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Irvine -- Hurricane Katrina, instead of just devastating the Vietnamese community at the edge of New Orleans, instead galvanized the residents there into mobilizing against a potentially toxic dump site that the mayor imposed on them without consultation.
That mobilization - among young and old - members of the Vietnamese community, is well captured in a documentary by filmmaker S. Leo Chiang, "A Village Called Versailles" -- to air tomorrow on PBS stations nation-wide, as part of its Independent Lens series.javascript:void(0)
Earlier this month, the film screened at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, where it won the audience award.
Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, will feature an interview with Director Chiang this afternoon, 24 May 2010, from 5-6 p.m., on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, simulcast via kuci.org.
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The Oath
On today's edition of Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, we interview the directors of two important documentaries.
In the first half-hour, we talk with Laura Poitras, about her latest documentary, The Oath, which features Abu Jandal, Osama
bin Laden's former bodguard; in the background in the film hovers Salim Hamdan, incarcerated at Guantanamo, the first man to
face the controversial military tribunals, and who won at the U.S. Supreme Court only to see the rules changed in the middle
of the "game".
Poitras' revealing documentary shows what attracted Abu Jandal, rehabilitated in Yemen's post-incarceration program -- it paid
for his taxicab -- with Hamdan -- to join the jihad and Al-Queda. Hamdan, drawn to the charismatic Abu Jandal, went with him
to Afghanistan, where Osama bin Laden invited the men to visit. The rest is history. The film also covers Hamdan's military
trial, and Abu Jandal's cooperation with the FBI six days after 9/11 -- he was in prison in Yemen during 9/11.
Poitras' earlier film, My Country, My Country, about the U.S. occupation of Iraq, has been nominated for an OScar, Independent
Spirit Award, and an Emmy. Her final film in this trilogy will focus on the 9/11 trials. She is currently working on the
Guantanamo Project to collect documents and artifacts from Guantanamo Bay Prison.
The Oath opens in Los Angeles May 21, 2010.
Well of Loneliness: The Bracero Program
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The two academics co-directed Harvest of Loneliness, a searing indictment of the bracero program that brought Mexicans as contract labor to work on farms in the the U.S., creating havoc in their homeland, where they had left their wives and children to fend for themselves. Despite contracts that promised much more, the men were paid peanuts and never got the promised health benefits nor death benefits for those who died under contract. The documentary ends with an analysis of the negatives impact current globalization initiatives have had on the lives of Mexicans.
Harvest of Loneliness: The Bracero Program, makes it World Premiere Thursday, May 20, 2010 at Humanities Instructional Building Romm 100, UC Irvine, as part of the Cosecha Laina series in the Latin American Film Festival, in association with the UCI Film and Video Center. A reception is at 6:15 p.m.; with screening at 7 p.m., with Q&A with the co-directors to follow. A film trailer is accessible via the film web site: Harvest of Loneliness.
We dedicate this show to the legacy of Tam Tran and Cinthya Felix, DREAM Act activists who tragically lost their lives in a car accident last Saturday.
Subversity airs from 5-6 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via kuci.org. The film directors are interviewed by show host Daniel C. Tsang.
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It is election season again with a June 8 Primary coming up next month. We delve into Orange County, California economics with David Lang, who is seeking to become the next Orange County Treasurer and Tax Collector. We talk with long-time accountant Lang, a long-time community college trustee, about what this position entails and why the two tasks are lumped together. What are the risky investments he would avoid? And what is the legacy of the Orange County bankruptcy of a decade or so ago.
We'll also ask him what he means by arguing that the OC investment "focus must be on return of principal over return on principal"? See his bio.
In the second half of the program, we hope to bring you another episode of National Radio Project's Making Contact program, this one on: Tax the Rich, Help Save America? There's a tax revolt movement going on -- to tax the rich!
The Making Contact program features:
Jim McDermott, Oregon lawyer; Chuck Sheketoff, Oregon Center for Public Policy Executive Director; Jon Shure, Center on Budget & Policy Priorities Deputy Director; Marcy Westerling, Rural Organizing Project, Scappoose Executive Director; Marcy Westerling, Rural Organizing Project Executive Director; Tom Duley, Alabama Arise board chairman; Kimble Forrister, Alabama Arise coordinator; Gwendolyn Gray, Alabama Arise member; Steven Hill, Political Reform Program Director at the New America Foundation & author of ‘Europe’s Promise: Why the European Way Is the Best Hope for an Insecure Age’.
The show airs Monday 10 May 2010 from 5-6 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, Calif., and is simulcast via kuci.org.
Joining us in the discussion are three UCI first-year law students, Vivian Lee, Denisha McKensie, and David Rodwin. Denisha and David cofounded the Orange County Human Rights Association, and Vivian is a member of its Advisory Board. Community activist Keith Muhammad from the Bay Area also joins the discussion.
The UCI students are part of Orange County Human Rights Association, which is presenting a forum on the same topic this Thursday at UC Irvine. The Association "strives to engage with the community – Orange County and beyond – to learn about and take action on local human rights issues, focusing on the interaction between people and institutions and the interaction between different institutions and between institutions themselves."
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“Police Misconduct and Community Strategies for Justice” Panel Discussion and Q & A Thursday, April 8, 2010 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. UC Irvine Cross-Cultural Center Dr. Joseph L. White Conference Room Panelists will address the issue of police misconduct and community response, highlighting the case of Oscar Grant III, the young black man who was shot and killed, while handcuffed, by a Bay Area Rapid Transit Officer on January 1, 2009. Video footage of the shooting was captured by onlookers and posted on YouTube, drawing international attention to an issue that impacts the lives of families and communities across the United States. Representatives of the Grant Family will speak about the grassroots movement for justice that is growing in the Bay Area and gaining momentum in Los Angeles. Joining us will be Oscar Grant's uncle Cephus Johnson, Bay Area activist Keith Muhammad, and police misconduct attorney Jamon Hicks. Informal reception with light refreshments to follow. For more information: ochra.uci@gmail.com.*********** This April 8 event is co-sponsored by: UCI Black Law Society, Black Student Union, Flying Sams, Public Health Law Brigades, Radical Student Union, and SAGE Scholars for Scholars.
Kicking off a new spring quarter, Subversity now airs from 5-6 p.m. on Mondays instead of 9-10 a.m. The edition for 29 March 2010 features speakers from a 2 March 2010 Irvine 11 speak-out at UC Irvine's student center as well as the talk given by UC Santa Cruz Emeritus Prof. Angela Davis the day before on the prison industrial complex and privatization of the University of California, where she mentioned the Irvine 11. She also spoke the following week at UCI, when she noted that in 1970, when she was a graduate student activist at UC San Diego, the University did not arrest protesters for actions similar to those at UCI.
At the speak-out, organized by the Black Student Union, speakers include: Ryan Davis (MC), Abraham Medina (a rousing poetic rant on the rights of undocumented students), Russell Curry, Dennis Lopez, and KPFK show host and National Lawyers Guild-Los Angeles' Jim Lafferty, who argued that Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren was able to finish his speech: "Nobody pulled the plug on his microphone." Hence there was no "heckler's veto". The NLG is representing the Irvine 11.
The speak-out, two days before the March 4, 2010 rallies around the state and in the country against privatization, occurred in the wake of racist and homophjavascript:void(0)obic incidents at various UCs.
This edition of Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, airs from 5-6 p.m. 29 March 2010 on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, and is simulcast via kuci.org.
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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?
For the next edition of Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, we bring you two dispatches from Making Contact, the National Radio Project's program on topical issues.
1. .Hyde-ing. the Right to Choose: While lawmakers in Washington mull over the nuts and bolts of health care reform, advocates are concerned that a woman.s fundamental right to reproductive health services is endangered. On this edition, Stupak, the Hyde Amendment, and religion. We take a look at some of the threats to abortion access, more than thirty-five years after Roe V. Wade legalized a woman.s right to have an abortion.
Featuring:
Stephanie Poggi, National Network of Abortion Funds Executive Director; Jenny, shares her story about having an abortion; Jon O.Brien, Catholics for Choice President; Guadalupe Rodriguez, ACCESS/Women.s Health Rights Coalition Program & Public Policy Director. This Making Contact program was funded in part by the Mary Wohlford Foundation.
URL: http://www.radioproject.org/2010/01/hyde-ing-the-right-to-$
2. Immigration Reforms, How a Broken System Breaks Communities:
If there.s one thing to be said about the U.S. immigration system, it.s that there.s universal support for change. But
when it comes to answers, the viewpoints are all over the map. Congress is planning to make some changes in 2010, but in
the meantime, state and federal immigration laws remain confusing and are sporadically enforced. On this edition, we
go to two communities sorting through the aftermath of Bush-era federal immigration raids, and to Los Angeles, where
American Apparel became the first test case of the Obama administration.s new approach to workplace hiring violations.
This Making Contact program was funded in part by spot.us, a community supported journalism project.
Featuring:
Andrea, Las Americas store manager; Angelica Olmedo & Eber Eleria, Howard Industries workers arrested in Laurel Raid;
Bill Deutch, Catholic Charities & Hispanic ministries bi-lingual counselor; Meyer, kosher grocery store owner; Mark
Grey, University of Iowa Anthropology professor and co-author of .Postville: Surviving Diversity in Small-town America.;
Scott, Agriprocessors employee; Former Agriprocessors workers; Michelle Devlin, University of Iowa Public Health
professor and co-author of .Postville: Surviving Diversity in Small-town America.; Maryn Olsen, Postville Response
Coalition coordinator; Bill Chandler, Mississippi Immigrant.s Rights Alliance Executive Director; Noami Perez, Maricela
Perez & Sergio, laid-off American Apparel workers; Roberto Suro, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Professor; Peter Schey, American Apparel attorney and Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law Foundation
Executive Director; Natalia Garcia, UCLA Downtown Labor Center Administrative Assistant; Anonymous, unidentified Fake ID
salesman in MacArthur Park.
URL: http://www.radioproject.org/2010/01/immigration-reforms/.
Subversity airs 22 March 2010 from 9-10 a.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via
kuci.org.
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Activity Reporting Goes National
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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".
That is the chilling message given at a packed, evening forum in Anaheim last Wednesday at the offices of the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) of Los Angeles, the activist group, which heard from several Muslim young men reported for "suspicious" behavior -- including a then-UCI student who was dropping of British leftwing Member of Parliament George Galloway at SNA, after the MP spoke at UCI. The student was later contacted by authorities about why he was taking photographs at the Orange County Airport. Galloway had posed for the student's camera at SNA.
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.
Chairing the CAIR forum was Ameena Mirza Qazi, CAIR deputy executive director and its staff attorney.
The show airs from 9-10 a.m. on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange County and is simulcast via kuci.org.
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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 air speeches from the March 4 rally at UC Irvine, as a document of UCI activism reaching a new scale.
The show airs 9-10 a.m. on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via kuci.org.
See also: Democratize Education: Taking Control of Our Education blog.
We'll talk with UC Irvine protesters who give their take on what's happening and their long list of demands. Some protesters believe that with UC Regents and UC Student Association endorsing the March 4 actions, the struggle has been co-opted. We'll discuss that.
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listen to the audio of this first part of the Subversity show, click here: .
In part 2 of the show, we'll talk with an activist who has been trying to organize Iranian women in advance of International Women's Day in Iran. We talk with:
Sussan, who is is part of the March 8 Women’s Organization (Iran-Afghanistan), living in exile in Europe: In the late 1970s Sussan lived in the US and was part of the Iranian student movement against the brutal US-backed Shah of Iran. She returned to Iran after the Shah’s overthrow and took part in the struggle against the Khomeini regime. She and her family were imprisoned and tortured for their political activity and her husband was executed by the Islamic regime. See a recent statement by the March 8 Women's Organization (Iran-Afghanistan), March in Support of Women Warriors in Streets of Tehran. She was last on Subversity last year.
The International Women's Day Coalition is organizing a march and rally in Westwood on Saturday, March 6th, aiming to break open a spirit of resistance to the horrors committed against women throughout the world, and led by the slogan: Break the Chains! Unleash the Fury of Women as a Mighty Force for Revolution.
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.Irvine -- In a broad look back at his student activism days (when he hung the Black Flag of anarchism in his apartment), UCI Vice Chancellor Manuel Gomez, in the wake of growing controversy over the student disruption of the talk earlier this month of the Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren, and the arrests of 12 students, discusses the First Amendment on campus, and states that UCI's Muslim Student Union will not be kicked off campus. He also states that images on student protest blogs of UCI Police taking down leaflets announcing protest events is "disturbing," but he is waiting for students to file formal complaints with his office.
Gomez says he grew up in a poverty-stricken "barrio" in Santa Ana and was active in various struggles in his student days, including fighting police abuse. He says he understands the passion and quest among young people for opposing oppression: "I understand it in my bone." His verdict on his protesting past: It was wrong to distrust people over 30. We also discuss cooptation.
In "Imagining the Future: Cultivating Civility in a Field of Discontent," Gomez focuses on the situation at UCI as tensions were addressed in the wake of a Zionists of America's initial complaint to the U.S. Office of Civil Rights over the alleged mistreatment of Jewish students. ZOA has since also claimed UCI students solicited donations for Hamas during a talk at UCI of British Member of Parliament George Galloway.
In the article, written for Change Magazine, as well as on Subversity, Gomez argues that hate speech has been upheld by the courts as allowed under the First Amendment. The ZOA more recently has called for a boycott of UCI in terms of donations and enrollment.
UCI has also sent disciplinary letters to the 8 UCI students arrested, including MSU President Mohamed Abdelgany, a first step in campus administrative proceedings.
In response, the various Muslim activist groups, including the Muslim Public Affairs Council, have called on UCI allow "free speech" for protesters.
Gomez's interview is being aired this morning on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, at 9 am (simulcast via kuci.org). He is interviewed by Subversity host Daniel C. Tsang.
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Meanwhile, student activists have rallied to urge support for the 11
students (3 from UC Riverside, 8 from UCI) arrested by UCI Police, asking
why they had to be arrested. One statement circulating among activists
suggests making these points to UCI Chancellor Michael Drake and to the
UCI Dean of Students, who would be imposing any administrative sanctions
on the UCI students, including potential expulsion:
· It was unjust to arrest students for simply having the courage to
stand up and speak out against a man responsible for propagating the
deaths of thousands of innocent people.
· Civil disobedience has historically played an instrumental role in
the civil rights movement in America the eventually ensured equality
and human rights for all minorities.
· Michael Oren is a representative of a state that is condemned by
more UN Human Rights Council resolutions than all other countries in
the world, and he should not be honored at UC Irvine.
The statement said "we will not support an educational
institution that threatens to punish its’ students with suspension and
expulsion for standing up for their principles."
Supporters of the arrested students have started a Facebook page, "Drop All
Charges Against the Eleven", which as of this morning has 4,657
members.
Meanwhile the controversy has again enraged
the Jewish community, with Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie, who heads the Rabbinical
Council of Orange Council, even suggesting
that Chancellor Drake consider expelling the students. [An earlier version incorrectly attributed a call for ending donations
to UCI to Rabbi Elierzrie; but another
group, has formally called for that.] At the same time, the
Muslim Public Affairs Council weighed
in, calling for an investigation into the arrests.
On KUCI's Subversity show Monday 8 February 2010, at 9 a.m., we talk with CSU Northridge scholar Gina Masequesmay about queer life within the Vietnamese American communities. The CSU sociologist did her Ph.D dissertation at UCLA in 2001 on one of the groups marching, Ô-Môi, which came out with a zine in 2005. She is the lead co-editor of a new collection of essays, Embodying Asian/American Sexualities (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2009).
Four groups plan to join together in this march, according to march organizers, embracing "marriage equality" in the context of the Prop. 8 controversy.
Song That Radio is a grass-root organization which has the dual task of operating a radio program to focus on enhancing community awareness of LGBT issues, with the aim to create social change in attitude towards LGBT people and to organize social and political events that advocate, support and empower the Vietnamese-American LGBT community by increasing LGBT visibility and inclusiveness. Its goal is to improve the quality of life of Vietnamese LGBT people by reducing and eliminating the disparities within the Vietnamese-American community in dealing with LGBT issues.
Ô-Môi is a support group for lesbians, bisexual women, and transgender of Vietnamese descent. Its goal is to provide a support and resource space for queer, female Vietnamese to come out and network.
Gay Vietnamese Alliance provides a safe and supportive environment for gay, bisexual, and transgendered men of Vietnamese descent from all over the world to network, voice issues, promote wellness and foster leadership.
The Vietnamese Lesbian and Bisexual women Network and Friends is a support network of women, young and old alike, who provide support to Vietnamese women who are questioning their identities or simply proud to be lesbians or bisexual women.
The Subversity show airs on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, and is simulcast via http://kuci.org. Podcasts are available later.
The march is slated to begin after 9:30 a.m. Saturday 13 February 2010 at Bolsa and Magnolia in Westminster, California. To
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To listen to just the USC panel discussion: click here: .Vietnam's top filmmaker, People's Artist Ðang Nhat Minh, has made a moving anti-war film based on captured diaries of a National Liberation Front doctor, whose intimate and revealing thoughts about war and the Party are put on paper in between treating soldiers during the "American War." The diarist is a young surgeon, Ðang Thùy Trâm, known as "Thuy." Tragically, at age 27, she was killed by an American bullet through her forehead, in 1970. The film, Don't Burn (Ð?ng Ð?t) is Vietnam's entry to this year's Academy Awards.
In her diary, only two volumes of which survived the war, Thuy rails against the American invaders (whom she calls "devils") while wondering why the Party took so long to admit her. Was she too bourgeois? In a telling entry, she admits "Bourgeois sentiments are always suspect. It's strange that I still prefer to be like that than to be clear and simple like a farmer." The Party later did admit her and she is now considered a martyr in Vietnam. The diary has been published in the U.S. as Last Night I Dreamed of Peace.
"Don't Burn" not only brings to life events described in the diary, but also brings the story up to date, showing how an American soldier, and his military family, came around to read the diary of an enemy doctor, in the process struck by the futility of warfare. The film describes how the diaries ended up at Texas Tech, whose library contain the largest non-governmental collection on the war, and shows how Thuy's family came to read their daughter's writings almost four decades later.
Thuy's father was also a noted surgeon and his mother a pharmacology lecturer specializing in medicinal plants. Thuy gave up her dream to be a ophthalmologist and instead, like many of her compatriots, went south to serve the state.
The parallels with the film director's own family upbringing are stark. Dang Nhat Minh's father, Dang Van Ngu, was also a noted doctor, leading efforts to fight malaria with penicillin. Indeed, he also was killed by the Americans, in 1967, a year before the entries in Thuy's recovered diary begin.
Dang Nhat Minh himself has stated: "I have no regrets at all about being a film director as it is destiny. But if I could choose again, I would rather be a doctor and follow in my father's steps." Both father and son have won the Ho Chi Minh Award.
This is the first film to portray the views of America's "enemy" so starkly. It seeks to reconcile the two nations who fought so bitter and deadly a war.
Indeed, in California the past few weeks, the film has been shown to audiences young and old in northern and southern California.
On KUCI Subversity's 1 February 2010, from 9-10 a.m. we discuss this film and diary and present the panel discussion after the film showing at USC, with Director Dang Nhat Minh. Also on the panel are Oh, Saigon director Doan Hoang (whose film was also shown that day), interpreter Gianni Le Nguyen and USC Prof David James, who kicked off the session. Thanks to Prof. Viet Nguyen, who co-organized the "Dreaming of Peace: Vietnamese Filmmakers Move from War to Reconciliation" event, for permission to record that session and air it. Prof. Nguyen prefaced the showing of Don't Burn with a moving tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. by quoting from the civil rights leader's writings against the Vietnam War.
The Subversity program airs on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via kuci.org. Podcasts will be made available later and posted here. See trailer of Don't Burn.
Looking further at the UC's own financial statements, Donohue will let us know if he still finds that the UC has billions hidden away in its unrestricted reserves. The UC would say these funds are already committed, but Donohue says these are not legally restricted. They could be freed up to offset the massive loss of state funding. But unlike the CSU system, UC funding is only 13% -18% dependent on state sources. We'll talk to Donohue again about why the UC is pleading poverty.
The entire show airs Monday 25 January 2010 from 9-10 a.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via kuci.org. Donohue appears on the first part of the show.
Peter Donohue is an economist and head of San Francisco.s PBI Associates. Since 1982, he has assisted union, nonprofit, community and business groups with research, financial analysis, bargaining, arbitration and government relations. He advises clients in transport, construction, semiconductor, utility, printing, health care, retail, design, engineering, hospitality, transit, insurance, education and government. Donohue has taught at Portland State University, San Francisco State University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Texas at Austin and University of Missouri-Columbia.
He has compiled, for CUE (Coalition of University Employees), an updated analysis of the UC budget, which will be released shortly; we get a preview on this show. See, however, his earlier 1992 study: UC's Hidden Wealth: An Analysis of 10 Years of UC's Financial Reports
See also Prof. Emeritus Charlie Schwartz's web site that tracks UC budget issues: UniversityProbe.org.
In out second part of the show, we air a dispatch from Making Contact: Rising Women XX.
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Irvine -- UCI Chancellor Michael Drake, for the first time since a critical UCI Faculty Senate blasted him for (initially) firing founding Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky in 2007, faced Wednesday 13 January 2010 another hostile audience at a public forum organized by student protesters who gave what OC Register's Gary Robbins called a "verbal drubbing" -- with all but one student criticizing his leadership of the campus. It was a P.R. disaster for Drake.
Unlike previous "town hall" meetings where Drake managed to be in control, students criticized him for deferring to aides and not answering the questions "man to man". Asked pointedly if he would still continue to stay at UCI, he never answered the question, nor did he made a commitment to remaining at UCI.
While Drake and UCI police chief Paul Henisey declined to comment on the police abuse at UCLA protests (saying they were not there to see what happened) -- after the public forum, Subversity managed to ask the police chief if he would drop charges against sociology graduate student John Bruning, who had been arrested at a protest late last fall. Police chief said it was up to the Orange County District Attorney.
At the forum, students laughed when Drake declared that UCI's commitment to free speech was nationally known. The chief then said he did not know about his cops ripping down protesters' posters on campus. See photos of a UCI police officer ripping down posters on the Occupy UCI! blog.
Subversity has also learned that in another sign of intimidation by campus police, protesters who have been chalking on campus recently -- writing statements such as "UCI is Racist" on walls and the ground -- have been confronted by campus police who take down their name and threaten to charge them with "defacing" university property should the chalk not be able to be removed. This week's rains are likely, however, to wipe away the chalk.
The only time Drake seemed moved and did not act like a CEO of a corporation was after the wife of an outsourced worker who has worked at UCI for 20 years pleaded with him to provide benefits to the workers. Drake responded that he was committed to "quality experience" for everyone at UCI and said he had been working hard to help the disadvantaged and dispossessed in his career.
A day after the forum, dozens of outsourced workers demonstrated on campus and a smaller group of workers and student supporters gave Ramona Agrela, an associate to Drake, posters of workers who had been laid off.
Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, airs today (18 January 2010) at 9-10 a.m. audio from the public forum as a public service. The program airs on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via kuci.org.
To listen to the program, click here: .
According to the rally Facebook page.
"The UC has voted to raise tuition by 32%! Students were brutally assaulted at UCLA for using their right of freedom of speech! Cuts are coming from the bottom not the top, while the administrators are getting raises workers are getting fired and student class sizes get larger. It is time that we as students come together in solidarity to tell the UC it's our UC!!!"
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"Come out and hear stories from those affected and find out what we can do from here! Please invite at least 10 others. This is our time in history will we live up to the responsibility?
and
"We stress that this is a peaceful rally, however, we as citizens of the United States can and will exercise of First amendment Rights of free speech!"
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Calling "even studying is now a form of resistance," the organizers also plan a teach-in outside Langson Library Friday December 4 at 3 p.m. followed by a "study-in" in the library at 4 p.m., followed by an "all-night" teach-in at 5 p.m., past closing hours. On the next day, a Saturday, a "general assembly" is slated for the Graduate Reading Room in the library at 1 p.m.
For details see another Facebook page.
On the 23 November 2009 edition of Subversity, we talk with Dennis Lopez of UCI's Worker-Student Alliance and Muslim Student Association member Hadeer Soliman.
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When she was ten, his father, who was in the Viet Minh resistance movement, was arrested with her by the south Vietnamese police under then-Pres. Ngo Dinh Diem. She ws released after a day, but her father spent several years in prison, enduring torture.
Thus began her political awakening, that brought her to Paris where she joined in distributing agitprop resisting both the south Vietnamese government and U.S. invaders to her homeland, from the political active and (at the time) leftist Vietnamese diaspora abroad. After graduating from Sorbonne, she returned to Saigon and took part in the liberation movement.
Today she is a university president and grappling with the challenge of improving higher education in Vietnam. In an era of globalization, at her university, juniors and seniors will soon be offered the choice to be taught in English. But her enduring passion remains history; she is hoping to organize an international network of scholars interested in women and war. Dr. Phuong visited UC Irvine this past Thursday, 5 November 2009.
The show airs Monday 9 November 2009 from 9-10 a.m. on KUCI.
Podcasts will be available afterwards. Interviewing her is show host Daniel C. Tsang.
