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Irvine -- In our next edition, airing Monday May 5 2008 at 9 a.m. on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange County, and on the web simultaneously via kuci.org, we talk with the director of "The Man of Two Havanas".
Vivien Lesnik Weisman, in her documentary, takes a look back at her father and her life with him as he survived numerous bombing attempts by Cuban exiles in Little Havana, not unlike the situation of intimidation and domestic terrorism faced by some outspoken Vietnamese exiles in Little Saigon. We talk about her film and why she wanted to make it, as well as what it was like to live in Miami as a small girl. The film argues that the U.S. embargo against Cuba hurts the people in Cuba as well as Cuban exiles abroad.
Biographical info: Vivien Lesnik Weisman was born in Havana, Cuba. After graduating from Barnard College and New York Law School, she received an M.F.A. in directing from the UCLA School of Film and Television.
Her numerous awards include the presti- gious UCLA Spotlight Award for Best Dramatic Short, the Houston Film Festival Best Short Award and a Golden Eagle for Excellence in Latino Filmmaking.
A student of acclaimed documentarian Marina Goldovskaya, Weisman recently won IFP New York's Fledging Fund Award for a Work-in-Progress for The Man of Two Havanas, her first documentary. She resides in Santa Monica with her son, Richard Jr.
Her father, Max Lesnik, director of Radio Miami, has been the number one target of anti-Castro terrorists and considered the most controversial figure in the Cuban exile community. He was a prominent revolutionary when he left Cuba due to ideological differences with his then-friend, Fidel Castro. In Miami, he took a position that was both against the Cuban government as well as against the U.S. policy toward Cuba. Mr. Lesnik became the publisher of Replica. The magazine was a forum for debate, as well as for Mr. Lesnik's incendiary point of view. Mr. Lesnik's position soon evolved to include dialogue with the Cuban government and recently he revived his friendship with Castro. Mr. Lesnik has been the target of anti-Castro terrorists. They have tried unsuccessfully to murder him; nine bombs have gone off at his office in Little Havana.
The film recently aired in Orange County at the Newport Beach Film Festival.
Film web site: manoftwohavanas.com/About.html
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Meanwhile, the Asian Pacific Film Festival continues in Los Angeles: www.vconline.org.
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In part 1 of the show, we talk with Director/Writer/Producer Amin Matalqa about his new film, "Captain Abu Raed" which screened at Sundance (where it won the World Cinema Audience award this year) and is the first feature film from Jordan in decades. Set in contemporary Jordan, the title character is a lonely janitor at Amman's international airport who befriends a group of neighborhood boys. Matalqa immigrated to the U.S. from Jordan at age 13, who decided to move from the telecommunications industry in Ohio to become a filmmaker in Los Angeles. Among the cast members is established Jordanian actor Nadim Sawalha, in the title role. Sawalha has been featured in British televsion as well as in two James Bond films, "The Spy Who Loved Me" and "The Living Daylights." He also appeared in "Syriana" opposite George Clooney. Sawalha won the 2007 best actor award at the Dubai International Film Festival.
Captain Abu Raed is the closing night film of the Newport Beach Film Festival, on Thursday, 1 May, at the Regency Lido Theatre in Newport Beach.
Film festival site: www.newportbeachfilmfest.com
Film showing info: newportbeach.bside.com/2008/films/captainaburaed_newportbeach2008
Trailer: " blog.spout.com/2008/01/23/sundance-trailer-captain-abu-raed/
In part 2, we talk with Co-director Fatimah Tobing Rony, a UCI film and media studies professor. "Chants of Lotus" (Perempuan Punya Cerita) is a four-part film dissecting the social situation of women in frenetic, modern-day Indonesia. The film stars some of the major Indonesian actresses and the premiere showing in Indonesia was heavily censored. This Los Angeles showing is of the 35 mm original print, and uncensored. The film has its U.S. premiere Sunday, May 4, at 5 p.m. at the Directors Guild of America, Theater 2 as part of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.
Film festival site: www.vconline.org
Film showing info: www.vconline.org/festival/program.cfm?program_id=38
Trailer:
www.kalyanashira.com/perempuanpunyacerita/trailer_tinggi.php
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His website: www.edwardgunawan.com
Interview on Fridae: www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/article.php?articleid=2174&viewarticle=1
Frontiers interview: www.frontierspublishing.com/2621/agenda/agenda_fd.html
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On our next show, 24 March 2008, Subversity talks with activist writer and former sex worker Tony Valenzuela. He worked in the commercial sex industry for about 5 years, including being an escort during that time (1997 to around 2002). A leader of the national Sex Panic activism of the late 1990's, he continues today to be a critic of how mainstream culture, including the gay community, handles matters of sexuality, especially publicly.
A long-time activist based in Southern California, he works on sexual politics, HIV and gay men's health. He writes for LA Weekly, Frontiers, Zyzzyva and is working on a book on gay men and risk.
He last appeared on Subversity in November 1997.
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We listen to the travails of a U.S. permanent resident, who signed up for the Marines, was among the first Marine units to be deployed to Iraq, but when he returned from Iraq, was taken from Camp Pendleton and incarcerated in San Diego, on deportation charges.
Courtesy of Pacific radio KPFA's War Comes Home project, archived testimony is available online and portions will be aired on Subversity this Monday 17 March 2008.
The audio is made available through a creative commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Resources:
War Comes Home site: www.warcomesehome.org
Iraq Veterans Against the War: www.ivaw.org
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Other guests on the program are: Paul Krassner, founder, the Realist Magazine; Wavy Gravy, activist and clown, former Frozen Dessert; Wes "Scoop" Nisker, author, radio commentator, former DJ, KSAN, with moderator Peter Finch, co-host of KFOG Morning Show. Smith is now executive director of the Prometa Center for Addiction.
Subversity thanks Commonwealth Club radio producer Ricardo Esway for permission to air this historic program.
Obituary of Dr. George "Skip" Gay:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/01/BAGGVBO5E.DTL
Commonwealth Club of California radio
https://www.commonwealthclub.org/broadcast/
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1. Investing in Insecurity Along U.S. Borders
In 2006, the Bush Administration's Secure Border Initiative outsourced the surveillance of all U.S. land borders to Boeing Integrated Defense Systems. It's the largest Homeland Security contract to date -- $30 billion dollars.
The fence features ground radar systems, mobile watchtowers, unmanned aerial vehicles and new wireless communication networks. If completed, the southwest border will be the most high-tech border this side of the West Bank.
On this edition, independent producer Joseph Richey visits Project 28 - Boeing's security site, a 28-mile strip along the U.S.-Mexico border, and we talk to "No One is Illegal" organizer, Harjap Grewal, about migration and international trade.
Featuring:
Mitch Ellis, Buenos Aires NWR Refuge Manager; David Gonzalez, US Marshal, Tucson, Arizona; Henry Waxman, Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, California Democratic Congressman; Mark Souder, Indiana Republican Congressman, Republican Leader of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism; Greg Giddens, Department of Homeland Security SBInet director; Steven Lynch, Massachusetts Democratic Congressman; Arivacans: C. Hues, 73 year old artist, Alex Hues, 50 year old pilot, Andrea Morondos and John Warren, grocers; Paul Charlton, former U.S. Attorney, Gallagher and Kennedy, Phoenix, Arizona; Harjap Grewal, "No One is Illegal" organizer.
For more info. go to: www.radioproject.org/archive/2007/5107.html
2. Rhythms of Zapata
Every major social movement has its music, its anthems, its songs. Music tells the story of a people, their dreams, their hopes, their vision for a different world. But what happens when the music crosses borders to embrace new cultures?
In the U.S., people of color have been turning more and more to the Zapatismo, a Mayan indigenous movement in the jungles and mountains of southern Mexico, as a source of hope and as proof that, as the Zapatistas say, a different world is possible.
On this edition, we go to East Los Angeles, where a number of Chicano artists inspired by the Zapatistas have been using music to raise awareness in their own communities and to struggle for a better world.
This show has been a special collaboration between National Radio Project and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Thanks to student producer, Alejandro Reyes who wrote and edited this show under the guidance of independent media producer and UC Berkeley journalism lecturer, Claire Schoen.
Featuring:
Luv the Messenger, Rapper and youth activist; Marisol, Performance artist and activist, member of Chusma, In Lak Ech, Self-Help Graphics, Chicano Records and Films; Nico, Poet and youth activist and Poets del Norte member; Xela, Rapper and youth activist and Cihuatl-Ce member; Olmeca, Hip-hop artist and activist; Joel Garcia, Graphic artist and activist; Tolteka, Hip-hop artist and activist; Roberto Flores, Researcher and Zapatista activist; Elisa Mejia, Activist, Radio Insurgencia Femenina (KPFK, Los Angeles) and Center for Popular Action member; Colectivo Error, Musicians and activists; Sherman Austin, Hip-hop artist and activist against police violence; Cynthia, Priscila, Crystal, fans at concert; Dan Nemser, UC Berkeley student and Zapatista activist; Joaquin Cienfuegos and Josefina Macias, Cop Watch Los Angeles and Revolutionary Autonomous Communities members; Manuel Macias, Cop Watch Los Angeles supporter; Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) spokesman and military leader.
Executive Producer/Host: Tena Rubio Contributing Producer: Alejandro Reyes Producer: Andrew Stelzer Associate Producer: Puck Lo Interns: Samson Reiny and Elena Botkin-Levy
For more info: www.radioproject.org/archive/2008/0908.html.
In Part 1: We air a dispatch from National Radio Project's Making Contact, "Still Talking About Sex," which features former U.S. Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders. In 1993, Elders became the first African American Surgeon General of the United States. Criticized and attacked for her public statements promoting comprehensive sex education, the distribution of condoms in public schools, and the possibility of the legalization of drugs, Elders was forced to resign about a year later. The statement Elders is often remembered for is when she said masturbation is a part of human sexuality, and so perhaps it should be taught to children. On this edition, of Making Contact, we'll hear from the former surgeon who to this day remains a fierce advocate for health related policies.
In Part 2: We delve into the Edison Chen sex scandal that has gripped Hong Kong and the surrounding region for a month. The hip hop singer and actor has now admitted taking most of the hundreds of photographs circulating on the Internet showing him in bed (separately) with up to a half dozen local starlets. We discuss the legal and civil rights implications in the current law enforcement crackdown in the wake of the theft of his images.
Links:
Latest Edison Chen apology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewAKWEeC0IU
Earlier Edison Chen apology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIIwhbMRXe4&feature=related
Jeff Chang 2006 profile of Edison Chen: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/11/DDGOLLLO541.DTL
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We talked about the Starbucks, the Irvine Company, and how to maintain an independent and unique coffeeshop amidst all this homogenization and Starbucksization. We also discussed how Vietnam entered the world coffee market and what is fair trade coffee.
For more information, see:
Kean Coffee: www.keancoffee.com
Selected Articles in OC Weekly:
Coffee. Talk. No. 9: Kean Coffee keeps it real in this mixed-up, crazy corporate world, by Nick Schou.
'Back to Square One': Martin Diedrich Celebrates the Death of His Family's Coffee Chain, by Nich Schou.
A Reality Shrine for a Wired World: The Year in Coffeehouse Founder Carl Diedrich, by Nathan Callahan
The Politics of Food show on KUCI
An interview with coffee guru Martin Diedrich about his new Coffeehouse in Costa Mesa named after his son Kean. 2/9/06
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See his essay, "Flying Monkeys: Judeo Christian Values".
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UCI Chancellor's Prof. Gabriele Schwab, UCI Chancellor Michael Drake and Kenyan Ambassador to the United Nations HE Zachary Dominic Muburi-Muita introduced the evening's program. UCI Prof. David Goldberg introduced longtime activist (and like Ngugi, a one-time political prisoner) Angela Davis, now a professor at UC Santa Cruz, appeared via video hookup. Two poets, Mukoma Wa Ngugi (Ngugi's son) and Simon Ortiz, read their poetry in this part of the celebration.
For our conversation with Prof. Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Prof. Gabriele Schwab last Monday, click here: http://kuci.org/~dtsang/subversity/Sv080121.mp3
Joining us in the conversation on "Being a Writer in a Society in Crisis" is Gabriele Schwab, Chancellor's Prof. of English and Comparative Literature at UCI. We'll focus on the current turmoil in Kenya.
One of the foremost contemporary African writers and an exile of Kenya and former political prisoner, Ngugi's work as literary figure, activist, and academic testify to his relentless passion and commitment to deliver much needed critique. In 2006 Ngugi published his first novel in nearly two decades, the critically lauded and lengthy The Wizard and the Crow, which went on to win the California Gold Award for fiction in 2007.
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One of the foremost contemporary African writers and an exile of Kenya and former political prisoner, Ngugi’s work as literary figure, activist, and academic testify to his relentless passion and commitment to deliver much needed critique. In 2006 Ngugi published his first novel in nearly two decades, the critically lauded The Wizard and the Crow, which went on to win the California Gold Award for fiction in 2007.
Opening at 5:30 pm, “In Ngugi's Spirit” will begin with remarks from UC Irvine’s Chancellor Michael Drake and Kenyan Ambassador Zachary Dominic Muburi-Muita and proceed with a special talk from Professor and fellow activist Angela Davis, poetry readings by poet, critic and activist Mukoma Wa Ngugi (Ngugi's son) and acclaimed indigenous poet, writer and activist Simon J. Ortiz. Following this opening, guests will be invited to a reception and book signing with Ngugi and the guest speakers. At 8 pm, Humanities Dean Vicki Ruiz will open the next session, which will include poetry readings from much-admired African American poets Sonia Sanchez and Jerry Quickley. The evening will conclude with “Chinese Music/African Dance: Translation and Performance,” a unique event featuring Liu Sola, internationally reknowned Chinese composer, singer, writer and performer, and Koffi Koko, internationally acclaimed African Dancer.
“In Ngugi's Spirit” is sponsored by The UC Humanities Research Institute; The Executive Vice Chancellor's Office; The Dean of Humanities; The Departments of Comparative Literature, English, African-American, East Asian Languages and Literatures, German, Spanish and Music; The Critical Theory Institute; The Critical Theory Emphasis; and the Chancellor Professor's Research Fund.
Irvine -- On our next show, Subversity honors the progressive work of a friend of Subversity, Philip Agee, who resigned after 12 years as a case officer in the CIA and began exposing the CIA's "dirty tricks" in the covert operations the U.S. engaged in around the world. He leaves as his legacy his principled and consistent efforts in counteracting U.S. subversion of people's struggles around the world. He died 7 January 2008 in Havana, Cuba from complications from ulcer treatment.
We talk with his close friend, collaborator, co-author and fellow traveler, Louis Wolf, a co-founder of CovertAction Information Bulletin (later Quarterly) about Phil Agee's progressive work.
A. Selected Articles by Philip Agee:
A Shameful Injustice: Cuba's 50-year defiance of US attempts to isolate it is an inspiration to Latin America's people:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/mar/10/comment.cuba
Terrorism and Civil Society: The Instruments of US Policy in Cuba:
www.counterpunch.org/agee08092003.html
Terrorismo y Sociedad Civil como Instrumentos de la Politica Estadounidense en Cuba:
www.manueltalens.com/ultima_hora/46agee.htm
Tracking Covert Actions into the Future:
mediafilter.org/MFF/CovOps.html
A Stunning Contrast: The Descent of the US; The Rise of Latin America:
www.counterpunch.org/agee03142007.html
Producing the Proper Crisis:
groups.google.com/group/alt.journalism.newspapers/browse_thread/thread/45777d57195aad22
B. Philip Agee on Video:
video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&resnum=0&q=philip+agee&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv
C. Philip Agee on Democracy Now:
www.democracynow.org/2005/7/27/flashback_renegade_cia_officer_phillip_agee
D. Obituaries:
New York Times:
www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/obituaries/10agee.html?_r=1&oref=slogin (free login)
Guardian:
www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2238010,00.html
London Times:
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3162281.ece
Independent:
news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article3328353.ece
El Pais:
www.elpais.com/articulo/Necrologicas/Philip/Agee/ex/agente/CIA/elpepinec/20080110elpepinec_1/Tes
Die Tageszeitung:
www.taz.de/1/politik/amerika/artikel/1/der-beste-feind-der-cia/?src=SE&cHash=703d9224f5
Scotland on Sunday:
news.scotsman.com/world/Latin-legacy-of-the-CIA.3667445.jp
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Shivani is also a literary critic based in Houston, Texas. He was born in Pakistan, but has spent most of his life in the U.S. He wrote for the leading Pakistani newspaper Dawn throughout the 1990s, engaging with the democratic politics of that era. His fiction typically deals with the difficulties of attaining true pluralism and tolerance in today's multicultural societies, and with the assorted disorders of postcolonial culture. His writings also engage with the present rise of fascistic tendencies in the U.S. His novel in progress, Intrusion, is about an American anthropologist studying an urban squatter settlement in contemporary Pakistan.
His essays have often appeared in CounterPunch.
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On Subversity's New Year's Eve show, we celebrate and honor the engaged life of Allan Berube, a community historian, who documented the lives of gays in the military, and who received a MacArthur Foundation award. His book, Coming Out Under Fire, was developed into a film by documentary filmmaker Arthur Dong. Berube, who helped found the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, died December 11, 2007.
We talk with several fellow travelers of Berube's, including fellow historian Gerard Koskovich and activist Amber Hollibaugh about Berube's role in the gay liberation movement and his impact on a whole new generation of queer scholarship and activism.
Gerard Koskovich is a San Francisco-based editor, writer, historian, and rare book dealer and collector. He is the staff liaison for the American Society on Aging's Lesbian and Gay Aging Issues Network. His entry on LGBT archives and libraries in the United States is forthcoming in the three-volume reference work LGBTQ America Today (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2008). Recent publications include an extensive French-language portfolio on the GLBT Historical Society published in volume 6 of Triangulere (Paris: Editions Christophe Gendron, December 2006), an annual review of queer arts and culture, and "The 'Modest Collection' of Bud Flounders: How 5,400 Gay Novels Came to Green Library," published in the fall 2005 issue of Imprint, the journal of the Associates of the Stanford University Libraries.
Amber Hollibaugh, senior strategist at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, formerly was the director of education, advocacy and community building at SAGE (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders). She was the first director of the Lesbian AIDS Project at Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) in New York. She is a well-known activist, artist, writer and community organizer. She is author of My Dangerous Desires: a Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home. She also co-produced and directed The Heart of the Matter, a documentary about women's sexuality and HIV risk, which won the 1994 Sundance Festival Freedom of Expression Award and ran on the PBS series, P.O.V.
Have a safe and productive new year!
See obituaries:
New York Times: obit.
Los Angeles Times: obit.
Bay Area Reporter: obit
Sullivan County Democrat: obit.
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We look back at the case that we first covered over two years ago, when we interviewed Hoang Bui's wife, Phuong, who was then spending her first Thanksgiving with her two children without their father, a Caucasian-Vietnamese. The case sparked intense community protest with community meetings as well as a march against police headquarters. The case continues with the Bui family's lawsuit against the city over a ban on grieving their loss at the site of the incident. That case goes to court in March, 2008, where the family is represented by attorney Michael Avila.
See Deepa Bharath's article: "Court Oks Westminster Police Settlement," Orange County Register, 19 December 2007, as well as the reader comments.
See also Trinh Luu's article, "The Hoang Tan Bui case: What are they not telling us?" in the Fall 2005 edition of Jaded, a UCI alternative Asian Pacific American magazine, p.7. The piece was written right before two years before the settlement.
We dedicate the show to the memory of a fellow traveller, Alan Berube, a community activist cum historian, who won the MacArthur Foundation award after his work on gays in the military. He passed away 11 December 2007 at the age of 61.
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On our Monday, 17 December, 2007 show we chatted with Lynne Kates. She is the CCR's Organizer for the Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative. She is an active member of the National Lawyers Guild and co-chair of its Middle East subcommittee, and is a community activist with New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine and Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition. She received her JD in 2006 from Rutgers University School of Law, and her BA in 2002 from Rutgers University.
Kates cited the case of Maher Ara, the Canadian national who was "renditioned" and tortured by the CIA. See Ara Commission from Canada.
We also aired a segment from National Radio Project's Making Contact, on "The War on Torture: U.S. Policy Exposed," with analysis from Law and Philosophy Prof. David Luban of Georgetown University.
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On the next edition of Subversity, we chat with Shemon Salam about what happened, what this portends for activists today and more generally about the state of activism today, especially among Asian Americans.
Salam is a University of Washington graduate student and an Asian American Muslim. He has been an anti-war and Palestine solidarity activist for the past six years. He has also been involved with anti-fascist organizing, and been active countering police brutality and immigrant deportation.
See his: "A Visit from the FBI: When Fear is Not an Option," CounterPunch, 1 December 2007.
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James Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. He is the author of more than 62 books published in 29 languages, and over 600 articles in professional journals, including the American Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology, Social Research, and Journal of Peasant Studies. He has published over 2000 articles in nonprofessional journals such as the New York Times, the Guardian, the Nation, Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy, New Left Review, Partisan Review, TempsModerne, Le Monde Diplomatique, and his commentary is widely carried on the internet.
His publishers have included Random House, John Wiley, Westview, Routledge, Macmillan, Verso, Zed Books and Pluto Books. He is winner of the Career of Distinguished Service Award from the American Sociological Association's Marxist Sociology Section, the Robert Kenny Award for Best Book, 2002, and the Best Dissertation, Western Political Science Association in 1968. His most recent titles include Unmasking Globalization: Imperialism of the Twenty-First Century (2001); co-author The Dynamics of Social Change in Latin America (2000), System in Crisis (2003), co-author Social Movements and State Power (2003), co-author Empire With Imperialism (2005), co-author)Multinationals on Trial (2006).
His website is: petras.lahaine.org.
See:
James Petras, "CIA Venezuela Destabilization Memo Surfaces," CounterPunch, 28 November 2007.
James Petras, "Venezuela Between Ballots and Bullets," CounterPunch, 14 November 2007.
James Petras, "China Bashing and the Loss of U.S. Competitiveness," CounterPunch, 22/23 2005.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "The Enigma of Chavez," Le Monde Diplomatique, 4 October 2000.
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Badalu was recently on the UC Irvine campus where he met with students and also curated a queer Southeast Asian film shorts program. Badalu is both an independent producer working with some of East Asia's leading filmmakers as well as the director of the Q! Film Festival. The Jakarta-based Q! Film Festival weathered attacks early in its history from fundamentalist religious groups to emerge as the only film festival of its kind in Indonesia with venues in Jakarta, Jogjakarta, and Bali. It is the largest queer festival in Asia. Badalu has served as a juror for the Berlin and Bangkok Film Festivals and as a producer for five independent films.
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Tony Bui directed and wrote "Three Seasons," shot in Vietnam and starring Harvey Keitel. He also co-wrote and produced "Green Dragon", which his brother, Timothy Bui, directed. Airlifted out of Vietnam at age two, Tony Bui studied film at Loyola Marymount University and shot his thesis short, "Yellow Lotus" in Vietnam. His developed his screenplay for "Three Seasons" at the Sundance Filmmakers and Screenwriters Lab, with the film later winning at the Sundance Festival both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award. On the show, he addresses the importance of solidarity with striking screenworkers and the growing numbers of Asian American screenwriters in the guild.
Sylvia J. Martin is writing her dissertation in anthropology at UCI on media industries. She has conducted ethnographic research of the production process of commercial film and television programs in the Hollywood and Hong Kong media industries. Her fieldwork experience includes working at a film and television production company at Warner Bros. Studio and observing on the set of numerous films and television shows, even working as an "extra". Prior to graduate school, Sylvia worked on over a dozen National Geographic Television Specials and in visual effects in feature films.
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Info on his talk: www.chancellor.uci.edu/cdfs.shtml.
Subversity host's bibliography of Hersh's prolific writing: www.lib.uci.edu/online/fellows/CDFS_Hersh.pdf .
Other bibliographies by various librarians: www.lib.uci.edu/online/fellows/fellows.html.
Another UCI campus event, slated for Thursday, 15 November, 2007 at 5:30 p.m. at the Langson Library, where Raul Fernández, UCI Professor of Chicano & Latino Studies and Ken Janda, UCI Professor of Chemistry will speak at a reception opening a new exhibit, one on the UC-Cuba iniatative, at the UC Irvine Langson Library.
Reservation info etc.: www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/new/exhibit_fall07.html
Mike Davis at 2002 UCI rally supporting UC lecturers & librarians; photo © 2002 Daniel C. Tsang
Irvine -- On this Veterans Day show, KUCI's Subversity show features a veteran of countless peace and justice struggles and related literary output, cultural critic and UCI history prof. Mike Davis. Davis, who last week won the noted Lannan Literary Award for non-fiction for his prolific body of work, speaks to Subversity about developers and Orange County, and why he would like to reduce his time in academia (from full-time to one-third). He has made such a request to UCI Chancellor Michael V. Drake. We talked to him after his recent (October 31) UCI talk, "Katrina in the Suburbs," about the politics of wildfires, which will also air.
Davis, who will receive $150,000 with the Lannan honor, is a past recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship award.
His biography from the Lannan Literary Awards notes:
"Mike Davis was born in Fontana, California, 60 miles east of Los Angeles in 1946, and is a veteran of 1960's civil rights and anti-war movements. From his first book, Prisoners of the American Dream (1986), about unionism in the United States, to his most recent, Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb (2007), Davis' fearless writing in 18 books shines a fresh light on economic, social, environmental, and political injustice. Some of his other books include City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Magical Urbanism, Planet of Slums, Dead Cities, In Praise of Barbarians, and No One is Illegal. He is currently working on a book about climate change, water, and power in the U.S. West and northern Mexico. A former meat cutter and long-distance truck driver, Davis has been a fellow at the Getty Institute and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1998. He teaches at the University of California, Irvine."
His Wikipedia entry is here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Davis_%28scholar%29.
The show airs on Monday, 12 November 2007, on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange County, California, and is webcast simultaneously via kuci.org. Subscribe to podcasts here: www.kuci.org/podcasts/?ShowID=600 .
He was last on Subversity after the Katrina disaster (14 October 2004). To listen to that show (unfortunately some audio is lost): kuci.org/~dtsang/subversity/Sv051014b.mp3.
Among his recent articles is this one, "San Diego Builds a Statute to an Arsonist: Developers with Matches".
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Loo, who turns 24 next Sunday, plays the teenager.
The film has its U.S. premiere (after its world premiere at Pusan), Sunday and Tuesday at the AFI Festival in Los Angeles. It will also show in Hong Kong later this month.
The film was censored by the Singapore censorhip board and thus taken off the Singapore film festival lineup to preserve its artistic integrity in April.
The film depicts the last stages of a loving -- if agnonized -- relationship between the two with artistic, lyrical scenes in bed, in the shower and elsewhere. Its frank depiction of gay lovemaking -- even a threesome -- is pioneering in the Lion City, where sodomy and other sex acts among males remain a crime. The film also depicts the the mother while the boy is focused on seeking sexual and emotional satisfaction with the man.
Loo, originally interested in becoming a graphic designer, is pursing his MFA in digital filmmaking at Nanyang Technological University's School of Art Design and Media in Singapore, where he was among the first batch of students to enrol in the new school in 2005.
