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As Ho Chi Minh City races to be Vietnam's most modern metropolis, some outlying areas are left behind. Yet they become interesting because they exhibit many of the tensions that face the developing country after decades of war, as Vietnam copes with being nominally Socialist but practically capitalist, and races to modernize itself, at the risk of leaving behind peasants in the largely rural country.
Erik Harms, who teaches Anthropology at Yale, has offered a revealing look at the social lives that intersect each other in the wake of this modernization race. Focusing on Hóc Môn, on the edge of Saigon, he writes like a journalist [I mean his writing is readable], revealing social lives as otherwise marginalized residents of this region on the Trans-Asia Highway are able to tell their stories through his new book, Saigon's Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City, now out from University of Minnesota Press.
Harms is interviewed by KUCI Subversity show host Daniel C. Tsang, in the first show of this 2011 summer online series, as Subversity takes a break from radio broadcasts for the summer. The interview is exclusively available online, and as podcasts, with a official posting date of Monday 20 June 2011 but the interview was taped earlier today, 17 June 2011 at KUCI's studios.
Interview with Harms by Yale University posted on YouTube:
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Louganis, who was HIV-positive when he won the two golds in diving in the 1988 Olympics, said he is proof HIV/AIDS is no longer a "death sentence." He exhorted UCI's graduating students in the Arts and in Physical Sciences to be imaginative {"to explore your imagination") and have trust in fellow human beings, even though he himself was at times overly trusting of others ("I'd rather trust... than be cynical").
The UCI drama alumnus said this was his first graduation he ever attended.
On the last Subversity show of this quarter, we air an edited version of his talk in the first part of Subversity this evening, 13 June 2011, at 5-6 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and simulcast via kuci.org.
Subversity is taking a break this summer and expects to return with the KUCI fall season in late September.
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To listen to the second part of the show with the Bill Andriette interview, click on: . NEW
6/23/11: Transcript of that interview here: Transcript.
The issue of sex with altar boy (and girls) by Catholic priests has saturated the media, but what does the research tell us? On the next edition of KUCI's Subversity program, airing this evening at 5 p.m., we talk with UCI alumna and criminologist Karen Terry about the 143-page report that her research team at John Jay College just submitted to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Her key finding in The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010: Only 5% of the priests were "pedophiles" (sex with pre-pubescents), with the majority of the cases relating to sex with pubescent or adolescent boys.
We also discuss the report with former Guide features editor Bill Andriette, who has written on sex panics. [ADDED: He critiques the report for its ignoring research on youths who did not regard sexual relationships with priests as "abuse."]
Andriette has been a frequent guest on Subversity.
The show airs today 23 May 2011 from 5-6 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County California, and is simulcast via kuci.org. A podcast will be posted later here.
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The UC Irvine Libraries celebrate the history of Irvine, California with an exhibit, Irvine: the Vision, the Plan, the Promise, curated by UCI librarian Yvonne Wilson, opening later this week (Wednesday May 11) at Langson Library on the UCI campus.
On the next edition of KUCI's Subversity, we talk with a speaker slated for the exhibit opening, Irvine council member and long-time politician Larry Agran (pictured), about the City of Irvine and his perspective on issues of "town and gown" over the years. Agran also made an unsuccessful bid to run for President in 1992.
According to his published profile, Larry Agran graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California at Berkeley in 1966, majoring in both History and Economics. In 1969, he graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, where he specialized in public interest law.
Agran has served as Legal Counsel to California State Senate Committee on Health and Welfare. He has taught legislation and public policy at the UCLA School of Law and at the Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine.
He first served on the Irvine City Council from 1978 to 1990, including six years as Mayor. Under his leadership, Irvine received national recognition for its pioneering programs in child care, affordable housing, recycling and open space preservation.
As a "highly respected public interest attorney and public policy expert", Agran founded and, in the 1990s, led a number of non-profit organizations: the Local Elected Officials Project; the Center for Innovative Diplomacy; and CityVote. As the founder and volunteer chair of Project ’99, from 1994 to 1999, Agran was especially active in working to promote creation of the Orange County Great Park at the former Marine Corps Base at El Toro.
Agran returned to service on the Irvine City Council when he was elected to the Council on November 3, 1998. On November 7, 2000 he was elected Mayor of Irvine, and on November 5, 2002 he was re-elected Mayor. After completing two consecutive terms as Mayor, Agran was elected to a four-year term as an Irvine City Councilmember on November 2, 2004, and was re-elected on November 4, 2008. He was re-elected to a four-year term in November 2010.
Councilmember Agran served for six years as the Chair of the nine-member Board of Directors of the Orange County Great Park Corporation. The Great Park Corporation is the entity designated by the Irvine City Council to help bring about the design, construction and operation of the Great Park, America’s first great metropolitan park of the 21st century.
For today's special, expanded edition of Subversity, which will run from 4-6 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, we focus on the 2011 fund drive. Please help support this free speech station! Call 949 824 5824 to pledge your support! Our interview with Agran airs from 5:05 p.m. The program is simulcast via kuci.org. A podcast of the interview will be posted here later.
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UPDATE 6 May 2011: Bang Bang has won the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Festival's Special Jury Award for Narrative: Best First Feature!
Visual Communications' Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival continues this week with a path-breaking lineup of independent films. On KUCI's Subversity program, we talk with two indie directors.
First we talk with Byron Q, the director of Bang Bang, a film about gang life. Bryon Q studied under renowned French New Wave director Jean-Pierre Gorin at UCSD and this is his debut film. It features Justin (Thai Ngo), trapped in the gang lifestyle, and his rich Taiwanese best friend Charlie (David Huynh), in the film's strongest role. The multi-ethnic cast brings additional realism to the film. The ever youthful looking Huynh (actually a Vietnamese from Canada) was the focus of a Subversity interview back in 2007.
Bang Bang screens tomorrow at 9 p.m. at CGV Cinemas 3 in Koreatown, Los Angeles. Ticket information
We also talk with Act Up and Riot Grrl activist turned director Billie Rain about his new film, Heart Breaks Open, featuring queer activist and poet Jesus (Maximillan Davis) whose life implodes when he finds out he is HIV-positive. Set in Seattle, the film shows how Jesus comes to rely on his friends as he struggles to make sense of his predicament.
Hear Breaks Open screens tonight at 9:15 p.m. in CGV Cinemas 3 in Koreatown, Los Angeles. Ticket information.
Subversity airs this evening from 5-6 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via kuci.org. A podcast will be posted later.
To listen to the podcast of this program, which is an Internet-only edition for the second part of the April 25, 2011 show
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The audio leads off with Tony Nguyen giving the background leading up to his making this film. Updated blog entry follows:
Enforcing the Silence director Tony Nguyen, himself having been a youth advocate in Washington D.C. and San Francisco, in resurrecting the shortened life of Vietnamese immigrant activist and journalist/editor Lam Trong Duong [in Vietnamese: Duong Tr?ng Lâm], pays tribute to those in the Vietnamese diasporic communities that were anti-war and progressive. Lam Doung founded the first Vietnamese youth center in America (Vietnamese Youth Development Center), and published a progressive Vietnamese-language newspaper, Cai Dinh Lang, that reprinted stories from Hanoi. That he supported Ho Chi Minh -- he was an early immigrant in 1971, prior to the fall of Saigon, and he attended Oberlin High on an American Field Service exchange and later stayed to attend Oberlin College -- may have led to his murder in 1981 at the young age of 27.
I say "may" because that's what the director says, given that the murder case remains unsolved, much like the half-dozen or so other cases of Vietnamese journalists and activists who were murdered. (The director does mention the 1987 Orange County case of Garden Grove-based Vietnamese magazine publisher Tap Van Pham, but leaves out another OC murder, in 1984, of CSUF Physics Prof. Edward L. Cooperman, whose activism in scientific exchange with post-war Vietnam is believed to have caused his murder by a Vietnamese student he mentored). Two locals are interviewed: Former OC Register Little Saigon reporter Jeff Brody (he's now teaching journalism at CSUF) and OC Weekly investigative reporter Nick Schou.
The film focuses on interviews with activists (including Lam Duong's colleagues at the youth center), and law enforcement (SFPD and FBI), and raises the possibility that a key Reagan and later Bush administration figure may have been the link with National United Front for the Liberation of Vietnam founder Hoang Hoang Co Minh, now deceased.
This powerful hour-long film is testimony to the best in documentary work, uncovering a hidden subject. That it did not get a screening at the just-concluded VIFF (Vietnamese International Film Festival) is a sad commentary on the fear that still pervades the Vietnamese diasporic communities. It is a fear that continues to intimidate some artists and film folks as well as some in the community at large. In rejecting the film, VIFF missed an opportunity to take a stand in support of artistic freedom while simultaneously continuing to enforce the very silence Tony Nguyen's film addresses.
In feedback on the Diacritics site after USC Prof. Viet Thanh Nguyen suggested interviews with anti-communist leaders might have "humanized" them, the director Tony Nguyen says he was not able to contact any Front officials. (Although the director passed through Southern California in making the film, he didn't manage to interview then-Front spokesman Do Diem, who once incidentally even sat on the advisory board of the Southeast Asian Archive at UC Irvine. -- See my piece in the OC Weekly on a Front spinoff. ADDED: See also my profile in OC Weekly of Do Diem: Guerrilla in the Midst)
Director Tony Nguyen has an appeal online to raise funds for distributing the film.
I talk with director Tony Nguyen about his courageous new documentary and how he will distribute it. UNFORTUNATELY THE SUBVERSITY SHOW TODAY IS PRE-EMPTED BY JAZZ so I'll post the interview online asap.
The film screens Saturday 30 April 2011 (5 p.m.) at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival at Laemmle's Sunset 5, 8000 Sunset Blvd (at Crescent Heights) West Hollywood, CA 90046. PARKING: Free for 3 hours with validation. See film schedule for more information: http://laapff.festpro.com/schedule/ -- Daniel C. Tsang
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UPDATED 6 May 2011: Where the Road Meets the Sun has won two festival special jury awards: Gavin Kelly has won the festival's Special Jury Award, Narrative: Outstanding Cinematography. And the actors Eric Mabius, Fernando Noriega, Will Yun Lee and Luke Brandon Field have won the festival's Special Jury Award, Narrative: Best Ensemble Acting.
Not a documentary by any means, Mun Chee Yong's script casts four men whose lives intersect at a decrepit hotel as they live from day to day, job to job, interspersed with Guy's hetero liaisons mostly with sex workers.
Takashi, whose memory loss from a car accident enables him to experience a rebirth away from his gangster life back in Japan, is played by the dashingly convincing, Korean American actor Will Yun Lee who sometimes lapses into Japanese. He develops a friendship with Blake (Eric Mabius) the hotel manager. At the same hotel, Julio (Fernando Noriega), a Spanish-speaking undocumented worker from Mexico who works at an Indian restaurant, befriends fellow kitchen Brit packpacker/fellow worker Guy (Luke Brandon Field), who sports an authentic British accent. Blake struggles to make ends meet when both are unceremoniously fired from the restaurant (without collecting their pay)while Blake manages to hit his dad in England up for more dough.
It's a (male) buddy film with some of the hetero and tough guy jinks -- and one gets to see scenes of Silver Lake and other Los Angeles locales.
A Singapore/Indonesia/US co-production, the 93-minute film has just been released this year. The director is a LSE (London School of Economics) graduate in monetary economics, with an MFA degree in Film Production from USC.
UNFORTUNATELY THE SHOW IS PRE-EMPTED BY JAZZ so I'll post the interview online asap. On KUCI Subversity program this evening, we talk in the first half-hour withdirector Mun Chee Yong about his latest film. A podcast will be posted later.
The film screens at Saturday night (10 p.m.) at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival at Laemmle's Sunset 5, 8000 Sunset Blvd (at Crescent Heights) West Hollywood, CA 90046. PARKING: Free for 3 hours with validation. See film schedule for more information: http://laapff.festpro.com/schedule/
The 2011 Vietnamese
International Film Festival ended its exciting two week run last night
with a daring, sexually explicit film, "Bi, Don't Be Afraid" directed by
Phan
Dang Di. The film, set in a hot and steamy Hanoi summer won the
festival's Grand Jury prize for Best Film. Viewers in the audience saw a
version that was more sexually explicit than that released in Vietnam,
with masturbation (female and male), frontal urination (by a male student)
and various scenes of heterosexual intercourse.
For the 18 April 2011 edition of Subversity, we can't bring you that film, but will instead offer audio of the 10 April 2011 Filmmakers' Panel Discussion on "Expanding the Audience Base" that took place at UC Irvine.
Panelists were: Anderson Le, director of programming at the Hawaii International Film Festival; Ann Le, with international division of Universal Pictures; Charlie Nguyen, director of The Rebel; Fool for Love; James Nguyen, director/writer, Birdemic: Shock and Terror; Jenni Trang Le, Assistant Director, Bi, Don't Be Afraid, and of Clash; Khoa Do, Director/Writer, Footy Legends, Mother Fish; Le Thanh Son, director/writer, Clash, and Nguyen Nu Nhu Khue, producer with HK Films in Vietnam.
The program airs this evening, April 11, 2011, from 5-6 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, Calif., and is simulcast via http://kuci.org. Podcast to be posted later.
We talk with this award-winning director who charmed audiences at the last VIFF with his Footy Legends, about a multi-ethnic sports team, with a strong background in community service as a volunteer in a community-based organization in Sydney, where he made an earlier documentary, Finished People, about homeless people on the streets.
Khoa was named the 2011 VIFF Spotlight Award winner Saturday at a special event co-sponsored by Vietnamese American Community Ambassadors and the UCI Libraries Southeast Asian Archive prior to that evening's showing of Mother Fish.
The festival continues at UCLA, Bowers Museum (free to high school students) and UC Irvine. Among the films is "Touch," directed by Minh Duc Nguyen, a feature film about romantic liaisons among Vietnamese nail salon workers and their clients. It screens Saturday, 16 April 2011 at 7:30 p.m. HIB (Humanities Instructional Building) 100 on the UCI Campus.
For the second half of Subversity, we air Making Contact's report on the Toxic Truth about Nail Salons. It focuses on the health effects of prolonged chemical exposure on the salon workers and the move toward "greener" salons.
Also showing at VIFF is director Nguyen-Vo Nhiem Minh's second Vietnam production, Don't Look Back, a ghost story that is a takeoff on the Orpheus myth. Nguyen-Vo, who was last on Subversity discussing his "Buffalo Boy", is a scientist turned Vietnam filmmaker. Don't Look Back screens the same day, Saturday 16 April 2011 at 4 pm at HG (Humanities Gateway) 1070 on the UCI campus.
Subversity airs 11 April 2011 from 5-6 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, and is simulcast via kuci.org.
On this evening's edition of Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, we talk with William Picard of the Yemen Peace Project again about those questions and analyze recent developments, some horrific, some encouraging.
For your information, the Yemen Peace Project has posted a link to donations on its web site, with a plug to: "Support Yemen’s Peaceful Protesters: Hundreds of thousands of brave Yemeni citizens are risking their lives and livelihoods to make their country a better place. Help them by supporting those that provide urgent medical care to protesters injured by state security forces."
William Picard is a political and historical researcher and analyst based here in Orange County. He has spent a decade studying Southwest Asia, with a particular focus on the modern history and current affairs of Yemen. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied Arabic, Persian, and Pashto, and completed a double major in Modern Middle East Studies and Southwest Asian Conflict Studies. In late 2009 he helped found the Yemen Peace Project (YPP) with Dana, a peace advocacy organization that seeks to educate the American public about Yemen, advocate for peaceful and constructive foreign policy, and facilitate communication between Yemenis and Americans. He directs the YPP’s research and public education efforts, manages the organization’s Twitter activity, and writes frequently for the Directors’ Blog.
Picard was previously on Subversity February 7, 2011 with UCI graduate student Dana Moss, also of Yemen Peace Project. Moss also appeared subsequently a week later on Subversity.
Picard is interviewed by Subversity Show host Daniel C. Tsang. The show airs from 5-6 p.m. today on March 28, 2011 on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via kuci.org. Podcasts will be posted here shortly.
Egyptian Women on the Frontlines of Change takes a look at the most recent Egyptian Revolution and the role of women in political change, in the context of the history of women's activism there.
As the US and its allies drop bombs on another country, we air another Making Contact program - that on Avoiding a Korean War.
The links bring more information as as well audio links to those two programs.
In the wake of the horrific twin disasters in Japan, there is growing concern about the efficacy of nuclear power. The Making Contact program in our first half hour looks at an another energy source, natural gas, and the perils of that resource:
In the wake of the horrific twin disasters in Japan, there is growing concern about the efficacy of nuclear power. The Making Contact program in our first half hour looks at an another energy source, natural gas, and the perils of that resource: Still Fracking: The Perils of Natural Gas Drilling
In our second half hour, we will focus on another topic eclipsed by last Friday's events in Japan. Making Contact has released this program, WikiLeaks, Free Speech & The Future of the Internet.
Our thanks to National Radio Project for their work.
Today's program airs from 5-6 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California.
So I was honored to be one of those interviewed in the project, East 306, whose blog posts audio of past interviewees. Its post today profiles Subversity and my work on and beyond the show.
The back story: The class is co-taught by the superlative Adrienne Hurley, a Japanese Studies doctoral graduate from UC Irvine. The first scholar interviewed by East 306's team of earnest students was another Japanese Studies Ph.D from UCI, Kota Inoue, who is now teaching at my alma mater (see below). The interview with me was conducted using the facilities of a pioneering radio radio station at McGill, CKUT, which is expected to also air this program.
Here's what the students wrote in generously profiling me (taken from their blog) [hyperlinks revised]:
Since the program first aired in 1993, Daniel Tsang has been the host of Subversity on KUCI, the student and community radio station at the University of California, Irvine. Every Monday at 5pm (8pm in Montréal), he airs critical commentary and conducts in-depth interviews for this internationally recognized program that serves as an open seminar via radio. You can listen live via the KUCI website and browse past interviews and topics here (where you.ll also find a web-exclusive archive). On Subversity, Dan makes available to the masses the voices and ideas of activists, librarians, dissidents, and scholars, including Prof. Dylan Rodriguez, with whom Dan spoke shortly after the last U.S. presidential election. He has interviewed the actor Dustin Nguyen and the director Stanley Kwan, and he has covered a wide array of topics ranging from breast cancer (in a memorial tribute to UC Irvine graduate student Robyn Shikiya) to the ideological screening out of radicals in graduate and professional schools (in an interview with Jeffrey Schmidt).
Dan Tsang is also Data Librarian and Bibliographer in Asian American Studies, Political Science, and Economics at the University of California, Irvine, where he organized the Immigrant Lives Exhibit to debunk .The OC. TV image of Orange County. He maintains Subject and Course Guides in fields such as Asian American Studies, Political Science, Economics, and the Social Sciences. He earned his B.A. in Government from the University of Redlands, where Professor Kota Inoue (interviewed in our very first podcast) currently teaches. Dan Tsang went on to earn two graduate degrees at the University of Michigan, an M.A. in Political Science and an M.L.S. in Library Science. As a journalist, Dan has authored numerous articles and opinion pieces, as well as scholarly publications, which you can see listed here. In today.s podcast, Dan mentions Elaine Black Yoneda, a white woman who joined her Japanese American husband in the internment camp. Dan.s biographical entry on her is the last entry in Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2004), Vol. 5, 707-709.
Dan edited the magazine Gay Insurgent in Philadelphia in the early 1980s. He was a Fulbright research scholar at the National Academy of Social Sciences in Hanoi, Vietnam in 2003-2004, and contributes greatly to our collective survival as a radical archivist, data librarian, indexer, and bibliographer. He also sued the CIA for spying on him and won. (He discusses this case in today.s podcast.)
Samantha Chrisanthus, who studies Political Science and Women.s Studies at McGill, interviews Dan Tsang about his work in libraries and radio stations, as well as his efforts to document and archive injustice and harm. Sam begins by asking Dan how Subversity started and what led him to radio. In this lively and very informative interview, Dan discusses topics such as how to document police harassment and abuse, the chilling effects of the current case of the Irvine 11 on student movements and student activism, and why we need data liberation movements and radical archiving. Dan also talks about obtaining FBI files on dead activists (and philosophers) and why we should think about preserving our own archives while we are still here and making them.
As host of Subversity I usually get to interview activists; given that they have turned the tables on me, let me return the favor and air the interview on KUCI as well.
The show with this free-wheeling interview by Sam Chrisanthus of myself airs this evening from 5-6 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via kuci.org.
Having already suffered millions in budget cutbacks in recent years, UCI Libraries will no longer be the same, no longer the research library many have learned to rely on. Instead, the financial crisis has imposed so severe a toll that in future, research collections will be smaller, and the focus will be on service rather than building up in-depth collections. The UCI administration, in applying its budget-slashing formulae, has startlingly taken to considering the libraries as an administrative unit on campus, rather than an academic one.
This interview with Gerald Lowell -- Jerry as he was known to us -- is being aired today, his last day of work at UC Irvine. He looks back at his extensive career in librarianship and reflects on his life's work.
He explains why he came over the to the libraries from the Arts School (where he had been an assistant dean) after he had already headed the research libraries at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego, and offers his take on the future of academic libraries, including UCI's.
He soon heads off with his partner Mitchell to Spain, where they look forward to a well-deserved retirement far away from the volatile political rhetoric emanating from the airwaves state-side.
Last Tuesday, the day the New University published a front-page article containing his ex-lover's accusations, Jesse Cheng told me, "I am innocent... this is just so crazy." Last Friday, I met up with the embattled student leader and found him to be still characteristically forthcoming, admitting that he was "stupid" to have agreed to send back to his ex girlfriend words he now regrets agreeing with, in an email now touted by his partner's supporters as a "confession."
Given how activists (including Jesse Cheng) tend to act politically correct on the issue of violence against women, it is not surprising to see the former partner's supporters demanding retribution, while even their target would feel he had to use the same politically correct language. As he expressed in his statement today, "I thought that by adopting her language and meeting the standards she set out, we could both move forward." As he indicated to me on Friday, her former partner had drafted the language while insisting he agree to the wording. As he added in his statement, "I regret lying to her in those e-mails, and it was a mistake to capitulate just so she would stop calling me incessantly." Despite the email, he did not feel he needed to resign as Student Regent.
On today's edition of Subversity, a KUCI public affairs show, we look back at the controversy that has shaken the campus and indeed the activist communities, as well as hear from Jesse Cheng himself during his earlier appearances on this show.
The show airs from 5-6 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange County, and is simulcast via kuci.org. Podcast audio will be available later.
His public statement follows this earlier photograph of Jesse Cheng.
Statement released today by Jesse Cheng:
I'm writing this statement to respond to a number of accusations made about me in various media outlets in the last week. Initially, I did not feel it was appropriate to comment because I was trying to defend the interests and privacy of all the students involved, including my former partner. I now feel like I have no choice but to explain fully what occurred.
I am innocent of all accusations made. These accusations have been extremely painful for me, especially because I have tried to acknowledge the privileges that I have as a man and support gender equality issues throughout my college career. It is work that is essential to my identity, and I would never engage in behavior that would compromise those values.
My former partner and I were in a committed relationship for almost a year. Near the end of the year, it was clear that the relationship was not working out, and I initiated the break up.
Afterward, we agreed to remain friends. We saw each other three times after the relationship ended, all three times we engaged in varying levels of consensual physical contact, none of which was forced or coerced, none of which was intercourse. The first time she invited me to be her date to a UCLA graduate school event. The next week, on Oct. 3, the night that would become the source of the accusations against me, I invited her over for dinner at my apartment in Irvine. That night, although we we engaged in kissing, all contact was consensual and we did not have sex. Afterward, we ate dinner at my apartment and watched a movie.
A week after this visit, she called me, and accused me of sexually assaulting her the week before. The phone conversation lasted for hours. My reaction during the phone call was that her description of events did not happen. In the following weeks, I would get as many as 50 calls a day from her. The amount of phone calls became extremely stressful and disruptive.
During the time of these phone calls, she requested I meet her personally at her apartment. I visited her apartment two weeks after Oct. 3. During that visit, she initiated and engaged physical intimacy. It was the third time we met after the break up, and a few weeks after the night she had claimed I behaved inappropriately.
The phone calls continued, and began to have a serious toll on my well-being. She demanded that I write e-mail apologies to her, and specifying exact language that she wanted to see in those e-mails. Exhausted, I sent out those e-mails. What I said in those e-mails are not true and did not reflect my behavior, but I thought that by adopting her language and meeting the standards she set out, we could both move forward. I regret lying to her in those e-mails, and it was a mistake to capitulate just so she would stop calling me incessantly.
On Nov. 4, the police arrested me on campus and took me back to the police department for questioning. We spoke about the relationship, that particular night and the entire situation. Three hours later, the police released me, and the DA declined to press any charges.
I know this last week has been extremely difficult for the campus community. It has been difficult for me and my friends. I would ask people to please thoughtfully consider both sides of a story and the entire context of a relationship before jumping to conclusions or making assumptions. I do not know why my former partner has chosen to make these accusations or make them at this time. I loved her very much, and I really wish for her the best in the future.
The successful revolt in Egypt has laid bare the limits of U.S. attempts to impose its will over the Middle East. For the
next edition of Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, we talk with Prof. Ussama Makdisi, a Rice University professor and
the first holder of the Arab American Education Foundation Chair of Arab Studies there.
We also expect to provide listeners with a news update on the street protests in Yemen by UCI sociology graduate student Dana Moss of the Yemen Peace Project. She last appeared on Subversity last Monday.
Makdisi is the author of the new, critical analysis of U.S. interference in the region, Faith Misplaced: The Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations: 1820-2001, New York: Public Affairs, 2010.
According to his Rice profile: "His previous books include Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East (Cornell University Press, 2008), which was the winner of the 2008 Albert Hourani Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association, the 2009 John Hope Franklin Prize of the American Studies Association, and a co-winner of the 2009 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize given by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. Makdisi is also the author of The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon (University of California Press, 2000) and co-editor of Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa (Indiana University Press, 2006). He has published widely on Ottoman and Arab history as well as on U.S.-Arab relations and U.S. missionary work in the Middle East. Among his major articles are “Anti-Americanism in the Arab World: An Interpretation of Brief History” which appeared in the Journal of American History and “Ottoman Orientalism” and “Reclaiming the Land of the Bible: Missionaries, Secularism, and Evangelical Modernity” both of which appeared in the American Historical Review. Professor Makdisi has also published in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and in the Middle East Report.
"By exploring missed opportunities for cultural understanding, by retrieving unused historical evidence, and by juxtaposing for the first time Arab perspectives and archives with American ones, his work counters a notion of an inevitable clash of civilizations and thus reshapes our view of the history of America in the Arab world.
"As a professor at Rice, Makdisi is interested in encouraging a new transnational approach to the study of American foreign relations as well as a more contextual understanding of the modern Middle East. He is also interested in new scholarship on overseas missionary work."
Subversity airs from 5-6 p.m. today on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via kuci.org. He is interviewed by show host Daniel C. Tsang. A podcast will be posted later.
We talk with two activists, one a graduate student from UC Irvine, who collaborated in co-founding the Yemen Peace Project.
Dana Moss is a graduate student at UCI's PhD program in Sociology where she studies comparative social movements, social change and the Middle East. She received her B.A. from Loyola College in Maryland and an interdisciplinary M.A. from Villanova University with an emphasis on Middle Eastern Studies. She spent the summer of 2009 studying Arabic at the Yemen College of Middle Eastern Studies with Will Picard, and co-founded the Yemen Peace Project with him and two other colleagues, Aliya Naim (UGA) and Tiffany Aurora. Dana has been researching women's issues, social movement organizations, and politics in Yemeni society for several years.
William Picard is a political and historical researcher and analyst based here in Orange County. He has spent a decade studying Southwest Asia, with a particular focus on the modern history and current affairs of Yemen. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied Arabic, Persian, and Pashto, and completed a double major in Modern Middle East Studies and Southwest Asian Conflict Studies. In late 2009 he helped found the Yemen Peace Project (YPP) with Dana, a peace advocacy organization that seeks to educate the American public about Yemen, advocate for peaceful and constructive foreign policy, and facilitate communication between Yemenis and Americans. He directs the YPP's research and public education efforts, manages the organization's Twitter activity, and writes frequently for the Directors’ Blog.
They will be interviewed by Daniel C. Tsang, Subversity show host.
The show airs from Monday, 7 February, 2011 from 5-6 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, Calif., and is simulcast via kuci.org. A podcast will be posted later.
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There is now a petition online against criminalizing the student protests: petition.
Despite UC Irvine's professed commitment to the First Amendment [watch UCI video above on Free Speech], troubling recent signs indicate that the heavy hand of the law is coming down on student protesters on campus, reinforcing UCI's new reputation as a new site of student resistance (and repression).
A criminal pretrial for 19 UCI students who staged a labor protest last year is imminent (March 7, 2011) while a grand jury has apparently been empaneled to investigate the activities of UCI's Muslim Student Union.
For this evening's edition of Subversity, we talk with Carol A. Sobel, a SantaMonica- based civil rights attorney for six MSU students and former students who were called in January 2011 to testify before the Orange County grand jury investigating, apparently, conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor! One, a UCI student, was subpoenaed outside a classroom. The MSU was suspended during Fall Quarter 2010 for an incident relating to protests during the talk given by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren last year on campus. Even UCI Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, who appeared on Air Talk on KPCC late last week with Carol Sobel, agreed that criminal charges should not be pursued. All this crackdown on free speech makes one wonder about UCI's real commitment to the First Amendment. Is it all just talk?
To listen to Carol Sobel and show host Daniel C. Tsang on KUCI discussing the ramifications of this widening legal tangle facing UCI students, listen to Subversity this evening at 5-6 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California. The show is also simulcast via kuci.org at the same time.
Full disclosure: Carol Sobel was one of the show host's attorneys when he successfully sued the CIA for spying on him.
A year after participating in the first such Tet parade on Bolsa at in Westminster, a contingent of lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgendered Vietnamese and Chinese Vietnamese plan to march again.