Cocco Paris LLC is is "a media distribution company based in Orange County, California. Our mission is to distribute Vietnamese media content and to ensure their accessibility. The plan to achieve these objectives begins with several initiatives of creating awareness about the film industries, and working closely with and engaging filmmakers and the community for innovative marketing solutions to bring the Vietnamese media content to the general mainstream audience. Further, the plan is to create an effective and efficient platform to reach a wider audience by including distribution of media content through different venues and other distribution channels worldwide."
The premiere Friday 6 November 2009, starting at 6 pm, at STAR Performing Arts Center, 16149 Brookhurst St., Fountain Valley, CA 92708. is a benefit for two worthy causes: The Vietnamese American Cancer Foundation and Project MotiVATe, which seeks to mentor Vietnamese teenagers and motivate them to civic involvement. Regular screenings of Dust of Life continue November 7 at STAR Performing Arts Center. For more information, see: www.cocoparisllc.com/premiere_tickets. The film runs 90 minutes, in English and Vietnamese with English subtitles. Le-Van Kiet did initial research for his film at the Southeast Asian Archive at UC Irvine Libraries.
Our earlier interview with Le-Van Kiet on Dust of Life is: here.
Dust of Life web site and trailer.
We also interviewed him on another feature of his, Sad Fish, which was featured at the 2009 Vietnamese International Film Festival at UC Irvine. Audio of that Subversity interview.
To listen to the 2 November 2009 show, click here: .
Dennis Lopez, a graduate student in English, and Raul Perez, a graduate student in Sociology, have been major forces in bringing students and workers together to fight for in-sourcing and for social justice, and Lopez has been a guest on Subversity before.
Resources:
Facebook page for WSA.
WSA Web site
New University coverage of rally
Student Newspapers' interview with UC President Yudoff
To listen to the show, click here: .
Looking at the UC's own financial reports, he has discovered billions hidden away in its unrestricted reserves. The UC likes to say these funds are already committed, but Donohue says these are not legally restricted. They could be freed up to offset the massive loss of state funding. But unlike the CSU system, UC funding is only 13% -18% dependent on state sources. We'll talk to Donohue about why the UC is pleading poverty.
The show airs Monday 28 September 2009 from 9-10 a.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via kuci.org.
Peter Donohue is an economist and head of San Francisco’s PBI Associates. Since 1982, he has assisted union, nonprofit, community and business groups with research, financial analysis, bargaining, arbitration and government relations. He advises clients in transport, construction, semiconductor, utility, printing, health care, retail, design, engineering, hospitality, transit, insurance, education and government. Donohue has taught at Portland State University, San Francisco State University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Texas at Austin and University of Missouri-Columbia.
He is currently compiling, for CUE (Coalition of University Employees), an updated analysis of the UC budget; see his earlier 1992 study: UC's Hidden Wealth: An Analysis of 10 Years of UC's Financial Reports.
See also Prof. Emeritus Charlie Schwartz's web site that tracks UC budget issues: UniversityProbe.org.
CUE's website, contains links to other resources, including our 20 July 2009 Subversity interview with CUE local president at UCI, Dianna Sahhar, and with Juan Castillo, union organizer with AFSCME local 3299.
Meanwhile, UC janitors are seeking to be in-sourced and represented by SEIU-United Service Workers West. A noon rally at UCI's flag pole is slated for October 2, 2009 [corrected date]. 37 UCI janitors are under threat of layoff by cleaning contractor ABM. With workers laid off, UCI Labs are slated to be cleaned weekly only, but UCI offices only three times a year!
We also aired a clip from the 24 September 2009 rally at UCI of popular Sociology lecturer Chuck O'Connell talking about neoliberealism.
To listen to the show, click here: .
Irvine -- As incoming UC Irvine students converge on campus this week as part of Orientation Week, they will encounter a
UCI in turmoil Not only will their fees increase, UCI's faculty and staff are undergoing paycuts, furloughs and in some
cases layoffs. Opposing the increasing privatization of the university are local activist groups who will be out in force
this week, which starts off with an Anteater Involvement Fair on campus. And on Thursday, faculty plan walkouts and
teach-ins, while the UPTE union stages a strike.UCI's Radical Student Union is premiering a historic first, UCI's Disorientation Guide, aimed at uncovering what is not widely known about the institution, and seeking to provoke students and other readers into action. In its introduction, its anonymous authors state: "Between these covers, you have a guide into the belly of the University. Use it wisely. But don't let this be your only map of this place, add your own experiences into the mix." It adds, cryptically: "Just remember what you don't see is probably more interesting and important than what you do."
In the show's first half hour, we talk with members of the Disorientation Guide collective about why they put out this first Disorientation Guide.
John Bruning is a second-year graduate student in Sociology, and a member of the Radical Student Union and the Disorientation Guide collective. John was first exposed to radical ideas after receiving a Disorientation Guide during Welcome Week as a freshman at the University of Wisconsin, and got involved in campus activism shortly thereafter.
Tim Brown is a second year grad student, studying the art of sound design. He previously lived in Oregon and and sought out the RSU after being immersed for too long in the terribleness that is the home territory of the New Majority.
The paper version of the Disorientation Guide is being distributed at the Radical Student Union table at the Anteater Involvement Fair on Monday, 21 September at UCI, and throughout the week on Ring Road. KUCI is cited in the first Guide as a "voice of freedom" while Subversity is mentioned as follows: "It's like Disorientation on the radio!"
See also other campus disorientation guides: UC Santa Cruz | UC Berkeley | NYU.
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Michael Moore is UPTE's Leadership Development Coordinator for the past four years. Active in the labor movement for 14 years, he has worked for various unions throughout the U.S., organizing and representing a cross section or workers. Originally from Georgia, he was mentored by Hose Williams, one of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.'s organizers. His grandmother was one of the first presidents of the Newtown Florist Club, an environmental organization in his home town of Gainesville, Georgia.
The show aired Monday 21 September 2009 on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, Calif., and was simulcast via kuci.org.
To listen to theshow, click here: .
For more on the hidden wealth within the UC's corporate structure, see UC Berkeley Prof. Emeritus Charlie Schwartz's latest analysis, posted at: UniversityProbe.org.
His analysis jibes with that of economist Peter Donohue, who last week held public sessions at UCI providing analysis with documentation on UC's hidden wealth. If the UC were really in an economic crisis, why would bond agencies increase UC's rating? Financial reports submitted by UC show clearly that millions are stashed away in the University's accounts, and are not legally restricted despite what the administration claims. The funds may be "committed" to some projects in some budget projections, but they are not legally restricted. See Donohue's earlier report
September 24, the first day of classes at UC Irvine, is also a day when faculty across the UCs plan to hold "walkouts" and teach-ins about the future of UC education. For more information, including flyers for a noon event at UCI's flagpole, see: Defend UCI.
See also: Remaking the University
And on Monday, 21 September, students protesting the closure of SAAS, which served first-generation, disabled and low-income students, plan to hold the first of two consecutive days of SAAS LOVE events at UCI, starting at 11 a.m. on Monday. See: Facebook page, SAAS Love.
On the 14 September 2009 Subversity Show, at 9 am on KUCI, 88.9 fm and simulcast via kuci.org, we air our exclusive interview with Sharon V. Salinger, Dean of Undergraduate Education at the University of California. Under fire for closing an important unit on campus, SAAS (Student Academic Advancement Services), which served first-generation, low-income and disabled students, Salinger says it was budget cuts that led to the closure and layoffs of five staff members, including the SAAS director. The U.S. Department of Education recently renewed funding to UCI for the same services provided to SAAS, which closed August 31, 2009. A faculty member, with two academic advisors, will constitute the new team. The new federal grant provides more student financial aid as well as additional funding for student advisors. Salinger is hoping former SAAS student peer advisors will continue to work in the new restructured unit. Salinger is interviewed by show host Daniel C. Tsang. The interview was prerecorded on the previous Thursday.
SAAS supporters, meanwhile, have organized a "SAAS Love" sit-in slated for Monday 21 September 2009 and the next day from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. outside the old SAAS offices. Salinger says she may bring pizza. A facebook event page has been set up: SAAS Love. The original Save SAAS at UCI Now! Facebook page continues. A video from SAAS supporters is posted here: video. OC Weekly recently covered the SAAS closure: Navel Gazing blog
In addition, we aired audio from the students' Save SAAS at UCI video (posted on YouTube) and part of UCI Chancellor Michael V. Drake's pep talk at a recent townhall, where he called on UCI employees to work more with less pay.
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On the next edition (August 31, 2009) of Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, we talk with National Security Archive senior fellow John Prados, about his research into declassified CIA documents from the Vietnam War. He has just compiled the National Security Archive's new analysis, The CIA's Vietnam Histories which shows the extent of CIA intervention in Vietnam. He is also the author of numerous intelligence-related books, including the latest, Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945-1975, from the University Press of Kansas.
In the massive book, Prados weaves together U.S., South Vietnamese and North Vietnamese perspectives, as well as those from the anti-war movement. UCI is included in the book: Surveillance of UCI students protesting the war in the 1960s at the El Toro Marine base gets a paragraph, relying on Naval Intelligence surveillance files declassified to Subversity's host Dan Tsang which Tsang wrote up as: The Few, the Proud, the Spies Spying on civilians was part of El Toro's mission, OC Weekly, 15 July 1999.
Prados was last on Subversity talking about then-CIA Director Robert Gates, George W. Bush's nominee as Defense Secretary in 2006.
To listen to that 13 November 2006 show, click here: .
Prados' bio:
John Prados is an analyst of national security based in Washington, DC. Prados holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and focuses on presidential power, international relations, intelligence and military affairs. He is a senior fellow and project director with the National Security Archive, leading both the Archive's Iraq Documentation Project and its parallel effort on Vietnam. His current book is Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945-1975 (University of Kansas Press). Now out in paperback is Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA (Ivan Dee Publisher). In addition Prados is author or editor of sixteen other books, with titles on national security, the American presidency, intelligence matters, diplomatic history and military affairs, including Iraq, Vietnam, and World War II. Among them are Hoodwinked: The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War; Inside the Pentagon Papers (edited with Margaret Pratt-Porter); Combined Fleet Decoded: The Secret History of U.S. Intelligence and the Japanese Navy in World War II; Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby; White House Tapes: Eavesdropping on the President (written and edited); Valley of Decision: The Siege of Khe Sanh (with Ray Stubbe); America Responds to Terrorism (edited); The Hidden History of the Vietnam War; Operation Vulture; The Blood Road: The Ho Chi Minh Trail and the Vietnam War; Presidents’ Secret Wars: CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations from World War II Through the Persian Gulf; Keepers of the Keys: A History of the National Security Council from Truman to Bush; and The Soviet Estimate: U.S. Intelligence and Soviet Strategic Forces. The works Keepers of the Keys and Combined Fleet Decoded were nominated by their publishers for the Pulitzer Prize. Combined Fleet Decoded was the winner of the annual book award of the New York Military Affairs Symposium and a 'notable naval book of the year' for the U.S. Naval Institute. The Soviet Estimate was the winner of the annual book prize of the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence. Valley of Decision became a 'notable naval book of the year' for the U.S. Naval Institute. Prados has chapters in thirty-two other books, and entries in six reference works. He is also an award-winning designer of board strategy games for many publishers. Prados is a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, and a former contributing writer to The VVA Veteran. His articles and op-ed pieces have appeared widely, including Vanity Fair, The Washington Post Outlook, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Naval History, The American Prospect, Scientific American, and elsewhere. His internet articles have appeared at NeimanWatchdog.com, Tompaine.com, TNR.com, American Prospect Online, and elsewhere. His book reviews have also appeared widely.
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His bio:
Lincoln Cushing, born 1953, Havana, Cuba.
Lincoln Cushing is an artist, librarian, archivist, and author. At U.C. Berkeley he was the Cataloging and Electronic Outreach Librarian at Bancroft Library and the Electronic Outreach Librarian at the Institute of Industrial Relations (now Institute for Research on Labor and Employment).
He is involved in several projects to document, catalog, and disseminate oppositional political culture of the late 20th century. He is the author of Revolucion! Cuban Poster Art, Chronicle Books, 2003; editor of Visions of Peace & Justice: 30 years of political posters from the archives of Inkworks Press; co-author of Chinese Posters: Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Chronicle Books, 2007; and co-author of Agitate! Educate! Organize! American Labor Posters, Cornell University Press, 2009. His research and publishing projects can be seen at his website www.docspopuli.org.
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For latest updates on how this crisis affects faculty in the UCs and elsewhere, check out this blog, Remaking the University.
In the second half of the show, we aired a program from National Radio Project's Making Contact on Breaking through the Blue Wall of Silence about civilian review boards.
The show airs from 9-10 a.m. on 17 August 2009 on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange County, Calif., and is simulcast via kuci.org.
To listen to the first half of the show featuring our interview with Mark LeVine, click here: .
As a result, students and alumni have organized to oppose this drastic move by the UCI administrators. We talk with recent UCI graduates Debbie Lee, who started a Facebook page, Save SAAS at UCI Now! and Luz Colin, about what one can do to reverse this retrograde act.
