KUCI: Subversity

Last night the U.S. House of Representatives passed historic legislation to provide health-care coverage for millions of uninsured Americans. What's behind Obama's executive order enforcing the Hyde Amendment that barred federal funding of abortion?

And over the weekend, thousands rallied for immigration reform. What's the view on the ground about immigration reform and the legacy of Bush-era immigration raids?

Ratting on your neighbors or anyone looking "out of place" -- such as Middle Easterners taking photographs at Orange County Airport -- will be how John Q. Public will be able to help authorities spot "terrorists".

On KUCI's Subversity program this Monday morning, we air talks at the forum given by Tom Cincotta, who heads a project at the Political Research Associates (PRA), researching threats to privacy in the war on terrorism, and Peter Bibring, the expert on police practices at the ACLU of Southern California. Bibring has been researching the LAPD's protoype for citizen reporting -- iReport -- on the LAPD's I-Watch web site. PRA is issuing a research report, Platform for Prejudice(s), later this week tracing Suspicious Activities Reporting and its use in the various anti-terrorism centers set up across the United States.

On March 4, 2010, UC Irvine erupted in a day of lively protest actions as students, faculty and unionized staff joined their comrades across the state and the nation in protesting the privatization of education. At UCI a spirited group of speakers rallied hundreds at a rally at the flagpole, followed by crowds of protesters marching across campus, into Langson Library, and the Gateway Commons by mid afternoon, ending in a smaller crowd gathered on the lawn outside Aldrich Hall, the scene of a sit-in the previous week. On the March 8, 2010 edition of Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, we aired speeches from the March 4 rally at UC Irvine, as a document of UCI activism reaching a new scale.

Sussan, an Iranian from Germany, talks about Iranian women's struggles in Iran. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang

UCI protesters Ryan Davis, Russell Curry and Samiyyah Tillman talk about escalation in protest tactics at UC Irvine. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang

University of California, Irvine has recently drawn international attention over the shouting down of a talk by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren. Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, talks with UCI Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Maneul Gomez, about the First Amendment in the wake of the incident. Gomez reflects on his student activism days as well. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang

Erwin Chemerinsky, the founding dean of the new UCI School of Law, February 11, 2010 talked at UC Irvine about the First Amendment in the wake of the shouting down of the recent lecture at UCI by the Israeli Ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren and the arrests of the students involved.

We talk with CSUN Prof. Gina Masequesmay about the historic march coming up of GLBT Vietnamese in the Tet Parade in Little Saigon Lunar New Year Eve 2010. Interviewer is Daniel C. Tsang, Subversity host.

Vietnam's top director participates in panel discussion at USC after showing his antiwar film, "Don't Burn". Prefaced by Subversity show host Daniel C. Tsang on the director, the film and the diary of the National Liberation Front surgeon Dang Thuy Tram that the film is based on.

Economist Peter Donohue takes another look at University of California's financial statements and again discovers unrestricted assets. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang.