KPFA - Making Contact

American Arabs and Muslims are under the microscope, from capital hill, to your local shopping mall.  Almost every week, there’s more news about the bust of another terrorist cell.  The effect on those communities-living in fear of demonization, or arrest– has been devastating.  On this edition: 10 years of America’s homeland war on Muslims and Arabs.  Racial profiling has happened in times of war before—how will it end this time around?

Featuring: Veena Dubal, Asian Law Caucus National Security and Civil Rights Program Staff Attorney: Lejla Duka, family member of the Fort Dix Five: Dominick Calsolaro, Albany Common Council Member: Noor Elashi, Daughter of Ghassan Elashi of the Holy Land 5: Shaheena Parveen, mother of Siraj Matin: Marlene Jenkins, mother of Tarik Shaw: Sharmin Sadequee, sister of Shifa Sadequee: Tamer Mehanna, brother of Tariq Mehanna: Fred Korematsu, formerly interned Japanese American, John Frank, Clerk to Associate Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black; Tsuyako Kitashima, Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress spokesperson; Donald Tamaki, lawyer for Fred Korematsu, Peter Irons, UC San Diego Constitutional Law Professor

Producer/Host: Andrew Stelzer

Producer: Kyung Jin Lee

Producer/Online Editor: Pauline Bartolone

Contributing Producer: Jaisal Noor

Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Associate Director: Khanh Pham

Production Interns:  Shaunnah Ray and Courtney Supple
Organizational Volunteers: Judy Huang, Dan Turner, Ron Rucker, Alfonso Hooker & Alton Byrd

For More Information:

Project Salam

http://www.projectsalam.org/

Asian Law Caucus

http://www.asianlawcaucus.org/

Coalition For a Safe San Francisco

http://www.safesf.org/

Manufacturing the Muslim Menace: A report by Political Research Associates

http://www.publiceye.org/liberty/training/project-home.html

Of Civil Rights and Wrongs: The Fred Korematsu Story

http://www.pbs.org/pov/ofcivilwrongsandrights/

Council on American Islamic Relations

http://www.cair.com/

San Francisco Human Rights Commission

http://www.sf-hrc.org/

Korematsu Institute

http://korematsuinstitute.org/

Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress

http://www.ncrr-la.org/

Free the Fort Dix 5

http://freefortdixfive.com/

Information on the Newburgh 4

http://www.projectsalam.org/cases/Newburgh_4.html

New York University School of Law Center for Human Rights and Global Justice

http://www.chrgj.org/

Articles, Blogs, Reports and Videos:

San Francisco Human Rights Commission Hearing: US Law Enforcement Profiling & Surveillance of Muslims-Arabs-South Asians

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FvyROeYv1A

Muslims Reject SFPD Surveillance Program

http://www.baycitizen.org/policing/story/san-francisco-muslims-reject-sfpd/

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Youth and their use of social media have been cited as leading factors for Egypt’s January 25th revolution. But women also came out in force to protest Hosni Mubarak’s 30 years of dictatorial power. On this edition, we look at the role women played in the 2011 revolution that successfully brought down a regime. What’s been the history of women in the Egyptian liberation movements, and what’s the role women will play in politics going forward?

Featuring:

Nawal El Saadawi, author activist and re-founder of the Egyptian Women’s Union. Melanie Tanielian, PhD candidate in history of the Middle East at UC Berkeley; adjunct professor at University of San Francisco. Omar Suleiman, Vice President of Egypt.

 Producer/Host: Kyung Jin Lee

Producer: Andrew Stelzer

Producer/Online Editor: Pauline Bartolone

Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Associate Director: Khanh Pham

Production Interns:  Shaunnah Ray and Courtney Supple
Organizational Volunteers: Judy Huang, Dan Turner, Ron Rucker, Alfonso Hooker & Alton Byrd

For More Information:

Nawal El saadawi’s website

http://www.nawalsaadawi.net/

Jadaliyya, an independent Ezine produced by Arab Studies Institute

http://www.jadaliyya.com/

The Arabist

http://www.arabist.net/

Articles, Blogs, Reports and Videos:

Egyptian Chronicles

http://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/

Meet Egypt’s most Radical Woman

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/06/egypt-gender

Women in Egypt Claim Their Rights

http://www.kvinnatillkvinna.se/en/women-in-egypt-claim-their-rights

The Revolution Isn’t Over for the Women of Tahrir Square

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ehsan-zaffar/the-revolution-isnt-over-_b_828651.html

Nawal El Saadawi: Religion is All Politics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1brUb7Yezw8

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We’ll hear excerpts from the Oscar-nominated movie Gasland, including stories from residents who say their drinking water catches on fire—one of the toxic affects of hydraulic-fracking a natural gas drilling method that uses hundreds of chemicals.  While the BP oil spill has increased calls to use natural gas as a so-called ‘clean energy’ alternative, activists are sounding the alarm bell about this controversial technique.Special Thanks to Josh Fox, the producer of “Gasland”, and to Alton Byrd and Rachel Zurer for helping to produce this show.

