Asia Pacific Forum Podcast
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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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Guantanamo at Home? Protesting the Imprisonment of Fahad Hashmi (Asia Pacific Forum: 10 Nov 2009)
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Tue, Nov 10, 2009
Few have been aware that Pakistani American Fahad Hashmi has been in strict solitary confinement at Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center for over two years, charged with providing material support to Al Qaeda after a houseguest of his delivered socks and rain ponchos to Pakistan in 2004. Until Theaters Against War (THAW) started holding weekly vigils with pirate radio broadcasts from outside the jail. We hear about the growing support for Fahad from his brother Faisal Hashmi plus organizers Jeanne Theoharis and Brian Pickett.
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First Annual Asian American Literary Festival Heats Up (Asia Pacific Forum: 10 Nov 2009)
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Tue, Nov 10, 2009
This weekend the Asian American Writers' Workshop brings the first annual Pageturner festival to Brooklyn, including the winners of the 12th Annual AAWW Literary Awards. We'll preview some highlights of the event as we speak with AAWW executive director Ken Chen, this year's poetry award winner Sesshu Foster, and featured festival artists Porochista Khakpour and Jen Kwok.
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In Conversation with Arundhati Roy - 1 (Asia Pacific Forum: 20 Oct 2009)
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Tue, Oct 20, 2009
Tune in this Tuesday to hear our exclusive interview with Booker prize-winning author, public intellectual and activist Arundhati Roy on her just-released book, Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers. We will be offering copies of the book to listeners who call in and pledge support to WBAI.
Arundhati Roy brings us a radical primer on contemporary India, its governments, corporations, mainstream media, and social movements. She traces the escalation of Hindu nationalism and the transformation of a nation entranced by neoliberal economics and post-9/11 national security politics. She writes of the dams, mines, Special Economic Zones, and major infrastructural projects that gave rise to a middle class at the expense of a large population in villages and slums. After laying responsibility on the government, judiciary, corporations, and mainstream media, she provides scathing analysis of the Bush regime and shares advice with the Obama Administration: to bring the American Empire in for a soft crash-landing.
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In Conversation with Arundhati Roy - 2 (Asia Pacific Forum: 20 Oct 2009)
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Tue, Oct 20, 2009
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In Conversation with Arundhati Roy - 3 (Asia Pacific Forum: 20 Oct 2009)
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Tue, Oct 20, 2009
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Military Buildup on Guam (Asia Pacific Forum: 13 Oct 2009)
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Tue, Oct 13, 2009
We take a look at the future of the island of Guam, where the United States military plans to spend $16 billion dollars to expand military facilities there. Some have called it the largest military buildup that the US has ever undertaken. As part of the build-up, the US military plans to move thousands of soldiers from the Japanese island of Okinawa and South Korea there, turning Guam into the largest base for its operations in the Pacific. The indigenous people of Guam, the Chamorros currently make up 37% of the population.
GUESTS:
Hope Cristobal has been a Chamorro self-determination advocate for over thirty years. She is a history instructor at the University of Guam, a former Senator in the Guam legislature, and a farmer. Cristobal has just returned to Guam from a trip to the United Nations last week to bring attention to this situation.
Sabina Flores Perez is a cultural activist and permaculturist from Guam who has fought against water privatization there, and has led delegations to the United Nations to advocate for Chamorro self-determination. She has also been an active member of the organization Famoksaiyan, which promotes decolonization of Chamorros. More information here.
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National Asian American Theater Festival (Asia Pacific Forum: 13 Oct 2009)
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Tue, Oct 13, 2009
We preview the National Asian American Theater Festival. Beginning tonight and continuing through Sunday, the National Asian American Theater Festival brings together emerging and established Asian American writers, directors, performers and scholars who draw from artistic traditions both classical and modern, dramatic and comic. It will feature 17 new scripts, dance theater, a silent monologue, and a musical. We are joined by writer and performer Sheetal Gandhi, whose piece will appear in the festival.