Solos: loozihan.wordpress.com/solos-2007/
(Loo is on the right in the first
picture)
AFI film showings: filmguide.afifest.com/tixSYS/2007/filmguide/title/detail/
Biography of director Loo:
loozihan.wordpress.com/about/
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In the actual broadcast, we also aired a clip of Bob Avakian, who heads the Revolutionary Communist Party, on the topic of critical thinking in academia.
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We also chat with an Chinese American activist mentioned in the book, Steve Louie, about the impact of the Cultural Revolution, and its art, on social and political movements here.
The show airs from 9-10 a.m. on Monday, 22 October, 2007, on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange County, Calif., and is simulcast on the Web via kuci.org.
Cushing maintains a documents for the people site: www.docspopuli.org..
The bulk of the poster collection is housed at the East Asia Library at University of California, Berkeley: www.docspopuli.org/ChinaPosters.html.
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The interview airs Monday, October 15, 2007 at 9 am on Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange County, California, webcasting via kuci.org.
We discuss why the censorship occurred and what happened. See coverage in the Armenian Weekly.
See also Robert Fisk, "A Reign of Terror which History has Chosen to Neglect," The Independent, 12 October, 2007.
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Subversity takes this 60th anniversary of the CIA as the opportunity to look back at the CIA and its history of domestic surveilance, before and after 9/11. We air a 1999 interview we did with attorney Kate Martin, of the Center for National Security Studies, who represented Tsang in his Privacy Act lawsuit against the CIA, as well as portions from an hour-long interivew, taped this past July for KUCI show host Mari Frank's "Privacy Piracy" show (www.kuci.org/privacypiracy/#09_12_07) where Frank interviewed Martin and Tsang about his lawsuit that exposed CIA domestic spying after the Privacy Act was enacted supposedly to prevent such illegal activities. We talk about how the CIA used the National Security Act to illegally spy on Tsang. Although the CIA settled the case with Tsang, a U.S. citizen at birth, it refused to promise to not spy on other Americans (or permanent residents).
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For more information, see press release.
On our next show, airing Monday, 1 October 2007, KUCI's Subversity show kicks off its fall 2007 season by focusing on a new report, No Easy Answers: Sex Offender Laws in the US, that recently was issued by Human Rights Watch.
We talk with the report's author, Sarah Tofte, who is a researcher with the U.S. program at Human Rights Watch. In her report, she assails "mistaken premises" that are prevalent about sex offenders and argues that we must rethink sex offender laws because the laws are counterproductive.
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Last month, we aired a related program, an interview with Paul Shannon, who has started a campaign to reform sex offender laws.
Audio of that earlier Subversity show is here.
Shannon's article in CounterPunch is here.
Shannon's web site with an online petition is here.
On our September 24, 2007 show, we talked with one such doubter, Sociology Prof. David S. Meyer, a specialist on social and political protest. We discussed how faculty protest at UCI quickly fizzled out after Chancellor Drake made an apology to the faculty senate last Thursday.
We also aired highlights from the emergency session of the faculty senate, which passed a resolution reminding the UCI administration of the need to uphold academic freedom, but tabled any resolution that hinted at any criticism of the Chancellor. The body did adopt a motion, put forth by a founding law school faculty member, Prof. Joseph F. Dimento, to create a committee to investigate the Chancellor's actions.
Despite the "love fest", others outside UCI have continued their criticism of the Chancellor's action earlier this month, which brought national attention to UCI, amidst allegations of the university caving in to outside pressures.
A Los Angeles Times editorial writer continued to call on the Chancellor to " 'Fess Up" while one commentator called him "The Most Corrupt Man in California".
See also:
L'affaire Chemerinsky:
www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2007/09/19_opinion.shtml
OC Register on last week's show:
Report:
UCI chancellor may be wooing fired professor:
Host of campus radio show says chancellor may already be meeting with Duke professor Erwin Chemerinsky.
Other news links:
Google News
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NEWS FLASH:
Prof. Chemerinsky rehired!
LA Times story initially at 10:05 a.m., later updated: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uci18sep18,0,3167475.story?coll=la-home-center.
Also: UCI and Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky issue a joint statment: http://www.chancellor.uci.edu/lawupdate.070917.shtml
So our report that Chancellor Drake may have flown out to North Carolina to begin negotiations was correct after all. The OC Register had an article (quoted below) on the Subversity show Monday morning, 17 September, 2007, on our then unconfirmed report.
As I reported on the show, Chemerinsky, contacted last Friday, emailed me back: "I think I'd prefer not to say anything else about it right now," implying as I reported, something was going on. There was.
Or this is how rumors get spread...even if they turn out to be true.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Report:
UCI chancellor may be wooing fired dean
Host of campus radio show says chancellor may already be meeting with Duke professor Erwin Chemerinsky.
By MARLA JO FISHER
The Orange County Register
IRVINE – As rampant speculation builds on campus, a campus radio show host is reporting this morning that UCI Chancellor Michael Drake might have flown to North Carolina to meet with noted law professor Erwin Chemerinsky, in the wake of a national furor over his decision to hire and fire Chemerinsky as in rapid succession. "Subversity has learned the chancellor may already be flying to North Carolina to meet with the hired and fired dean, Duke University Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky and renew negotiations with the latter," host Daniel Tsang of the UCI radio show "Subversity" said in an e-mail he sent out to reporters. Contacted via e-mail, Tsang said he was merely repeating rumors. There has been rampant speculation on campus that Drake has met with the would-be law school dean he hired Aug. 16 and fired Sept. 11 after intense political pressure from political conservatives. This morning, Chemerinsky, who normally talks to the press, declined to comment on whether he had met with Drake. "I can't say anything," Chemerinsky said. Neither Drake nor Chemerinsky answered cell phone calls, e-mails or text messages all day Sunday from reporters asking if they were holding a meeting. Tsang's Monday morning show on KUCI features two prominent faculty members discussing the issue. ...
A subsequent cached link with variant content via msnbc site: UCI rehires law dean.
Faculty and newspapers, such as the New York Times, have already called for the UCI Chancellor, Michael Drake, to reverse his decision and say he made a mistake. Subversity has learned the chancellor may already be flying to North Carolina to meet with the hired and fired dean, Duke University Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky and renew negotiations with the latter. We are seeking confirmation of that unconfirmed account.
In our next show, slated for Monday, 17 September 2007, at 9-10 a.m., we talk with two key faculty members about this sad saga.
We talk with a founding faculty member at the forthcoming law school, Distinguished Prof. Elizabeth Loftus, who talks about one way out of this impasse.
We also talk with Prof. David Theo Goldberg, who heads the UC-system's Humanities Research Institute headquartered at UCI, and who drafted the "open letter" in the form of an online petition, calling for the Chancellor to re-offer the dean's position to Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky.
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The Loftus interview was taped Sunday, 16 September 2007; the Goldberg interview was taped Friday, 14 September 2007.
