Rumors to the contrary, activism is not dead on school and college campuses. We talk with Hoku Jeffrey, the southern California coordinator of BAMN, an activist group organizing youth to fight for immigrant rights and affirmative action. The discussion comes in the wake of an arrest of a labor activist at UC Berkeley by campus police who subsequently reported him to immigration authorities for possible deportation. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang.

Grace Rowe, who stars in I Am That Girl talks about her role that she wrote of a party girl who maxes out her credit cards. The film portrays her rude awakening as events take an unexpected turn during a camping trip to the Sierras with a guy friend. We also talk with Director So Yong Kim of the exquisitely directed and depicted Treeless Mountain, focusing on the journeys taken by two really young girls in South Korea when their mother takes off. These films were shown at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang.

Show host Daniel C. Tsang interviews two directors showing films at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, including the opening night film.

we talk with Doan Hoang, the director of a daring and revealing documentary, Oh Saigon (Saigon Oi), exposing to the world family fissures in the Hoang family -- the last family airlifted out of Saigon at the impending fall of Saigon in April 1975. Director Hoang exposes dark secrets in the family, including a communist uncle who fought for the liberation of Vietnam and a half-sister left behind initially in Vietnam. Director Hoang is also active in Vietnam Relief Effort, celebrating its tenth anniversary.

We also talk with UCI sociology graduate student John Bruning about current activism on campus by the Radical Student Union, opposing sweatshop-made clothing with UCI-logos and the visit of former Pres. Vicente Fox to UCI.

An interview with Sad Fish director Le-Van Kiet, by Subversity show host Daniel C. Tsang.

Sad Fish stars established actress Kieu Chinh (Joy Luck Club, Journey from the Fall) , newcomer

Orchid Lam Quynh (a UCI aluma), Long Nguyen (Journey from the Fall) and Jayvee Hiep Mai (Journey from the Fall). Exquisitely filmed, Sad

Fish, a drama tinged with comedy, tells drenching stories of unconventional lives from Little Saigon, California, portrayals of nostalgia for homeland but also of daily routines of longings, relationships and domestic turmoil that transgress conventional

boundaries. The film also depicts male intimacy and tension between "Happy Together"-type characters played by actors Jayvee and Long.

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Recent revelations that the FBI has been infiltrating local mosques to spy on mosque-goers have cast a chill on the local Orange County, California, Islamic community. On our 23 March 2009 show, we discuss the impact with Ameena Mirza Qazi Staff Attorney of CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Greater-Los Angeles Area Chapter. We also discuss FBI surveillance of UCI students. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang, KUCI Subversity Show Host.

The issue of overseas Chinese and the politics of the homeland are often studied by scholars but relatively little attention has been paid to the Chinese who lived in North Vietnam before the country was reunited. We talk with one scholar, history Prof. Xiaorong Han from Butler University, who has done just that, focusing his research on Chinese living in North Vietnam from 1954 to 1978. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang, show host.

The LA Times killed its Orange County edition March 3 2009. We talk with long-time LA Times journalist, now retired, David Reyes about an earlier era when the Times cared enough to cover the OC. Joining in the conversation is OC Voice publisher/editor John Earl. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang

What is the situation of women in Iran? We talk with Sussan, an activist from Iran in exile in Europe. She is in southern California organizing events around International Women's Day. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang, show host.

I0n a repeat airing, an edited version of an interview with UCI's film and media studies Professor Fatimah

Tobing Rony, who is one of the co-directors of a film from Indonesia (that was released theatrically there). The film highlights women directors, and the film, Chants of Lotus ("Perempuan Punya Cerita"), covers women's own stories about such controversial subjects as teenage sex, abortion, child trafficking and AIDS. Our interview was first aired last April on Subversity. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang.