in the 1800’s. And, as … Continued
API winners and losers in the election: we talk with Shankar Duraiswamy and Alexander Nguyen from Asian American Action Fund. And at the UN, the indigenous people of Guam called for the world to recognize their plight. Hear Victoria Leon Guerrero, Mike Tuncap and Erica Benton talk about how the US military base build-up on … Continued
What’s life really like north of the DMZ? We talk with members of the Korean American community who’ve returned from a trip to North Korea. They also give their views about tensions between the North and the US and its impact on Koreans locally. Also, Wayie Ly continues her talk with Richard Aoki, a former … Continued
A Filipino American gets an unwanted homecoming by homeland security: hear how and why an activist with BAYAN-USA, a social justice organization of the Philippines, was visited by the FBI. And we’ll talk with Tram Nguyen, editor of the progressive journal Colorlines and who has been awarded for her work by Woman of Color Resource … Continued
As resistance to the war in Iraq increases, we’ll look at the war in Vietnam to see the stresses and similarities in these conflicts. Listen to two documentaries: one about Asian American Vietnam veterans fighting in a war against Asians, the other about soldiers who became war resistors in Vietnam. We’ll be giving away these … Continued