Recent Articles linked on Google News:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=UCI+law+school&btnG=Search+News
Earlier Articles:
Wall Street Journal blog:
blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/09/12/the-oc-law-school-edition/
Los Angeles Times
www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ucilaw13sep13,0,5893599.story?coll=la-home-center
OC Register
www.ocregister.com/news/chemerinsky-law-eastman-1844112-dean-school
Blog
www.leiterlawschool.typepad.com/
Bren's donations to Republican Party candidates etc
www.newsmeat.com/billionaire_political_donations/Donald_Bren.php
Chancellor's lame statement:
www.chancellor.uci.edu/
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His op ed (co-written with an archivist, Alan Virta, also on the show) appears in Saturday's New York Times, which also ran a separate op ed on the late sociologist Laud Humphrey's Tearoom Trade book that analyzed the folks who engage in tearoom sex.
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The web site is at: www.reformsexoffenderlaws.org . His Counterpunch article is here: www.counterpunch.org/shannon07102007.html.
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We talk with UC Riverside ethnic studies assoc. prof. Dylan Rodriguez about his campaign to fight California's expansion of the prison industry, the biggest such expansion thus far. The activist cum professor will be making a presentation Monday evening at a public forum at the Ontario City Library, 215 East C. St., Ontario that begins at 6:30 pm.
In addition we bring you a report from this past weekend's anti-communist demonstration against a courageous magazine, Viet Weekly, currently under siege by anti-communist demonstrators in Garden Grove. We talk with the lone counter protester,at this past Saturday's protest, James Du, a Vietnamese immigrant for some 30 years, who speaks up for the importance of free speech. Unfortunately Viet Weekly no longer publishes its English section.
See my 1999 Los Angeles Times op ed on an earlier anti-communist protest, Little Saigon Slowly Kicking the Redbaiting Habit.
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The actual report is here: www.thetaskforce.org/downloads/reports/reports/API_LivingInTheMargins.pdf
The show airs from 9-10 a.m. on Monday, 18 June 2007, on the first day of KUCI's new summer schedule, and is webcast simultaneously via kuci.org.
Here is more info. on Dang:
Alain Dang is a policy analyst with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. His research focuses on the intersections of race, sexual orientation, community building, and public policy. He co-authored Living in the Margins: A National Survey of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Asian and Pacific Islander Americans, Asian Pacific American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People: A Community Portrait and Black Same-Sex Households in the United States: A Report from the 2000 Census for the Task Force Policy Institute. His autobiographical chapter is featured in Kevin Kumashiro's Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian Pacific American Activists , published by Harrington Park Press. He and his work have been featured in a variety of media across the country, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Miami Herald, San Francisco Chronicle , Atlanta Journal-Constitution, AsianWeek, The Advocate, World Journal, News India Times, Filipino Reporter, Hyphen Magazine and The Western Journal of Black Studies, among others. In addition, he has traveled the country speaking at conferences, colleges and universities. He holds a BA in Environmental Analysis & Design from UC Irvine (Social Ecology) and an MA in Urban Planning from UCLA.
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A Canadian transplant, David Huynh has had the fortunate opportunity to have performed on both Canadian and American theatre, television and film productions. David was seen on Canadian television as a series regular on YTV's "2030 C.E." His stage credits also include the role of Oscar in "Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang" and Berthold Brecht's "The Caucasian Chalk Circle". David has studied at The Prairie Theatre Exchange and was a member of the influential Manitoba Theatre for Young People. Before David pursued acting professionally, he was attending The University of Manitoba, working on a Film Major and a Minor in Theatre Studies.
In Los Angeles, David made his stage debut in Joe Jordan's "Dubya 2004" at The Sacred Fools theatre. Most recently, David was last seen on stage in Lisa Hammer's "Grimmer than Grimm" in addition too The Underground Theatre's production of Langford Wilson's "Balm In Gilead" and on television as Sun Kim on ABC's freshly cancelled program "Invasion". David became the proud recipient of the 2007 Visual Communication Film Festival Special Jury Prize winner - Emerging Actor in "BABY", a gang-land drama from director Juwan Chung. "BABY" was also awarded the Jury Prize - Narrative feature award at the festival. In July, David will start principal photography on "All About Dad" a story about a Vietnamese - American family dealing with change and Dad's old world views on life, and his children's new-world views. Shooting will take place on location in San Jose, CA. For more information and pictures of the actor, see: www.david-huynh.com.
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Orange Coast Voice Editor John Earl, CSU Fullerton Communications Prof. Jeffrey Brody and The District and former OC Weekly publisher Will Swaim discuss reportage and journalism in the OC with show host Daniel C. Tsang. Earl, a former KUCI Public Affairs Host ("The News Gap") and a former area reporter, edits the independent monthly Orange Coast Voice, which covers Costa Mesa and Huntington Beach. Brody is a former Orange County Register reporter who is best known for his coverage of Little Saigon. Will Swaim is founded the OC Weeky before taking some of the staff to The District in Long Beach.
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There is also a transcript of Carter's talk.
More information on his talk at: http://www.socsci.uci.edu/events/carter/.
The full audio of the event is here: http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/611/carter5-3-07.mp3.
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In connection with a new exbibit on Vietnam's Central Highlanders opening at UCI's Langson Library, on the next Subversity show (May 14, 2007 at 9 a.m.) on KUCI, we talk with anthropologist Joe Carrier, whose photos taken during the Vietnam War and more recently form a major part of the exhibit, "Surviving War, Surviving Peace: The Central Highlanders of Vietnam." We talk with Carrier about why he took the photos of the Central Highlanders, their plight during various wars and and more recently, the role of various regimes, and the responsibilities of an anthropologist in documenting people in cultures different from one's own. A reception and panel discussion in connection with the exhibit will take place Tuesday 15 May at 5:30 p.m. at UCI's Langson Library. For more information, see: www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/new/exhibit_spr07.html . For more information, see press release.
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We plan to chat with actor Dustin Nguyen, who attended Orange Coast
College,
went on to act in 21 Jump Street, as well as many other films, the
latest three
showing at the VC Film Festival, two made in Vietnam. See press
release
for details. To listen to the show, click here:
Monday is also the last day of KUCI's annual fund drive. To support programming such as Subversity's, which first aired in 1993, you can pledge. Info: 949 824 5824 or online at kuci.org/fund07, where premiums are also listed.
Left Forum: Forging A Radical Future
Is "reform" the best that leftists can hope for? If not, what are the
steps to deep economic, political and social transformation, and what
kinds of organizations are needed?
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Leftist movements around the world are facing new problems and possibilities. Each spring in New York City, organizers and intellectuals gather at what has become known as the Left Forum. They discuss, debate, and develop new visions and strategies. On this edition, we hear selections from the opening panel of the Left Forum, recorded March 9, 2007.
The 2007 Left Forum was subtitled: "Forging a Radical Political Future," but creating a leftist vision in today's world generated some questions: Is "reform" alone the best that leftists can hope for? If not, what are the steps to deep economic, political and social transformation, and what kinds of organizations are needed to bring about real change?