We talk again to Gina Masequesmay, from CSU Northridge, about the planned march and whether or not this year's event, slated for 9:00-noon on 5 February, is happening with less controversy than the previous year.
The organizers also plan to have panel discussion from 2-3:30 pm at the Nguoi Viet Daily News Community Room, 14771 Moran St. Westminster, CA 92683.
The show airs from 5-6 p.m. today on 24 January 2011 on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via kuci.org
The program comes from Making Contact, the National Radio Project: Beyond the Dream: MLK and the Anti-War Movement, which first aired in 2003.
We also air another Making Contact program, where Harvard law prof. Charles Ogletree talks about the arrest of Harvard prof. Henry Louis Gates that ended up eventually with the famous "beer summit" at the White House. Ogletree has written a new book, .The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America.. The Making Contact program, The Presumption of Guilt: Charles Ogletree on the Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr., was first recorded by the National Radio Project at the African American Art & Culture Complex of San Francisco, on October 21st, 2010.
Our thanks to National Radio Project for permission to air their programs.
The Subversity show airs from 5-6 p.m. today on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via kuci.org.
Beginning the new KUCI Winter Season 2011 on a somber note locally, Subversity again remembers KUCI DJ Jessica Hoke (left). We air the
first hour or so of the memorial service held 10 December 2010 on the Gateway Plaza below Langson Library at UC Irvine.
Subversity show, a KUCI public affairs program, airs on Monday, 10 January 2011, from 5-6 p.m. on 88.9 FM, and is simulcast via kuci.org.
The most recent report on the memorial service appeared in the New University: Memorial Held for Hoke.
See also other articles on Hoke under her show name, "The Exposure", on the KUCI Full-text Archive.
Subversity, a KUCI radio public affairs program, kicks off the new year with a musical interlude and airs a live performance by an award-winning UCI
student musician specializing in the Chinese string instument, Pipa.
Currently a guitar major at University of California, Irvine, Wan Yeung (Yeung Ngai Wan) began playing the Pipa when he was 12 while living in Hong Kong. By the age of 18, he was honored as the champion of the Student Chinese Instrumentalists in Hong Kong. The following year (2007) he received an award for being the champion of the Hong Kong Student Pipa soloists.
Wan recently won a gold medal in the Amateur Adult Category at the 2010 Chinese Instrument International Competition U.S.A held at California State University, San Jose.
At UC Irvine's School of Music, he is a recipient of The Regents. Scholarship as well as The Edna Helen Beach Scholarship.
Wan's first CD of traditional Chinese Pipa music, "Restoration", was released in late 2009.
He has acquired quite a following in the local Asian community and performs often when a Chinese lute soloist is requested. For more information about his music, see his web site.
The Subversity radio show airs from 5-6 p.m. Monday 3 January 2011 on KUCI, 88.9fm in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via kuci.org. The show host is Daniel C. Tsang.
The day before this past Friday's memorial service at UC Irvine -- the Orange County District Attorney's Office charged Davis -- and 18 others -- with misdemeanor counts stemming for a sit-in outside UCI Chancellor Michael V. Drake's Office back in February this year. Those arrested potentially face up to one year in jail.
As Davis recounted at the UCI memorial for Jessica Hoke Friday 10 December 2010 on Gateway Plaza next to Langson Library, he had asked Jessica if she would participate in the sit-in, to which Jessica responded, she could go take pictures. Jessica, as many noted at the memorial, was a talented photographer. Davis called her his "personal photographer".
Davis, who wore Jessica's clothes to the memorial, told the 200 gathered that Jessica was wonderfully accepting of his gayness and the two had become close friends, a "partner" he "loved". They became each other's confidant.
The 19 charged -- 15 UCI students and 4 supporters -- face a December 28, 2010 arraignment, effectively eliminating their holiday break. Most of those arrested are represented by Jacob White, an AFSCME 3299 attorney, given they were participating in a labor protest at the time.
Davis was among the student actiists who appeared on the 1 March 2010 Subversity show covering the protest. The February 24 protest was also picked up by Huffington Post.
We'll follow-up on the memorial service and arrests of the 19 on today's edition of Subversity on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, at 5 pm -- it is also simulcast via kuci.org.
Before there was WikiLeaks there was CounterSpy
(1973-1984) and
CovertAction Information Bulletin (later Covert Action Quarterly), which ran from
1978-2005.
These alternative magazines exposed U.S. government shenanigans, sometimes relying on leaked documents.
On KUCI's Subversity show today, we talk with the co-founder of CovertAction, Louis Wolf, who also co-edited the massive CIA-focused missives, Dirty Work (with former CIA operations officer Philip Agee, 1978) and Dirty Work 2 (1979).
We discuss with Wolf how his and Agee's work at exposing U.S. imperialism and covert action was a pioneering prelude to WikiLeaks today. Agee, like WiikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, was hounded from country to country, a scenario recounted in Agee's biographical "On the Run" (1987). A frequent guest, Wolf last appeared on Subversity in January 2008 when we aired a tribute to Agee.
The show airs today, 6 December 2010, from 5-6 p.m. Pacific time on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via kuci.org.
A dean at the multi-ethnic California State University, Los Angeles, ahead of a academic program review, has arbitrarily decided he wants to suspend its Asian American and Asian Studies Program. He did say he would meet up with faculty Monday 29 November to hear what they had to say, but the dozens of faculty members who showed up, from a diverse group of ethnicities and disciplines -- as well as concerned students carrying signs declaring AAAS = Diversity etc, were confronted with an unreceptive dean, who would only promise to get word back by Christmas.
On KUCI's Subversity program an hour or so after the meeting Monday, ChorSwang Ngin, the Anthropology professor who chair of the Asian American and Asian Studies program told show host Daniel C. Tsang she was impressed and gratified by the turnout, revealing the University had never shown much commitment to the program over the years, and that enrollment was "growing". She suggested that to "suspend" the program meant its end, which would be quite contrary to the University's commitment to diversity.
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As University of California Regents move later this week to raise student fees by 8% and admit more out-of-state and international students, UC students are reacting with frustration. UCI Student Regent Jesse Cheng has already indicated he will vote against the increase.
We talk with two graduate student activists, Fernando Chirino (Sociology) and Robert Wood (Comparative Literature), about what students plan to do in response. Last year UC Regents already raised fees by a third.
The two activists appear on KUCI's Subversity, airing from 5-6 p.m. today, 15 November, 2010, on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and simulcast via http://kuci.org. Today's show will end early, around 5:45 p,m., to allow pre-game broadcast of basketball that formally begins at 6 p.m.
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University of California Student Regent Jesse Cheng is slated to appear on KUCI's Subversity show Monday evening to talk about his decision to openly declare his queer sexuality last Wednesday at a speak-out and vigil in the wake of the many gay teen suicides across the United States.
The Subversity show airs from 5-6 p.m. Monday, 25 October 2010 at KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via kuci.org. Podcasts will be made available here and on various sites, including iTunes shop, sometime after the airing. Show host Daniel C. Tsang will be interviewing Jesse, an Asian American Studies senior at UC Irvine, and a voting member of the UC Board of Regents.
Our report on his coming out has spread across the continent and across the Pacific to China. It was picked up by the Huffington Post and news outlets as diverse as the Harvard student newspaper, Harvard Crimson, and U.S.-based Chinese daily, Qiao Bao or China Press. The account in the pro-China newspaper translated the blog report into Chinese while adding background information on Jesse Cheng and his family. That account was in turn picked up by the Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece, Ta Kung Pao, as well as other media outlets in China, including China News.
Our Wednesday blog report was viewed some 1600 times whereas the Huffington Post story, posted the next day, has been viewed at least 1300 times.
Updated: To listen to the 18 October 2010 show, click here:
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A new scholarly work on the globalization of Yaoi has come out and KUCI's Subversity program features an interview with its co-editor and a contributor to this pioneering collection. The Yaoi phenomenon, part of a larger Boys Love visual depiction, features teen male romantic and sexual relationships, originally geared, in Japan, at a female readership. As it spread around the world (and the new book includes a chapter on Indonesia's reception to it), one wonders about its effect on how its readers -- now male and female, young and older -- view same-sex relationships in the real world.
Mark McHarry is an independent scholar. With Antonia Levi and Dru Pagliassotti, he edited a newly published collection of essays, Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre (McFarland). He has contributed to books, scholarly journals and critical popular publications, including Mangatopia (ABC-Clio); LGBT Identity and Online New Media (Routledge); Queer Popular Culture: Literature, Media, Film, and Television (Palgrave Macmillan); Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context; Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature (Routledge); Journal of Homosexuality; Z magazine; and Gay Community News. He has presented at conferences in the U.S. and Europe, including the Popular Culture Association, Modern Language Association, Textual Echoes (Umeå University, Sweden), and, this fall, at Écritures du corps (University of Paris). He is researching the life of author-inventor Hiraga Gennai.
Hope Donovan authored the chapter "Gift Versus Capitalist Economies: Exchanging Anime and Manga in the U.S." in Boys' Love Manga. With a double major in English and Drawing, Donovan's only logical career path was comics. Having attained this unlikely goal through legitimate employment editing Japanese and Korean manga as well as developing original series for TOKYOPOP, Donovan fulfilled her dreams by editing one hentai, one yuri, and one yaoi series simultaneously. She has contributed short manga to Happy Yaoi Yum Yum (Yaoi Press) and Yuri Monogatari (ALC). Donovan currently is a freelance manga editor, English adaptor, layout artist, and creator.
Tune in for a stimulating discussion on this global phenomenon that is invading urban and suburban bookstores.
Subversity airs from 5-6 p.m.today, 18 October, 2010, on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via kuci.org.
In the 11 October 2010 edition of Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, we talk with Lingan University Visual Studies
Prof. Sophia Law (right) visiting from Hong Kong.
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We'll ask her about her project documenting and analyzing some 800 pieces of artwork originally collected by Garden Streams, a local community project, from the Hong Kong detention camps of Vietnamese and Chinese Vietnamese refugees in the 1980s and early 1990s. How did she become interested in the issue, and what does she hope will come out of it?
Visiting UCI Libraries this week to research the UCI Special Collections & Archive's Southeast Asian Archive collection of materials, including a several hundred pieces of artwork and publications, from Hong Kong refugee camps in the 1980s and 1990s, Prof. Law will give two public lectures, Wednesday 13 October 2010 at noon at Room 568, UCI's Langson Library, on narratives of trauma in the artwork in the camps, and Thursday 14 October 2010 at Nguoi Viet community room on Moran Street (north of Bolsa, at end of dead-end street) in Westminster at 7 p.m. on Hong Kong's reaction to the influx of boatpeople several decades ago.
To read more about Prof. Law’s research, see her 2008 essay, “Art in Adversity”.
Prof. Law was also interviewed in Nguoi Viet prior to her visit. [Rough translation from Google]
Prof. Law and Subversity show host Daniel C. Tsang first met in Hong Kong in connection with a 2-day October 2009 workshop held at the City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Research Centre that brought together scholars on the Chinese/Vietnamese diaspora. The two are among those contributing chapters to a new collection of essays, The Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora: Revisiting the Boatpeople in Hong Kong to be published next year by Routledge, edited by Yuk-Wah Chan of City University.
Update: To listen to the September 27, 2010 show, click here:
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For the next edition of Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, we talk with third party candidate for U.S. Senate, Duane Roberts (left), of the Green Party and a UCI social ecology alumnus.
We ask him why he's running, how his campaign differs from those of the two mainstream candidates, incumbent Barbara Boxer and former HP CEO Carly Fiorina, and does Roberts care if his campaign ends up getting someone with billionnaires' support, elected, although Boxer is currently leading in the polls? And does he believe third party candidacies have a better chance of being heard this election given voter dissatisfaction with the two-party system?
Duane Roberts most recently attacked the Democrats for being anti-immigrant.
Roberts will be interviewed by KUCI Subversity show host Daniel C. Tsang.
The show airs Monday, 27 September 2010 from 5-6 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via kuci.org. Podcasts will be available subsequently.
Roberts' biographical statement, adapted from his campaign web site, follows:
Duane Roberts is a well-known community activist from Orange County, California who has been involved in a number of important struggles during the past decade. He was born of working-class parents in Burbank in 1967 who relocated to Anaheim for economic reasons in the early 1970s where he has been ever since. As a child, Roberts was mostly home-schooled but later attended a mix of public and private schools, earning a diploma from Fullerton Union High School. He worked as a typesetter for several years before going back to school, taking classes at Fullerton College before enrolling at the University of California, Irvine. While at UCI, Roberts studied drug policy, white collar and government crime, police behavior and elite deviance and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminology, Law and Society in 1997. In November 2000, he ran for one of two seats on the Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees, winning approximately 7,129 votes. He was the first Green Party candidate running in a non-partisan race to ever receive the endorsement of the Orange County Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO. As a community activist, Roberts has been a defender of immigrant rights, a critic of police misconduct and abuse, and has even exposed political corruption. In 2003, he helped organize what then was one of the biggest anti-war demonstrations in Orange County since the Vietnam War at the Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda. Roberts has been involved in many demonstrations and marches and has used his extensive knowledge of police behavior to protect the civil rights and liberties of protesters. Between 2006 and 2008, Roberts was publisher of the Orange Coast Voice, a monthly community newspaper that circulated 15,000 copies in Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley and surrounding areas. The paper is edited and now published by one-time KUCI Public Affairs host, John Earl. Roberts is a longtime member of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Anaheim and has been elected to serve on its Board of Trustees three times.Roberts is single and has no children.
He still resides in the same working-class neighborhood he grew up in.
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On the next edition of Subversity, broadcasting at 5 p.m. Monday, 20 September, 2010, on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, and simulcast via kuci.org, we talk with Orange County Register reporter Ronald Campbell, the author of a heavily sourced and data-based four-part series on Immigration and California currently being published in his paper.
We discuss with him the origin of the idea for the series, the response from readers, and what he has learned from all this. The series began September 12 in the paper (September 10 online) and every Sunday since (and previous Friday online) until October 3, 2010.
Focusing on immigrant labor, undocumented immigration, how immigrants make life easier for the rich, and policy reform, one unique feature has been its footnoting like an academic paper, as well as the many data charts and graphics (mostly online), allowing readers to visually view the impact of immigration on this county and state. The article also seeks to explain the numbers, using Public-Use Micro Sample data from the U.S. Census Bureau as well as, for historical data, I-PUMS, from the University of Minnesota's Population Studies Center. It also provides a short reading list. Explains OC Register editor Ken Brusic in a Note to readers: "We have also taken the unusual step of footnoting our stories so you can follow the chain of documents and numbers that led to our conclusions. Online you can view, download and analyze for yourself three dozen spreadsheets that help tell the economic story of immigration in California."
Ronald Campbell is a reporter for The Orange County Register. He has published investigations on the buying and selling of human body parts as well as about penny stocks and hard-money lending. Two subjects of his investigations currently are in jail. In addition he has years of experience mining government data to shed light on social and economic issues as diverse as student achievement and home lending.
Ronald Campbell is interviewed by Subversity show host Daniel C. Tsang, who curated the exhibit, "Immigrant Lives in 'The O.C.' & Beyond" at UC Irvine Libraries.
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While working at UCI Libraries' multimedia resources center earlier this
past decade, then student-assistant Kathy Nguyen, a double Film & Media
Studies and Economics major, was fascinated with independent films and
Asian American media. Just six years later, the San Jose-born California
native would be catapulted to popular media fame as a movie star in her
parents' native land, Vietnam, where she now lives.
We caught up with her the evening the film that has become Vietnam's biggest box office hit of the year opened in Orange County. She plays a starring role in .. Mai tính (Fool for Love) where class and wealth interfere with the quest for true love in authentic roles played by Kathy Uyen (her stage name) and Dustin Nguyen (of 21 Jump Street fame).
Set in the beach resort of Nha Trang, the comedy is directed by noted filmmaker Charlie Nguyen, who also stars as the hotel magnate who seeks the affection of an up and coming lounge singer, played by Kathy Uyen. Vietnamese actor Thai Hoa convincingly plays a flaming queen who falls for the love-struck worker played by Dustin Nguyen, despite the latter's confirmed heterosexuality. (The film shows the two men in a sauna together, dancing at a gay party, and kissing!)
In our conversation taped at Au Lac, the classy vegetarian restaurant on Brookhurst near the 405 Freeway, Kathy Nguyen reflects on her college days at UCI and how it prepared her for the film industry, and talks about the attraction and challenge of working in Vietnam's re-emerging film industry -- including starring in a Vietnamese-language role.
We air our conversation with Kathy Nguyen on the second half of the next Subversity show, airing on KUCI, 88.9 FM at 5:30 p.m. on 13 September 2010. The segment is also simulcast via kuci.org.
Fool for Love, which opened last Friday, continues at Edwards Westminster 10,6721 Westminster Blvd., Westminster, CA 92683 and at Regal Garden Grove 16, 9741 Chapman Ave., Garden Grove, CA 92841. The film is in Vietnamese with English subtitles. The film is being released at selected Vietnamese American enclaves nation-wide by Wave Releasing.
Update: To listen to the September 13, 2010 show with our interview with Rob Samuels, click here:
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The University of California is currently proposing to offer a reduced pension plan for new hires joining UC after July 2013, while making current employees contribute more towards the plan.
One critic of the new proposals is UC-AFT president Bob Samuels, who has been blogging about it. His latest two blog entries state his position bluntly: UC Offers New Pension Plan to Re-Distribute Wealth to the Top and Let the Great Pension Scare Begin.
We talk with Samuels about what he means during the first half of the next Subversity show on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, broadcasting Monday, 13 September 2010 at 5 p.m., with a simulcast on kuci.org. Show host is Daniel C. Tsang.
To listen to the August 23, 2010 show with our interview with Director Quentin Lee, click here:
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On the 23 August 2010 Subversity show, we interview independent director Quentin Lee, about his new film, "The People I've Slept With." A perrenial guest on our show, we'll ask him how he came up with his story line of a sex comedy starring Karin Anna Cheung as a woman who loves sex -- and then needs to figure out who the daddy is of her about-to-be-born baby.
Also making a grand appearance as her gay best friend is noted gay actor Wilson Cruz.
The show opens in Los Angeles' Laemmle Sunset 5 August 27.
The show airs from 5-6 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and is webcast simultaneously via http://kuci.org. It will also be podcast.
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For our next edition of Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, airing this evening at 5-6 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM and via the web at kuci.org, we talk with the directors of two new documentaries that tackle taboo topics.
In the first half hour we talk with Chico Colvard, director of "Family Affair," a daring and uncomfortable yet revealing look at incest within his biracial (white/African American) family. In a quest to explain to himself why it happened and why his three sisters (whom the father sexually violated) still hung out with their father, Colvard's 82-minute documentary makes some surprising revelations. The documentary seems to ask that we not divide those caught in this incestuous web as merely perpetrator and victims but something more complex.
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In the second hour, we talk with Mary Ann Smothers Bruni, whose "Quest for Honor" documentary takes a searing look at the historical phenomenon of "honor killings" - where females are routinely ostracized and even killed for violating traditional codes of conduct. The setting is Sulemaniyah, in Kurdistan, Iraq, where a local group, the Women's Media Center has joined forces with Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government to try to end this heinous practice. The 64-minute film is in Kurdish with English-language subtitles.
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Both films are playing this week in New York City and Los Angeles:
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After five weeks of audio from our archives, Subversity returned Monday 26 July 2010 with a show focusing on labor at UC Irvine. With the recent affiliation of the clericals' union, with the Teamsters, CUE has become CUE-IBT Local 2010, Division #9. CUE-IBT stands for Coalition of University Employees-International Brotherhood of the Teamsters.
We talked with its local president, Dianna Sahhar as well as its organizer, Ann Theurer, about why the union chose to affiliate with the Teamsters, and its implications. We also discussed what are ongoing issues as the union seeks a new contract.
The show aired on 26 July 2010 at 5 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM.
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Irvine -- On the 14 June 2010 edition of KUCI's Subversity program, we talked with Adam Bereki, author of Friendly Fire: The Illusion of Justice, his memoir about his fight against homophobic discrimination within the Huntington Beach Police Department.
We asked him why as a gay teenager in Orange County he wanted to be a cop in the first place and how he found peace after being consumed with his case, which ended up in an out-of-court 2.5 million-dollar settlement. In his book, he critiques the way police interact with residents and calls for law enforcement as well as a foreign policy, that is not based on violence.
A review of Bereki's book by Subversity's host in the Surf City Voice calls it a "stunning indictment of what the author perceived as the deep machismo, laced with homophobia, of the Surf City's police department."
Irvine -- On the next edition of KUCI's Subversity program, we continue our focus on the Gaza in the wake of the Israeli military raid last week on the peace flotilla that resulted in nine deaths of peace activists. We talk with a UCI graduate and activist, Russell Curry (left, speaking at UCI's March 4, 2010 rally), who visited the Gaza last year on a separate peace mission.
Russell Curry is a musician, writer and peace activist born and raised in Rancho Cucamonga, California. A recent graduate of the University of California, Irvine, Russell holds a BS in Biological Sciences with a minor in African American Studies.
Last summer he and over 200 other activists from the U.S. had the opportunity to go to the Gaza Strip as part of a humanitarian aid convoy that brought direly needed medical supplies to the people of Gaza in response to the 22-day massacre Israel wrought on Gaza from December 2008-January 2009.
Curry was last interviewed on Subversity on 28 February 2010 to discuss student protests at UCI with other Black Student Union activists. His March 4 speech was also aired on Subversity on 8 March, 2010. See his photo at the rally. He also spoke out on behalf of the Irvine 11; we aired those speeches on 29 March 2010.
KUCI's Subversity show, hosted by Daniel C. Tsang, airs from 5-6 p.m. 7 June 2010 on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via kuci.org.
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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.
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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.
Updated: To listen to this edition of Subversity, click here: .
Technical difficulties precluded recording the entire hour, unfortunately.
Not many people know that an Asian American radical helped start the Black Panther Party. That may now change with directors Ben Wang and Mike Cheng's documentary, AOKI, profiling the life of Richard Aoki, a militant Japanese American, interned as a kid in Topaz during WWII, who hung out with Black militants Huey Newton and Bobby Seale and was part and parcel of the Black Panther Party that formed out of the neighborhoods of Oakland, California, advocating self-determination for oppressed Blacks. Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, talks with directors Wang and Cheng about their documentary on Richard Aoki, who was a radical student at Merritt College and UC Berkeley. He served as Field Marshall in the Black Panther Party, training its members to stand up against police abuse and police occupation of their community. Aoki also founded the Asian American Political Alliance at Berkeley and was active in the Third World Strike there. Aoki is the subject of an ongoing biographical project, Sumurai among Panthers, by UC Santa Barbara Prof. Diane Fujino, who appears in the documentary.
The Subversity interview airs 3 May 2010 from 5-6 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, Calif., and is simulcast via kuci.org.
The documentary AOKI will show Tuesday, 4 May 2010 at 7 p.m. at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, screening at the Downtown Independent Theater, 251 South Main St (Between 2nd and 3rd Streets), Little Tokyo, Downtown Los Angeles.
DVD copies of AOKI are available from Eastwind Books. See link for more information including where to request institutional orders.
The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival closes Thursday 6 May 2010 with a screening of the Hong Kong film, "Bodyguards and Assassins" (Teddy Chan, director), at the ARATANI/JAPAN AMERICA THEATRE, JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL COMMUNITY CENTER(A/JAT, JACCC PLAZA), 244 South San Pedro St., (Between 2nd and 3rd Streets), Little Tokyo, Downtown Los Angeles. The film depicts a plot to kill later Chinese Republic founder Sun Yat-sen in 1906 in Hong Kong. The real-life Sun actually attended my secondary school in Hong Kong before he overthrew the Ching dynasty.
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We're covering two film festivals this week -- the Newport Beach Film Festival, which began last Thursday highlighted by an after screening bash with Cirque du Soleil plus a Fashion Island fashion show -- and this Thursday's opening of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.
On KUCI's Subversity radio program, we talk with two film directors 26 April 2010 (today): Miao Wang of Beijing Taxi, Quentin Lee of The People I've Slept With and with UCI graduate Ben Jarvis, active in Affirmation, which is profiled in 8: The Mormon Proposition.
Miao Wang directs Beijing Taxi, which profiles several cab drivers in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics. She brings you the realities behind the glitz, glamor and hype for the Olympics as we visit with her cab drivers in their daily lives, on and off their jobs. Her film screens at the Asian Pacific Film Festival at the Directors Guild of America (DGA), 7920 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood this Sunday May 2 at 6:30 p.m.
Quentin Lee, a regular guest on this show, is a quirky and subversive independent filmmaker (such as his 0506HK, Ethan Mao, Drift, Shopping for Fangs [co-director]). In The People I've Slept With, Quentin Lee manages to poke fun at hetero and homosexual ONS (one night stands) while exploring the quest for LTR (long-term relationships), as well as marriage (gay and str8). The film features Karin Anna Cheung (Better Luck Tomorrow) as the polyamorous Angela (who wonders who is the father after she becomes pregnant) as well as Gabriel (the talented Wilson Cruz) as as her gay best friend who is also sexually active. Screen legend James Shigeta (Flower Drum Song) also plays a role, as does model, director and actor Edward Gunawan, as Cruz's onscreen lover. Gunawan was interviewed on Subversity back on 31 March 2008. The film screens at the Asian Pacific Film Festival at DGA, 7920 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood this Saturday May 1 at 7 p.m.
Ben Jarvis, a 1994 graduate of UCI, has left the Latter Day Saints Church, and unlike those portrayed in the documentary 8: The Mormon Proposition, had wonderful, supportive parents who welcomed him as their gay son and his partner as their son in law. His parents were NOT [corrected] among those Mormon families who contributed to California's Proposition 8, which banned gay marriages. 8: The Mormon Proposition screens at the Newport Beach Film Festival, Wednesday April 28, at 8:30 p.m. at Edwards Islands 3, Fashion Island.
Subversity airs 26 April 2010 at 5-6 p.m.on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, and is webcast simultaneously via kuci.org.
Among other upcoming films at the Newport Beach Film Festival is Woman Rebel, about a Maoist rebel's journey from revolution to the halls of Parliament in Nepal. That film screens at Edwards Island 2 in Fashion Island this Wednesday, April 28 at 3:30 p.m.
The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival opens Thursday April 29 at the DGA in West Hollywood, screening Au Revoir Taipei. There are two screenings: Opening night April 29 at 7 p.m. at the DGA; and Sunday May 2 at 10 a.m. at DGA.
Other films screening at Asian Pacific Film Festival this week include Lt. Watada by Freida Lee Mock, covering Lt. Ehren Watada's principled refusal to be sent to Iraq. That film screens with another Freida Lee Mock film at DGA on Saturday May 1 at 2 p.m.
Updated: To listen to this edition of Subversity, click here: .
The My Lai massacre was the iconic event that brought world attention to the moral failure of the U.S. invasion of Vietnam.
PBS's American Experience will air Monday, April 26, 2010 a new documentary, "My Lai" that documents the horrific reality of
the U.S. military massacre of 507 unarmed Vietnamese women, men and children in the village located in Quang Ngai Province in
central Vietnam in 1968. The documentary features the first in-depth interview with Aubrey Daniel, the prosecutor in the
case against the convicted perpetrator, Lt. William Calley, as well as searing recollections by Vietnamese survivors of the
massacre.
On its edition airing today (19 April 2010), Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, show host Daniel C. Tsang interviews Barak Goodman, a seasoned director (The Boy in the Bubble, The Lobotomist, The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, etc) who wrote, produced and directed "My Lai".
Subversity airs 19 April 2010 from 5-6 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, and is simulcast via kuci.org.
To see a trailer clip of My Lai, click here: http://video.pbs.org/video/1451980822/.
Today's broadcast kicks off two weeks of on-air KUCI fund drive for garner support for the UCI independent public radio station. For online donations, please click on the Fund Drive banner on the top of the kuci.org web site. We urge your support for shows like Subversity that for decades have brought you interviews and talks not likely to air on commercial radio.
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Fresh from the Association for Asian American Studies conference in Austin, Texas that ended Saturday 10 April, 2010, we bring Subversity listeners portions of the tribute to Him Mark Lai, the "Dean" of Chinese American History, who died in May 2009. Bilingual in English and Chinese, Him Mark Lai forged a pathway to today's Chinese American -- and Asian American -- studies by researching and documenting life in Chinese America over the decades. The panel discussion at AAAS included colleagues and friends of Him Mark Lai as well as those mentored by him. Chairing the April 8, 2010 session was Prof. Madeline Hsu (University of Texas, Austin), who has edited a collection of Him Mark Lai's publications, many never widely distributed before. The new work, out later this month, is Chinese American Transnational Politics from University of Illinois Press.
Speakers at the session, whom we air on the program, included Emeritus Prof. L. Ling-chi Wang (UC Berkeley), Poet and Amerasia Journal editor Prof. Russell Leong (UCLA), Prof. Jack Tchen (New York University).
The show aired from 5-6 p.m. 12 April 2010 on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via kuci.org.
We dedicated this show to radical actor Corin Redgrave, who died a week ago, and whom we
interviewed back in 1999 at the Toronto Film Festival, where he was appearing in a movie that screened there. Redgrave played
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." In our 1 June 1999 interview then, he discussed his
father's bisexuality, the ruling class, socialism, and his own (and sister Vanessa's) involvement in the Marxist Party in
Britain. The segment introducing his interview begins at 10:10 minutes of the audio: .
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."
Subversity airs today from 5-6 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via kuci.org. Podcasts available after the broadcast and will be posted here.
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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-choose/.
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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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.
To listen to the Subversity show, click here: .
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.
To
listen to the audio of Part 2 of the Subversity show, click here: .
.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.
Irvine -- It sure sounds like the University of California is in financial crisis, with layoffs, paycuts/furloughs, massive student fee increases and campus protests. But economist Peter Donohue still thinks otherwise, in another interview on KUCI's Subversity show.
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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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 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.
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The repeast show airs 11 January 2010 on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via kuci.org.
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 have gone into the streets to defend gay marriage after California voters approved Prop. 8 that banned gay marriage in California.
