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Asia Pacific Forum is the progressive pan-Asian radio show broadcast every Tuesday night from 8-9pm on WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City and live on the web. We cover underreported stories from Asia, as well as Asian American politics and culture. Each week we talk to authors like Arundhati Roy, Jessica Hagedorn, and Jeff Chang; activists and politicos like Yuri Kochiyama, Mike Honda, and Monami Maulik; intellectuals like Tariq Ali, Vandana Shiva, and Vijay Prashad; artists like DJ Rekha, David Henry Hwang, and Asian Dub Foundation--and many more!
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Fundraiser Special - "Occupy! Scenes from Occupied America" (Asia Pacific Forum: 06 Feb 2012)
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Mon, Feb 06, 2012
Join us for a special two-hour show featuring the editors and contributors of Occupy! Scenes from Occupied America (Verso Press, 2011). Timely and engaging, Occupy! offers firsthand accounts of the early days of Occupy Wall Street in New York and sites around the country. As the movement took shape, participants debated goals, structure, and tactics and planned actions that would change the national conversation about injustice and inequality. We'll speak with a cross-section of contributors to Occupy!, whose essays analyze the role of organized labor in the movement, describe what it's like to attend a General Assembly, and argue for the necessity of a racial analysis within OWS.
In-studio interviews with:
-Astra Taylor, director of the documentary films Zizek! and Examined Life
-Sarah Resnick, senior editor at Triple Canopy
-Manissa Maharawal, writer, activist, and graduate student at the CUNY Graduate Center
-Audrea Lim, associate editor at Verso Books and member of the APF collective
You can receive your own copy of Occupy! Scenes from Occupied America by calling us on Monday night and pledging your support for Asia Pacific Forum and WBAI.
Your generous contribution helps to ensure that our progressive coverage of Asia and Asian America stays on the air, from in-depth analysis of grassroots voices and political change to cutting-edge arts and culture.
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Scenes from Occupied Atlanta (Asia Pacific Forum: 06 Feb 2012)
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Mon, Feb 06, 2012
How is the legacy of slavery carried forward to the present in the U.S. south? How is the increase in new immigrants changing the discourse on race in Atlanta? And how is Occupy Atlanta learning to do right by race? Kung Li, former executive director of the Southern Center for Human Rights and a contributing writer for Occupy! Scenes from Occupied America explains.
GUESTS:
Kung Li is a litigator and human-rights activist. She is the former executive director of the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta and was named by "American Lawyer" as one of the nation's Top 50 Litigators under 40 in 2007. Previously, she served as a staff attorney at the Law Center for the Homeless in Atlanta.
As an Open Society Fellow, she traveled across the American South to record stories of resilience in communities of color that have persevered in the face of racism, anti-immigrant hysteria, police harassment, and government indifference.
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"Labor, Again" (Asia Pacific Forum: 06 Feb 2012)
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Mon, Feb 06, 2012
As the Occupy movement fights to achieve economic justice for the working people of America, it has been striving to organize and stand alongside institutions like trade unions--which are not always as radical or confrontational as the Occupy movement might like. How can Occupy work with the labor movement in a way that shows true solidarity? We discuss this question with Nikil Saval, a co-editor of Occupy! Scenes from Occupied America, and researcher for UNITE HERE!
GUESTS:
Nikil Saval is an associate editor of n+1 magazine, and co-editor of Occupy! Scenes from Occupied America.
MUSIC:
"The World Turned Upside Down" by Amanda Palmer
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Progressive Media after Occupy (Asia Pacific Forum: 06 Feb 2012)
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Mon, Feb 06, 2012
Since Occupy Wall Street began, the progressive media has seen its audience grow. Citizen journalism has produced some of the most interesting reports on the movement. But as the movement evolves beyond Liberty Park, will these changes be sustained? We speak with Sarah Leonard, one of the co-editors of Occupy! Scenes from Occupied America, and an editor of Dissent magazine.
GUESTS:
Sarah Leonard is an editor at Dissent magazine and The New Inquiry, as well as a co-editor of Occupy! Scenes from Occupied America.
MUSIC:
"New York Times Book Review" by J Church
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Dismantling Mexican American Studies in Tucson (Asia Pacific Forum: 23 Jan 2012)
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Mon, Jan 23, 2012
In 2010, the Arizona state legislature passed HB 2281, a law targeting the Mexican American Studies curriculum at some schools in Tucson Unified School District (TUSD), which teaches critical thinking skills to young Chicano students. Last year, the state's school superintendent found that Tucson's program violated the law, and ordered the school district to bring the program in compliance or shut it down. The school district challenged the ruling, and last month a judge upheld the superintendent's decision. At its meeting earlier this month, the TUSD school board decided not to challenge the ruling, and closed down the Mexican American Studies program.
GUESTS:
Dr. Anita Fernández is in the Education Faculty at Prescott College. Her areas of teaching and research include social justice education, critical race theory, critical multicultural education and teacher education. She is locally and nationally involved in community and professional organizations that focus on Latina/o rights, social justice activism, critical pedagogy and transformative teacher education. Her publications include works in Multicultural Education, Journal of Praxis in Multicultural Education and Rethinking Schools.
Richard Martinez is an attorney in Tucson, Arizona. He is currently challenging Arizona's recent ethnic studies law in federal court on behalf of teachers and students in Tucson Unified School District.
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Tina's Mouth (Asia Pacific Forum: 23 Jan 2012)
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Mon, Jan 23, 2012
Tina's Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary is the new coming-of-age, graphic novel about a 15-year-old Indian American high school student, Tina, who struggles to find her identity and place in the world, after her best friend Alex dumps her for a girl who "wears slutty clothes and reads cheesy poetry." Tonight, the author Keshni Kashyap will join us in the studio.
GUESTS:
Keshni Kashyap is a filmmaker whose five short films have been screened in more than forty festivals around the world. She contributes to the Daily Beast and lives in New York City.
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10 Years of Guantanamo (Asia Pacific Forum: 09 Jan 2012)
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Mon, Jan 09, 2012
This Wednesday, January 11, 2012, marks the 10-year anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Guantanamo has become one of the most notorious detention centers in the world due to its secretive nature, the use of torture at the facility, and for holding prisoners without trial indefinitely. Three years after President Obama announced plans to close the detention facility, there are no signs of Guantanamo's closure. Join Asia Pacific Forum as we talk to Pardiss Kebriaei, Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, about plans for a day of action at the White House to mark the 10-year anniversary and demand the closure of the facility.
GUESTS:
Pardiss Kebriaei joined the Center for Constitutional Rights in July 2007. Since then, her work has focused on representing men detained at Guantánamo Bay in their habeas corpus challenges, before international human rights tribunals, in diplomatic advocacy with foreign governments to secure resettlement for men who cannot return home, and in post-release reintegration efforts. Her work includes seeking accountability for torture and arbitrary detention at Guantánamo, including representing the families of two men who died at the prison in June 2006 in their action against Donald Rumsfeld and other federal officials in Al-Zahrani v. Rumsfeld. She is also counsel in Al-Aulaqi v. Obama, which concerns targeted killings by the executive in zones outside of armed conflict.
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Postmortem Analysis - US Media Coverage of North Korea (Asia Pacific Forum: 09 Jan 2012)
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Mon, Jan 09, 2012
Last month, North Korea made international headlines after the death of its leader Kim Jong-il. Once again, US media coverage of North Korea was fraught with wild and often baseless speculations about its future as well as offensive and racist characterizations of the North Korean leader and people. Two Korean American experts - Christine Hong, Professor of Critical Pacific Rim and Asian American Studies at UC Santa Cruz, and Elaine Kim, Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley -- give a candid and critical analysis of western media portrayal of North Korea.
GUESTS:
Christine Hong is a professor of Critical Pacific Rim and Asian American Studies at UC Santa Cruz and a fellow with the Korea Policy Institute. She is also a steering committee member of the Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea, and a member of the National Campaign to End the Korean War.
Elaine Kim is a professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently producing and directing a film titled "Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded: Speaking Back to Hollywood About Asian Women," and is the editor/author of several books, including "Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Issues in Asian American Visual Art".
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North Korea in Transition (Asia Pacific Forum: 09 Jan 2012)
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Mon, Jan 09, 2012
Who was Kim Jong-il and how did North Korea fare under his leadership? Will North Korea survive the leadership transition, and what do we actually know about how the power structure works there? Asia Pacific Forum sat down with Dr. Han S Park, Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Center for the Study of Global Issues (GLOBIS) at the University of Georgia, for an in-depth view of Kim Jong-il's legacy and the future of North Korea.
GUESTS:
Dr. Han S. Park is Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Center for the Study of Global Issues (GLOBIS) at the University of Georgia. He has visited the Democratic People's Republic of Korea more than forty times, and organized the "Track-II" diplomatic seminar with high-level North Korean and US government officials to pave the way for the resumption of the six party talks in 2004. As an expert analyst, he has appeared regularly on CNN International, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, ABC's Nightline, the BBC, NPR, and serves as a consultant/analyst for ABC News.
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Immigrants Occupy! (Asia Pacific Forum: 26 Dec 2011)
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Mon, Dec 26, 2011
The Occupy Wall Street movement is now three months old, and activists have been taking stock of their accomplishments and thinking about how to forge ahead. As the movement has spread to cities across the country, social inclusion has become a critical theme. On December 18, protesters put a twist on the Occupy message and amassed at Liberty Plaza in honor of International Migrants Day. They not only challenged social inequality but raised the issue of immigrant rights in the global economy. We'll speak with activists with Families for Freedom and Immigrant Movement International.
GUESTS:
Donald Anthonyson, Families for Freedom
Immigrant Movement International
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Looking Back and Forward at North Korea (Asia Pacific Forum: 26 Dec 2011)
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Mon, Dec 26, 2011
In the wake of the death of dictator Kim Jong Il, everyone in Washington is anxiously speculating wildly on the fate of North Korea. We look back at daily life under the regime with a special feature on North Korea, based on the experiences of a grassroots international delegation earlier this year. And we speak with John Feffer, an analyst with the DC-based Institute for Policy Studies.
GUESTS:
John Feffer, Institute for Policy Studies
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Malalai Joya: Bravest Woman in Afghanistan (Asia Pacific Forum: 26 Dec 2011)
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Mon, Dec 26, 2011
AS the US tries to handle the unfolding chaos in Afghanistan, we present an encore broadcast of an exclusive interview with Afghan activist and former member of parliament Malalai Joya, one of the few courageous young people who've dared to challenge both the American hegemony as well as the warlords who have torn her country apart.
GUESTS:
Malalai Joya, Afghan human rights activist and former member of Parliament
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