The show airs from 9-10 a.m. 10 August 2009 on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via kuci.org.
Bios of our guests:
Deborah Lee
As a first generation college student and product of the Student Academic Advancement Services (SAAS), Deborah Lee recently graduated Magna Cum Laude with a major in Criminology, Law and Society in the School of Social Ecology. In addition to graduating with honors, as a junior, Deborah was also nominated by the UCI Faculty and administration into UCI's National Honors Society, Phi Beta Kappa. Only 1% of juniors are nominated each year. She has also been awarded the President's Service Award for Outstanding Community Service. Deborah's involvement on campus also include: UCI Cheer Squad, Middle Earth Community Service Committee, Alpha Phi Omega (Community Service Fraternity), UCDC, Travel Study, Social Ecology's Mentor-Mentee Program, Criminology Outreach Program, SAAS, and much more. Within SAAS, she has been a peer advisor for three years and her involvement with Summer Bridge includes being a Resident Assistant and also the Head Resident Advisor. She plans on attending a tier-one law school in Fall 2010 with the academic and personal support she has received from SAAS, including a scholarship they have provided with the Princeton Review.
Luz Colin
Luz Colin is a 2008 graduate from UCI with a B.A. in political science and Chicano/Latino studies. This past June, she completed a Masters in Arts in Higher Education and Organizational Change (HEOC) at UCLA's Graduate School of Education. Luz currently works as a research analyst for the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) also at UCLA. Luz believes that her success is a result of the support she received from SAAS beginning with Summer Bridge and her entire time as an undergraduate at UCI. SAAS gave her the confidence to get involved and was a Peer Advisor for 2 years and was a Summer Bridge Assistant Head Resident Advisor for three years. She was also actively involved with Alpha Phi Omega (a service fraternity). She still comes back to SAAS as an alum to talk about her experiences with the new SAAS students. Her research focuses on first generation/low-income students like herself and hopes to one day return to UCI and work with this population.
To listen to the 10 August 2009 show, click here: .
"An Unlikely Weapon," directed by Susan Morgan Cooper, profiles the life of Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams, who shot the iconic photograph of national police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shooting to death a captured Viet Cong prisoner, Nguyen Van Lem on a Saigon street in 1968.
The photograph, capturing the shooting at the exact moment of impact, won Adams a Pulitzer Prize. The photograph was credited with turning the American public against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Adams, after the war, also documented the plight of Vietnamese refugees leaving their homeland.
An Unlikely Weapon won the Best Documentary award at the Avignon Film Festival in 2008 and was shown earlier this year at the Newport Beach Film Festival.
Cooper, born in Wales, has also made another documentary, one focusing on the Balkan War. She made it after she met a young Croatian girl. The result was "Mirjana: One Girl's Journey." She is currently developing a film on street children in Rio and the death squads that routinely murder them.
Resources
Wikipedia entry on Eddie Adams
To listen to the 3 August 2009 show with the Susan Morgan Cooper interview, click here: .
We also aired a Making Contact program on the Single-Payer Health Plan, something now rejected by the Obama Administration even as many health activists continue to clamor for it: Many Voices for a Single-Payer System.
Jesse Cheng is an Asian American Studies major with an Education minor at UC Irvine. He has a secret passion, he says, to write superhero comic books as a career. Jesse is not naturally politically inclined, a quality to which his co-workers regularly attest. Jesse was first introduced to politics and public policy through work with the Asian Pacific Islander community on issues of education, bilingual services, and immigration.
He is only the second UC student regent from UCI. Jenny Doh, who currently heads the UCI Alumni Association, and also an Asian American, was the first from UCI.
You can follow Jesse's exploits, thoughts, and first-hand facts and news about California higher education on twitter.
He is featured on the UCI web site: Voice of the People.
To listen to the 27 July 2009 show, click here: .
We talked with Dianna Sahhar, a long-time Library Assistant at UCI, just back from negotiations as an CUE leader, and asked her what the University is proposing and her union's reaction. News flash: Because the plans call for monthly pay cuts, the furloughs when taken will not entail further cuts, and thus will be recorded as "paid" leave. The University had previously announced that furlough days will be banked like vacation days (for those who have them).
Sahhar is President of CUE Irvine, Local #9 from March 2008 to2010. She is a graduate of UCI with a BA in Social Ecology from 1983, and has worked at the Library for almost 20 yrs now.
We'll also talk with Juan Castillo, Lead Organizer for AFSCME 3299, who was at Friday's town hall meeting and his attempt to question the UCI Chancellor from the floor got Chancellor Michael Drake stymied for a second -- with Drake finally saying he was not "negotiating" with Castillo.
Castillo was born in El Salvador and worked with the labor movement as an organizer since he was a teenager. He arrived to the US in 1981 as a political refugee due to the human right viloations of the then-Salvadorian government and studied Biology and Chemistry at OCC and Cal State Long Beach.
Audio of the UCI Town Hall meeting as recorded by Subversity is posted here; the audio has Chancellor Drake already speaking: Twnhall090717.mp3.
For faculty reaction, see: Remaking the University: utotherescue.blogspot.com/
and Emeritus Prof. Charles Schwartz's UniversityProbe.org: A Critical Forum on Research Universities...universityprobe.org/
Earlier Subversity interview with Bob Samuels, UC-AFT President (first half of show): kuci.org/~dtsang/subversity/Sv090622.mp3. (In part II, Jeffrey Schmidt, a UCI Ph.D graduate, and author of Disciplined Minds, talks about his days at UCI and how academia "disciplines" its graduate students etc.)
Cal State staff and faculty are also facing furloughs and its faculty are currently voting on it; on Cal State faculty, see: The California Faculty Association site: www.calfac.org/headlines.html. and its California at the Edge report: www.calfac.org/cakattheedge.html.
To listen to the 20 July 2009 show, click here: .
Hai Vo is a recent Social Ecology graduate from UC Irvine studying sustainable food systems. During his senior year, Hai was chosen to be a UC Sustainable Agrifood Systems (SAS) Fellow sponsored by UC Santa Cruz's Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS). As part of his fellowship, he co-conducted a food assessment of UC Irvine that sought to discover how ecologically-sound, community-based, humane, and fair the food served on campus was. Hai is a coordinator for the Real Food Challenge. Post-graduation plans include farm apprenticeships, advocating for real food, and reading books he never got a chance to the last four years of college. Vo was recently profiled by UCI here: "Sustanable Eater", with video clips linked. His "We are How We Eat" blog is also linked there.
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Obituaries:
NY Times (by Tim Wiener): www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/us/07mcnamara.html?_r=1&hp
LA Times (by Stephen Braun): www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-robert-mcnamara7-2009jul07,0,4810762.story
We'll also air a 2006 program from National Radio Project's Making Contact on Daniel Ellsberg, who released with the late Tony Russo the Pentagon Papers, commissioned by McNamara to study the origins of the Vietnam War: " Truth-Telling in a Time of War."
To listen to the show minus the Making Contact Daniel Ellsberg segment, click here: .
For the 2006 Making Contact Ellsberg segment, go here.
In the second half hour, we discuss the late Michael Jackson as a queer icon, with Kaelin Alexander, a graduate student at Cornell whose research has focused on queer studies.
Mary Giovagnoli is the Director of the Immigration Policy Center. Prior to IPC, Mary served as Senior Director of Policy for the National Immigration Forum and practiced law as an attorney with the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, serving first as a trial attorney and associate general counsel with the INS, and, following the creation of DHS, as an associate chief counsel for United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. Mary specialized in asylum and refugee law, focusing on the impact of general immigration laws on asylees. In 2005, Mary became the senior advisor to the Director of Congressional Relations at USCIS. She was also awarded a Congressional Fellowship from USCIS to serve for a year in Senator Edward M. Kennedy's office where she worked on comprehensive immigration reform and refugee issues. Mary attended Drake University, graduating summa cum laude with a major in speech communication. She received a master’s degree in rhetoric and completed additional graduate coursework in rhetoric at the University of Wisconsin, before receiving a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School. She spent more than ten years teaching public speaking, argumentation and debate, and parliamentary procedure while pursuing her education.
Kaelin Alexander is a Ph.D. student with Cornell University's Department of English. His most recent work focuses on violent queers, queer loneliness, and the perceptual limits of film. He is also working towards a longer project which explores the phenomenology of heartbreak and longing in the Victorian novel. He received a B.A. from Kenyon College in 2007. When he isn't in the library, Kaelin enjoys playing his ukulele and hiking the trails around Ithaca, New York.
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We talk with union leader Bob Samuels, who has been the president of UC-AFT, the union representing lecturers and librarians at the University of Calfiornia system. The University would have to get the UC-AFT's consent to impose the pay cut on them. Samuels, a writing lecturer at UCLA, believes the University has discretionary funds that could help alleviate the budget crisis.
Samuels is the author of six books, including an upcoming book on university politics. He has PhDs in English and Psychoanalysis from Kent State and the University of Paris. See his Q and A on the budget crisis. And also the letter to UC President Mark Yudof from emeritus Physics Prof. Charles Schwartz, a UC budgeting critic, Budget Lies .
On the second half of the show, we re-air portions of our November 2005 interview with Jeffrey Schmidt, the author of "Disciplined Minds," a critique of how academic and other salaried professional labor is "disciplined", with universities and other employers eager to serve idelological (corporate or government) interests. Himself a UCI graduate student from 1975-1980, Schmidt relates how he managed to form a progressive group, Science for the People at UCI, and how he stood up for a Japanese American fellow graduate student, who had passed away before he finished his Ph.D, and the resistance from a university physics professor (who brought in Pentagon contracts and who would later win a Nobel prize) when Schmidt and other graduate students wanted the university to award the student a Ph.D posthumously. Schmidt's book led to his firing from the American Institute of Physics, his long-time employer, and his ultimately successful campaign to seek redress and vindication is a model of public organizing. See his website: disciplinedminds.com. The catalog entry for his 1980 dissertation is here: antpac.lib.uci.edu/record=b1580253~S7.
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In an earlier incarnation, Chi was a poster child for the Chinese Cultural Revolution, when her letter to her father, written as a child, urged her dad to listen to Chairman Mao and the Party. She became known as Yong Hong ("Forever Red").
Filmed in Surrey, British Columbia, the film uses the occasion of the Chinese funeral of the family matriarch to bring a dysfunctional family together, sparking surprising conversation and new understandings -- as well as an unexpected ending.
The daughters in the family give strong roles, including one who plays a lesbian and brings along her lover to the remembrance ceremonies, that lasts seven days. The sole son, played by longtime Chinese American actor Russell Wong, is a philandering doctor. Wong shows a special vulnerability in this role. A cute monk also becomes a sperm donor, in the process giving more than just sperm.
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVSuts-Okk0
Interview with Jonathan W. Hickman: www.einsiders.com/features/columns/show_article.php?article=433
Interview on what brought the director from China: www.einsiders.com/features/interviews/annachi.php
Article in Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-chi7-2009jun07,0,6255908.story.
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Subversity airs Monday 18 May 2009 at 9 a.m.
We also air a program, "Tax Me, I'm Yours" from Making Contact, the National Radio Project, courtesy of NRP.
First produced for tax time, the Making Contact program, talks to folks who say we need to reframe the tax structure to support and sustain "the commons"... those public spaces and common grounds we all share. From upper income New Yorkers to public school teachers in Nevada, many are saying, 'tax me, I'm yours.'
Featuring:
Jo Comerford, National Priorities Project (NPP) executive director; Mike Lapham, Responsible Wealth project director (Project of United for a Fair Economy); Allen Bromberger, Manhattan law firm attorney; Bob Fulkerson, Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN) executive director; Anne Peer, Grady Tarbutton and others who testified at a Reno Town Hall Budget meeting; Kim Klein, Building Movement Project member.
For more information and audio of the segments, see: http://www.radioproject.org/archive/2009/1509.html
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On KUCI's Subversity Show, from 9-10 a.m. today (May 11, 2009) we talk with Hoku Jeffrey, Southern California Coordinator for BAMN. BAMN stands for the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary.
Jeffrey is helping organize protests at southern California campuses over the Jesus Gutierrez case. BAMN has been actively building the new youth-led integrated civil rights movement.
Upon graduating from UC Berkeley, Jeffrey moved to Los Angeles to organize the Los Angeles chapter of BAMN. He helped mobilize area youth in the historic Spring 2006 immigrant rights marches. He also led successful campaigns of youth to win recognition of the Cesar Chavez Holiday in the Los Angeles Unified School District and has also led struggles for the DREAM Act to win the right to financial aid and a pathway toward citizenship for undocumented immigrant students.
And here at UCI, the Radical Student Union is appealing to UCI students, faculty and staff to come to Disorient UCI! Planning meeting for the 09-10 UCI Disorientation Guide Tuesday, May 12 • 8:00pm • Anthill Pub, UCI Student Center. For more information, see the Subversity blog.
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Both films have been showing at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival organized by the community-based visual arts group, Visual Communications (http://www.vconline.org).
Grace Rowe has has appeared in many TV shows and also in American Seoul (2003) (see http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1451149/). She stars in I am that Girl, as a party girl maxing out on her credit cards who on a lark decides to go into the Sierras with a guy. The film covers what leads up to the Sierras trip, what happens on the road trip and a surprise development in the Sierras. I Am That Girl trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3gFTCS9I10.
We also talk with director So Yong Kim, whose Treeless Mountain, is her second feature film. (She directed In Between Days, which won the Special Jury Prize at the 2007 Sundance). The current feature is inspired from her early childhood days in Pusan, South Korea. The film tells the story of a six-year-old girl, Jin and her journey to early maturity with a younger sister. The film opens May 8 at Laemmle's Music Hall and Mpark Theatre. So Yong Kim also made several short films, including A Bunny Rabbit, shot by renowned cinematographer Christopher Doyle. She was named one of the "25 Filmmakers to Watch" in Fimmaker Magazine in 2006. See an interview with her on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osp92F4jC1M
Treeless Mountain Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9ermzhKx54
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We talk with Director Christopher Wong about his gritty documentary, Whatever It Takes, on students at an inner city school headed by a Chinese American headmaster in the Bronx, New York; and Tze Chun about his Sundance-selected Children of Invention, about two young Chinese children in Boston left to fend for themselves when their mother is incarcerated.
Children of Invention opens the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Thursday 30 April 2009 at Directors Guild of America, 7920 West Sunset in West Hollywood at 7 pm (VIP reception at 5:30 pm). Whatever It Takes screens at the same location, Saturday May 2 at 4 p.m.
Meanwhile, Newport Beach Film Festival continues; see: http://www.newportbeachfilmfest.com/.
On Tuesday, 28 April at 3:30 pm at Edwards Island 1, Fashion Island, there is a screening of a Japanese film with exquisite vignettes of locals encountered at a lost and found office in a train station. See: Lost & Found, directed by Nobuyuki Miyake: http://newportbeach.bside.com/2009/films/lostfound_newportbeach2009.
To listen to the show, click here: .
Oh, Saigon screens at Chapman University Law School, in Donald Kennedy Hall in Room 237AB on Thursday, April 9th, 2009 @ 5:30 p.m. Admission is free. Chapman University School of Law is located at 1 University Dr., Orange, CA 92866.
We also talk with John Bruning, of UCI's new Radical Student Union, which is mounting several protests this month. One raises concern over sweatshops that are said to produce UCI-logo apparel. RSU and other groups have written an open letter to UCI Chancellor Drake on the issue.
Another RSU protest is over the UCI visit of former Mexican President Vicente Fox to speak April 8 at UCI. RSU protests the visit former Mexican Pres. Vicente Fox to UCI April 8. RSA is hosting a discussion with documentary filmmaker Simon Sedillo planned for April 8 at 5 pm at UCI's Parkview Classroom Building room 1300, on Fox's poor history on human rights. More information on Fox's talk at UCI is linked here A bibliography I compiled on Fox is linked here
To listen to the show, click here: .
The Vietnamese International Film Festival in its fourth permutation returns to UC Irvine and the Southland starting Thursday, 2 April, with 60 films from the diverse Vietnamese diaspora as well as from Vietnam.
Monday's (March 30, 2009) Subversity radio show highlights Sad Fish, a locally made new independent film with its world premiere Saturday 4 April at UCI's HIB 100 at 7:30 p.m. as part of VIFF.
Directed by indie filmmaker Le-Van Kiet, 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.
On Monday's show, we talk with Sad Fish director Kiet, who was last on Subversity in April, 2007, when VIFF then showcased his earlier gritty visual depiction of OC gang life in Bui Doi, The Dust of Life.
Audio of that earlier interview: http://kuci.org/~dtsang/subversity/Sv070416.mp3 .
A wine reception for Sad Fish hosted by UCI's new Vietnamese alumni group, Vietnamese American Community Ambassadors (VACA), starts this Saturday at 5 p.m. at UCI's Cross Cultural Center. For more information and ticket info,, see: ttp://www.vietfilmfest.com/2009/viff/program-schedule/#april4 For more information on the film and other films showing at VIFF, go to: http://www.vietfilmfest.com/2009/
To listen to the show, click here: .
From VIFF organizers VAALA and Festival Co-directors Ysa Le and Quyen Lam: "ViFF 2009 carries an international flavor with the Opening Night featuring FOOTY LEGENDS, a film directed by Khoa Do, a Vietnamese Australian filmmaker who has been awarded .The Young Australian of the Year. in 2005 for his work with disadvantaged youth. Throughout the ten-day film festival, we invite audience members to take part in various activities, such as panel discussions, receptions, gala, and Q&A sessions with the cast and crew, etc.
"This year, ViFF.s Spotlight Night will feature Dustin Nguyen. We would like to recognize his ground-breaking achievements as a Vietnamese American actor, one who has significantly contributed to both television and film since the 1980s. For the first time, we will also proudly showcase Vietnamese American women filmmakers. and their works as well as facilitate a panel discussion with them. ViFF will conclude with the award-winning ALL ABOUT DAD, an impressive feature debut by Mark Tran from San Jose, California."
News about such surveillance is not new. According to OC Register columnist Frank Mikadeit back in May 2006: "Earlier in the week,Pat Rose, head of the Orange County's FBI al-Qaida squad, told me and about 25 others at the breakfast that her agency was seeking out terrorists here through a variety of electronic eavesdropping techniques and that her agency is 'quite surprised' that 'there are a lot of individuals of interest right here in Orange County.'
"When asked by someone whether we should be concerned about all the Muslim students at UCI, she responded, 'Another tough question to answer.' Not only does UCI have a lot, she said, but so does USC. 'I think we need to be concerned with everybody ... with our next-door neighbor.' " [Source: Frank Mikadeit, Monitoring by the FBI and a mea culpa Local Muslims react to FBI spying, OC Register, 30 May 2006.].
Although the FBI denied it was spying on UCI students, in 2007 an FBI agent was involved in an altercation with a UCI student. See: FBI actions at UCI questioned: Muslim student says he feared agent was going to run him over; bureau says cinderblock was thrown at car. By Marla Jo Fisher, OC Register, 18 May 2007.
Recent news:
OC Weekly:
A Look at Craig Monteilh, Who Says He Spied on the Islamic
Center of
Irvine for the Feds by Matt Coker, OC Weekly, 4 March 2009:
LA Times:
OC Muslims say FBI surveillance
has a
chilling effect: Use of an
informant in Orange County leads some to avoid mosques and cut
charitable giving, by Teresa Watanabe and Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, 1
March 2009:
CNN:
FBI planting spies in U.S. mosques,
Muslim groups say by Eliott C.
McLaughlin, CNN, March 20, 2009:
To listen to the show, click here: .
In our next show, airing Monday 16 March 2009 from 9-10 a.m. Pacific time on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange County, California, we talk with one scholar, Han Xiaorong from Butler University, who has done just that, focusing his research on Chinese living in North Vietnam from 1954 to 1978. The show is also simulcast via kuci.org.
See: "Spoiled Guests or Dedicated Patriots? The Chinese in North Vietnam, 1954-1978" by Xiaorong HAN, International Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 6, Issue 01, January 2009, pp. 1-36 (access licensed to UCI users)
HAN Xiaorong was born in China. He received his BA in history from Xiamen (Amoy) University, an MA in ethnic studies from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, an MA in anthropology from Tulane University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii. He was a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences for five years and has taught Chinese and Asian history at the University of Hawaii-West Oahu, Trinity College, the National University of Singapore, and Butler University in Indianapolis. He is now associate professor of the Department of History and Anthropology at Butler University. His research interests focus on state and ethnic minorities, intellectuals and peasants, and nationalist and Communist movements in twentieth century China, as well as Sino-Vietnamese interactions. Other publications include The Chinese Discourses on the Peasant, 1900-1949 (SUNY Press, 2005), "Who Invented the Bronze Drum?--Nationalism, Politics and a Sino-Vietnamese Archaeological Debate of the 1970s and 1980s," and "Localism in Chinese Communist Politics Before and After 1949--The Case of Feng Baiju."
To listen to the show, click here: .
David Reyes has had more than 30 years reporting experience for major dailies and weeklies in Los Angeles, Orange County, Oregon, and San Diego. He has shared in two Pulitzer prizes, a 1992 spot news reporting of the Los Angles riots while at the Los Angeles Times and in 1984 the Gold Medal for in-depth series on Latinos in Southern California, again with the LA Times. He has covered education, the legal system, immigration, government and transportation. While in Orange County, he wrote The Times’ first surfing column for the edition. He is a member of the Chicano News Media Assn., and a founding member of the National Assn. of Hispanic Journalists.
Joining us in the conversation is OC Voice publisher John Earl, who remembers growing up reading a meaty Los Angeles Times.
To listen to the show, click here: .
David Reyes also profiled Subversity and its host 15 years ago (March 14, 1994) in the L.A. Times: "UCI Lecturer, Mentor Out `to Change Society' " From that article:
...
His [Dan's] newest project, a one-hour radio talk show on KUCI, the student radio station, is billed as an "alternative view of what's behind the Orange Curtain." Guests and subjects have included supporters of gay teen-agers at Fountain Valley High School, decriminalizing prostitution, and gang hysteria in Orange County.
"This is a call-in format," Tsang, .. said. "I'm asking critical questions of my guests, and people get to call in."
The program doesn't attempt balance. "I don't do the other side," Tsang said. "All my shows are like that." After all, he said, the 4 p.m. Tuesday show is titled "Subversity."
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For those with UCI access the URL for the full text is here.
Subversity now airs 9 am Mondays, on KUCI, 889 FM in Orange County, Calif., and is simulcast via the web via http://kuci.org. No callins though (I can't interview and answer calls).
We talk, through an interpreter, with C. Sussan, an Iranian women living in exile in Europe, who has traveled to southern California to build for the International Women's Day events at Pico and Westwood in Westwood on March 7 (1 pm rally and march kickoff).
In the late 1970s Sussan lived in the U.S. and was part of the Iranian student movement against the brutal U.S.-backed Shah of Iran. She returned to Iran after the Shah's overthrow and took part in the struggle against the Khomeini regime. She was imprisoned for her political activity, was tortured and later released. After many years she was allowed to leave Iran. Throughout the years in exile she has continued to oppose and organize resistance against the Iranian regime as part of the March 8 Women's Organization.
To listen to the show, click here: .
The screening 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 28 on Subversity. See the film trailer .
To listen to the interview with Fatimah Tobing Rony as edited for rebroadcast, click here: .
We also aired National Radio Project's Making Contact program on the Homeless, "How We Survive: The Deepening Homeless Crisis." Making Contact says: "We spend the day with a family who lost their home and now lives inside their cramped trailer at a city parking lot. And we heard how two different communities are dealing with the economic crisis by taking matters into their own hands." Featured were:
David Clements, homeless, lives in trailer with family; Jennifer, Chloe, Yanni, Enya, and Kierlan, David's family; Nancy Kapp, New Beginnings Counseling Center homeless outreach coordinator; Max Rameau, Take Back The Land founder; Eric Evinowskis, Pinellas Hope facilities manager; Sheila Lopez, Pinellas Catholic Charities CEO and Pinellas Hope director; Rocco Mariano, Laura Letziati, James Stockstill, Pinellas Hope clients; Marie Nadine Pierre, Take Back the Land participant; Kelly Penton, City of Miami spokesperson. Also, Nancy Folbre, a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is also a blog writer for the The New York Times "Economix." She speaks with Making Contact's executive director, Lisa Rudman about the U.S. economy.
For audio of and information about the segment: www.radioproject.org/archive/2009/0709.html.
The Vagina Monologues is an annual benefit performance, which aims to raise awareness and funds for anti-violence against women groups within local communities. The Vagina Monologues is part of a global movement to stop violence against women and girls called V-Day. Half of the proceeds of the UC Irvine Vagina Monologues production supports the entire budget of the Campus Assault Resource Center. The other half of the show's proceeds go to Planned Parenthood, stage costs, and this year's national V-Day campaign against Rape in the Congo. The 'V' in V-Day stands for Victory, Valentine and Vagina.
Appearing on the Subversity show (updated list):
Lead Director: Hailee Pollard. She's a fifth year undergrad in the theater department. This is her second year as a director of the Vagina Monologues.
Cast Member: Playing The Woman Who Loved to Make Vaginas Happy (sex worker), Natalie Newton is a 3rd year graduate student in anthropology, a 2nd generation Vietnamese American, and a long-time queer and feminist activist.
Cast Member: Playing They Beat the Girl out of my Boy (transwoman), Mani Dhaliwal is a 4th year majoring in Biomedical Engineering/ Pre-med, she immigrated from India when she was 7, and this is her first time participating in the Vagina Monologues.
To listen to the show, click here: .
In the next edition of Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, we talk with a former KUCI Public Affairs host who has been a labor activist locally as well as a labor organizer from Northern California.
John Earl is a former organizer and researcher for the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union, Local 681 (now UNITE HERE) in Orange County. He was also one of the organizers of a democratic reform movement in that union that led to the formation of a breakaway union, Local 50 UNITE HERE a the Disneyland resort in 2005. Since then he has been involved in efforts to help organize day laborers in the county. He is currently the publisher of the Orange Coast Voice newspaper. The OC Voice website is under construction but its blog is here: ocvoice.wordpress.com.
Steve Zeltzer is active in United Public Workers for Action and is the founder of Labor Video Project.
See also: Two Unions in Marriage Now Face Divorce Talks
and
To listen to the show, click here: .
We talk with Gary Leupp, professor of history at Tufts University in Boston, while specializing in the history of Japan (also adjunct professor of religion) since 1988, has been writing columns on world affairs for such alternative pubications as Counterpunch and Dissident Voice since 2002.
He is the author of Servants, Shophands and Laborers in in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan; Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan; and Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900. He is also a contributor to CounterPunch's merciless chronicle of the wars on Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia, Imperial Crusades.
His most recent article, "Obama's Necon" covers the appointment of Dennis Ross to the envoy position.
Leupp has also defended William Ayers, who has also appeared on Subversity. See: "Raising the Specter of the '60s".
Articles by Leupp archived in Dissident Voice: www.dissidentvoice.org/author/GaryLeupp/
See also Leupp's "Revisiting the Tale of Samson: A Gaza Bible Story"
Articles by Leupp archived in CounterPunch:
See also Simon Tisdall in the Guardian on Obama's silence on Gaza:
"Obama is Losing a Battle He Doesn't
Know
He's In: The
President-Elect's Silence on the Gaza Crisis is Undermining his Reputation in the Middle East".
To listen to this show, click here:
Gaugher is director of The Owl and The Sparrow, to open in OC and LA this weekend.
The film, set in bustling Ho Chi Minh City, focuses on the travails of a young orphaned girl runaway who ends up becoming
matchmaker between an elephant handler at the local zoo and an airline stewardess.
This is Gauger's first feature film. He played a French colonial officer in The Rebel. Owl and the Sparrow has won numerous
festival awards, including one at the LA Film Festival last year.
Gauger was last on Subversity back in 1999 discussing Vietnamese American filmmaking: kuci.org/~dtsang/subversity/Sv990323.ram.
Tim Bui leads an effort to promote Vietnamese film distribution in the West, called Wave Releasing. A director himself, he
was last interviewed by Subversity's show host for a review in OC Weekly in 2001 on his role directing Green Dragon starring
Forest
Whitaker:
www.ocweekly.com/2001-05-17/film/history-vs-memory/
The film opens Friday 16 January in OC at Irvine Westpark 8 and Regal Garden Grove 16, as well as in Los Angeles at Laemmle
Sunset 8.
The film web site is: www.owlandthesparrow.com To listen to this show, click here:
AC Thompson is an experienced reporter currently on the staff of Pro Publica, a public interest journalism organization.
His 18-month "Katrina's Hidden Race War" investigation for The Nation magazine can be found at thenation.com,
along with a companion video.
According to The Nation:
Last week The Nation released an 18-month investigation supported by The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute,
Katrina's Hidden Race War. The
article (and a related sidebar) exposed a series of univestigated shootings in
New Orleans of
black residents by white vigilantes. Additionally, the investigation alleged serious misconduct by law enforcement.
On Christmas Eve, the New Orleans Police Department offered a response, citing intense media scrutiny. Police
Superintendent Warren J. Riley issued a statement that his department "is currently looking into the allegations," and
noted that they did not receive any calls at the time to corroborate the report in The Nation. The statement did not
offer any details about the shape or form of an investigation, and pointedly did not mention the other main allegation
in the piece: that the NOPD may have played a role in the death of Henry Glover. See: www.thenation.com/doc/20090105/thompson2?rel=hpbox.
Additionally:
* Congressman John Conyers, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has spoken out voicing concern about the
incidents. Conyers, in a statement released last week, said that he is "deeply disturbed" by the report, especially
evidence that "local police fueled, rather than extinguished, the violence." The Nation is encouraging Conyers, and
House Judiciary Sub-committee on Civil Rights chairman Jerrold Nadler, to launch a full investigation.
The Race War? section aired at 9:30 a.m. after hearing from our recent interview (re-aired) with Bill Ayers.
We chat with former Weather Underground member and Prairie Fire theoretician and current education professor (U of Ill.
at Chicago) Bill Ayers. We asked him what are the prospects for educational reform in the new administration, as well
as to reflect his days under the national spotlight during the recent presidential campaign.
To listen to the Bill Ayers 15 December 2008 interview that was excerpted 5 January 2009, click here:
To listen to the interview with investigative reporter A.C. Thompson, click here:
Ayers was last on Subversity 12 April 2002, promoting his book,
Fugitive Days, which has just now been reissued by Beacon Press with a
new afterword. After we re-aired our 2002 interview during the last
month of the recent presidential campaign, the rightwing media
"discovered" the audio. Unauthorized clips of the broadcast were
aired by such conservative hosts as Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity,
while text from the interview made it on to The National Review. The
audio also showed up in a video that tried to smear Obama. The smear
campaign, of course, did not stick.
The rightwing media seemed especiallly concerned that he revealed
during his Subversity interview that "I'm as much an anarchist as I am
a Marxist which is to say I find a lot of the ideas in anarchism
appealing." The rightwing media made a big deal that later that week
(of our 2002 interview) he served on an academic panel with Obama.
See also:
Bill Ayers blog: billayers.wordpress.com
Bill Ayers, "The Real Bill Ayers," New York Times, 5
December 2008 (op
ed).
Beacon Press' Fugitive Days site:
www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?SKU=3277
Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn on Democracy Now:
Rightwing video using Subversity audio:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xBlTdsnOh8
Blogger with clip from Fox News crediting KUCI-FM for Ayers quote:
patriotroom.com/ayers-2002-radio-interview-i-am-a-marxist-i-am-an-anarchist-i-regret-nothing/
To listen to the show, click here:
Irvine -- For the 8 December 2008 edition of Subversity, we talked with
director
Tom Gustafson and lead actor Tanner Cohen about "Were the World Mine,"
a musical fantasy about queer teen love.
The fun and captivating feature film, which has captivated audiences at
Frameline and other film festivals, takes a romp through small-town
America
and pokes fun at traditional "family values" and
homophobia. The film is based on director Gustafson's
short, "Fairies," as well as William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer
Nights' Dream."
Set in a boys academy, it stars Tanner as Timothy, a
queer teen who's often the target of homophobic attacks. A
sympathetic English teacher recruits him to star in the school's
adaptation of A Midsummer Nights' Dream, and in the process, he
creates a love potion that turns the object of his teenage lust (a rugby
star)
queer, as well as many others in his small town. Tanner is currently
a UCLA student (in Cultural Studies).
More info. on the guests:
Tom Gustafson - director/ co-writer/ producer
Tom made his first film, a Super 8 claymation, at the age of 9. That
film premiered in the very gymatorium responsible for the memories
that inspired his award-winning musical short, Fairies, which has
screened in over 75 international film festivals (including Tribeca),
aired on the Viacom network, Logo (as a winner of the short film
series in the episode The Click List: Best Shorts Ever!) and is
available on iTunes. Tom made his feature directorial debut with his
multi-award-winning, critically acclaimed and wildly popular,
Shakespeare inspired musical film about the truth of love: Were the
World Mine. Among the awards presented to WTWM, Tom received the
Heineken Red Star Award and the Scion First-Time Director Award.
While a student at Northwestern University, Tom received the coveted
Major Studio 22 grant to make a side-show inspired film, The Need.
After receiving the William Morris Filmmaking Award and graduating Cum
Laude from NU, Tom explored Chicago's art scene. He wrote and directed
an experimental theatre piece, exhibited his investigative portraiture
photography, shot a doc about queer youth, received grants from the
Chicago Community Arts Program, worked on Michael Moore's Bravo show,
The Awful Truth and created SPEAKproductions.
A freelance foray into "Hollywood" film led him down an unexpected
path when he landed his first job: Key Additional Casting Assistant on
Road To Perdition followed by Additional Casting Associate on Master &
Commander. He then took on solo projects as Location Casting Director
of Pirates Of The Caribbean (Dead Man's Chest and At Worlds End), The
Good Shepherd, The Weather Man and The Dark Knight. For a young
Director, this path proved to be an invaluable learning experience,
allowing him to work creatively alongside directors including the
unparalleled Peter Weir, Sam Mendes and Robert DeNiro.
Tanner Cohen . timothy
Tanner is a New York based actor currently getting a BA in Cultural
Studies at UCLA. He recently appeared as Nate in Vadim Perelman's The
Life Before Her Eyes (starring Uma Thurman), which premiered at the
2007 Toronto Film Festival and he was first seen as Tad Becker on CBS
in As The World Turns. He also portrayed the role of Flute in Creative
Arts Projects' A Midsummer Night's Dream, which toured throughout
Brooklyn parks in the summer of 2004. Tanner is also one half of the
emotronic pop duo The Guts. He is thrilled to be a part of this unique
film and thanks the incredibly devoted cast and crew and his family.
For additional info, check out the
film site.
To listen to the show, click here:
She argues that by privileging marriage under the law over other
relationships, many people suffer, including those in domestic
partnerships. She breaks with fellow queer activists who are now
flowing into the streets to defend gay marriage after California
voters approved Prop. 8 that banned gay marriage in California. She
challenges those activists to see beyond gay "equality" arguments that
restrict marriage benefits only to those willing to get married.
Nancy D. Polikoff is Professor of Law at American University
Washington College of Law, where she teaches in the areas of family
law, civil procedure, and sexuality and the law. Previously, she
supervised family law programs at the Women's Legal Defense Fund (now
National Partnership for Women and Families), and before that she
practiced law as part of a feminist law collective. For 30 years, she
has been writing about and litigating cases involving lesbian and gay
families. Her articles have appeared in numerous law reviews, and her
history of the development of the law affecting lesbian and gay
parenting appears as a chapter in John D'Emilio, William B. Turner,
and Urvashi Vaid, eds., Creating Change: Sexuality, Public Policy,
and Civil Rights (St, Martin's Press, 2000). She helped develop the
legal theories in support of second-parent adoption and visitation
rights for legally unrecognized parents, and she was successful
counsel in In re M.M.D., the 1995 case that established joint adoption
for lesbian and gay couples in the District of Columbia, and Boswell
v. Boswell, the 1998 Maryland case overturning restrictions on a gay
noncustodial father's visitation rights.
For more on the book, go to
www.beyondstraightandgaymarriage.com.
To listen to the show, click here:
A group of UCI students recently visited Israel and the occupied
territories to observe the situation there, under the auspices of the
Olive Tree Initiative
In part 1 of the show, we ask UCI senior Omar Bustami and UCI sophomore Moran Cohen why they went on the the trip, what
they found and what
lessons they learned.
To listen to part 1 of the show, click here:
In part 2, we talk with UC Riverside ethnic studies Assoc. Prof. Dylan
Rodriguez about what is the future for progressive anti-racism
struggle when the U.S. President is for the first time an African
American. He's not optimistic. He believes an Obama administration
will continue to "domesticate, discipline, and contain a politics of
radical opposition to a U.S. nation-building project that now insists
on the diversity of the American "we," while leaving so many for
dead." See his essay, Inaugurating
Multiculturalist White Supremacy, posted on Racewire. We also discussed this collection of essays, to which he
contributed a chapter: The
revolution will not be funded : beyond the non-profit industrial complex, edited by Incite! Women of Color Against
Violence. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2007; Table of
Contents. The book addresses the limits of civil society and NGOs.
To listen to part 2 of the show, click here:
.Director Stephane Gauger and Executive Producer Timothy Linh Bui on The Owl and the Sparrow
Director Gauger (right) with Le The Lu (Hai, the elephant handler) at Ho Chi Minh City zoo
For the edition of Subversity airing 12 January 2008, we talked with Saigon-born Stephane Gauger, director of a
new feature film from Vietnam, and his executive producer, Tim Linh Bui.
Trailer: www.owlandthesparrow.com/Trailer.mov
.Katrina's Hidden Story: Race War?
Irvine -- For the edition of Subversity airing 5 January 2009, after we re-air our recent interview with
Bill Ayers on education, we focus on a Katrina story that was largely unreported until last week. We plan to talk with
the reporter exposing this story, A.C. Thompson, in The Nation (5 January 2009 issue).
.
.2008
Bill Ayers on Reforming Education
For the Monday 15 December 2008 edition of Subversity,
we chatted with former Weather Underground member
and Prairie Fire theoretician and current education professor (U of
Ill. at Chicago) Bill Ayers. As Obama is about to name a new cabinet
member in charge of education, we asked him what are the
prospects for educational reform in the new administration, as well as
to reflect his days under the national spotlight during the recent
presidential campaign.
14 November 2008: Part
1
24 November 2008: Part 2
This youtube video has now been viewed over 82,000 times, most of the
viewings before the election;
at 5:32 credit for audio is given to "University of Irvine" Subversity show.
.Were the World Mine Director & Lead Actor Discuss Musical Romp
through Small-Town America
Tanner Cohen with fellow-actor Nate David Becker, his love object in Were the World Mine. Photo source:
SPEAKproductions.
Trailer
.Privileging (Gay or Straight) Marriage is Misplaced
For the November 24, 2008 edition of Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, we talked with law professor
Nancy D. Polikoff, author of a new book, Beyond (Straight and Gay)
Marriage: Valuing All Families Under the Law (Beacon Press, 2008).
Her blog is at:
www.beyondstraightandgaymarriage.blogspot.com/
.UCI's Olive Tree Initiative; Obama's Ascendancy and the Future of Radical Opposition to the U.S. State
For the next edition of Subversity, to air Monday 17 November 2008 at
9 am, we first talk with several UCI students who had a chance to
travel recently to the Middle East to see first-hand the situation
there. And in part two of the program, we talk with a UC Riverside
professor about the future prospects for progressive struggles in the
wake of Barack Obama's election.
..Immigrant Lives Past and Present
More on Subversity
blog.
Immigration will surely be one of the issues the incoming Obama administration will be addressing. Latest federal ICE statistics show 349,041 immigrants were deported in the past year (through Septembe 2008), up from 288,663 the previous fiscal year (see jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/11/us-deporting-record-levels-of.php).
For our November 10, 2008 edition, Subversity, a KUCI public affairs show, presents our interview with UCI labor historian Gilbert Gonzales on Mexican Labor migration and its roots in U.S. imperialism. He addresses the tumultuous history of Mexican labor in the United States and in Orange County.
This is a repeat show from May Day 2006 and we present it as the UCI Libraries opens the following Tuesday (November 18) a Fall exhibit on "Immigrant Lives in 'The OC' and Beyond," curated by the show host. Prof. Gonzales' research on a citrus strike in 1930s Orange County is among the areas featured in the exhibit.
To listen to the entire show, click here: .
Simon Chung was born in Hong Kong. A graduate of Toronto's York University, he majored in film production before returning Hong Kong. Since then, he has been active within the local film and television industry, including Ying E Chi. His second short, Life is Elsewhere ('96), was given the distinguished award at the Hong Kong ifva (Independent Short Film& Video Awards). Innocent ('05) is his directorial debut. Filmography: Chiwawa Express ('92 short), Life is Elsewhere ('96 short), Stanley Beloved ('97 short), First Love & Other Pains ('99 short), Innocent ('05), End of Love ('08).
See also: "Variety" coverage: varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/7186/1/
Background on HKAFF from HKAFF 2007: bc.cinema.com.hk/adhoc/hkaff_2007/about/index.html
In Part 2 of our show, we air a dispatch from National Radio Project's Making Contact on "Parental Notification: Protecting Our Youth?" "This November, parental notification (Prop 4) will be on the ballot in California. Prop 4 requires parents to be notified if a minor seeks an abortion. Does this law really protect our youth? If passed, will it affect how young women access reproductive health care?" asks the program.
"On this edition of Making Contact, we hear from a group of young women in California organizing against Prop 4. They say the measure threatens the health, safety and rights of young women, especially communities of color and immigrant communities. Also, we hear from a proponent of Prop 4 who explains why many others support this law. Lastly, we visit the state of Texas where both parental notification and consent laws have transformed the ways young women handle unexpected pregnancies."
This Making Contact program was partially funded by the Mary Wolford Foundation and features: Heidi, Meuy, Marn, Tiffany, Maly, Susan, Celia, Mimi, Mae, Quy, Sandra, SAFIRE youth members; Amanda Wake, SAFIRE coordinator; Dana Ginn Paredes, ACRJ organizing director; Dr. Paula Hillard, Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health member, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University School of Medicine, Division of Gynecologic Specialties director; Dolores Meehan, Friends of Sarah and the Yes on Proposition 4 Campaign; Rita Lucido, Jane's Due Process attorney; Brandi Bedford, Whole Woman's Health of Austin executive director; Terry Sallas Merritt, Whole Woman's Health corporate executive director; Tina Hester, Jane's Due Process hotline coordinator.
URL: www.radioproject.org/archive/2008/4108.html.
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In part 1 of the program, we talk with two filmmakers, Mike Roth and John Henning, who directed a documentary, "Saving Marriage," on the ultimate success in Massachusetts to forestall a voter-ban on gay marriage. We'll ask them what lessons can be learned given that California voters will vote in November whether or not to ban gay marriage (Prop. 8) and overturn the state Supreme Court's recent ruling allowing it.
In part 2, given the controversy over Barack Obama's "palling around" (allegedly) with former fugitive Weatherman Bill Ayers (now a respected education professor in Chicago), we re-air portions of a past interview we conducted with Prof. Ayers. We asked him then to reflect on his fugitive days.
To listen to the entire show, click here: .
More online:
Saving Marriage web site:
www.savingmarriagethemovie.com/home.html
Saving Marriage trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmjfKgnnCdA
Ballotpedia Proposition 8 entry:
ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=California_Proposition_8_(2008)
Obama and Ayers:
NY Times:
www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/us/politics/04ayers.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin
(needs free registration)
NY Times Ayers profile:
topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/william_c_ayers/index.html?scp=1-spot&sq=bill%20ayers&st=cse
Online Petition to Support Bill Ayers:
www.supportbillayers.org
Pallin on Ayers:
www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/us/politics/05palin.html
Our 12 April 2002 interview with Bill Ayers on Subversity: .
For Charlie Nguyen, a Viet Kieu (Overseas Vietnamese), the Rebel marks his return to his homeland. He also directed and wrote Chances Are and produced Finding Madison.
The film won the VIFF (Vietnamese International Film Festival)'s 2007 audience award at UCI among other awards.
The film will be screened Friday October 3 for free at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana in connection with a DVD release party; events start with a prescreening reception at 6 pm followed by the screening at 7 pm. Both Charlie Nguyen and actor Dustin Nguyen will be present for a Q and A.
The OC event is co-sponsored by VAALA. Founded in 1991 by a group of Vietnamese American journalists, artists and friends, Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA) is a community-based non-profit organization that seeks to promote and enrich arts and culture by, for, and about the Vietnamese communities. VAALA has organized numerous cultural events such as art exhibitions, book fairs, book signings, recitals, plays, lectures, the biennial Vietnamese International Film Festival (ViFF), the biennial Cinema Symposium, the annual Children's Moon Festival Art Contest and year-long art and music classes. VAALA recently developed smART Program, which offers free art workshops for non-profit youth organizations in the Orange County and Los Angeles areas.
Bowers Museumio is at 2002 North Main Street, Santa Ana 92706, telephone: (714) 567-3695.
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Camejo, who was Ralph Nader's running mate in 200 in the presidential race, also ran for governor of california three times before. In the 2002 race he garnered 5 percent of the California vote.
As Ralph Nader remembers him:
Peter was a student leader, civil rights advocate, leader in the socially responsible investment industry with his own investment firm, Progressive Asset Management, Inc., and author of books on investment and history including Racism, Revolution, Reaction, 1861-1877, The Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction, California Under Corporate Rule, and his recent book, The SRI Advantage: Why Socially Responsible Investing Has Outperformed Financially.
www.votenader.org/blog/2008/09/13/in-honor-of-peter-miguel-camejo/
We talk with his comrades, including Matt Gonzalez, who is currently Ralph Nader's running mate in Nader's return bid for the presidency. Gonzalez, a former San Francisco supervisor, is a civil rights attorney in the bay area and Green Party activist. We also talk with Donna Warren, who was the Southern California Chair for Peter Camejo in the California Recall election when he ran on the Green Party ticket for governor.
Paired with Camejo who ran for California governor, Warren ran for Lt. Governor in November 2002 and 2006. In November 2002, she garnered almost 400,000 votes statewide.
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Irvine -- For our next edition, KUCI's SUbversity show airs a live interview with the director and star of a new Asian American feature film, Ping Pong Playa.
The comedic take on the travails of a basketball star wannabe who ends up becoming a ping pong paddler pokes fun at both mainstream and Asian American stereotypes.
The director (and co-writer), Jesscia Yu, is an established documentary filmmaker undertaking her first feature film. Yu's documentaryshort, Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien, on a writer who lived for four decades paralyzed by polio and confined to an iron lung, won her many awards including an Oscar and an Emmy.
Yu is perhaps best known as the director of In the Realms of the Unreal, her riveting look at the life and erotic obsessions of "outside artist" Henry Darger, whose prolific art formed the basis of her documentary, shown on the PBS series, POV. Yu is based in Los Angeles.
Jimmy Tsai is both the star of Ping Pong Playa and a co-writer. A production accountant turned indie filmmaker and now actor, Tsai was production accountant on such films as Justin Lin's Finishing the Game and Quentin Lee's Ethan Mao.
A young actor from Orange County, Andrew Vo, then 11, also appears in the film as Tsai's buddy.
The film opened in selected theaters nationally Friday 5 September 2008. In Orange County, it screens at Edwards University Town Center 6 across from the UCI campus.
Our interview with Yu and Tsai aired Monday, 8 September, 2008, from 9-10 a.m. on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange County, Calif.
Film web site: www.pingpongplaya.com.
OC Register:
Review: www.ocregister.com/articles/ping-pong-movie-2144278-review-comedy.
KUCI alum Richard Chang's article: www.ocregister.com/articles/asian-american-tsai-2145420-ping-pong.
LA Times review:
NY Times review: movies.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/movies/05play.html?em.
Fandango listing: www.fandango.com/pingpongplaya_115690/movieoverview.
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Irvine -- On the 21 July 2008 edition of Subversity, a KUCI public affairs
program, we commemorated and celebrated the life of Prof. Lindon Warren
Barrett, who was murdered in his home in Long Beach 7 July 2008.
Joining in reflecting on his life and scholarly career are colleagues and students who knew him, both during his long tenure at UCI and, more recently, at UC Riverside, where he ended up last year. He was a beloved English and African American studies professor at both schools, and for several years, director of the African American studies program at UCI. His family in Winnepeg, Canada, has posted this obituary in the Winnipeg Free Press: Obituary.
Born in 1961 in Guyana, he migrated to England when he was just one, moving to Canada in 1966. He grew up in Winnipeg, earning his BA from York University, an MA from the University of Denver, and ultimately a Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. His Ph.D thesis was titled: "In the dark: Issues of value, evaluation, and authority in twentieth century critical discourse" (216 pages, AAT 9101135; Callalloo.
Faculty participating in the memorial program are Katherine Kinney, who chairs the English department at UC Riverside, and her UCR colleague, George Haggerty and from UCI, History Prof. Winston James, who was until last month chair of African American studies program here.
Former UCI Ph.D students Arnold Pan (now teaching at UCI) and Lelia Neti (now at Occidental College) will also be participating. Jamie Park, former UCI undergraduate student and now pursuing her Ph.D at UCR, will also be on the program.
We'll also be reading tributes from other colleagues and friends of Lindon during the program.
This special program was also simulcast on KUCR, 88.3 AM in Riverside County via kuci.org. Our appreciation to KUCR for this collaboration.
To listen to the program, without the music, click here: .
A podcast of this program is now available at: podcasts.
Corrected Sunday July 20: There is no public memorial service in Long Beach Tuesday; the family plans to scatter his ashes in accordance with his wishes into the Pacific Ocean.
On Saturday August 23 a Canadian memorial service will be held in Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
Other services are envisioned at UCR and UCI later in the fall.
The family suggests in lieu of flowers, "[b]ecause of Lindon's love of reading, if so desired a donation to the Winnipeg Public Library or a charity encouraging literacy would be most appreciated. WPL donation page.
Other links:
OC Register's College Life blog:
Radio Tribute to Slain English Professor Lindon Barrett (about this program)
More on Death of English Professor Lindon Barrett
Los Angeles Times:
Slain Man Identified as UC Riverside Professor
Press-Telegram (Long Beach):
Popular professor found slain in LB
Press-Enterprise (Riverside):
Professor found dead hoped for change at UCR
Ned Ragget's Ponder it All blog:
Facebook page:
Police report:
We talked with friends of Dolores Neuman, including Amanda Spake, former managing editor of "Mother Jones" magazine, and a writer and investigative reporter for national magazines and news outlets, specializing in health and medicine, environmental issues, education, food and drug safety, and consumer protection, focusing recently on post-Katrina investigations as a Katrina Media Fellow. She is a UC Irvine graduate.
We also talked with Janet Cole, a social-issue documentary film producer ("Absolutely Positive", "Regret to Inform," "Paragraph 175" and others) who had a close friendship with Dolores for almost 30 years.
During the late 1970s through the mid-1980s when the American independent film genre was first being coined and documentary films were initially being shown in U.S. theaters, Dolores was one of the first grassroots specialists in creative audience development: Working with independent theater owners and distributors to attract audiences to see such social-issue films. She worked with Janet Cole on two films, first "The War At Home," which they promoted together in SF and a few years later, "Soldier Girls".
Also joining in the conversation was another long-time friend, Rob Epstein, the director of "The Times of Harvey Milk."
See the obituary adapted from the Washington Post: "Dolores Neuman, 66; photographer, promoter for public interest causes."
See: Guest Book on Washington Post site
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We talk with Wei Li, a UCI doctoral student in Social Ecology, who spearheaded a relief drive at UC Irvine, raising over $30,000 in just days. He also organized a candlelight vigil at UCI for the victims of the earthquake.
Wei Li was born and raised in Shangqiu, Henan Province. He graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration from Renmin University of China (Beijing), after working as an undergraduate for the Chinese Young Volunteers Association. He begin his interests in environmental planning in 2003 by joining the MA program in Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo (Canada). He came to UCI in 2006 as a PhD student in Planning, Policy and Design, focusing on environmental policy and economics. He is currently working on a research project on how trees in Los Angeles influence house values.
Wei Li can be contacted at: wli3@uci.edu.
He is working with the Orange County Chinese Professional Association on handling further donations.
UCI news profile: Campus responds to crisis.
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The Bolsavik's meek alter ego is Hao-Nhien Vu, a mathematician with a knack for telling the truth, he says. He was previously employed at Nguoi Viet Daily News, the largest Vietnamese-language newspaper in California and probably in the country. For four years he was the Managing Editor, until anti-communist protests over an artwork involving a pedicure spa caused the paper to fire him. Since then, he has been writing and editing the blog Bolsavik.com, which is playing a major role demystifying all that's happening within the Vietnamese American community here in Orange County and elsewhere.
Our interview with The Bolsavik (coined from Bolsa, the main drag in Little Saigon, and Bolshevik) is set against continuing demonstrations against his former newspaper, Nguoi Viet, as well as against Viet Weekly, another publication in the region. Our earlier interview with Publisher Le Vu of the Viet Weekly appears here: mp3 audio.
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A new profile of Subversity's show host appears on the KUCI web site: "Spotlight on Dan Tsang.".
An earlier Subversity interview with outgoing UCI History Prof. Mike Davis is extracted in AMASS, issue 29 (2008), pp. 32-35: "The War at Home: Interview with Mike Davis" by Dan Tsang. (The issue is available from Atomic Books, or directly from the publisher, Society for Popular Democracy, see: Subscriptions).
Irvine -- On the 19 May edition of KUCI's Subversity program, we talked with independent film director Yung Chang, whose exquisite documentary, "Up the Yangtze," has opened nationally. In the second part of the program, we bring you highlights from the APIAVote Town Hall at UC Irvine, which heard from Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama, as they reached out to the API community. John McCain did not appear but sent a surrogate, Assemblyman Van Tran. Third party candidates were not included.
Just days after a devastating earthquake hit southwestern China, the opening of "Up the Yangtze" gives audiences a cinematic look at more of the travails faced by ordinary Chinese as their county embraces modernization. Yung Chang, a Canadian Chinese filmmaker, talks about why he made his film, an "Upstairs. Downstairs" take on the crew and tourists on a luxury cruise ship that traverses the Yangtze as the Three Gorges dam project moves inexorably to its completion. His film focuses on two workers on the ship: a cocky and handsome young man who explains how he charms tourists to part with their tips, and a more quiet young girl who toils to clean dishes, a job she needs to help bring income to her family whose home is destroyed and flooded by the Three Gorges project. Chang talks about how progress in China is very complicated. He also explains how his film led to brighter futures for both workers; the film's web site indicates how one can help.
In OC, the film is showing at Regency South Coast Village in Santa Ana; it is also in Los Angeles etc. A Sundance documentary film award winner, it screened earlier at the Newport Beach Film Festival last month and won a special grand jury award at the Asian Pacific American Film Festival in Los Angeles.
We also bring you highlights from the historic first town hall organized by Asian/Pacific Islander Americans, that took place this past Saturday at UC Irvine. Hilary Clinton appeared on a live video screen, answering questions submitted earlier, while Barrack Obama, on a live telephone feed, took questions from a panel of API activists; Obama, born in Hawaii, also identified himself as a Pacific Islander and a "Native Hawaiian". The event was ignored by the mainstream media.
News Update: Show host Dan Tsang was quoted in Sing Tao (Chinese) after the California Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage:
LA edition: www.singtaousa.com/051608/la080516c1.php
HK edition: singtao.com/oversea/0517ao27.html
Other Resources:
Up the Yangtze: www.uptheyangtze.com
LA Times review:
www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/reviews/la-et-yangtze16-2008may16,0,1167214.story
Variety coverage:
www.variety.com/article/VR1117984283.html?categoryid=2520&cs=1>
NY Times review:
http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/movies/25yang.html?ref=movies
APIAVote: www.apiavote.org
Early town hall news and blog coverage:
Nikkei View:
www.nikkeiview.com/blog/2008/05/17/twittering-the-apia-vote-town-hall/
Vien Dong (Vietnamese):
www.viendongdaily.com/Contents.aspx?contentid=3888&item=Tin%20Hoa%20K%E1%BB%B3
Sing Tao (Chinese): www.singtaousa.com/051808/la080518a1.php
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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
The show airs during KUCI's pledge drive. Please support the only public-radio station from OC and to support shows like Subversity. To pledge, go to www.kuci.org/funddrive.html.
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$
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$
Commonwealth Club of California radio
https://www.commonwealthclub.org/broadcast/
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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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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, Ngugis 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 Ngugis Spirit will begin with remarks from UC Irvines 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 (Ngugis 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 Ngugis Spirit is sponsored by The UC Humanities Research Institute; The Executive Vice Chancellors 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 Professors 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
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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: obi$
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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Hoang Tan Bui Case Settlement
Irvine -- On this Christmas Eve edition of Subversity, we look back at the
Hoang Tan Bui case, where a Westminster police officer, later fired, ran
over Bui, causing massive injuries that killed him. This past week, his
family settled the case against the City of Westminster for less than $1
million.
What Constitutes Torture?
Irvine -- As Congress and various agencies begin investigating the
destruction of CIA interrogation tapes and as Congress moves to restrict
certain types of interrogation techniques, Subversity talks with a Center
for Constitutional Rights (CCR) staff member about what constitutes
torture. For example, does forcing someone to stand for hours constitute
torture? Hint: Watch: Waiting
for the Guards video from Amnesty
International.
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 10 December 2007 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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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/de$
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 aired 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.
We talk with one such doubter, Sociology Prof. David S. Meyer, a specialist on social and political protest. We discuss how faculty protest at UCI quickly fizzled out after Chancellor Drake made an apology to the faculty senate last Thursday.
We also air 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:
OC Register on last week's show:
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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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Recent Articles linked on Google News:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=UCI+law+school&btnG=Search+News
www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2007/09/19_opinion.$
Google News
Political Pressure and UCI Law Deanship Hiring/Firing
The developments over the hiring and firing of a liberal new law school
dean at UCI threatens to derail not only the opening of the law school, but endangers UCI's reputation as a
site of renowned scholarship free from political interference.
Looking at Iraq War
On the same day as Gen.
David Petraeus was slated to present the latest Bush administration spin to Congress on the disaster in Iraq, we
looked
back at the grassroots commission to investigate war crimes of the Bush
regime and air highlights from the testimony, including those of former Abu Graib commander Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinsky,
and independent journalist Dahr Jamail, who has reported extensively from Iraq about the impact the war on the people
there. The show aired from 9-10 a.m. on Monday, 10 September, 2007.
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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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http://kuci.org/~dtsang/subversity/Sv070903b.mp3
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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 talked 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/orts/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 discussed 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 talked 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:
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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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.
See press release. The interview with Le Ly Hayslip first aired in 2005.
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For more on Justin Chon, see press release.
To listen to the interview with Justin Chon, click here: .
. To listen to the latest interview about
Gay
L.A., click here: .
To hear audio of the show, click here: . The show includes clips from an interview we did with him back in 1998 on political
surveillance.
For more on the lawsuit, see: War Crimes Complaint Against Rumsfeld et al..
See also Karpinsky's testimony.
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For more information with links to resources, see our press release.
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We also aired a clip from Bob Avakian, who leads the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, warning not to put faith in the Democrats. And we also gave 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 addressed 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: .
Here's the press release: press release.
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audio of
the show, click here: .
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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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.
To hear the audio of
the show with Brenda Sunoo, click here: .
To hear the audio of the show with Prof. Ho's talk, click here: .
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.
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the show with Wang Dan's talk and Q&A, click here: .
To hear the audio of
the show with Walden Bello's talk, , click here: .
Wilson Riles is president of Oakland Community Action Network and a former regional director of the AFSC (Quakers), a former Oakland City Councilman and political activist.
Lucia Marano is an actor/writer producer now based in Los Angeles. She has played playing Tina Modotti and Frida Kahlo in "Artists and Revolutionaries," "Anger Mis-Management," "Love & Secrecy Unveiled," and has toured the play "Deseo" with Mexican theater ensemble Mexicali a Secas at theater venues in Mexican cities. She also appeared in a site-specific work commissioned by Los Angeles County's MTA, "Return Engagement," which depicted union organizing efforts in the 30's and 40's. She has appeared on TV, notably in Sidney Lumet's "100 Centre Street" for A&E, and in independent films "Roscoe's Chicken & Waffle House," "Journey to The Sun" (Turkey), "Flushed" and "Manhattan By Numbers."
Heriberto Ocasio is a political activist and a medical doctor. He was part of the Puerto Rican liberation struggles of the 60's and 70's and the protests against the war in Vietnam. In 1982, during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, he traveled to Beirut and did volunteer medical work in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. He has been the spokesperson for the Committee to Support the Revolution in Peru and in 1992 was part of an international delegation that traveled to Lima to denounce the trial of Peruvian revolutionary leader Abimael Guzman by hooded military judges of the notorious Fujimori regime. He is currently active in the Engage! Committee to Promote and Protect the Voice of Bob Avakian.
See the press release.
To hear the audio of part 1 of
the show, the discussion of Bob Avakian's book, 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.
We also chatted with Azael Prendez, a 5th year Sociology major. He is also active with MEChA, Students for Peace and Justice, and the Worker-Student Alliance. He and Chirino co-authored a report (http://www.ocorganizer.com/html/uci_report.html) on the hidden costs of outsourcing of some of the UCI labor force.
In addition we talked with Rachel Vo, a 4th year Sociology major. She is also active with Students for Peace and Justice and the Worker-Student Alliance.
See the press release.
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of part 2 of 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 Project, 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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To hear an interview with AdubKhalil by Subversity's show host Daniel C. Tsang for the UCI's
Difficult Dialogues project, click here: .
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.
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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 each 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.
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release. To hear the audio of the show, click here:
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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.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.
. She is profiled on the front page of the same day's New University,: "Subversive
Artist
Mixes Fun and Humor with Political Activism".
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Sam Deegan's piece in the August 25, 2005, San Diego reader:
Old Wounds. David Barsamian the noted alternative radio interviewer, speaks on "Another World is Possible: Public Power in the Age of Empire" on Monday, November 14th, 7:00 PM at the Unitarian Universalist Church of South Orange County, 25801 Obrero Drive, Suite 9, Mission Viejo, CA 92691, (949) 581-0245. Admission: $5 donation requested, but not required.
. We aired a truncated webcast 2003 interview with Mary Dodge, the
co-author (with UCI's emeritus Prof. Gilbert Geis) of Stealing Dreams: A Fertility Clinic Scandal
(Northeastern University Press, 2003), the earlier medical center scandal. You can listen
to the entire original webcast here: . See press
release.
On our show Monday, November 7, 2005 at 9 a.m., we took a look back at the history of UC
Irvine, now celebrating its 40th year, with a former UCI graduate
student and critic of the corporatization
of academia. We chat with Jeffrey Schmidt, author of Disciplined
Minds. Listen to the show on mp3 here: . He was previously on
Subversity in 2001: [RealAudio file].
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Davis' critique of the reconstruction process appears in the english-edition of Le Monde Diplomatique at: "The Predators of New Orleans".
He has also co-written an essay on "25 Questions about the Murder of New Orleans"
on the Nation
web
site: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051017/davis.
His essay, "Melting Away," also appears on the Nation web site:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051024/davis.