Pacific Underground

Happy Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! 

While past listeners may remember that the commemoration of this month has

been somewhat controversial among members of Pacific Underground, this year

we are choosing to highlight certain important figures and moments in the

As...

Producer Vy Pham talks to La Vang, owner of the only Hmong eatery in the

Pacific Northwest -  aptly named "@La's, A Hmong Food Cart," located in

Aloha/Beaverton, OR. La is using her kitchen talents to spark conversations

and educate the people of metro Portland about Hmong ...

For our show on Friday April 27th, Pacific Underground producer Kat Batuigas

chats with Carmel Laurino, founder of Kalsada Coffee Company. Kalsada, which

means "road" in Filipino, partners with smallholder coffee farmers in the

Philippines to bring quality Philippine coffee...

Luann Algoso and Dawn Jones Redstone of the webseries, Gabby Smashes the

Imperialist, White Supremacist, Capitalist Patriarchy! join Pacific

Underground on Friday, April 6th at 9AM.

 

https://gabbysmashes.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcT5Z1ecUg4

http://www.wweek.c...

Lilian Dirrebes Ongelungel speaks with Pacific Underground producers Jake

and Kat about being the only Pacific Islander in the room, Moana, tattoes,

and storytelling / oral histories.

to join Lilian and other Pacific Islander storytellers Saturday evening 3/24

at the High ...

On February 16th, Whitenoise Project held an event in memory of Quanice

Hayes, one year and a week after he was shot and killed by police. Join

Pacific Underground as we replay some of the recorded audio from that

event and talk about the connections between art and acti...

As part of his 2016 and 2018 Jade-Midway Placemaking Project, Jade District

Stories, local filmmaker and Slants band member Joe X. Jiang interviewed over

a dozen business owners in the Jade District about their place in the

district and its history.

This week join the Paci...

Lunar New Year is often referred to as Chinese New Years here in the United

States, which erases the fact that many Asian cultures bring in the New Year

according to the Lunar Calendar. Being lumped together as one big "Asian"

demographic also means that many people assu...

Until a few months ago, Nadya Okamoto was ashamed of being Asian but didn't

really realize it. We talk to her about how her upbringing in New York and

Portland affected how she viewed herself and how a recent run for city

council brought her identity issues to light. We ...