is seeking recruits to chat with regular folks in
Yugoslavia for "direct testimonials from the war zones" offering a
different perspective than what the mainstream media offers. And locally,
fellow anti-war activist David Nguyen offers his perspective on the
bombing. See also the press release:Michel
Chossudovsky on Kosovo and the NATO Bombing. To hear this show on a
RealPlayer, click on: 
Erotica, Porn, and Sex Industry
Our April 20, 1999 show
features an interview with Jay Kent Lorenz, a researcher of porn, about
erotica, porn and the sex industry. We talk about the gay and straight
porn industry, and "specialized" lines of products. See the press
release: Erotica, Porn & the Sex Industry. To
hear this show on a RealAudio Player, click here:
Rush to Judgment after Littleton?
Our April 27 show features an interview with Mike Males, who first
appeared on Subversity back in 1996. Males, a children's advocate,
believes that society scapegoats children for adult ills. We talk about
the hysteria since the high school massacre in Littleton, Colorado. For
the press release, see Rush to Judgment. to
hear this show on a RealAudio player, click here:
Breast
Cancer and Robyn Shikiya Memorial
Our May 4,1999
program features interviews with breast cancer activist Susan Shinagawa
and public health researcher Bertha Mo; the program is dedicated to the
memory of Robyn Shikiya, a graduate student at UC Irvine in art history
when she died from breast cancer last year. Friends and teachers remember
her, including Prof. Bert Winther, Prof. Julia Lupton, Lecturer Mary Ann
Takemoto, Tong-Kee Huo and show host Dan Tsang; and statements from
Elizabeth Rayfield and Janice Neri read on the air. Robyn is featured
(as is this show) on a new documentary, Mothers, Daughters, Sisters: A
film about breast cancer (Pasadena: Pacific Film Currents, 1999). See
press release on the original show:
memorial program. To hear this program on a
RealPlayer, click on:
Moral Panic after Littleton?
Our May 11, 1999 show features an interview with MIT Prof. Henry Jenkins, who
specializes in media studies. He testified a week earlier in Congress,
where he fears repressive legislation against youth emerging. We talk
about his experience on Capitol Hill, and discuss why media images are
blamed for youth violence. The Columbine High School murderers were
apparently "gay bashed" even if they weren't gay. We discuss films such
as If, Over the Edge and Basketball Diaries. We also discuss the death
this week of actor Dirk Bogarde, who portrayed outcasts in his films. To
read the press release and Jenkins' Congressional testimony, click here:
Moral
Panic. To hear this show on a RealPlayer, click on:
A Redgrave on gay communist role; A documentary director on three
strikes
Our June 1, 1999 program features an interview with Corin Regrave and
Michael J. Moore. They are, respectively, the noted British actor and a
documentary film maker. Redgrave plays a white gay communist who
helped smuggle Nelson Mandela back into South Africa at the start of
the underground struggle against the then-Apartheid regime, in "The Man
Who Drove with Mandala." He discusses his father's bisexuality, the
ruling class, socialism, and his
own (and sister Vanessa's) involvement in the Marxist Party in Britain.
Moore directed "The Legacy," a devastating critique of California's
three strikes law -- and how victimhood and politics (and money)
conspired to create this law. For more information, see the press
release, A
Redgrave and a Documentary Director.
This show can be heard on RealPlayer by clicking on:
Rea Tajiri: Independent Filmmaking
Our Tuesday, June 8 Show (5-6 p.m. Pacific) features Renee Tajima
discussing Independent Filmmaking and her film Strawberry Fields. Joining
us in the discussion is Asst. Prof. Glen Mimura, of UCI's Asian American
Studies Program. We talk about various interpretations of her film of a
16 year-old Japanese American rebellious girl, and the challenges of being
an independent filmmaker. To hear this show with a RealPlayer, click on:
See also the Press Release.
Another Moral Panic?
Our Tuesday, June 15 1999 show features
interviews with Richard Mohr, Professor of Philosophy (U of Ill., Urbana)
and Bill Andriette, features editor of The Guide (Boston). We discuss the
latest moral panic to hit America: The attacks by rightwing groups on the
American Library Assocation and the American Psychology Association,
accusing them of encouraging child abuse. Is this a rightwing plot for
"home schooling" by painting society as so unsafe for children? We
compare and contrast the
situation
facing those deemed "pedophiles" with that of homosexuals 30 years
before and deconstruct the notion of "childhood". More details in the
Press Release. To hear this show in RealAudio,
click here:
Art and Politics
Our Tuesday, June 29 1999 show features a conversation on art and politics
and the protests against the Vietnamese art exhibit at the Bowers Museum
of Cultural Art in Santa Ana, California. We interview exhibitions
director Curtis Sandberg and Bowers president Peter Keller as they reflect
on the
controversy over art from Vietnam. More details in the Press Release. To hear this show in RealAudio,
click here:
Reporter on "Roots of Unrest"
Our July 6, 1999 show features an interview with Orange County Register
reporter Phan Tran Hieu, who returned to his native Vietnam to understand
the Roots
of Unrest that led to the Little Saigon protests earlier this
year. We discuss identity, communism, redbaiting and moving on, and class
and poverty in Vietnam. Details in Press
Release. To hear this show in RealAudio, click here:
UCI History: A Radical Past
Did you know when UCI first started, in 1965, there were radical students
and TAs who started an SDS chapter? Listen to our Subversity July 13,
1999 show when we broadcast interviews with Greg Hoffmann, a freshman in
UCI's first class and a co-founder of SDS; and Spence Olin, retired UCI
history prof. and Humanities Dean, about that turbulent past. Both
Hoffmann and Olin appear in the July 9-15, 1999 issue of OC Weekly in an article
about El
Toro Marines spying on UCI students, The Few,
The Proud, The Spies, written by the show's host.
More Summer 1999
programs to
be added soon
Freelance Reporter Wins Sting Prosecution
Our September 7, 1999 show features an interview with Bruce Mirken, a
freelance writer for the alternative and gay press. He has
especially written a
lot about the travails and joys of gay teenagers. Seeking to
interview a gay teenage boy in
Sacramento he met on AOL, he ended up encountering a cop. It was a
police sting
operation to snatch adults chatting with gay youth. Many months later,
after Mirken ends up spending loads of cash, a judge
throws out his case. Listen as he recounts his
victory against the morality police. You can read the press
release. To hear this show in RealAudio, click here:
Indonesia & East Timor Genocide; Clinton Clemency of Political
Prisoners
Our September 14, 1999 show features interviews with Ben Tarrel of East
Timor Action Network and John Oie of Indonesian Chinese American Network,
both from San Francisco, where they had just conducted a press conference
about the genocide in East Timor following the overwhelming vote for
independece from Indonesia; Oie talks about the way the state through its
militias has cracked down on ethnic Chinese in the archipelago. We also
talk with Diane Fujino and Matef Harmachis, of the Interfaith Prisoners
of Conscience Network, who had befriended a Puerto Rican political
prisoner
at Lompoc, Adolfo Matos, freed last week as one of those granted clemency
by Pres. Clinton. Fujino and Harmachis have just returned to Santa
Barbara after a tumultous reunion with Matos, accompanying him to his
homeland. You can read a press release. To
listen to the show,
click here:
UCI's Latest Scandal: A Rant
Disclosure in recent weeks of the latest UC Irvine scandal
involving
alleged selling of body parts from its Willed Body
Program raises
the questions: Why do these scandals keep recurring at UCI? Subversity's
host rants on our September 21, 1999 show about the coporate mentality at
UCI that led to the previous
scandal (over its fertility program), and suggests that mismanagement and
bungling of "damage control" has contributed to the latest scandal. For
more articles on this issue, click on the Hot News section of go.fast.to/news. To hear this show using
a RealPlayer, click on:
Reporter on Cadaver
Scandal
We continue our focus on UCI's latest scandal in our October 1, 1999 show
with Liz Kowalczyk, the
health reporter with the Orange County Register. Is the Register going to
win another Pulitizer for uncovering another scandal? Kowalczyk is the
reporter who did uncover the lack of compliance with UC and federal policy
by UCI which alone among UCs was not requiring doctors to disclose their
financial ties with drug firms to patients they are testing the drugs on!
We also discuss her quest for public records from UCI. Click here for a press release. For
more articles on this issue, click on the Hot News section of go.fast.to/news. To hear this show using
a RealPlayer, click on:
Hong Kong Film Director Stanley Kwan
Our October 8, 1999 show repeats an interview we aired during the summer
with Hong Kong film drector at San Francisco's gay film festival this
year, where he was given the Frameline Award, and showed Hold You Tight
and also his BFI documentary, Yang + Yin, about gender and
homoeroticism
in a century of Chinese cinema. We talk about sex in Hong Kong schools,
boyfriends, love, affairs, intimacy, male comradeship, coming out, other
queer filmmakers, and making queer
cinema in Hong Kong. Read the press release.
To
listen to this show using a RealPlayer, click on: 1st March on Washington, D.C. for
Lesbian & Gay Rights: 20th Anniversary; CIA Recruiters at UCI
Take a walk down memory lane with a look back at the first national gay
march during our October 22, 1999 show. Listen to some of the speakers
(incl. Allen Ginsberg), and hear
show host Dan Tsang talk about the first march thru Chinatown that morning
20 years ago. Hear him read talks by Audre Lorde and other activists.
Preceded by news updates, including a report on CIA recruiters spying on
students at
UCI this past Wednesday. Read the Press
Release. To
hear this show using
a RealPlayer, click on:
. Tsang also appeared on KUCI's News Gap on
Monday, October 25, 1999 to update listeners about the CIA recruitment
story, and to reflect on his own case, Tsang v. CIA. To
hear that update on News Gap with Tsang using
a RealPlayer, click on:
Ex-Ambassador William Walker
Our December 17, 1999 show featured a broadcast of an edited version of an
intervew with former U.S. Ambassador William Walker. He was ambassador to
El Salvador and later went on a mission to Kosovo. We asked him some
pointed questions about NATO bombing, Milosovic, CIA station activities,
the FMLN, Noriega,
and the School of the Americas. Caesar Sereseres, a UCI political science
prof. and assoc. dean, joins us to chat about an altercation with students
at Walker's public lecture November 18. See press
release. To hear the original, unexpurgated, expletive-laden
interview taped
November 19, 1999 (not the
one broadcast) using a Real
Player, click on:
Librarian of Sexual
Congress
Our January 21, 2000 show featured Ralph Whittington, who's look
forward to retiring from his job as curator of the Main Reading Room at
the Library of Congress in a few weeks. He's biting at the bit to
begin arranging his large collection of pornography he has gathered at
his Maryland residence, eventually slated for a museum. Read our press release; to hear the interview using a Real
Player, click on:
Pacifica Network News: Impending Strike
Our January 28, 2000 show featured a discussion on the impending Pacifica
Network News freelancer strike, with former KPFK show host Blase Bonpane;
freelance Pacifica reporter Robin Urevich; and Pacifica listener Carol
Spooner; joining the conversation is Prashanth Mundkur, a UCI graduate
student and KUCI intern. See press release.
To hear the interview using a Real
Player, click on:
Color of Justice
Our February 4, 2000 show featured crime analyst Mike Males, on his third
appearance on Subversity. Males talks about a new study he co-authored on
race and the transfer to adult courts of juveniles; we also discuss the
upcoming Juvenile "Injustice Initiative, Prop. 21. See press release.
To hear the interview using a Real
Player, click on:
Gay Youth Saga Continues
Our February 11, 2000 show featured two co-founders of a new gay/straight
alliance at Mission Viejo High School: Jason Fasi and Jessica Hanson.
They discuss why they want to start a club despite the turmoil surrounding
the club at El Modena High School in Orange. We discuss how young people
are working together to effect change. See press
release. To hear the interview using a Real
Player, click on:
Alternative News
Our February 18, 2000 show featured two syndicated yet,
alternative, broadcasts. See press release.
The first,
Freespeech Radio's newcast was put out by striking Pacifica Network News
reporters. To listen, using a RealPlayer, to that newscast, click on: . The second, Making Contact, is another
alternative newscast,
this time on militarization and war, including interviews with Vietnam War
widows from both sides of the Pacific. To listen to that Making Contact
program, click
here: .
Journalist Freed from Prison
Our February 25, 2000 show featured Jerome Valenta, a muckraking
journalist freed from prison after an appellate court ruled for the
defense. He'd been imprisoned for taping conversations with law
enforcement as part of his expose of misconduct in Kern County, Calif. We
also broadcast the latest Freespeech Radio newscast from striking Pacifica
reporters. See press release. To hear the
interview using a Real
Player, click on:
McCain Encounters Protesters
Our March 3, 2000 show featured Bao Nguyen, the UCI undergrad who
organized a protest against presidential contender John McCain in Little
Saigon. Nguyen talks about his small band of protesters being spat on
and called "communist." They were actually spit on and McCain supporters
yelled: "Go Back to Hanoi!". Bao and his comrades (he denies he's
communist) don't like McCain for using a racial slur. Bao is featured in the March 10-16 OC Weekly: Quiet Riot. We also
broadcast
the latest Freespeech Radio newscast by still-striking Pacifica reporters.
See press release. To hear the
interview using a Real
Player, click on:
"Seducing Maayra" Director Hunt Hoe
Our March 31, 2000 show featured a chat with Hunt Hoe, independent Chinese
Canadian filmmaker on his "Seducing Maarya", about East Indians in
Montreal. We talk about family values, morality, sex, and gay South
Asians. See press release. To hear the
interview using a Real
Player, click on:
Art vs. Anti-Communism
Our April 21, 2000 show featured an interview with Geoff Dorn, director of
Pacific Bridge gallery in Oakland, and C. David Thomas, the artist, about
the Ho Chi Minh exhibit there and the meaning of Ho Chi Minh today.
See Thomas' Web-page
on Uncle Ho, including an online version of his artist's book on the
leader. See press release. To hear
the interview using a Real
Player, click on:
Trailblazing: Gay Coach's Book
On our May 5, 2000 show, we chatted with Eric ("Gumby") Anderson whose
book, Trailblazing, has just come out. It's his autobiography of his days
at Huntington Beach High School as an openly gay track coach. Erich
Phinizy, a former runner on Gumby's team, also joins us to talk about the
bad old days. See press release. Back in 1994
Phinizy's appearance on Subversity to announce the gay/straight alliance
he co-founded at the school scooped the LA Times and the OC Register.
See press release. To hear the interview using
a Real Player, click on: .
Activist Librarian of the People
On our June 2, 2000 show, we chatted with Sandy Berman, librarian
extraordinaire, and advocate of democratizing and making
libraries more socially responsible. Hear about "bibliocide"
and "internal censorship". Are libraries turning into corporate entities
with no soul? Read the press release. To
hear the interview using a Real Player, click on:
.
Arab American and LA8 Member
On our June 16, 2000 show, we talked with Michel Shehadeh, of the
American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, about the INS
attempt to deport him (as part of the LA-8), about discrimination
against Arab Americans, and about the Middle East. See press release. To hear the interview
using a RealPlayer, click on: .
U.S. as Rogue State
On our June 20, 2000 show, we chatted with William Blum, author of
Rogue State, a new book from Common Courage Press about
U.S.
shehanigans abroad. See press release. To
hear the interview
using a RealPlayer, click on: . Program comes on after about 1 minute.
Sounds get lounder later.
U.S. Census Director on Politics of Census
2000
On our July 18, 2000 show, we aired the keynote address at IASSIST of
Kenneth Prewitt, the director of the U.S. Bureau of the Census,
on "The Politics of Census 2000". He gives a history of the
census and talks about political pressure on the bureau today.
He relates the "dark" history during WWII when the bureau gave
out to the military geographic information on Japanese Americans,
allowing these citizens to be rounded up in internment camps. He
talks realistically about the pressure to do the same if there is
another national emergency. See press
release. To hear the show on RealAudio, please click on . If you
want to download it to your own PC, move your mouse over audiofile, right click on the mouse, and
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your hard drive.
Anarchist Youths on American Values
Orange County anarchist youths chat about American values on Independence
Day 2000 on our July 4, 2000 show. Members of the August Collective, they
are organizing the North American Anarchist
Conference. See press release. Read my
essay, Anarchistic
Advice to LAPD. To hear the show on RealAudio, please click on . To download the
Realaudio file for playing later, move your cursor over audiofile and click on right mouse and "save link
as".
D2K Protests
Was that a police riot in Los Angeles after the Rage Against the Machine
concert? Carol Sobel discusses why she thinks the police overreacted on
our August 15, 2000 show.
She's a civil rights lawyer representing protesters in Los Angeles. We
also bring you highlights from the Mumia Abul Jamal march on Sunday,
August 13 in Los Angeles, with speeches by Mumia attorney Leonard
Weinglass and his son; as well as our own chat with Weinglass,
interspersed with the voice of Mumia himself, and the sounds and lyrics of
the Revolutionary Change. See press release.
To hear the show on RealAudio, please click on . If you
want to download it to your own PC, move your mouse over audiofile, right click on the mouse, and
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your hard drive.
Show host Dan Tsang was a guest on Diane Chapman's High Visibility
on KUCI
August 22, 2000. You can listen to our discussion of politics
and the D2K
protests: .
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"save link as".
Carmona Victory; Medea Benjamin's campaign
On our August 22, 2000 show, we talked with Nadia Davis, a lawyer
representing 18-year-old Arthur Carmona, just released from prison after
spending two and a half years for a crime he did not commit. Davis talks
about racial profiling and how public support was instrumental in her
client's winning his victory. We also broadcast the press conference the
day before of Medea Bejamin, the Green Party candidate for Diane
Feinstein's Senate seat, joined by latino leader and long-time Democrat
Amin David on why he supports her. See press
release.
To hear the show on RealAudio, please click on . If you
want to download it to your own PC, move your mouse over audiofile, right click on the mouse, and
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your hard drive.
Sobriety Check Points [from All Sides Now show]
Subversity host Dan Tsang also guest hosted the first show of a new KUCI
public affairs program, All
Sides Now
on Friday, September 29, 2000 at 5 p.m. For the first show this fall
season,
the topic was "Sobriety Checkpoints". The
use of such police checkpoints has proliferated in Orange County, partly
as a result of state funding to put up these
roadblocks. Are they effective in cutting down DUIs?
For this first All Sides Now show, guest host Tsang moderated a
discussion
between Robert Balachek, a lawyer from Laguna Beach opposed to
such checkpoints, and Linda Oxenrider, chair of the California Mothers
Against Drunk Driving.
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want to download it to your own PC, move your mouse over audiofile,
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your hard drive.
Ralph Nader in Orange County
On our Ocobter 25, 2000 Show, we aired much of Ralph Nader's inspriational
speech at Chapman University in Orange, California. See press release. To hear the show on RealAudio,
please click on . If you
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your hard drive.
On Alternative News that day,
we also aired Green Party Senatorial candidate Medea Benjamin's talk at
the same event. Check out the Alternative
News: RealAudio Archive for a
RealAudio copy of that show.
Green Party after the Election
Even as the results of the 2000 presidential elections were being counted,
what do
the election results mean for third parties like the Greens? On our
post-election show on November 8, 2000, we
chatted
with
pollster Chris Collet. We also chat about the second Vietnamese
American election to public office in Orange County. And are pollsters
to blame for the election night mis-calls? See press release.
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want to download it to your own PC, move your mouse over audiofile, right click on the mouse, and
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your hard drive.
Wobblies in Academia
On our November 29, 2000 show, we discuss union organizing and anarchism
with Dana Ward, a political scientist at Pitzer College. He's organizing
his fellow faculty members for the IWW. We also talk about what anarchism
means to him. He is host of the Anarchism
Archive. See
press release. To hear the show on RealAudio,
please click on . If you
want to download it to your own PC, move your mouse over audiofile, right click on the mouse, and
click on "save link as". You should be able to save it to
your hard drive.
William Duiker on Ho Chi Minh
On our December 20, 2000 show, we talked with William J. Duiker on his
new biography on Ho Chi Minh. Utilizing national archives in various
countries, his portrait of Ho is complex and shatters many myths.
See
press release. To hear the show on
RealAudio,
please click on . If you
want to download it to your own PC, move your mouse over audiofile, right click on the mouse, and
click on "save link as". You should be able to save it to
your hard drive. Unfortunately, the first few minutes of the show were
not
recorded.
Performance Artist Tim Miller
Tim Miller, about to perform his "Glory Box" one-man show again, talks
about the inequities of gay lovers who are seeking immigration to U.S. on
our January 3, 2001 show. See our
press release.
To hear the show on
RealAudio,
please click on . If you
want to download it to your own PC, move your mouse over audiofile, right click on the mouse, and
click on "save link as". You should be able to save it to
your hard drive. A.J.
Langguth on Our
Vietnam
On our January 19, 20001 show, we discussed with Journalism Prof. A.J.
Langguth his new book that offers a multifaceted look at the Vietnam
War, through the
perspectives of the various participants from all sides.
Langguth thinks the U.S. eventually will observe Nixon's pledge to pay
reparations to Vietnam. See
press release. To hear the show on
RealAudio,
please click on . If you
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H. Bruce Franklin on Vietnam and Other American Fantasies
On our January 17, 2001 show, we talked with Rutgers Prof. H. Bruce
Franklin
about his nbook, Vietnam an Other American Fantasies. We discuss
history and memory and how popular culture affected and was affected by
the Vietnam War, and how myths about the period still persist, some
created
deliberately to provide a revisionist history. See
press release. To hear the show on
RealAudio,
please click on . If you
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click on "save link as". You should be able to save it to
your hard drive.
Union Members Challenge Anaheim ID Ordinance
John Earl, representing hotel and restaurant employees in Anaheim (HERE
Local 681), chats about why his members are perturbed at a long-dormant
and rarely enforced ID law on our February 27, 2001 show. See show host
Tsang's reportage on this law:
Show Us Your
Scars! Anaheim Cops Discover Long-Ignored Law, Enforce It!. See also
our
press release.
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RealAudio,
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your hard drive.
Santee Shooting Aftermath
Again, another high school shooting. On our March 13, 2001
show, criminologist Mike Males and social
critic Tim Wise dissect the media coverage and school administrators
actions in the wake of the Santee, California shootings. Who's to blame?
See also
our
press release.
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Director Hunt Hoe on Who is Albert Woo?
On our
March 20, 2001 show, we chatted with Montreal-based director Hunt Hoe on
his latest film. He dissects Asian stereotypes in this documentary that
features Jackie Chan and Hoe's friends.
See our
press release.
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RealAudio,
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Taco Bell Boycott [from Alternative News show]
On the May 4, 2001 edition of Alternative News,
we decided to interview
three farmworkers from Florida. Peter Stedman, Lucas Benitez and Antonio
Martinez were in Irvine (where Taco Bell corp hq is located), drumming up
support for a Taco Bell boycott. They're with the Coalition of Immokalee
Workers in Florida. To hear the show on
RealAudio,
please click on . If
you
want to download it to your own PC, move your mouse over audiofile, right click on the mouse,
and
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your hard drive.
May Day Police Riot
On our May 8, 2001 show, we chatted with three
anarchists arrested in
the Long Beach May Day 2001 police riot. The real scoop on a violent day
(by the cops)! We also talk about the growing police paranoia, prospect of
grand juries, and prisoner solidarity. See our press release.
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download it to your own PC, move your mouse over audiofile, right click on the mouse, and click on
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Formation of New Right in Orange County
On our July 6, 2001 show,
Lisa McGirr, a historian at Harvard, was
interviewed about her new book, Suburban Warriors
(Princeton,
2001), on the formation of the new right in 1960s Orange County,
California. We chat about the need for the left to go beyond stereotypes
of the right. See our press release.
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The Life of Harry Hay, a Founder of Modern Gay Movement
On our July 13, 2001 show, we talked with Stuart Timmons, screenwriter and
biographer, about a new documentary on Harry Hay, a member of the
Communist Party USA when he founded Mattachine Society, an early
homophile group. We talk about Hay's independent stance, against
assimilationist politics of the current gay establishment, and in support
of lowering the age of consent. Read the press
release. To hear the show on RealAudio, please click on . If you want to
download it to your own PC, move your mouse over audiofile, right click on the mouse, and click on
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Fighting Web Censorship
On our July 20, 2001 show, we talked with Danny Silverman, who had just graduated from Foothill High in
Tustin. He talked about what he did that led to a short-lived PC blackout at his school, but was also a
free-speech victory against web censors in the Tustin school district. See press
release. For an article on Silverman, see: Fast Times at Foothill High
Meet Danny Silverman, teen censorware buster, OC Weekly, August 17-23, 2001, 16-17. See also his
photo. Copyright © Daniel C.
Tsang. To hear the
show on RealAudio, please click on . If you want to
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On our July 27, 2001 show, we chatted with UCI faculty member and activist Stefano Sensi, about what
happened in
Genoa, during the anti-G-8 protests. He argues that the Black Bloc has been wrongly blamed for the
violence there. Read the press
release. To hear the show on RealAudio, please click on . If you want to
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Radical Bookselling and Distribution
On our August 3, 2001 show,
we aired an interview with Ramsey Kanaan, the co-founder of AK Press, an
anarchist publisher and the distributor of several thousand radical
publications. He talks about anarchism, primitivism and the politics and
economics of radical book distribution. See press
release. To hear the show on RealAudio, please click on . If you want to
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Mumia Update
On part 1 of our August 10, 2001 show, we chatted with Carol Brightman of
Refuse and Resist in Los Angeles, about the latest developments on the
Mumia Abul Jamal death row case. See press
release. To hear the show on RealAudio, please click on . If you want to
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Anarchist Librarian
On part two of our August 10, 2001 show, we aired an interview originally
conducted by activist Stefano Sensi and show host Dan Tsang with Chuck
Munson, anarchist librarian, prior to the G8 protests. The interview is
excerpted [title="Washington"]
in issue 5 (July 20, 2001) of an Italian left magazine, Carta. See
press release. To hear the show on RealAudio,
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Hate Crimes Legislation Repressive?
On our
August 17, 2001 show, we discussed with Katherine Whitlock, author of a
new study on the limitations of hate crimes legislation. It's the first
crack in the hate crimes coalition that has led to more criminalization of
society. Maybe there's
hope the left will address now how these laws perpetuate racial and class
divides. Here's the AFSC report. See press release. To hear the show on RealAudio,
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Viet Tide Emerges in Little Saigon
On our August 24, 2001 show, we chatted with Phan Tran Hieu, the editor of
the English-section of Viet Tide, a new Vietnamese American
bilingual publication (Vietnamese and English) that has just come out from
Westminster, California. We discuss ethnic journalists and the pressures
and responsibilities they face. Viet Tide is published out of
14841 Moran St., Westminster, CA 92683. Tel: 714 677-0913; fax 714
677-0915. E-mail: viettide@hotmail.com Phan last appeared on
Subversity two years before
to
talk about his trip to Vietnam, when he was an OC Register
reporter, assigned to uncover the "roots of unrest". See the current press release. To hear the show on RealAudio,
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Racist Music in Orange County
On our August 31, 2001 show, we discussed the dark history of the white
power movement and why shows appear popular in Orange County, with Michael
Novick, of the Los Angeles chapter of Anti Racist Action. He's the author
of White
lies, white power : the fight against white supremacy and
reactionary violence from Common Courage Press.
Novick also edits People
against Racist Terror publication, Turning the
Tide. See the current press release. To hear the show on RealAudio,
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Anti-Arab American Backlash
On part 1 of our September 14, 2001 show, we chatted with Palestinian activist Michel Shehadeh, of
the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. We talked about what Arab Americans are facing in
the
wake of the terrorist attack of September 11, and the prospect of more repressive legislation
domestically. CNN has also issued a statement on
the false allegation that it aired an old video to show some
Palestinians cheering. See the show
press release. To hear the show on RealAudio,
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CIA tied to Osama bin Laden
Our part 2 of our September 14, 2001 show, we chatted with Economics Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, who
believes the CIA is still the "host" of Osama bin Laden, a "freedom fighter" the U.S. spy agency
trained to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. The prof. believes that via its proxy, the Pakistani
inteligence services, the CIA would know exactly where bin Laden is and what he has been up to.
He also fears this warmongering is prelude to U.S. control of Central Asia. See Prof. Chossudovsky's
Centre for Research on Globalisation. See
the press release. To hear the show on RealAudio,
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Nuclear Power Plants: Danger Looms
On our September 21, 2001 show, we talked with long-time anti-nuke writer Harvey Wasserman. We
discuss in particular the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, 30 miles south of Irvine, and what
would happen if it were
attacked. See press release. To hear the show on RealAudio,
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Civil Liberties under Attack
On our September 28, 2001 show, we chatted with Carol Sobel, a civil liberties attorney, about what
is coming down the pike as Congress moves to erode civil liberties, using the specter of national
security as justification. She also discusses what to do when the FBI comes knocking. See press release. To hear the show on RealAudio,
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9/11 Backlash in Academia
On our October 5, 2001 show, we talked with Jonnie Hargis, a library
assistant at UCLA's research library, who was reprimanded and suspended
without pay for a week after posting a pro-Palestinian e-mail message.
We chat about why free speech is threatened at UCLA. He's garnered the
support of his former boss in the former UCLA map library, and the
editors of the Daily Bruin. For the media fall-out from this show, see this update. See press
release. To hear the show on RealAudio,
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Covert Action Dissected
On our October 12, 2001 show, we discussed with author William Blum the
history of U.S. covert activities in Afghanistan and elswehere, and
explored the concept of state-sponsored terrorism and "harboring"
terrorists. See press release. To hear the
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Public Health Systems and Bioterrorism
On our October 19, 2001 show, with UCI neurologist Stefano Sensi, we chat
with Ian Lipkin, the chair of neurosciences at UCI, about the public
health system's preparedness in the wake on the anthrax scare. Dr. Lipkin
is the discover of the West Nile Virus in NY City in 1999. See press release. We also aired the latest dispatch
from Free Speech Radio News. To hear the
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9/11 Aftermath
On our November 2, 2001 show,
we chatted with Ken Gude, policy analyst at the Center for National Security Studies, about
the new anti-terrorism law, and the detention of over a thousand people
since 9/11 in U.S. jails. In addition, we talked with Roger Forman, the
lawyer for 15-year-old Katie Sierra, suspended from
Sissonville High School in West Virginia for starting an "anarchy club"
and wearing anti-war and anti-racism T-shirts. We also discussed with
Hadassa Gilbert and Mary Sutton of the Sara Olson Defense Fund
Committeee why the activist pleaded guilty for conspiracy to plant
bombs when she says she wasn't involved. To hear the show on RealAudio,
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Disciplining Minds
On our November 30, 2001 show, we chatted with
Jeffrey Schmidt, author of Disciplined Minds. With Stefano Sensi
and Mike Twardos, we discussed the politics of graduate school and
professional work. Schmidt was active at UCI in Science for the People in
the 1970s. See press release. To hear the show
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Making of a Gay Asian Community
On our February 15, 2002 show, we looked back at how gay Asians created a
community in Los Angeles. Eric Wat, who wrote an oral history on this
topic, talks about race, sexuality and group formation in the pre-AIDS
era. See press release. To hear the show
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Edward Said on History of Arabs
On our March 1, 2002 show, first half-hour, we aired the question and answer portion of Edward Said's
Chapman University
lecture the previous Friday; see press release and on our March 8, 2002 show,
we aired his entire lecture, Power, Politics & Culture: The U.S. and the Arabs. To hear his lecture
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'Sex Predators' & Civil Commitment Laws
On our March 1, 2002, second half-hour, we talked with Mark McHarry, the
author of a Z Magazine report
on the civil liberties implications of sex laws such as
those requiring civil commitment for the rest of a sex offender's life.
See press release. McHarry's is the first to
critique such laws in a left magazine. Another is Alexander Cockburn's
The Quadruple Axel of
Evil in
CounterPunch.
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Limits of Civil Commitment Laws
On our March 15, 2002 show, we discussed further the limitations of civil
commitment for sex offenders after they've served their terms. Weighing
in is Tamara Menteer, who was the ombudsman in Washington state facilities
housing sex offenders, and a critic of such laws. She says the inmates
are just "warehoused" without any pretense at treatment. She
started the Whitestone
Foundation to seek to "heal" the community. Read the
Notes transcribing the interview by a
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Remembering Josie Montoya
On
our March 22, 2002 show, the day she was laid to rest in Anaheim, we
talked about the legacy of community activist Josie Montoya with activists
Francisco Ceja and John Earl. What might activists want to do to carry on
this amazing woman's work against injustice, police abuse, and poverty?
See the press release for links to obituaries and
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Bill Ayers on Fugitive Days
On our April 12, 2002 show, we talked with Bill Ayers about his
underground and above-ground days as a Weather Underground fugitive as
well as now as a radical professor. We talk about the Vietnam War, Ho
Chi Minh, sexism, sex, and the 1960s. The show is dedicated to Peter Biehl, the advocate of
reconciliation in South Africa, who died the previous week. See press
release. To hear the show on RealAudio, please click on . If you want to
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Union Dissidence; May Day in Orange County [from Alternative News]
On the April 23, 2002 edition of our sister show, Alternative News, we talked
with John Earl, a dissident
union member of Local 681 of
HERE, the hotel and restaurant employees union. Among other things, we discussed that week's OC Weekly
article: Check Out. We also chatted with
Charlene
about police abuse and immigrants' rights as her group plans Orange County's first May Day demo, outside
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez's Garden Grove office. The OC Weekly also previewed the demo: Demo. To hear
the show on
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Academic Freedom under Attack
On our May 3, 2002 show, we chatted with political scientist Harris
Mirkin. He's at the center of a maelstrom of controversy over an article
on sexual politics he wrote. The state legislature in Missouri has cut
$100,000 from his university's appropriations in retaliation. See press release. To hear the show on RealAudio,
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Cultural Critic Paul Gilroy on "Beyond Race"
On our May 24, 2002 show, we aired a conversation with cultural critic
Paul Gilroy from Yale. He elaborates on the UCI Wellek Library Lectures,
and discusses with UCI Asian American Studies Asst. Prof Glen Mimura and
host Dan Tsang race, racism, racialism, 9/11 and UC Regent Ward Connerly
(whose upcoming California initiative seeks to ban collection of race
data). See press release which includes a
photo taken in
KUCI studio B. To hear the show on RealAudio, please click on a . If you want to
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Vietnam Today: A Conversation with Prof. Ngo Vinh
Long
On our July 2, 2002, we aired our conversation with historian Ngo Vinh
Long of the University of Maine, Orono. He's the author of
Before the Revolution: The Vietnamese Peasants Under the French,
now
available in paperback from Columbia University Press. A long-time
anti-war activist
Prof. Ngo has returned to his native Vietnam numerous times, offering
constructive advice, most recently as a Fullbright Scholar last year.
He talks about problems faced by Vietnam as it faces a likely future in
the World Trade Organization.
An excerpt from the interview appears in Critical Asian Studies v. 34, no. 3 (September 2002), pp. 459-464. The
excerpt is available online to members of
institutions whose libraries subscribe to the journal. A partial
transcript of the interview, with Prof. Ngo's photo, appears on the CAS
website: http://csf.colorado.edu/bcas/main-cas/tsang.htm.
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Ex-NSA Officer on Civil Liberties at Stake
On our July 16, 2002 show, second half, we spoke with former National
Security Agency officer-turned privacy advocate Wayne Madsen. He's worried
that the government is turning Americans into informants. He's posted a
petition against the government's TIPS program: NoTIPS, See
also press release for more links. To hear the
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U.S. Atrocities in Philippines Subject of Upcoming Film
On our July 23, 2002 show, we aired our conversation with Filipino film
director Gil M. Portes, about history and memory in his films on World War
II as well as his current project on uncovering the U.S. massacres in the
Philippins at the turn of the last century. Mark Twain was among those in
the Anti-Imperialist League at the time who spoke out. We chat about his
"Bells
of Balangiga" project as well as about the gay scene in the Philippines.
See
also press release for links to online
resources. To hear the
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West-Bloc Dissident William Blum
On our July 30, 2002 show, we chatted with William Blum, whose
latest work is a memoir, West-Bloc Dissident from Soft Skull
Press. Blum,
a frequent guest on the show, tells us why he argues there's
dissidence in the "West-Bloc" and how he continues in the
struggle against U.S. imperialism. To hear the
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OC Jail Abuses: Where's Carona?
On our August 13, 2002 show, we chatted with Richard Herman, the civil rights
attorney who's monitoring conditions in Orange County Jail. He speaks about
the latest inmates he's representing, black inmates who were forced to fight
for the deputies, and stripped naked in the jail. He's blunt about the
responsibility of Mike Carona, the Orange County sheriff, who has political
ambitions since apprehending the suspect in the Samantha Runnion case.
Raining on Carona's parade, Herman says it's a matter of guts whether Carona
will take action to stop abuse in his jail. See press
release. To hear the
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Sex Not Harmful to Minors?
On our August 27, 2002 show, we talked with Judith Levine,
author of Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting
Children from Sex. We discuss the religious right's
stranglehold on abstinence-based sex education and the
repressive character of anti-sex and anti-porn laws that lead to
long incarceration terms whipped up by moral panic of pedophilia
and pederasty. The book won the "current interest" Los Angeles Times Book Award in
April 2003. It was
lauded for presenting "a congent and passionate critique of the war against young
people's sexuality. "See
press release for
more resources, including excerpts from her book.
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PoiZon Azn on Life
On our September 24, 2002 show, we chatted with Dez Kwok, Known as
Poizon Azn, he's
a Chinese
American gay young guy from San Francisco. He talks about coming
out at 15 while in a Chinatown gang. We talk about age of
consent, safe sex and messed up relationships. See press release.
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encode another version.
Disneyland's Rat Tales
On our October 1st 2002 show, we chatted with former Disneyland Hotel
employee Cynthia Hanel and union reformer John Earl about working conditions
in Disneyland and reports of rats in the park and hotel. We discuss the need
for unions to be vigilant against management. See press release.
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John Graham Challenges Chris Cox
UCI marketing prof. John Graham, a Democrat, is challenging
once again the House seat held by "ultra-conservative"
Republican Chris Cox, head of the committee that put out the discredited
Cox Report. We
chat with Graham to ask him why he's still interested in
unseating Cox. He suggests that politicians like Cox support
big defense budgets at the expense of education, and
explains that he,
Graham, decided the military wasn't the solution while he was a
Navy man in the Philippines, after he read the Pentagon Papers
critiquing the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. He now works with
the UCI Citizen Peacebuilding
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Chris Cox Talks Back
Conservative Republican Congressman Chris Cox tries to defend
the Cox
Report and discusses all sorts of issues on our October 29,
2002 show. Cox
denies he's a China basher for chairing the committee that wrote the 1999
report or for raising the issue of human rights in China. Although he voted
for the
Defense of Marriage Act, he denies he is a gay basher. On the show, he
discusses with interviewer Dan Tsang issues such as education versus war;
sodomy and gambling statutes, CIA and NSA domestic spying, the USA
Patriot Act, and the civil liberties of American citizens incarcerated
without access to lawyers. He defends taking contributions from Big
Tobacco (such as Philip Morris) and supporting Republican insurance
commissioner candidate Gary Mendoza. Both Cox and Mendoza were lawyers
for
failed pension fund that came under scrutiny for bilking
retirees. Cox also
defends a 1995 securities law he wrote, a law the L.A. Times
described (July 21, 2002) as providing a "safe harbor for fraud". See
press release. To
hear the original interview as taped earlier in the day on
October 29,
2002, now
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The Flip Side
After making it to Sundance, an indie Filipino film, made
for less than $8,000, is making it to the big screen.
The Flip Side is
a satirical look at a Pinoy family
in southern Calfifornia, a story that evolves around Darius (in
loincloth) and his brother, sister and parents. Rod Pulido
directed and wrote it,
He and some of his cast: Verwin GatPandan (a UCI freshman
at
the time who is Darius), Jose Saenz (the brother, Gemini
"Flipchild" rap
artist), Ronalee Par (sister, a UCI drama graduate), Abe
Pagtama (the dad), all appear on the show. See press release. See also my film review.
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Myth of Recovered Memory
On our November 12, 2002 show, we chatted with new UCI Distinguished Prof.