Today's federal court hearing in San Francisco on Proposition 8 is slated to be made available on YouTube.
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 book web site.
Her blog is: here
See also John D'Emilio's The Marriage Fight is Setting Us Back".
Irvine -- In the wake of news about the death in his jail cell of Marlon Martinez, the person accused in the 2008 murder of UC Riverside (and UC Irvine) Professor Lindon Barrett, as well as the murder of another gay Black English Professor, Don Belton (from Indiana University), we replay portions of Subversity's tribute program to Lindon Barrett.
This program first aired 30 July 2008 and at the time was simulcast on KUCR, the UC Riverside station. Clips were also aired on KPCC that day narrated by Steven Cuevas.
The repeat show airs Monday 4 January 2010 at 9-10 a.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, and is simulcast via kuci.org.
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?
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"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: .
Irvine -- In our 5 October 2009 edition, KUCI's Subversity program looks back at the historic walkout rally and teach-ins at UCI on September 24, 2009 with Dennis Lopez and Raul Perez from the Worker-Student Alliance at UC Irvine. We'll also play audio from the day's noon rally that drew hundreds in a show of unity among workers, students, faculty and staff.
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
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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.
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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 the show, 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.
The City of Irvine often touts itself one of America's safest cities. That may have been true, but no more. Even as college students across the country are shocked at what is believed to be the death of Annie Le, a Vietnamese American pharmacology graduate student at Yale, whose suspected body was discovered Sunday, a tragedy also happened closer to home for those in Orange County.
Last night (13 September 2009) a 30 year-old woman was killed in the parking lot at University of California, Irvine's Verano graduate housing on campus, the suspect a physics graduate student.
And earlier this month, the body of an unidentified black woman, in her 20s, was found after she was burned, in another parking lot, in an Irvine business area. See Irvine Police Department's request for help in identifying the victim. The Irvine PD press release calls Irvine "one of America's safest and most successful master-planned urban communities."
The suspect in the campus shooting death last night is, according to a report in the Orange County Register, Brian Hughes Benedict, 35, a graduate student. Benedict has been arrested and is being held on $1 million bail in Orange County Jail. He is listed as a resident of 4122 Verano Place, according to voting records, the OC Register reported. Apparently, Benedict was in a relationship with the unidentified victim; a 4-year-old child was also in the vicinity according to the report. An early Los Angeles Times story does not offer much detail.
UC Irvine records give his hometown as El Segundo, and his "major" as Physics.
In the meantime, in the Annie Le murder case, another student who failed lie detector tests appears now to be a suspect, according to a news report in the New York Daily News.
Rest in Peace: Annie Le, and the two as yet unidentified Irvine victims.
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.
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.
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.
To listen to theshow, click here: .
The show airs from 9-10 a.m. on Labor Day, 7 September 2009 on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange County, Calfiornia, and is simulcast via kuci.org.
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,, 2007; 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 http://www.docspopuli.org.
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.
To listen to the show, click here: .
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.
To listen to the show, click here: .
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: .
Executives Get Raises at the UC
"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 a 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."
The show airs 6 July 2009 from 9-10 a.m. on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange County, and is webcast via kuci.org.
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, see: http://www.radioproject.org/archive/2009/1509.html
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NOTE: Today, KUCI marks the last day of its 40th anniversary fund drive (You can contribute at: pledge site, or call 949 824 5824 to make a pledge.
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
The show airs during our current KUCI 40th anniversary fund drive. Please consider contributing to keep KUCI and such shows on the air. For more information go to: http://www.kuci.org/fund09/index.html where you can pick the premiums and donate!
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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.
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Irvine -- Continuing our focus on the the Vietnamese International Film Festival that continues this week, we talk with Doan Hoang, the director of a daring and revealing documentary, Oh Saigon (Saigon Oi), exposing to the world family fissures in the Hoang family -- the last family airlifted out of Saigon at the impending fall of Saigon in April 1975. Director Hoang exposes dark secrets in the family, including a communist uncle who fought for the liberation of Vietnam and a half-sister left behind initially in Vietnam. The film will be airing in May on PBS and may air on Hanoi TV eventually. Director Hoang is also active in Vietnam Relief Effort, celebrating its 10th anniversary today with the New York Stock Exchange ringing closing bells in its honor April 6, 2009.
Oh, Saigon will be screened 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
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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/
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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:
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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."
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Matt Coker in OC Weekly's Navel Gazing blog:
Orange County - Ex-Times Scribes Dishes on OC Edition Demise, OC Weekly Rise
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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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
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Born in Flames: The Case of the Jersey 7
It's a case that made headlines across the nation. On August 18, 2006, seven Black, lesbian and gender non-conforming young women from New Jersey went out for a night in New York City. A man selling DVDs on the sidewalk . also Black . propositioned one of the young women. She turned him down, but he followed them anyway. They said he yelled insults and made threats. He says he said just, "hi". An attack ensued. But who struck first is still being debated in court today. Is this a case of self-defense or of attempted manslaughter? An assault by a lesbian gang or a homophobic attack?
On this edition, we hear from two of the "New Jersey 7" women and the people fighting to clear their names.
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African immigrants are the fastest growing segment of the black population in the U.S. But the cultural boundaries between black Americans and African immigrants are hard to break down. On this edition, we meet Mauton Akran, a Nigerian immigrant growing up in Oakland, California, and we explore the tensions between African immigrants and black Americans through his eyes.
For more information see:
Palestine: Perspectives on the Occupation
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Dateline Havana: The Future of Cuba
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: www.google.com/search?q=Gary+Leupp&btnG=Google+Search&domains=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.counterpunch.org&sitesearch=http%3A%2F%2F www.counterpunch.org
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".
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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.
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
Trailer: www.owlandthesparrow.com/Trailer.mov
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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:
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To listen to the interview with investigative reporter A.C. Thompson, click here: .
Our hopes for a more peaceful new year.
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:
14 November 2008: Part 1
24 November 2008: Part 2
Rightwing video using Subversity audio:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xBlTdsnOh8
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.
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.
Trailer
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.
Her blog is at:
www.beyondstraightandgaymarriage.blogspot.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: .
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 10 November 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: .
Info. on exhibit opening: www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/new/exhibit_fall08.html.
We also continue our look at the initiatives that populate the California state ballot.
In the first half of the show, we talk with Paul Shapiro, Senior Director, Factory Farming Campaign, The Humane Society of the United States. He is a proponent of Proposition 2 on the November 2008 California Ballot to safeguard the treatment of farm animals including poultry.
In the second half of the show, we talk with Kent Wong, the long-time Director of the UCLA Labor Center, and founding president of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, on efforts to reverse the defunding by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of the labor research institutes and centers at both UCLA and UC Berkeley. For more information, check out: Governor Schwarzenegger Vetoes Funds for the University of California Miguel Contreras Labor Program
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.
To listen to the entire show, click here: .
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
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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.
To listen to the program, click here: .
The day before the DVD release party and film screening at the Bowers, UCI's art school hosts TransPOP: Han Quoc Vietnam Remix exhibit opening reception at the UCI Art Gallery. The exhibit is curated by USC's Viet Le and UCI's Yong-Soon Min, celebrating the transnational ties between Vietnam and Korea. The UCI reception is on Thursday, October 2 from 6-9 p.m.
Dustin Nguyen, the co-star of The Rebel, appeared on Subversity last year. Audio: kuci.org/~dtsang/subversity/Sv070507.mp3
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.
To listen to the program, click here: .
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.
To listen to the program, click here: .
Obituaries:
Anthony J. Russo, 71; Rand staffer helped leak Pentagon Papers in the Los Angeles Times.
Also, Daniel Ellsberg reflects: Ellsberg: Remembering Anthony Russo in Antiwar.com.
Anthony J. Russo, 71, Pentagon Papers Figure, Dies in the New York Times.
Also reported in Press Telegram:
Radio station will re-broadcast tribute to slain professor
89.3 KPCC-FM, the National Public Radio affiliate at Pasadena City College, yesterday aired two segments from Monday's Subversity program, "Remembering Lindon Barrett" that was also simulcast on our sister station KUCR in Riverside. KUCR plans to re-air the KUCI program next week twice. 1/ The first segment, airing 1:18 p.m., did not mention KUCI, but quotes from a guest on the program, UCR English Prof. George Haggerty: KPCC News In Brief « House of Representatives takes up bill to help troubled mortgage market | Main | FDIC exec says depositors shouldn't panic over "problem banks" » Slain UCR and UCI professor Lindon Barrett memorialized this week Students and colleagues at UC Riverside today shared their memories of the late Lindon Barrett. Authorities say the 46-year-old professor of African-American literature and culture was murdered in his Long Beach home more than a week ago. During a tribute UC Riverside radio station KUCR, professor George Haggerty said Barrett was a skilled teacher and colleague. George Haggerty: "He just took the place by storm, I mean he was so warm and so brilliant and so collegial, and he really just transformed the department. We were thinking of Linden as the future really, he was such an important addition to the department and we thought this is great, we can move forward in these fields, and it was just so great to have such a perfect senior hire." At the time of his death, Lindon Barrett was working on a book examining the slave trade's impact on North America. His colleagues plan to complete that project in his memory. Police found Barrett's body at his home in Long Beach. They've arrested and charged an acquaintance with murder. Tools * July 21, 2008 1:18 PM * Categories: Criminal Justice, Education 2/ The second segment the same day does mention KUCI (with a web link) and includes an audio clip; Cuevas is the reporter: Friends and Students Remember Slain Professor Lindon Barrett Steven Cuevas July 21, 2008 listen icon Listen A week after his death, friends and former students Monday shared memories of Lindon Barrett, a popular and outspoken English professor at UC Riverside. Authorities say Barrett was killed more than a week ago at his Long Beach home. They've arrested a suspect who'll be arraigned this week. KPCC's Steven Cuevas says dozens of people celebrated Barrett's life Monday morning during a special radio tribute. Web Resources * Lindon Barrett Faculty Page (UC Riverside) * Lindon Barrett Faculty Page (UC Irvine) * KUCR Radio * KUCI Radio [Sound of song playing on radio: The Supremes "Come See About Me"] Steven Cuevas: The live tribute was broadcast over UC radio stations KUCR and KUCI. Barrett taught at UC Irvine for several years before moving on to Riverside about a year ago. The 46-year-old professor specialized in African American literature and culture. Former students spoke of a man with profound influence. Student #1: I know he knew he had supporters here... Student #2: He was one of those professors who really took students under his wing, and he really cared about his students... Student #3: Some of my best memories of Lindon are not in the classroom, but they're of things like dancing in an Orange County parking lot together. There was always such an intense connection for him between the rigorously intellectual and the utterly pleasurable. Cuevas: Barrett explored homoeroticism in black culture, and was an advisor on the Steven Spielberg film "Amistad." He had been working on a book examining slavery's effect on North America. Katherine Kinney: He was just a rare, unique, strong person. Cuevas: Katherine Kinney chairs the English department at UC Riverside. She says Barrett was sometimes forced to defend his work. Kinney: When he had a disagreement with powerful people, he stood his ground, and had good reasons for why he believed the things he did and why something wasn't right, and it's an amazing combination with someone whose personality is warm and welcoming. Cuevas: Police found Lindon Barrett's body in his Long Beach condominium more than a week ago. They've arrested and charged Marlon Martinez with murder. He'll be arraigned Thursday. Authorities say the 20-year-old construction worker was an "acquaintance" of Barrett's, but they've offered no other details. ......................... 3/ The District (Long Beach) Staff Infection blog provided an audio link to the program: Staff Infection: LINDON BARRETT TRIBUTE ON KUCI The District WeeklyTue. July 22 In case you missed it, here's audio link to yesterday's tribute to the late Lindon Barrett, former UCI, current UCR, English prof killed in Long Beach. Tags: lindon barrett, Long Beach 4/The Subversity announcement on the program was posted also in the following three blogs: 4A/Staff Infection The District (Long Beach): MURDERED ENGLISH PROF LINDON BARRETT SUBJECT OF KUCI SHOW The District WeeklySat. July 19 4B/College Life, Orange County Register: Lindon Barrett tribute Monday morning on KUCI and KUCR July 20th, 2008, 10:08 pm · Orange County Register staff writer Marla Jo Fisher This note is from Dan Tsang, host of Subversity. Note that a podcast will be available later in the day, for those who had to miss the original broadcast. 4C/former KUCI DJ Ned Raggett Ponders It All blog: http://nedraggett.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/rip-lindon-barrett/ RIP Lindon Barrett [plus rolling memorial information update] Scroll down: to RADIO MEMORIAL SHOW VIA KUCI/KUCR (This has corrected info. on opportunity to meet the Barrett family in Newport Beach Tuesday night) 5/Meanwhile KUCR will repeat the Subversity program next Monday and Tuesday: http://collegelife.freedomblogging.com/2008/07/22/kucr-to-repeat-radio-tribute-to-ucr-professor-lindon-barrett/ KUCR to repeat radio tribute to UCR Professor Lindon Barrett July 22nd, 2008, 3:13 pm · Post a Comment · posted by Marla Jo Fisher Here's a press release that may interest you: Murdered English professor Lindon Barrett, UC Riverside faculty photo RIVERSIDE, Calif. www.ucr.edu) — KUCR 88.3fm will re-air a tribute to the late Lindon Barrett, professor of English at the University of California Riverside, on Monday July 28 at 5 p.m. and Tuesday July 29, at 7 a.m. Professor Barrett, who passed away about two weeks ago, was on the faculty of UCR for one year and also UC Irvine for a number of years prior. He was a well-known figure on both campuses, and nationally known as a scholar. The Lindon Barrett Tribute features colleagues and friends from Riverside, Irvine and elsewhere reflecting on the life, the personality, the scholarship and the many accomplishments of Lindon Barrett. The program was originally simulcast live by KUCR and KUCI on July 21. The program was produced by host Dan Tsang at the KUCI studios, and involved a number of participants from UCR. The coordinated simulcast was produced by KUCR Station Manager Louis Vandenberg. The idea for the simulcast came from a discussion Vandenberg had with Susan Brown of the English Department. "It was clearly the right thing to do, since Dr. Barrett had become such an important presence on both campuses," said Vandenberg. "And Dan Tsang did a great job hosting. The program is very moving and well worth airing again." The host of the Barrett tribute, Dan Tsang, said of the broadcast tribute "Lindon's passing is a huge loss. I am glad to do my small part to bring people together." At the end of the program, Vandenberg will read a statement sent to the UCR campus from UC Riverside Chancellor Timothy White. Following the broadcasts, the audio will be hosted at the station's website, www.kucr.org. For more information: kucrinfo at kucr.org or 951.827.KUCR. ............................................................ 6/The simulcast was also announced on other blogs as well as in the Press-Enterprise (Riverside). 7/The audio of the program is on the Subversity site at: kuci.org/~dtsang/subversity/Sv080721.mp3 Also on the KUCI podcasts site: www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/600/Sv080721.mp3
Irvine -- On the next edition of Subversity, a KUCI public affairs
program, we commemorate and celebrate 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.