Featuring:

Walter Hang, Toxics Targeting President; Josh Fox, “Gasland” movie producer; Weston Wilson, EPA employee not speaking on behalf of the EPA; Oil and Gas industry Executives; Pat Farnelli, Norma Fiorintino, Ron & Jean Carter, Dimock, PA residents; Dr. Theo Colborn, Endocrine Disruption Exchange President; Paul Light, Grand Valley Citizen’s Alliance President; Rachel Waldholz, High Country News Correspondent; Maurice Hinchey, New York State Representative, 22nd District; Wes Gillingham, Catskill Mountainkeeper Program Director; Mark Ruffalo, actor and upper Delaware river resident, Lee Fuller, Energy in Depth President

Music

“Come Clean” by Jeru the Damaja

For More Information:

Gasland: the Movie

http://gaslandthemovie.com/

Toxics Targeting

http://www.toxicstargeting.com/

Catskill Mountainkeeper

http://www.catskillmountainkeeper.org/

Battlement Concerned Citizens-a Committee of Grand Valley Citizens Alliance

http://www.wccongress.org/gvca.htm

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Many retirees enjoy the rest and relaxation that eluded them during their working years. But for some, retirement means opportunities to affect positive change in their communities. On this edition, we profile three elders who became activists in the second half of their lives in southern West Virginia, Boston, Massachusetts and Oakland, California.

Featuring:

Bo Webb,  Mountain Justice Co-Founder; Hubie Jones, Boston Children’s Chorus Founder; Margaret Gordon, West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project Co-Founder and Co-Director.

For More Information:

Mountain Justice:

http://mountainjustice.org/index.php

Whitesville, WV

Coal River Mountain Watch

http://www.crmw.net/crmw/index.php

Naoma, WV

Boston Children’s Chorus

http://www.bostonchildrenschorus.org/

Boston, MA

West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project

http://www.woeip.org/

Oakland, CA

Pacific Institute:

http://www.pacinst.org/

Oakland, CA

Encore Careers:

http://www.encore.org/

Purpose Prize:

http://www.encore.org/prize

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If you’ve ever stepped into a nail salon, you know the smell of a chemical cocktail that hits you like an invisible wall. While consumers may tolerate it during a short visit, the nail salon workers find themselves stewing in a toxic bubble for years. On this edition, we take a look at the health impacts of chemical exposure, the shoddy regulation of cosmetics, and the movement towards greener nail salons.

Featuring:

Alisha Nga Tran, Patient Leadership Council facilitator, Asian Health Services; Dr. Thu Quach, Epidemiologist, Cancer Prevention Institute of California; My Tong, translator, health advocate at Asian Health Services; Lam Le, former nail salon worker and cancer survivor; Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, CEO, Green For All; Jamie Silberberger, Director of Programs and Policy at Women’s Voices for the Earth; Uyen Nguyen, Owner, Isabella Nail Salon; Sarah Vuong, employee at Isabella Nail Salon; Jill Adams, client, Isabella Nail Salon; David Chiu, President of San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Thanks to all of our supporters, to As You Sow’s Environmental Enforcement Fund and to Spot.us for helping to crowd fund this story.

 Contributing Producer: Momo Chang

Producer/Online Editor/Host: Pauline Bartolone

Producer/Host: Andrew Stelzer

Producer: Kyung Jin Lee

Executive Director: Lisa Rudman

Associate Director: Khanh Pham

Production Interns:  Shaunnah Ray and Courtney Supple
Organizational Volunteers: Dan Turner, Ron Rucker, Alton Byrd & Alfonso Hooker

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The 1973 Roe versus Wade decision was hailed as a victory by many advocates of a woman’s right to choose.  But decades later, many young people still lack the resources to make informed choices about sex – choices that could affect the rest of their lives.   On this edition, we bring you a discussion about sex education in schools, federal funding for sex-ed and how advocacy groups and parents are making their voices heard on the issue.

Featuring: Phyllida Burlingame, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California Sex Education Policy Director; La Rhonda Crosby-Johnson, Bay Area Communities for Health Education Community Engagement Specialist; Gabriela Valle, California Latinas for Reproductive Justice Director of Community Education & Mobilization.

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While the Korean War ended in 1953 with a temporary armistice, a formal peace treaty was never signed. The United States is still technically at war with North Korea, and tensions between the two countries remain high. Many view North Korea as a strange and rogue country that threatens U.S. security. But others argue that North Korea’s actions have legitimate basis and that historical context is critical to understanding the issues.

On this edition, we look at Korea’s past conflicts and current tensions to understand how to avoid another war in the peninsula.

Featuring: Charles Armstrong, Columbia University’s Associate Professor of Korean Studies; Jade Wu, actress; Paul Liem, President of the Korea Policy Institute; John Feffer, co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies; Jung, Geum Song, Korean War survivor.

For More Information:

Korea Policy Institute
http://www.kpolicy.org/
Los Angeles, CA

Foreign Policy in Focus
http://www.fpif.org/
Washington, DC

Nodutdol for Korean Community Development
http://www.nodutdol.org/
New York, NY

The Korea Society
http://www.koreasociety.org/
New York, NY

National Campaign to End the Korean War
http://www.endthekoreanwar.org/

Central Intelligence Agency’s World Factbook: North Korea
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/kn.html

Nautilus Institute
http://www.nautilus.org/

National Committee on North Korea
http://www.ncnk.org/
Washington DC

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