Elizabeth Loftus, whose research into recovered memory and court testimony
have helped challenge those with false accusations, especially of child
sexual abuse. We also discuss academic freedom issues that led her to move
from the University of Washington to University of California, Irvine. See
press release. To hear the show,
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xy Reaches Out to Gay Teens
On our November 19, 2002 show, we talked with xy magazine
creator and publisher Peter Ian
Cummings about the reactionary gay establishment and
corporatized gay media
that refuse to address the issue of gay teen sexuality. Cummings, who
worked once as the European editor of the Advocate, finds Europe
more pro-gay than California, where gay teens and older gays who have
sex with their boyfriends below 18 are routinely imprisoned. In
addition to the age of consent, we discussed why he does not carry any
advertising, allowing him to speak out on issues the gay establishment
avoids. We also talk about gay teen relationships and about how the
gay establishment has taken "sex" out of the movement .
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Chinese AIDS activist speaks out
On our January 6, 2003 show, we aired an interview with AIDS activist
Wan Yanhai, now back in Los Angeles from about a month's detention in
Beijing. He talks about why the Chinese authorities detained him,
what it was like in detention, the
AIDS situation in China (including the Henan tainted blood scandal) and
his prospects for continuing his AIDS and web activism. Our interview
was taped at his home in Los Angeles December 21, 2002. The
January/February 2003 issue of Seed
magazine also has an interview with
him. See our show press release. To hear
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Michael Hardt on American Empire; union reformer John Earl
On our February 18, 2003 show, with local activist Stefano Sensi, we chatted
with Prof. Michael Hardt, the co-author of Empire, said to be a modern
version of the Communist Manifesto, updated. We also chatted with John
Earl, local union reformer. See press release. To
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Mike Davis
on Anti-war Movement
On our February 25, 2003 show, local activist Stefano Sensi joined us to chat
with historian Mike Davis, now at UCI, to discuss the anti-war movement, Orange
County and UC Irvine. See press release. To hear
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Mike Davis on mp3
[huge file: 55 megabytes].
Did U.S. Set Oil Well Fires in 1st Gulf War?
On our March 25, 2003 show, we talked with Joyce Riley of the American Gulf War
Veterans Association, about Pentagon lies in current and past wars. The
Pentagon still refuses to address the Gulf War Syndrome, and she's heard from
vets that they set off oil wells under orders. See press
release. To hear
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Leslie Leung Remembered; Vietnamese Director Do Minh Tuan
On our April 1, 2003 show, which was broadcast just hours after Canto pop
star and actor Leslie Cheung committed
suicide in Hong Kong, we talked with
film scholar Helen Leung (from Vancouver) about
the Hong Kong actor's queer sensibility and gender-transgressing performing
which he
brought to the concert stage and to the silver screen in
such films as Happy Together, Farewell My Concubine etc. We also discussed his
impact on
the tongzhi community in Hong Kong. In part two of our program, we aired an
interview with Vietnamese director Do Minh Tuan, whose Foul King is playing at
the Newport Beach Film
Festival.
He talks about Vietnamese filmmaking. Thanks
to Andrew Le for serving as interpreter. Excerpts for the actual
interview with the filmmaker appear in the April 4-10 issue of OC
Weekly, p. 18: Down in
the Dump: Do Minh Tuan exposes life at the bottom in Vietnam.
We
dedicate the show to two American
heroes, journalist Peter Arnett for speaking the truth about the invasion of
Iraq, and and U.S. Marine Lance Cpl Stephen Funk (half Pilipino), whose
conscience and his gayness prevent him from participating in killing.
See press release. See Chinese Daily News, Monterey
Park, California edition's
report on this show: 
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Better Luck Tomorrow Director Justin Lin & Co-writer Fabian
Marquez
On our April 8, 2003 show, we aired our interview with Justin Lin, director of
Better Luck Tomorrow, the
Sundance
Festival hit loosely based on an
OC murder case, and chatted also with his co-writer, UCI film studies graduate
Fabian Marquez.BLT represents a new wave in Asian American cinema. See
press release. Read an interview with Justin Lin
in OC
Weekly: Behold the Brainy Bad Asses:
Justin Lin dares to depict young Asian Americans in a whole new way. Read the OC
Weekly's Review: The Dorky,
the Docile and the Dead: Tomorrow's rampaging A students. To
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Journalist Alexander Cockburn on Conquest of Iraq
On our April 15, 2003 show, we aired much of the talk and Q&A session by
journalist Alexander Cockburn at UC Irvine the previous Thursday. The
editor of CounterPunch and
Nation contributor discussed the U.S. conquest of Iraq and what might
be the road ahead for the peace movement. See press
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Male Bonding in a Century of Photographs
On our April 22, 2003 show, we talked with Cal State University American Studies
Prof. John Ibson about male intimacy over the last century. He is the author of
Picturing Men. He suggests that
American
guys were more intimate with other guys in early 20th century than
today. We also ask him why he is collecting thousands of photographs at
swap meets and on e-bay. See press release.
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Iris Chang on The Chinese in America
On our June 10, 2003 show, we talked with Iris Chang, whose latest book, The
Chinese in America, covers the history of achievements but also resistance
of the Chinese American community in America. See . To
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Prison Life and Organizing Inmates and Their Families
On our May 20, 2003 show, we interviewed UCI criminogy Ph.D graduate Alan
Mobley, who was welcomed at UCI after being released from federal prison;
his crime: drug dealing. He had also earned two master's degrees while
in
prison. Mobley talks about life in prison, inmate organizing, and the
prospect of inmate
families forming a voting bloc. See press
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Manga
Mania in America
On our June 17, 2003 show, we discussed with Tokyo Pop's Mike Kiley and
award-winning manga artist, high school junior Hans Tseng the phenomenal rise in
interest in manga and anime in America. See press
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Affirmative Action Victory
On our June 24, 2003 show, we talked with Dana Takagi, who ten years before had
authored a seminal work, Retreat from Race: Asian-American Admissions
and Racial Politics
(Rutgers University Press, 1993). We discussed the two U.S.
Supreme Court rulings affecting affirmative action at the University of
Michigan, and their impact on students and even faculty across the country, and
especially in California. See press release.
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