We’ll hear from folks with disabilities spanning the visible like Jean Lin who has Cerebral Palsy to the invisible like Claire Light who has Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Austin Tam who has ADHD and a cognitive disorder.

We’ll also hear from disability justice organizer Mia Mingus and her views on novel ways to conceive of disability and its contributions to the movement for collective liberation.

Peppered  throughout the show, award-winning poet Anhvu Buchanan treats us with readings from his new book The Disordered based on entries from the DSM IV.

With Host Salima.

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With Host Tara Dorabji.

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Rally to prevent the transfer of inmates to prisons with Valley Fever

Tonight we talk with two members of Asian Prisoner Support Committee about the dehumanizing conditions in California state prisons including the inhumane solitary confinement units. They also talk about a pattern of inhumane treatment, and raise the issue of the deadly Valley Fever fungus, which is blamed for 62 deaths among California prison inmates statewide, with a majority of them in Avenal and Pleasant Valley, yet inmates are still being moved into these facilities.

As our interviewee says, “When faced with adversity, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation takes the moral [low] road …because prisoners are the least protected population and they’re able to get away with it.”

Please visit the change.org petition to stop the transfer of inmates to these facilities and for basic human rights for the prisoners at Avenal and Pleasant Valley.

With Host Karl Jagbandhansingh.

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Josey Gerrish, featured in The Caretaker

With immigration reform stalled in Congress and the California Domestic Worker Bill of Rights being reviewed by the senate, tonight, we bring you a discussion on immigration. In studio with us we have Mercy Albaran with Mujeres Unidas y Activas working on their Domestic Workers Bill of Rights campaign; Noela Payton, a domestic worker who fought back and won a wage claim after her employer refused to pay overtime; and Roseli Ilano with Immigrant Nation, a short film series that spotlights the commonalities between recent immigrants and those whose families have lived in the US for generations.

The director of the film series is award-winning filmmaker Theo Rigby. As we’re in fund drive, we’re offering his documentary, Sin País, which won the best documentary and audience choice award at the Napa Valley Film Festival, as a premium.

And we hear from R.J. Lozada, our international reporter in the Philippines, with his commentary (passed on to us by Secretary General of BAYAN-USA Jessica Antonio) fresh from the people’s response to the State of the Nation Address (SONA 2013).

Photo by R.J. Lozada

With Host No-No Girl and Tara.

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Tune in to APEX Express tonight to hear about Desiq, the world’s premier South Asian LGBTQ forum that recently took place in San Francisco. Hear key insights, reflections, LGBTQ organizing and more about this forum. Also we have a rich selection of Sri Lankan feminist poetry and music on tonight’s show along with APEX community reflections on the Trayvon judgement. 

Hosted by Preeti Mangala Shekar and No-No Girl.

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Rebroadcast of a show with Bandung 55.

With Host No-No Girl.

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More from the Moana Nui Conference 2013.

Hosted by Karl Jagbandhansingh.

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On this installment:

We broadcast some of the panels for the Moana Nui two-day teach-in that took place in Berkeley, June 1 – 2.

The two-day event brought together 45 speakers, with 20 nations represented. Civil society organizers, educators, environmentalists, indigenous rights activists, from as far as Paupa New Guinea, and as close as occupied Ohlone land addressed military, trade, and resource issues affecting Asia, and Oceania.

With Host R.J.

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Hosted by Tara Dorabji.

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This week, we welcome LGBT Pride Month with a show featuring queer voices.

Trinity Ordoña, Madeleine Lim, Amy Sueyoshi, and Stephen Funk. Photo by Kirstie Haruta.

First, we bring you excerpts from an inspiring panel of queer Asian American activists and artists organized last month by Queer Rebels. It featured conscientious objector and founder of Veteran Artists, Stephen Funk; filmmaker and founder of the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project, Madeleine Lim; scholar, mentor and activist Trinity Ordona; and associate dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State, Amy Sueyoshi. Scholar Margaret Rhee moderated this powerhouse of panelists.

Fire Dragon Love Sauce

We feature Fire Dragon Love Sauce, the “official” hot sauce for gay marriage, which is created by Filipino and Colombian performance artist Gigi Otalvaro-Hormillosa and her partner Heather Cox Carducci.

Learn about our international reporting venture spearheaded by RJ Lozada.

Sta-Prest (1995)

We also hear music by queer punk band Sta-Prest and band off the Bindlestiff Studio CD.

With Host No-no girl.

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