The program airs Monday, 21 July 2008 from 9-10 a.m. on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange County, Calif., and is webcast via kuci.org. This special program will also be 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:
Subversity has learned some tragic and sad news. According to the Long Beach police department, former UCI English & Comparative Literature and African American Studies Director Prof. Lindon Barrett has been found murdered at his residence in Long Beach. At the time of his death, Prof. Barrett was Professor of English at UC Riverside. His body was found Sunday (July 13) and police believe he had been dead a few days.
A suspect, Marlon Martinez who was found near Prof. Barrett's missing car, has been arrested and has been booked for the murder.
For more information, see the police press release.
From UC Riverside's "Inside UCR" on his hire at UCR last year:
New Faculty Bring a Broad Range of Academic Expertise and Research Interests:
ENGLISH Lindon Barrett, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1990 Professor of English Barrett comes from UC Irvine, where he was a member of the Critical Theory Institute and previously was a faculty member in the departments of English and Comparative Literature. He served as director of the Program in African American Studies at UCI from 2004 to 2007 and as associate editor for literary and cultural criticism at the journal Callaloo, the premier African Diaspora literary journal, from 1997 to 2000. He is author of "Blackness and Value: Seeing Double" and is completing a manuscript titled "Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity."
May Lindon Rest in Peace
See also: RIP Lindon Barrett -- Blog by Ned Raggett.
OC Register College Life blog: Breaking news: English Professor Found Murdered | More on Death of English Professor Lindon Barrett
Video: CBS 2 Los Angeles
More video: KNBC News: Autopsy Conducted on Slain UC Riverside Professor
Los Angeles Times: Slain man identified as UC Riverside professor
Oh! Industry blog: In Memoriam: Lindon Barrett
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 2008 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
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Meanwhile, the Asian Pacific Film Festival continues in Los Angeles: www.vconline.org.
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In part 1 of the show, we talk with Director/Writer/Producer Amin Matalqa about his new film, "Captain Abu Raed" which screened at Sundance (where it won the World Cinema Audience award this year) and is the first feature film from Jordan in decades. Set in contemporary Jordan, the title character is a lonely janitor at Amman's international airport who befriends a group of neighborhood boys. Matalqa immigrated to the U.S. from Jordan at age 13, who decided to move from the telecommunications industry in Ohio to become a filmmaker in Los Angeles. Among the cast members is established Jordanian actor Nadim Sawalha, in the title role. Sawalha has been featured in British televsion as well as in two James Bond films, "The Spy Who Loved Me" and "The Living Daylights." He also appeared in "Syriana" opposite George Clooney. Sawalha won the 2007 best actor award at the Dubai International Film Festival.
Captain Abu Raed is the closing night film of the Newport Beach Film Festival, on Thursday, 1 May, at the Regency Lido Theatre in Newport Beach.
Film festival site: www.newportbeachfilmfest.com
Film showing info: newportbeach.bside.com/2008/films/captainaburaed_newportbeach2008
Trailer: " blog.spout.com/2008/01/23/sundance-trailer-captain-abu-raed/
In part 2, we talk with Co-director Fatimah Tobing Rony, a UCI film and media studies professor. "Chants of Lotus" (Perempuan Punya Cerita) is a four-part film dissecting the social situation of women in frenetic, modern-day Indonesia. The film stars some of the major Indonesian actresses and the premiere showing in Indonesia was heavily censored. This Los Angeles showing is of the 35 mm original print, and uncensored. The film has its U.S. premiere Sunday, May 4, at 5 p.m. at the Directors Guild of America, Theater 2 as part of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.
Film festival site: www.vconline.org
Film showing info: www.vconline.org/festival/program.cfm?program_id=38
Trailer:
www.kalyanashira.com/perempuanpunyacerita/trailer_tinggi.php
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His website: www.edwardgunawan.com
Interview on Fridae: www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/article.php?articleid=2174&viewarticle=1
Frontiers interview: www.frontierspublishing.com/2621/agenda/agenda_fd.html
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On our next show, 24 March 2008, Subversity talks with activist writer and former sex worker Tony Valenzuela. He worked in the commercial sex industry for about 5 years, including being an escort during that time (1997 to around 2002). A leader of the national Sex Panic activism of the late 1990's, he continues today to be a critic of how mainstream culture, including the gay community, handles matters of sexuality, especially publicly.
A long-time activist based in Southern California, he works on sexual politics, HIV and gay men's health. He writes for LA Weekly, Frontiers, Zyzzyva and is working on a book on gay men and risk.
He last appeared on Subversity in November 1997.
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We listen to the travails of a U.S. permanent resident, who signed up for the Marines, was among the first Marine units to be deployed to Iraq, but when he returned from Iraq, was taken from Camp Pendleton and incarcerated in San Diego, on deportation charges.
Courtesy of Pacific radio KPFA's War Comes Home project, archived testimony is available online and portions will be aired on Subversity this Monday 17 March 2008.
The audio is made available through a creative commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Resources:
War Comes Home site: www.warcomesehome.org
Iraq Veterans Against the War: www.ivaw.org
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Other guests on the program are: Paul Krassner, founder, the Realist Magazine; Wavy Gravy, activist and clown, former Frozen Dessert; Wes "Scoop" Nisker, author, radio commentator, former DJ, KSAN, with moderator Peter Finch, co-host of KFOG Morning Show. Smith is now executive director of the Prometa Center for Addiction.
Subversity thanks Commonwealth Club radio producer Ricardo Esway for permission to air this historic program.
Obituary of Dr. George "Skip" Gay:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/01/BAGGVBO5E.DTL
Commonwealth Club of California radio
https://www.commonwealthclub.org/broadcast/
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1. Investing in Insecurity Along U.S. Borders
In 2006, the Bush Administration's Secure Border Initiative outsourced the surveillance of all U.S. land borders to Boeing Integrated Defense Systems. It's the largest Homeland Security contract to date -- $30 billion dollars.
The fence features ground radar systems, mobile watchtowers, unmanned aerial vehicles and new wireless communication networks. If completed, the southwest border will be the most high-tech border this side of the West Bank.
On this edition, independent producer Joseph Richey visits Project 28 - Boeing's security site, a 28-mile strip along the U.S.-Mexico border, and we talk to "No One is Illegal" organizer, Harjap Grewal, about migration and international trade.
Featuring:
Mitch Ellis, Buenos Aires NWR Refuge Manager; David Gonzalez, US Marshal, Tucson, Arizona; Henry Waxman, Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, California Democratic Congressman; Mark Souder, Indiana Republican Congressman, Republican Leader of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism; Greg Giddens, Department of Homeland Security SBInet director; Steven Lynch, Massachusetts Democratic Congressman; Arivacans: C. Hues, 73 year old artist, Alex Hues, 50 year old pilot, Andrea Morondos and John Warren, grocers; Paul Charlton, former U.S. Attorney, Gallagher and Kennedy, Phoenix, Arizona; Harjap Grewal, "No One is Illegal" organizer.
For more info. go to: www.radioproject.org/archive/2007/5107.html
2. Rhythms of Zapata
Every major social movement has its music, its anthems, its songs. Music tells the story of a people, their dreams, their hopes, their vision for a different world. But what happens when the music crosses borders to embrace new cultures?
In the U.S., people of color have been turning more and more to the Zapatismo, a Mayan indigenous movement in the jungles and mountains of southern Mexico, as a source of hope and as proof that, as the Zapatistas say, a different world is possible.
On this edition, we go to East Los Angeles, where a number of Chicano artists inspired by the Zapatistas have been using music to raise awareness in their own communities and to struggle for a better world.
This show has been a special collaboration between National Radio Project and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Thanks to student producer, Alejandro Reyes who wrote and edited this show under the guidance of independent media producer and UC Berkeley journalism lecturer, Claire Schoen.
Featuring:
Luv the Messenger, Rapper and youth activist; Marisol, Performance artist and activist, member of Chusma, In Lak Ech, Self-Help Graphics, Chicano Records and Films; Nico, Poet and youth activist and Poets del Norte member; Xela, Rapper and youth activist and Cihuatl-Ce member; Olmeca, Hip-hop artist and activist; Joel Garcia, Graphic artist and activist; Tolteka, Hip-hop artist and activist; Roberto Flores, Researcher and Zapatista activist; Elisa Mejia, Activist, Radio Insurgencia Femenina (KPFK, Los Angeles) and Center for Popular Action member; Colectivo Error, Musicians and activists; Sherman Austin, Hip-hop artist and activist against police violence; Cynthia, Priscila, Crystal, fans at concert; Dan Nemser, UC Berkeley student and Zapatista activist; Joaquin Cienfuegos and Josefina Macias, Cop Watch Los Angeles and Revolutionary Autonomous Communities members; Manuel Macias, Cop Watch Los Angeles supporter; Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) spokesman and military leader.
Executive Producer/Host: Tena Rubio Contributing Producer: Alejandro Reyes Producer: Andrew Stelzer Associate Producer: Puck Lo Interns: Samson Reiny and Elena Botkin-Levy
For more info: www.radioproject.org/archive/2008/0908.html.
In Part 1: We air a dispatch from National Radio Project's Making Contact, "Still Talking About Sex," which features former U.S. Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders. In 1993, Elders became the first African American Surgeon General of the United States. Criticized and attacked for her public statements promoting comprehensive sex education, the distribution of condoms in public schools, and the possibility of the legalization of drugs, Elders was forced to resign about a year later. The statement Elders is often remembered for is when she said masturbation is a part of human sexuality, and so perhaps it should be taught to children. On this edition, of Making Contact, we'll hear from the former surgeon who to this day remains a fierce advocate for health related policies.
In Part 2: We delve into the Edison Chen sex scandal that has gripped Hong Kong and the surrounding region for a month. The hip hop singer and actor has now admitted taking most of the hundreds of photographs circulating on the Internet showing him in bed (separately) with up to a half dozen local starlets. We discuss the legal and civil rights implications in the current law enforcement crackdown in the wake of the theft of his images.
Links:
Latest Edison Chen apology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewAKWEeC0IU
Earlier Edison Chen apology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIIwhbMRXe4&feature=related
Jeff Chang 2006 profile of Edison Chen: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/11/DDGOLLLO541.DTL
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We talked about the Starbucks, the Irvine Company, and how to maintain an independent and unique coffeeshop amidst all this homogenization and Starbucksization. We also discussed how Vietnam entered the world coffee market and what is fair trade coffee.
For more information, see:
Kean Coffee: www.keancoffee.com
Selected Articles in OC Weekly:
Coffee. Talk. No. 9: Kean Coffee keeps it real in this mixed-up, crazy corporate world, by Nick Schou.
'Back to Square One': Martin Diedrich Celebrates the Death of His Family's Coffee Chain, by Nich Schou.
A Reality Shrine for a Wired World: The Year in Coffeehouse Founder Carl Diedrich, by Nathan Callahan
The Politics of Food show on KUCI
An interview with coffee guru Martin Diedrich about his new Coffeehouse in Costa Mesa named after his son Kean. 2/9/06
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See his essay, "Flying Monkeys: Judeo Christian Values".
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UCI Chancellor's Prof. Gabriele Schwab, UCI Chancellor Michael Drake and Kenyan Ambassador to the United Nations HE Zachary Dominic Muburi-Muita introduced the evening's program. UCI Prof. David Goldberg introduced longtime activist (and like Ngugi, a one-time political prisoner) Angela Davis, now a professor at UC Santa Cruz, appeared via video hookup. Two poets, Mukoma Wa Ngugi (Ngugi's son) and Simon Ortiz, read their poetry in this part of the celebration.
For our conversation with Prof. Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Prof. Gabriele Schwab last Monday, click here: http://kuci.org/~dtsang/subversity/Sv080121.mp3
Joining us in the conversation on "Being a Writer in a Society in Crisis" is Gabriele Schwab, Chancellor's Prof. of English and Comparative Literature at UCI. We'll focus on the current turmoil in Kenya.
One of the foremost contemporary African writers and an exile of Kenya and former political prisoner, Ngugi's work as literary figure, activist, and academic testify to his relentless passion and commitment to deliver much needed critique. In 2006 Ngugi published his first novel in nearly two decades, the critically lauded and lengthy The Wizard and the Crow, which went on to win the California Gold Award for fiction in 2007.
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One of the foremost contemporary African writers and an exile of Kenya and former political prisoner, Ngugi’s work as literary figure, activist, and academic testify to his relentless passion and commitment to deliver much needed critique. In 2006 Ngugi published his first novel in nearly two decades, the critically lauded The Wizard and the Crow, which went on to win the California Gold Award for fiction in 2007.
Opening at 5:30 pm, “In Ngugi's Spirit” will begin with remarks from UC Irvine’s Chancellor Michael Drake and Kenyan Ambassador Zachary Dominic Muburi-Muita and proceed with a special talk from Professor and fellow activist Angela Davis, poetry readings by poet, critic and activist Mukoma Wa Ngugi (Ngugi's son) and acclaimed indigenous poet, writer and activist Simon J. Ortiz. Following this opening, guests will be invited to a reception and book signing with Ngugi and the guest speakers. At 8 pm, Humanities Dean Vicki Ruiz will open the next session, which will include poetry readings from much-admired African American poets Sonia Sanchez and Jerry Quickley. The evening will conclude with “Chinese Music/African Dance: Translation and Performance,” a unique event featuring Liu Sola, internationally reknowned Chinese composer, singer, writer and performer, and Koffi Koko, internationally acclaimed African Dancer.
“In Ngugi's Spirit” is sponsored by The UC Humanities Research Institute; The Executive Vice Chancellor's Office; The Dean of Humanities; The Departments of Comparative Literature, English, African-American, East Asian Languages and Literatures, German, Spanish and Music; The Critical Theory Institute; The Critical Theory Emphasis; and the Chancellor Professor's Research Fund.
Irvine -- On our next show, Subversity honors the progressive work of a friend of Subversity, Philip Agee, who resigned after 12 years as a case officer in the CIA and began exposing the CIA's "dirty tricks" in the covert operations the U.S. engaged in around the world. He leaves as his legacy his principled and consistent efforts in counteracting U.S. subversion of people's struggles around the world. He died 7 January 2008 in Havana, Cuba from complications from ulcer treatment.
We talk with his close friend, collaborator, co-author and fellow traveler, Louis Wolf, a co-founder of CovertAction Information Bulletin (later Quarterly) about Phil Agee's progressive work.
