7:00 PM Pacific Time: Thursdays
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.
It’s fund drive time! This week we interview Beckie Masaki, executive director of Asian Womens Shelter and recent honoree of the 7th Annual Sisters of Fire Award presented by the Women of Color Resource Center. Help us keep APEX alive! For the next 2 weeks we are giving away and featuring the music from two … Continued
It’s that time again – API hip hop on air with host Kiwi of Native Guns first week of each month. This week we interview April Veneracion, Organizational Director of San Francisco’s South of Market Community Action Network (SOMCAN), as well as this month’s featured artist Nomi of Minnesota-based group Power Struggle. Not to mention … Continued
Fact vs fiction: pulling both apart on Apex. Sci fi with an API sensibility is part of the acclaimed film Robot Stories. Its writer Greg Pak talks about how humanity and the uncertainties of technology inter-act. Based on these tales, Pak’s new book is being released by an Asian American publication company Immedium. And Thenmozhi … Continued
The Domestic Crusaders: Wajahat Ali’s on-stage story of how lives in a Pakistani American family inter-sect with the drama of the post-9/ll. We’ll hear excerpts from the play, live on-air, and learn about what has drawn audiences to it. Plus, learn about Katrina relief efforts by the Bay Area Vietnamese American community. Helping those members … Continued
We’ll bring you an update from Seung Hong in New Orleans* about the impact of Hurricane Katrina on Asian Pacific Islanders in the Gulf States. Then hear about Lalon Phokir, a legendary mystic from the Baul sect of traveling minstrels and philosophers from the countryside of Bengal asApex Express talks with Sudipto Chatterjee, assistant professor … Continued
A full eve of Apex! On-Air: The Vietnamese American community in the Gulf and the hurricanes’ impact: Apex talks with Mimi Nguyen just back from giving assistance in Houston. Plus music, calendar, and more. Then check out Apex Outha Box: a live API hip-hip showcase, co-present with Locus at their Capp St. space in SF … Continued
It’s the first Thurs of the month and time for API hip-hop on air hosted by Kiwi and Maya with the APEX Hot Seven at 7 along with hot topix. On August 4th, 1977, after nine years of fierce resistance, the tenants of the International Hotel, mostly Filipino and Chinese elders, were brutally evicted to … Continued
Joe Bataan: Afro-Filipino – just an "ordinary guy"? Apex talks to the ’60’s Salsoul artist who’s now gaining a new audience with the growing popularity of down-home, hip-hop, soul stylings. Learn about Bataan’s rough beginnings that gave rise to his gritty sound as well as his Sept. Herbst Theater gig in SF. And, from the … Continued
The Kamehameha School: A Door Closes on Native Hawaiians? A court ruled against admission preference – for native people in Hawaii – by a school founded to counter the loss of their language, land and culture. Learn more about this and the up-coming Sat. rally opposing the ruling. And, the Asian American Music Festival a.k.a … Continued
Thurs. August 11: Bombing and Backlash: we find out what’s happening to the Pakistani community in England as a result of the bomb blasts in London. Talking about the atmosphere there as well as the community’s response is Zahed Amanullah in London, who is an editor of www.altmuslim.com. And, Apex covers major Asian Pacific Islander … Continued