Featuring: Cornel West, professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University; Stanley Aronowitz, co-managing-editor of the journal "Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination"; Hilary Wainwright, editor of Red Pepper magazine, and fellow at the Center for Global Governance at the London School of Economics.
The Color of Wealth
Income generation is one indicator of power differences between racial groups in the United States. For instance, in 1968 African Americans made 55 cents for every dollar a white person made. In 2004, it was 58 cents. But accumulated wealth, not income alone, may be the most revealing index of inequality.
So why the disparities? Author and organizer Meizhu Lui has some answers. Lui is from a family of Chinese immigrants. She was a kitchen worker for 20 years, and she rose through the labor ranks to become president of her local union. Now she's executive director of United for a Fair Economy, a non-partisan group that raises awareness about the damaging consequences of concentrated wealth and power in the United States.
Lui co-authored the book "The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide." She spoke in San Francisco at Cody's Books in June 2006.
For audio files of those programs, go to: http://www.radioproject.org/.
On our next show, we talk with the director of a new film that will the showing at the closing night of the Vietnamese International Film Festival in Orange County. VIFF is in its third edition: http://www.vietfilmfest.com. Featured this year are five films from Vietnam as well as films from the Vietnamese diaspora the world over.
On Monday, we talk with film director Le-Van Kiet about his film, Dust of Life (Bui Doi) about why he chose to bring to the screen the fraught lives of Vietnamese youth in 1990s Orange County. The show airs from 9-10 a.m. on 16 April 2007 on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Irvine, California, and via the Internet on kuci.org.
Dust of Life will be screened on Sunday, April 22, 2007 at UCI, HIB 100, at 7 p.m., as VIFF's closing night film. For more info., see the VIFF website: http://www.vietfilmfest.com.
For more information, see press release.
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The show airs from 9-10 am on Monday, 9 April, 2007 on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange County.
New University story on her class:
Students React to Watching Pornography in the Classroom
ACADEMICS: A recent lecture featuring pornographic films and performers
resulted in mixed responses.
By Julian Camillieri, New University, March 13, 2007.
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For months UCI political scientist and Asian Americanist Claire Kim has been trying, without success, to get UCI to serve eggs of cage-free chickens in its dorms and campus restaurants. Aramark, which has a multi-year contract with UCI to provide food services, is willing to do so, according to Prof. Kim, but the university still hasn't moved on the issue.
We chat with Prof. Kim on our next show April 2, 2007 at 9 am.
See press release.
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On our next show on Monday, 26 March 2007, we air more shows from the National Radio Project. We focus on civil liberties in the aftermath of the USA PATRIOT Act, which is especially timely given Sunday's revelations in the New York Times about widespread preconvention (2004) surveillance of political activists by the New York Police Department: City Police Spied Broadly Before G.O.P. Convention. [Free registration may be required to access.] Also here: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032507Z.shtml.
On our next show on March 19, 2007, we air a couple of shows from the National Radio Project's Making Contact, one about the San Francisco Black Panther case, resurrected after three decades, and an update on the Watada case as US enters its fifth year of the war in Iraq. Thanks to the National Radio Project for the use of these audiofiles.
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The original 2002 interview is here (in RealAudio): .
Barbara loved books, and saw their importance to lesbians and gays. Though not a librarian, she became active in the American Library Association's task force on gay liberation. We air her reflections on her involvement with librarians in our memorial show Monday.
See press release.
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Danny Hoekzema came out as gay when he was 12 years-old. At 14, he wonders why there are no resources for gay youth in the Netherlands, where the age of consent is set at 16. He's managed to get gay parade organizers in Amsterdam (as well as the city major) to let him and his peers join the parade in a gay teen boat for those aged 12-16.
But in the process, a gay scholar who supports the teen boat idea has been pilloried in the Dutch media as well as the gay establishment, for his views on teen sex. Gert Hekma, who is a gay studies professor at the University of Amsterdam, has received numerous death threats on email and in blogs. His university, however, stands by him and supports his right to free speech. We talk with Prof. Hekma, who has authored over a dozen scholarly works on gay life and culture, about his support of youth sexuality and those on the "sexual fringe".
See press release.
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In the wake of electoral success in the Orange County Supervisor's race attributed to the political machinery of state Assemblyman Van Tran, we bring you author Le Ly Haylip's view of Van Tran as she addresses her humanitarian work in Vietnam. The progressive Hayslip, no friend of anticommunist Van Tran, had her biographies made into Oliver Stone's 1993 film, Heaven and Earth. The interview with Le Ly Hayslip first aired in 2005.
See press release.
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On our 5 February 2007 show, we talked with Korean American actor Justin Chon, raised in OC, whose acting career spans "The OC" to "Just Jordan" currently on Nickelodeon. The show is set in a Los Angeles high school as well as an African American diner where Chon's character works. A New York Times reviewer called him "good-looking" in "Just Jordan."
For more on Justin Chon, see press release.
To listen to the interview with Justin Chon, click here: .
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Gay
L.A., click here: .
See: AFP dispatch.
This Monday, November 27, 2006, we cover the case of AIDS activist Wan Yanhai, who apparently has been detained again by local authorities in Beijing, China. We look back at his pioneering work raising consciousness about AIDS in China. We include a clip from his previous interview on Subversity in 1998 about being a target of political surveillance.
See press release.
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For more on the lawsuit, see: War Crimes Complaint Against Rumsfeld et al..
See also Karpinsky's testimony.
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On the next Subversity show, slated for Monday 13 June, 2006 on KUCI, we chat with national security analyst and author John Prados about former CIA director Robert Gates, who is George Bush's nominee to succeed Donald Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary. We will discuss what has Gates done in the past and how quickly will he withraw U.S. troops from Iraq? Gates, after all, was deputy CIA director when the U.S. sent Donald Rumsfeld to meet with Saddam Hussein and shake his hands, sealing the U.S. effort to arm Iraq. Gates was also implicated, but never charged, in the Iran-Contra scandal.
For more information with links to resources, see our press release.
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We also air a clip from Bob Avakian, who leads the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, warning not to put faith in the Democrats. And we also give our subversive take on Tuesday's elections, especially one proposition, 83, that is more a reflection of hysteria over sex crimes than anything that would solve anything. We address the pros and cons.
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For more information on Ehren Watada's resistance to an illegal war, see: www.thankyoult.org.
To hear the
audio of a statement by Ehren Watada, his parents' talk, plus brief interviews with
both of them, click here: .
For an archive of recent shows, go to kuci.org/~dtsang and click on Subversity Mp3 archive.
NOTE: At 11:45 AM the same morning, Gold Star Mom Cindy Sheehan and actor Ed Asner speak at UCI at the flagpole at a get out the vote event.
Here's the press release: press release.
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audio of
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Shayana Kadidal is Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights based in New York City. For more information, see our press release.
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audio of
the show, click here: .
