A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists.

PowerLeeGirls Hosts Miko Lee and Jalena Keane-Lee, a mother daughter team talk about issues in the API community.  What’s spreading faster than coronavirus? Racist attacks against Asians.

Tonight we discuss, Coronaracism. Guests include Dr. Winston Tseng from the Health Sciences and Ethnic Studies Departments of UC Berkeley and Cynthia Choi Co-Executive Director of Chinese for Affirmative Action. We talk facts, history, policy and what you can do to combat Coronaracism.

Community Calendar

March 6 is opening reception for the  Reflections on Home exhibit at OACC. The show runs thru March 28.

March 6 First Fridays at 945 ArtSpace in SF: featuring Jon Jang and Lenora Lee

International Women’s Day is March 8, at 6pm the Empowering Womxn of Color All Stars Night & Reception will be held at La Pena Cultural Center.

We Are Here: Contemporary Art and Asian Voices in Los Angeles opens on Friday, March 13 from 6 – 8 pm and runs until June 14.

March 14 is the 35th Annual Empowering Womxn of Color Conference at UC Berkeley.

March 14 3pm Celebrate Women’s History Month with Poetry Reading and Open Mic at EastWind Books in Berkeley.

March 15 & 22 Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour

March 21 11am-4pm Chinese Americans in Support of Tsuru for Solidarity Free Guided Arts Workshop – art making to close detention camps and ICE

All of these events are wheelchair accessible.

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A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists.

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A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists.

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A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists.

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A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists.

Preeti Mangala Shekar offers an update from India with a spotlight on the 2019 Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 known as CAA. Miko Lee shares a piece of an interview with 85 year old activist Flora Ninomiya on the Day of Remembrance. See events listed below.

Community Calendar

Day of Remembrance Events All over US.

In the Bay Area we have:

On Sunday Feb 16 2-4pm Never Again is Now! Kabuki Theatre, San Francisco program, candle list procession

On Feb 9 and 23 Folding Cranes for Tsuru for Solidarity, Berkeley Methodist church 1-4pm

On Sunday Feb 16, at the Rosie the Riveter memorial in Richmond, there will be screenings at 11am and 2pm of Lane Nishikawa’s latest film, “Our Lost Years.” Lane will be there for post show discussions. The event is free with a donation request to the Japanese American Citizens league. Reservations are highly recommended. For more information: [email protected]

These events are wheelchair accessible.

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