A. Selected Articles by Philip Agee:
A Shameful Injustice: Cuba's 50-year defiance of US attempts to isolate it is an inspiration to Latin America's people:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/mar/10/comment.cuba
Terrorism and Civil Society: The Instruments of US Policy in Cuba:
www.counterpunch.org/agee08092003.html
Terrorismo y Sociedad Civil como Instrumentos de la Politica Estadounidense en Cuba:
www.manueltalens.com/ultima_hora/46agee.htm
Tracking Covert Actions into the Future:
mediafilter.org/MFF/CovOps.html
A Stunning Contrast: The Descent of the US; The Rise of Latin America:
www.counterpunch.org/agee03142007.html
Producing the Proper Crisis:
groups.google.com/group/alt.journalism.newspapers/browse_thread/thread/45777d57195aad22
B. Philip Agee on Video:
video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&resnum=0&q=philip+agee&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv
C. Philip Agee on Democracy Now:
www.democracynow.org/2005/7/27/flashback_renegade_cia_officer_phillip_agee
D. Obituaries:
New York Times:
www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/obituaries/10agee.html?_r=1&oref=slogin (free login)
Guardian:
www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2238010,00.html
London Times:
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3162281.ece
Independent:
news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article3328353.ece
El Pais:
www.elpais.com/articulo/Necrologicas/Philip/Agee/ex/agente/CIA/elpepinec/20080110elpepinec_1/Tes
Die Tageszeitung:
www.taz.de/1/politik/amerika/artikel/1/der-beste-feind-der-cia/?src=SE&cHash=703d9224f5
Scotland on Sunday:
news.scotsman.com/world/Latin-legacy-of-the-CIA.3667445.jp
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Shivani is also a literary critic based in Houston, Texas. He was born in Pakistan, but has spent most of his life in the U.S. He wrote for the leading Pakistani newspaper Dawn throughout the 1990s, engaging with the democratic politics of that era. His fiction typically deals with the difficulties of attaining true pluralism and tolerance in today's multicultural societies, and with the assorted disorders of postcolonial culture. His writings also engage with the present rise of fascistic tendencies in the U.S. His novel in progress, Intrusion, is about an American anthropologist studying an urban squatter settlement in contemporary Pakistan.
His essays have often appeared in CounterPunch.
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On Subversity's New Year's Eve show, we celebrate and honor the engaged life of Allan Berube, a community historian, who documented the lives of gays in the military, and who received a MacArthur Foundation award. His book, Coming Out Under Fire, was developed into a film by documentary filmmaker Arthur Dong. Berube, who helped found the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, died December 11, 2007.
We talk with several fellow travelers of Berube's, including fellow historian Gerard Koskovich and activist Amber Hollibaugh about Berube's role in the gay liberation movement and his impact on a whole new generation of queer scholarship and activism.
Gerard Koskovich is a San Francisco-based editor, writer, historian, and rare book dealer and collector. He is the staff liaison for the American Society on Aging's Lesbian and Gay Aging Issues Network. His entry on LGBT archives and libraries in the United States is forthcoming in the three-volume reference work LGBTQ America Today (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2008). Recent publications include an extensive French-language portfolio on the GLBT Historical Society published in volume 6 of Triangulere (Paris: Editions Christophe Gendron, December 2006), an annual review of queer arts and culture, and "The 'Modest Collection' of Bud Flounders: How 5,400 Gay Novels Came to Green Library," published in the fall 2005 issue of Imprint, the journal of the Associates of the Stanford University Libraries.
Amber Hollibaugh, senior strategist at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, formerly was the director of education, advocacy and community building at SAGE (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders). She was the first director of the Lesbian AIDS Project at Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) in New York. She is a well-known activist, artist, writer and community organizer. She is author of My Dangerous Desires: a Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home. She also co-produced and directed The Heart of the Matter, a documentary about women's sexuality and HIV risk, which won the 1994 Sundance Festival Freedom of Expression Award and ran on the PBS series, P.O.V.
Have a safe and productive new year!
See obituaries:
New York Times: obit.
Los Angeles Times: obit.
Bay Area Reporter: obit
Sullivan County Democrat: obit.
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We look back at the case that we first covered over two years ago, when we interviewed Hoang Bui's wife, Phuong, who was then spending her first Thanksgiving with her two children without their father, a Caucasian-Vietnamese. The case sparked intense community protest with community meetings as well as a march against police headquarters. The case continues with the Bui family's lawsuit against the city over a ban on grieving their loss at the site of the incident. That case goes to court in March, 2008, where the family is represented by attorney Michael Avila.
See Deepa Bharath's article: "Court Oks Westminster Police Settlement," Orange County Register, 19 December 2007, as well as the reader comments.
See also Trinh Luu's article, "The Hoang Tan Bui case: What are they not telling us?" in the Fall 2005 edition of Jaded, a UCI alternative Asian Pacific American magazine, p.7. The piece was written right before two years before the settlement.
We dedicate the show to the memory of a fellow traveller, Alan Berube, a community activist cum historian, who won the MacArthur Foundation award after his work on gays in the military. He passed away 11 December 2007 at the age of 61.
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On our Monday, 17 December, 2007 show we chatted with Lynne Kates. She is the CCR's Organizer for the Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative. She is an active member of the National Lawyers Guild and co-chair of its Middle East subcommittee, and is a community activist with New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine and Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition. She received her JD in 2006 from Rutgers University School of Law, and her BA in 2002 from Rutgers University.
Kates cited the case of Maher Ara, the Canadian national who was "renditioned" and tortured by the CIA. See Ara Commission from Canada.
We also aired a segment from National Radio Project's Making Contact, on "The War on Torture: U.S. Policy Exposed," with analysis from Law and Philosophy Prof. David Luban of Georgetown University.
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On the next edition of Subversity, we chat with Shemon Salam about what happened, what this portends for activists today and more generally about the state of activism today, especially among Asian Americans.
Salam is a University of Washington graduate student and an Asian American Muslim. He has been an anti-war and Palestine solidarity activist for the past six years. He has also been involved with anti-fascist organizing, and been active countering police brutality and immigrant deportation.
See his: "A Visit from the FBI: When Fear is Not an Option," CounterPunch, 1 December 2007.
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James Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. He is the author of more than 62 books published in 29 languages, and over 600 articles in professional journals, including the American Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology, Social Research, and Journal of Peasant Studies. He has published over 2000 articles in nonprofessional journals such as the New York Times, the Guardian, the Nation, Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy, New Left Review, Partisan Review, TempsModerne, Le Monde Diplomatique, and his commentary is widely carried on the internet.
His publishers have included Random House, John Wiley, Westview, Routledge, Macmillan, Verso, Zed Books and Pluto Books. He is winner of the Career of Distinguished Service Award from the American Sociological Association's Marxist Sociology Section, the Robert Kenny Award for Best Book, 2002, and the Best Dissertation, Western Political Science Association in 1968. His most recent titles include Unmasking Globalization: Imperialism of the Twenty-First Century (2001); co-author The Dynamics of Social Change in Latin America (2000), System in Crisis (2003), co-author Social Movements and State Power (2003), co-author Empire With Imperialism (2005), co-author)Multinationals on Trial (2006).
His website is: petras.lahaine.org.
See:
James Petras, "CIA Venezuela Destabilization Memo Surfaces," CounterPunch, 28 November 2007.
James Petras, "Venezuela Between Ballots and Bullets," CounterPunch, 14 November 2007.
James Petras, "China Bashing and the Loss of U.S. Competitiveness," CounterPunch, 22/23 2005.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "The Enigma of Chavez," Le Monde Diplomatique, 4 October 2000.
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Badalu was recently on the UC Irvine campus where he met with students and also curated a queer Southeast Asian film shorts program. Badalu is both an independent producer working with some of East Asia's leading filmmakers as well as the director of the Q! Film Festival. The Jakarta-based Q! Film Festival weathered attacks early in its history from fundamentalist religious groups to emerge as the only film festival of its kind in Indonesia with venues in Jakarta, Jogjakarta, and Bali. It is the largest queer festival in Asia. Badalu has served as a juror for the Berlin and Bangkok Film Festivals and as a producer for five independent films.
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Tony Bui directed and wrote "Three Seasons," shot in Vietnam and starring Harvey Keitel. He also co-wrote and produced "Green Dragon", which his brother, Timothy Bui, directed. Airlifted out of Vietnam at age two, Tony Bui studied film at Loyola Marymount University and shot his thesis short, "Yellow Lotus" in Vietnam. His developed his screenplay for "Three Seasons" at the Sundance Filmmakers and Screenwriters Lab, with the film later winning at the Sundance Festival both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award. On the show, he addresses the importance of solidarity with striking screenworkers and the growing numbers of Asian American screenwriters in the guild.
Sylvia J. Martin is writing her dissertation in anthropology at UCI on media industries. She has conducted ethnographic research of the production process of commercial film and television programs in the Hollywood and Hong Kong media industries. Her fieldwork experience includes working at a film and television production company at Warner Bros. Studio and observing on the set of numerous films and television shows, even working as an "extra". Prior to graduate school, Sylvia worked on over a dozen National Geographic Television Specials and in visual effects in feature films.
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Info on his talk: www.chancellor.uci.edu/cdfs.shtml.
Subversity host's bibliography of Hersh's prolific writing: www.lib.uci.edu/online/fellows/CDFS_Hersh.pdf .
Other bibliographies by various librarians: www.lib.uci.edu/online/fellows/fellows.html.
Another UCI campus event, slated for Thursday, 15 November, 2007 at 5:30 p.m. at the Langson Library, where Raul Fernández, UCI Professor of Chicano & Latino Studies and Ken Janda, UCI Professor of Chemistry will speak at a reception opening a new exhibit, one on the UC-Cuba iniatative, at the UC Irvine Langson Library.
Reservation info etc.: www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/new/exhibit_fall07.html
Mike Davis at 2002 UCI rally supporting UC lecturers & librarians; photo © 2002 Daniel C. Tsang
Irvine -- On this Veterans Day show, KUCI's Subversity show features a veteran of countless peace and justice struggles and related literary output, cultural critic and UCI history prof. Mike Davis. Davis, who last week won the noted Lannan Literary Award for non-fiction for his prolific body of work, speaks to Subversity about developers and Orange County, and why he would like to reduce his time in academia (from full-time to one-third). He has made such a request to UCI Chancellor Michael V. Drake. We talked to him after his recent (October 31) UCI talk, "Katrina in the Suburbs," about the politics of wildfires, which will also air.
Davis, who will receive $150,000 with the Lannan honor, is a past recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship award.
His biography from the Lannan Literary Awards notes:
"Mike Davis was born in Fontana, California, 60 miles east of Los Angeles in 1946, and is a veteran of 1960's civil rights and anti-war movements. From his first book, Prisoners of the American Dream (1986), about unionism in the United States, to his most recent, Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb (2007), Davis' fearless writing in 18 books shines a fresh light on economic, social, environmental, and political injustice. Some of his other books include City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Magical Urbanism, Planet of Slums, Dead Cities, In Praise of Barbarians, and No One is Illegal. He is currently working on a book about climate change, water, and power in the U.S. West and northern Mexico. A former meat cutter and long-distance truck driver, Davis has been a fellow at the Getty Institute and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1998. He teaches at the University of California, Irvine."
His Wikipedia entry is here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Davis_%28scholar%29.
The show airs on Monday, 12 November 2007, on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange County, California, and is webcast simultaneously via kuci.org. Subscribe to podcasts here: www.kuci.org/podcasts/?ShowID=600 .
He was last on Subversity after the Katrina disaster (14 October 2004). To listen to that show (unfortunately some audio is lost): kuci.org/~dtsang/subversity/Sv051014b.mp3.
Among his recent articles is this one, "San Diego Builds a Statute to an Arsonist: Developers with Matches".
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Loo, who turns 24 next Sunday, plays the teenager.
The film has its U.S. premiere (after its world premiere at Pusan), Sunday and Tuesday at the AFI Festival in Los Angeles. It will also show in Hong Kong later this month.
The film was censored by the Singapore censorhip board and thus taken off the Singapore film festival lineup to preserve its artistic integrity in April.
The film depicts the last stages of a loving -- if agnonized -- relationship between the two with artistic, lyrical scenes in bed, in the shower and elsewhere. Its frank depiction of gay lovemaking -- even a threesome -- is pioneering in the Lion City, where sodomy and other sex acts among males remain a crime. The film also depicts the the mother while the boy is focused on seeking sexual and emotional satisfaction with the man.
Loo, originally interested in becoming a graphic designer, is pursing his MFA in digital filmmaking at Nanyang Technological University's School of Art Design and Media in Singapore, where he was among the first batch of students to enrol in the new school in 2005.
Solos: loozihan.wordpress.com/solos-2007/
(Loo is on the right in the first
picture)
AFI film showings: filmguide.afifest.com/tixSYS/2007/filmguide/title/detail/
Biography of director Loo:
loozihan.wordpress.com/about/
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In the actual broadcast, we also aired a clip of Bob Avakian, who heads the Revolutionary Communist Party, on the topic of critical thinking in academia.
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We also chat with an Chinese American activist mentioned in the book, Steve Louie, about the impact of the Cultural Revolution, and its art, on social and political movements here.
The show airs from 9-10 a.m. on Monday, 22 October, 2007, on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange County, Calif., and is simulcast on the Web via kuci.org.
Cushing maintains a documents for the people site: www.docspopuli.org..
The bulk of the poster collection is housed at the East Asia Library at University of California, Berkeley: www.docspopuli.org/ChinaPosters.html.
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The interview airs Monday, October 15, 2007 at 9 am on Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange County, California, webcasting via kuci.org.
We discuss why the censorship occurred and what happened. See coverage in the Armenian Weekly.
See also Robert Fisk, "A Reign of Terror which History has Chosen to Neglect," The Independent, 12 October, 2007.
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Subversity takes this 60th anniversary of the CIA as the opportunity to look back at the CIA and its history of domestic surveilance, before and after 9/11. We air a 1999 interview we did with attorney Kate Martin, of the Center for National Security Studies, who represented Tsang in his Privacy Act lawsuit against the CIA, as well as portions from an hour-long interivew, taped this past July for KUCI show host Mari Frank's "Privacy Piracy" show (www.kuci.org/privacypiracy/#09_12_07) where Frank interviewed Martin and Tsang about his lawsuit that exposed CIA domestic spying after the Privacy Act was enacted supposedly to prevent such illegal activities. We talk about how the CIA used the National Security Act to illegally spy on Tsang. Although the CIA settled the case with Tsang, a U.S. citizen at birth, it refused to promise to not spy on other Americans (or permanent residents).
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For more information, see press release.
On our next show, airing Monday, 1 October 2007, KUCI's Subversity show kicks off its fall 2007 season by focusing on a new report, No Easy Answers: Sex Offender Laws in the US, that recently was issued by Human Rights Watch.
We talk with the report's author, Sarah Tofte, who is a researcher with the U.S. program at Human Rights Watch. In her report, she assails "mistaken premises" that are prevalent about sex offenders and argues that we must rethink sex offender laws because the laws are counterproductive.
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Last month, we aired a related program, an interview with Paul Shannon, who has started a campaign to reform sex offender laws.
Audio of that earlier Subversity show is here.
Shannon's article in CounterPunch is here.
Shannon's web site with an online petition is here.
On our September 24, 2007 show, we talked with one such doubter, Sociology Prof. David S. Meyer, a specialist on social and political protest. We discussed how faculty protest at UCI quickly fizzled out after Chancellor Drake made an apology to the faculty senate last Thursday.
We also aired highlights from the emergency session of the faculty senate, which passed a resolution reminding the UCI administration of the need to uphold academic freedom, but tabled any resolution that hinted at any criticism of the Chancellor. The body did adopt a motion, put forth by a founding law school faculty member, Prof. Joseph F. Dimento, to create a committee to investigate the Chancellor's actions.
Despite the "love fest", others outside UCI have continued their criticism of the Chancellor's action earlier this month, which brought national attention to UCI, amidst allegations of the university caving in to outside pressures.
A Los Angeles Times editorial writer continued to call on the Chancellor to " 'Fess Up" while one commentator called him "The Most Corrupt Man in California".
