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A day before 9-11: race, fear, and being funny? A talk with Ko Comedy. UC Walk-out 9/24: students' support and saving Asian language classes. India's Temple dance comes alive with Jyoti Kala Mandir.
APEX Express for September 3rd 2009
Jazz giant John Coltrane's ties to India through the music of Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra. And, another death of the ethnic press or the first-ever path of a newspaper as a nonprofit: the story of Japantown's Nichi Bei Times. Also: Toyota, GM, Japan-US changes.
APEX Express for August 27th 2009
First person of color to play for NBA:Wat Misaka; and journalist Min Zin tells of being a graduate from the school of Burma's hardknocks
APEX Express for August 20th 2009
Tabla performance in studio in tribute to master musician Ali Akbar Khan. And, No End In Sight: immigrants wait years in detention
APEX Express for August 13th 2009
Saxophonist Prasant Radhakrishnan's sound-sphere from Indian & Jazz music. Plus, Asian America in 3rd World Liberation movements documented in the book Stand Up. Also, learn more about Disappeared in the Philippines
APEX Express for August 6th 2009
Scars of nuclear blasts remain in Japan but also in Pacific Islands; hear about the loss of land and lives due to nuclear tests. Also, hooking up spoken words and deeds: a new gen of API artists.
APEX Express for July 30th 2009
Trafficking and tuition on the rise: a talk with Senator Leland Yee about two proposals. And, being gay, Asian and a resistor in the military: war resistor Steven Funk talks about this and about the case of Lt. Dan Choi: an openly gay solider.
APEX Express for July 23rd 2009
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Up-heaval for Uyghurs: backdrop to the Urumqi conflict and prisoners of Guantanamo & former political prisoner Rebiya Kadeer. Plus, Silk Road or oil piplines? Kazakhstan's cultural changes reflect challenges.
APEX Express for July 9th 2009
Stuffed & Starved: a talk with author Raj Patel; De-bugging brutality; Uyghurs:up-rising/repression?
APEX Express for July 2nd 2009
As troops increase in Afghanistan, hear about making profits while flying under the radar as we talk with Pratap Chatterjee about his book "Halliburton's War. Music & memories: spoken word artist Denizen Kane, and a short talk with the Jacksons by former KPFA programmer Phil Elwood.
APEX Express for June 25th 2009
Villages of storytellers, mixing myths, message, action: the performance duo Ethnohtec talk of the power of myths. And, a ghost haunts a family in the book Haunting Bombay, also revealing divides in India
APEX Express for June 18th 2009
Angel Island Immigration: excluded again via cutbacks? Soundz of resilience and resonance: Delorean.
APEX Express for June 11th 2009
MISSING youth empire after 9-11: a book about political expression of a new South Asian generation. Secret guidelines on ethnic profiling and geo-mapping. And did these policies impact the case of Fahad Hashmi who's now held in solitary?
APEX Express for June 4th 2009
The Legacy: Ron Takaki, Richard Aoki, Him Mark Lai, Al Robles and What's driving North Korea as two journalists go on trial.
APEX Express for May 28th 2009
From Arghanistan, Theater of Kabul with stories of war from 1970's to today, using music, work more.
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As seed supply is bought up, as farmers lose land and their lives - small farming brings hope. Connecting these dots is Vandana Shiva, an environmental activist from India and a leader in the Slow Foods movement. We offer her insights, her book Soil Not Oil and more
APEX Express for April 30th 2009
Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery; Siddharth Kara on his new book about the growth of slavery. Also, Grammy nominee Anthony Brown draws from his Asian- African heritage to create percussion-based ensemble music. And Japanese drums root the group Somei Yoshino Taiko...
APEX Express for April 23rd 2009
As the Dalai Lama visits, a China-Tibet dialog started by acclaimed play write Genny Lim. A Palestinian and Israeli gay bar in Jerusalem in Yun Suh's "City of Borders". Chinese in Mexico: part of an exhibit expanding definitions of China. And, how much Pacific Islander student inclusion is there...
APEX Express for April 9th 2009
Post-war healing and her Cham heritage (indigenous people of Vietnam) form the basis of Julie Thi Underhill's work. Asian American journalists are held in North Korea and in Iran where the press and politics collide. Mix master Kush Arora talks about his border-crossing music and Surya Dub...
APEX Express for April 2nd 2009
Mass killings of civilians by armies during and after the Korean war are coming to light. But will the South Korean Truth-and-Reconciliation Commission survive revealing tensions that remain on the penninusula? Also, a racially-charged murder conviction of two Filipino nurses...