GUESTS:
Sheetal Gandhi graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a B.A cum laude in both dance and psychology and is a recent MFA graduate in dance from UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures. Rhythm takes prime importance in Sheetal's performance and choreography. Sheetal made her Broadway debut as an original cast member of Bombay Dreams, which opened in New York in 2004.
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Project Reach New York City (Asia Pacific Forum: 13 Oct 2009)
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Tue, Oct 13, 2009
Founded nearly 40 years ago by Chinatown activists, Project Reach organizes and provides services to immigrant and marginalized youth in New York, including crisis advocacy and counseling for undocumented, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, HIV positive, and homeless young people.
GUESTS:
Don Kao is the director of Project Reach, where he has worked for twenty-five years.
Fay Chiang is a poet, visual artist, and former director of Basement Workshop. She has been with Project Reach, where she works on program development, since 2000.
Justin Laboy is the youth staff member at Project Reach, as well as a vocalist and student at Hunter College.
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Marking 8 Years and more of U.S. wars in Pakistan and Afghanistan: Part I (Asia Pacific Forum: 06 Oct 2009)
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Tue, Oct 06, 2009
Eight years after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, and years into the U.S.'s
military campaigns in Pakistan, we'll discuss the toll these wars have
taken, why they remain under the radar in American public consciousness
and the mainstream media, and what we can anticipate going forward.
With Junaid Ahmad, member of the faculty of law at Lahore University
of Management Sciences in Pakistan.
GUESTS:
A member of the faculty of law at Lahore University of Management
Sciences in Pakistan, JUNAID S. AHMAD has written for Left Turn
Magazine on Pakistan and Islam. He is a member of the Peoples Rights
Movement (www.prmpakistan.org), a progressive political confederation
of social movements committed to structural changes in the Pakistani
state, widespread social change, and a fundamental reconfiguration of
the global relations of power; the President of National Muslim Law
Students Association (www.nmlsa.org); and a longtime activist on
issues related to corporate-led globalization, HIV/AIDS, gender
justice, militarism and war, and Palestine.
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Marking 8 Years and more of U.S. wars in Pakistan and Afghanistan: Part 2 (Asia Pacific Forum: 06 Oct 2009)
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Tue, Oct 06, 2009
Eight years after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, and years into the U.S.'s
military campaigns in Pakistan, we'll discuss the toll these wars have
taken, why they remain under the radar in American public consciousness
and the mainstream media, and what we can anticipate going forward.
With Sonali Kolhatkar co-author
of Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords and the Propaganda of
Silence.
GUESTS:
Sonali Kolhatkar, host of Uprising on Pacifica radio station KPFK. She is co-author of the book Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence and co-director of the Afghan Women's Mission.
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Update on Iran Solidarity Work in New York (Asia Pacific Forum: 06 Oct 2009)
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Tue, Oct 06, 2009
It's been months since the controversial reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran. Months since countless Iranians took the streets to protest the elections. Here in New York City, solidarity efforts with the Iranian people continue. We'll talk to Bitta Mostofi of Where is My Vote? about the developments in NYC solidarity work with Iran. We'll ask her to comment on the nature and politics of solidarity work in the context of Iran, and more broadly, as activists situated in the Global North.
GUESTS:
Bitta Mostofi is an immigrant rights attorney and a supervising attorney of the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project at NYU law school. In recent months Bitta has co-founded and worked with Where is my vote, New York to highlight human rights concerns in the aftermath of the disputed June 12, 2009 Iranian presidential election and raise the level of international solidarity with the citizens of Iran.
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Feds Raid Queens Afghan Community (Asia Pacific Forum: 29 Sep 2009)
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Tue, Sep 29, 2009
In the wake of ongoing investigations of alleged terrorist ties, FBI agents have "preventively" raided the homes of several Afghan residents in Queens in recent weeks. Yet again, community members now fear repression and negative backlash. Who is standing up for civil rights? With Monami Maulik, executive director of Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM).
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