The winner of many awards, he has worked for the BBC among other radio stations and provided commentaries on NPR. He is a founder of an artists' collective, Ink & Blood, has authored plays and produced a documentary, China: Shanghai Nights for Frontline/World on PBS. The documentary was awarded the Edward R. Morrow Award by the Overseas Press Club of America. He has also translated several Vietnamese writers works and has written for mainstream puhblications as well as the literary press. His books include an autobiography, "Where the Ashes Are" (Addison-Wesley) and an edited work, "Vietnam: A Traveler's Literary Companion" (Whereabouts Press).
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audio of
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We chatted with Bill Andriette, features editor of The Guide, an alternative sexual politics magazine from Boston, about what's behind the moral panic over this scandal. Andriette wrote about Foley prior to this scandal.
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audio of
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To hear the
audio of
the show, click here: .May Day is when the rest of the world
celebrates
Labor Day.
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audio of
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the show, click here: . The original interview with Prof.
Gonzalez is excerpted during the show.
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We speak with labor organizer John Earl, who is starting a new publication, Orange Coast Voice, offering a forum to viewpoints and people ignored by mainstream and so-called alternative media in Orange County. The paper will be a community paper, with 15-20,000 copies distributed in Costa Mesa and Huntington Beach.
Earl, a former KUCI program host ("The News Gap") and publisher of Orange County Organizer (www.ocorganizer.com), will discuss his plans for the paper, which will be distributed free around the county.
See press release for more information.
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To hear the audio of
the show with Tenley Mogk, click here: .
Sunoo's book contains not only her reflections on dealing with a terrible loss, but also excerpts from her son's diary entries and artwork.
A former editor of the English-edition of Korea Times, Sunoo now lives in
Hanoi, Vietnam. She is the founder of Compassion at Work, which gives
advice to human resources personnel on workers' grief.
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the show with Brenda Sunoo, click here: .
A book signing was slated in Orange County Tuesday, July 25, 2006 at Latitude 33 in Laguna Beach on Tuesday, July 25 from 5:30-7 p.m. Latitude33 is at 311 Ocean Avenue in Laguna Beach.
Information on book: http://www.compassionatwork.com/seaweedshamans.html.
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democracy in the School of Social Sciences at UC Irvine, Wang Dan spoke on "Rethinking the Past and Looking to the Future of China."
Wang Dang was a student leader during the June 4, 1989, Tianmen Square student uprising. Wang is now a
Ph.D. candidate in history at Harvard University.
To hear the audio of
the show with Wang Dan's talk and Q&A, click here: .
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To hear the audio of
the show with Walden Bello's talk, , click here: .
Audio of Avakian reading from the book, a clip of which on the Free Speech Movement was aired on the show, is available at www.bobavakian.net.
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the show, the discussion of Bob Avakian's book, click here: .
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the show, labor struggles at UCI, click here: .
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Co-Sponsors were: The Working Group/Center for Middle East and African Studies, the Department of Political Science, the UCI Difficult Dialogues series, the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, the International Studies Program, the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding, the Program in Women's Studies, and the Middle East Studies Student Initiative.
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the show, click here: .
To hear an interview by Subversity show host Daniel C. Tsang with Prof. AbuKhalil for the UCI
Difficult Dialogues Project, click on: .
Prof. Gonzalez is the author of numerous scholarly tomes including "Guest workers or colonized labor?: Mexican labor migration to the United States (2006)," "Culture of empire : American writers, Mexico, and Mexican immigrants, 1880-1930 (2004)," "A Century of Chicano history: empire, nations, and migration (with Prof. Raul Fernandez, 2003) and "Labor and community: Mexican citrus worker villages in a Southern California county, 1900-1950." He teaches in the Chicano/Latino Studies program at UCI's School of Social Sciences.
See press release for further background information. To hear the audio of
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On Monday, 17 April, 2006, we chatted with filmmaker Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo (above right during filming), director of award-winning The Buffalo Boy (Mua Len Trau), set in 1940s Mekong Delta of Vietnam.
His film is currently showing at Regal Cinema 16, Garden Grove, 9741 Chapman Avenue (at Brookhurst St.) on selected days: April 16, 22, 23, and 29th. Each day has (corrected) 1 screening: 12:45 PM. Discussion with filmmaker after the showing.
Concurrently in Vietnam, legislators there are considering, ironically, a
proposed new cinematography law that would bar overseas Vietnamese and
other expatriates like Nguyen-Vo from being involved in making Vietnamese
films in Vietnam, despite his film's selection as the official 2005 Oscar
submission from Vietnam. The head of Vietnam's cinematography department
has been quoted in press reports as saying that "expatriates living away
from their native country would not fully understand its ethics, customs,
aesthetics, and cultural values." (Thanh Nien, Ho Chi Minh City, 15 March
2006: www.thanhniennews.com/commentaries/?catid=11&newsid=13564.
See press
release. To hear the audio of the show, click here:
VietNamese Language and Culture (VNLC) in collaboration with Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA) proudly presents CINEMA SYMPOSIUM 3 "From Script to Screen" A panel discussion with a showcase of film clips SUNDAY April 23, 2006 at UCLA Haines Hall 39 3:00pm - 5:30pm -- Symposium with Guest Panelists: Ham Tran (Director/Journey from the Fall), Kathy Uyen (Actress/Kieu), Le-Van Kiet (Director/Dust of Life), Linh Le (Actress/Dust of Life), Mike Nguyen (Director/My Little World),Nguyen Tran (Film Sales Agent), Ringo Le (Director/Saigon Love Story), Tuan Tran (Director/Finding Madison) 5:30pm - 6:15pm -- Special screening of Passage of Life, directed by Luu Huynh Co-winner of ViFF 2003 Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film 6:15pm - 7:30pm -- Light refreshments Admission is free; UCLA parking $8.
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. Thanks to the film's producer for letting us post the audio of the
trailer from the show online. This film is currently showing across from UCI in a limited run. It may end this week unless
viewers show up.Director Morgan has also been interviewed in the OC Weekly and in the New University. See also: Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall for evidence of graffiti's global reach.
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We discussed healing and "restorative justice". An earlier Subversity show dealt with restorative justice in hate crimes:
The Quakers (AFSC) have argued for restorative justice in hate crimes; their report is here:
www.afsc.org/community/hatecr.pdf.
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front page of the
same day's New University,: "Subversive Artist Mixes Fun and
Humor with Political Activism".
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We mourn the passing of Chris Iijima, a long-time grass-roots activist in the struggles of people of color in America, and Asian American vocalist and lyricist, who passed away December 31, 2005 in Hawaii. See an obituary in the Star Bulletin.
Two previous guests on Subversity were profiled Sunday, 22 January 2006 in local papers. Author and sociologist Mike Males is profiled in a cover story of the Los Angeles Times, while Don Katz, who co-founded the Fountain Valley Student Alliance in 1993, is profiled in a full-page profile in the Orange County Register, about his latest succesful battle. He was also featured in an earlier story in the same paper. Links may require free registration.
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