See also:
L'affaire Chemerinsky:
www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2007/09/19_opinion.shtml
OC Register on last week's show:
Report:
UCI chancellor may be wooing fired professor:
Host of campus radio show says chancellor may already be meeting with Duke professor Erwin Chemerinsky.
Other news links:
Google News
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NEWS FLASH:
Prof. Chemerinsky rehired!
LA Times story initially at 10:05 a.m., later updated: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uci18sep18,0,3167475.story?coll=la-home-center.
Also: UCI and Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky issue a joint statment: http://www.chancellor.uci.edu/lawupdate.070917.shtml
So our report that Chancellor Drake may have flown out to North Carolina to begin negotiations was correct after all. The OC Register had an article (quoted below) on the Subversity show Monday morning, 17 September, 2007, on our then unconfirmed report.
As I reported on the show, Chemerinsky, contacted last Friday, emailed me back: "I think I'd prefer not to say anything else about it right now," implying as I reported, something was going on. There was.
Or this is how rumors get spread...even if they turn out to be true.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Report:
UCI chancellor may be wooing fired dean
Host of campus radio show says chancellor may already be meeting with Duke professor Erwin Chemerinsky.
By MARLA JO FISHER
The Orange County Register
IRVINE – As rampant speculation builds on campus, a campus radio show host is reporting this morning that UCI Chancellor Michael Drake might have flown to North Carolina to meet with noted law professor Erwin Chemerinsky, in the wake of a national furor over his decision to hire and fire Chemerinsky as in rapid succession. "Subversity has learned the chancellor may already be flying to North Carolina to meet with the hired and fired dean, Duke University Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky and renew negotiations with the latter," host Daniel Tsang of the UCI radio show "Subversity" said in an e-mail he sent out to reporters. Contacted via e-mail, Tsang said he was merely repeating rumors. There has been rampant speculation on campus that Drake has met with the would-be law school dean he hired Aug. 16 and fired Sept. 11 after intense political pressure from political conservatives. This morning, Chemerinsky, who normally talks to the press, declined to comment on whether he had met with Drake. "I can't say anything," Chemerinsky said. Neither Drake nor Chemerinsky answered cell phone calls, e-mails or text messages all day Sunday from reporters asking if they were holding a meeting. Tsang's Monday morning show on KUCI features two prominent faculty members discussing the issue. ...
A subsequent cached link with variant content via msnbc site: UCI rehires law dean.
Faculty and newspapers, such as the New York Times, have already called for the UCI Chancellor, Michael Drake, to reverse his decision and say he made a mistake. Subversity has learned the chancellor may already be flying to North Carolina to meet with the hired and fired dean, Duke University Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky and renew negotiations with the latter. We are seeking confirmation of that unconfirmed account.
In our next show, slated for Monday, 17 September 2007, at 9-10 a.m., we talk with two key faculty members about this sad saga.
We talk with a founding faculty member at the forthcoming law school, Distinguished Prof. Elizabeth Loftus, who talks about one way out of this impasse.
We also talk with Prof. David Theo Goldberg, who heads the UC-system's Humanities Research Institute headquartered at UCI, and who drafted the "open letter" in the form of an online petition, calling for the Chancellor to re-offer the dean's position to Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky.
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The Loftus interview was taped Sunday, 16 September 2007; the Goldberg interview was taped Friday, 14 September 2007.
Recent Articles linked on Google News:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=UCI+law+school&btnG=Search+News
Earlier Articles:
Wall Street Journal blog:
blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/09/12/the-oc-law-school-edition/
Los Angeles Times
www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ucilaw13sep13,0,5893599.story?coll=la-home-center
OC Register
www.ocregister.com/news/chemerinsky-law-eastman-1844112-dean-school
Blog
www.leiterlawschool.typepad.com/
Bren's donations to Republican Party candidates etc
www.newsmeat.com/billionaire_political_donations/Donald_Bren.php
Chancellor's lame statement:
www.chancellor.uci.edu/
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His op ed (co-written with an archivist, Alan Virta, also on the show) appears in Saturday's New York Times, which also ran a separate op ed on the late sociologist Laud Humphrey's Tearoom Trade book that analyzed the folks who engage in tearoom sex.
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To listen to just part 2 of the show on Vietnam labor conditions, click here:
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Other recent shows:
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The web site is at: www.reformsexoffenderlaws.org . His Counterpunch article is here: www.counterpunch.org/shannon07102007.html.
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We talk with UC Riverside ethnic studies assoc. prof. Dylan Rodriguez about his campaign to fight California's expansion of the prison industry, the biggest such expansion thus far. The activist cum professor will be making a presentation Monday evening at a public forum at the Ontario City Library, 215 East C. St., Ontario that begins at 6:30 pm.
In addition we bring you a report from this past weekend's anti-communist demonstration against a courageous magazine, Viet Weekly, currently under siege by anti-communist demonstrators in Garden Grove. We talk with the lone counter protester,at this past Saturday's protest, James Du, a Vietnamese immigrant for some 30 years, who speaks up for the importance of free speech. Unfortunately Viet Weekly no longer publishes its English section.
See my 1999 Los Angeles Times op ed on an earlier anti-communist protest, Little Saigon Slowly Kicking the Redbaiting Habit.
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The actual report is here: www.thetaskforce.org/downloads/reports/reports/API_LivingInTheMargins.pdf
The show airs from 9-10 a.m. on Monday, 18 June 2007, on the first day of KUCI's new summer schedule, and is webcast simultaneously via kuci.org.
Here is more info. on Dang:
Alain Dang is a policy analyst with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. His research focuses on the intersections of race, sexual orientation, community building, and public policy. He co-authored Living in the Margins: A National Survey of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Asian and Pacific Islander Americans, Asian Pacific American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People: A Community Portrait and Black Same-Sex Households in the United States: A Report from the 2000 Census for the Task Force Policy Institute. His autobiographical chapter is featured in Kevin Kumashiro's Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian Pacific American Activists , published by Harrington Park Press. He and his work have been featured in a variety of media across the country, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Miami Herald, San Francisco Chronicle , Atlanta Journal-Constitution, AsianWeek, The Advocate, World Journal, News India Times, Filipino Reporter, Hyphen Magazine and The Western Journal of Black Studies, among others. In addition, he has traveled the country speaking at conferences, colleges and universities. He holds a BA in Environmental Analysis & Design from UC Irvine (Social Ecology) and an MA in Urban Planning from UCLA.
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A Canadian transplant, David Huynh has had the fortunate opportunity to have performed on both Canadian and American theatre, television and film productions. David was seen on Canadian television as a series regular on YTV's "2030 C.E." His stage credits also include the role of Oscar in "Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang" and Berthold Brecht's "The Caucasian Chalk Circle". David has studied at The Prairie Theatre Exchange and was a member of the influential Manitoba Theatre for Young People. Before David pursued acting professionally, he was attending The University of Manitoba, working on a Film Major and a Minor in Theatre Studies.
In Los Angeles, David made his stage debut in Joe Jordan's "Dubya 2004" at The Sacred Fools theatre. Most recently, David was last seen on stage in Lisa Hammer's "Grimmer than Grimm" in addition too The Underground Theatre's production of Langford Wilson's "Balm In Gilead" and on television as Sun Kim on ABC's freshly cancelled program "Invasion". David became the proud recipient of the 2007 Visual Communication Film Festival Special Jury Prize winner - Emerging Actor in "BABY", a gang-land drama from director Juwan Chung. "BABY" was also awarded the Jury Prize - Narrative feature award at the festival. In July, David will start principal photography on "All About Dad" a story about a Vietnamese - American family dealing with change and Dad's old world views on life, and his children's new-world views. Shooting will take place on location in San Jose, CA. For more information and pictures of the actor, see: www.david-huynh.com.
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Orange Coast Voice Editor John Earl, CSU Fullerton Communications Prof. Jeffrey Brody and The District and former OC Weekly publisher Will Swaim discuss reportage and journalism in the OC with show host Daniel C. Tsang. Earl, a former KUCI Public Affairs Host ("The News Gap") and a former area reporter, edits the independent monthly Orange Coast Voice, which covers Costa Mesa and Huntington Beach. Brody is a former Orange County Register reporter who is best known for his coverage of Little Saigon. Will Swaim is founded the OC Weeky before taking some of the staff to The District in Long Beach.
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There is also a transcript of Carter's talk.
More information on his talk at: http://www.socsci.uci.edu/events/carter/.
The full audio of the event is here: http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/611/carter5-3-07.mp3.
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In connection with a new exbibit on Vietnam's Central Highlanders opening at UCI's Langson Library, on the next Subversity show (May 14, 2007 at 9 a.m.) on KUCI, we talk with anthropologist Joe Carrier, whose photos taken during the Vietnam War and more recently form a major part of the exhibit, "Surviving War, Surviving Peace: The Central Highlanders of Vietnam." We talk with Carrier about why he took the photos of the Central Highlanders, their plight during various wars and and more recently, the role of various regimes, and the responsibilities of an anthropologist in documenting people in cultures different from one's own. A reception and panel discussion in connection with the exhibit will take place Tuesday 15 May at 5:30 p.m. at UCI's Langson Library. For more information, see: www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/new/exhibit_spr07.html . For more information, see press release.
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We plan to chat with actor Dustin Nguyen, who attended Orange Coast
College,
went on to act in 21 Jump Street, as well as many other films, the
latest three
showing at the VC Film Festival, two made in Vietnam. See press
release
for details. To listen to the show, click here:
Monday is also the last day of KUCI's annual fund drive. To support programming such as Subversity's, which first aired in 1993, you can pledge. Info: 949 824 5824 or online at kuci.org/fund07, where premiums are also listed.
Left Forum: Forging A Radical Future
Is "reform" the best that leftists can hope for? If not, what are the
steps to deep economic, political and social transformation, and what
kinds of organizations are needed?
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Leftist movements around the world are facing new problems and possibilities. Each spring in New York City, organizers and intellectuals gather at what has become known as the Left Forum. They discuss, debate, and develop new visions and strategies. On this edition, we hear selections from the opening panel of the Left Forum, recorded March 9, 2007.
The 2007 Left Forum was subtitled: "Forging a Radical Political Future," but creating a leftist vision in today's world generated some questions: Is "reform" alone the best that leftists can hope for? If not, what are the steps to deep economic, political and social transformation, and what kinds of organizations are needed to bring about real change?
Featuring: Cornel West, professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University; Stanley Aronowitz, co-managing-editor of the journal "Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination"; Hilary Wainwright, editor of Red Pepper magazine, and fellow at the Center for Global Governance at the London School of Economics.
The Color of Wealth
Income generation is one indicator of power differences between racial groups in the United States. For instance, in 1968 African Americans made 55 cents for every dollar a white person made. In 2004, it was 58 cents. But accumulated wealth, not income alone, may be the most revealing index of inequality.
So why the disparities? Author and organizer Meizhu Lui has some answers. Lui is from a family of Chinese immigrants. She was a kitchen worker for 20 years, and she rose through the labor ranks to become president of her local union. Now she's executive director of United for a Fair Economy, a non-partisan group that raises awareness about the damaging consequences of concentrated wealth and power in the United States.
Lui co-authored the book "The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide." She spoke in San Francisco at Cody's Books in June 2006.
For audio files of those programs, go to: http://www.radioproject.org/.
On our next show, we talk with the director of a new film that will the showing at the closing night of the Vietnamese International Film Festival in Orange County. VIFF is in its third edition: http://www.vietfilmfest.com. Featured this year are five films from Vietnam as well as films from the Vietnamese diaspora the world over.
On Monday, we talk with film director Le-Van Kiet about his film, Dust of Life (Bui Doi) about why he chose to bring to the screen the fraught lives of Vietnamese youth in 1990s Orange County. The show airs from 9-10 a.m. on 16 April 2007 on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Irvine, California, and via the Internet on kuci.org.
Dust of Life will be screened on Sunday, April 22, 2007 at UCI, HIB 100, at 7 p.m., as VIFF's closing night film. For more info., see the VIFF website: http://www.vietfilmfest.com.
For more information, see press release.
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The show airs from 9-10 am on Monday, 9 April, 2007 on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange County.
New University story on her class:
Students React to Watching Pornography in the Classroom
ACADEMICS: A recent lecture featuring pornographic films and performers
resulted in mixed responses.
By Julian Camillieri, New University, March 13, 2007.
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For months UCI political scientist and Asian Americanist Claire Kim has been trying, without success, to get UCI to serve eggs of cage-free chickens in its dorms and campus restaurants. Aramark, which has a multi-year contract with UCI to provide food services, is willing to do so, according to Prof. Kim, but the university still hasn't moved on the issue.
We chat with Prof. Kim on our next show April 2, 2007 at 9 am.
See press release.
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On our next show on Monday, 26 March 2007, we air more shows from the National Radio Project. We focus on civil liberties in the aftermath of the USA PATRIOT Act, which is especially timely given Sunday's revelations in the New York Times about widespread preconvention (2004) surveillance of political activists by the New York Police Department: City Police Spied Broadly Before G.O.P. Convention. [Free registration may be required to access.] Also here: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032507Z.shtml.
On our next show on March 19, 2007, we air a couple of shows from the National Radio Project's Making Contact, one about the San Francisco Black Panther case, resurrected after three decades, and an update on the Watada case as US enters its fifth year of the war in Iraq. Thanks to the National Radio Project for the use of these audiofiles.
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The original 2002 interview is here (in RealAudio): .
Barbara loved books, and saw their importance to lesbians and gays. Though not a librarian, she became active in the American Library Association's task force on gay liberation. We air her reflections on her involvement with librarians in our memorial show Monday.
See press release.
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Danny Hoekzema came out as gay when he was 12 years-old. At 14, he wonders why there are no resources for gay youth in the Netherlands, where the age of consent is set at 16. He's managed to get gay parade organizers in Amsterdam (as well as the city major) to let him and his peers join the parade in a gay teen boat for those aged 12-16.
But in the process, a gay scholar who supports the teen boat idea has been pilloried in the Dutch media as well as the gay establishment, for his views on teen sex. Gert Hekma, who is a gay studies professor at the University of Amsterdam, has received numerous death threats on email and in blogs. His university, however, stands by him and supports his right to free speech. We talk with Prof. Hekma, who has authored over a dozen scholarly works on gay life and culture, about his support of youth sexuality and those on the "sexual fringe".
See press release.
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In the wake of electoral success in the Orange County Supervisor's race attributed to the political machinery of state Assemblyman Van Tran, we bring you author Le Ly Haylip's view of Van Tran as she addresses her humanitarian work in Vietnam. The progressive Hayslip, no friend of anticommunist Van Tran, had her biographies made into Oliver Stone's 1993 film, Heaven and Earth. The interview with Le Ly Hayslip first aired in 2005.
See press release.
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On our 5 February 2007 show, we talked with Korean American actor Justin Chon, raised in OC, whose acting career spans "The OC" to "Just Jordan" currently on Nickelodeon. The show is set in a Los Angeles high school as well as an African American diner where Chon's character works. A New York Times reviewer called him "good-looking" in "Just Jordan."
For more on Justin Chon, see press release.
To listen to the interview with Justin Chon, click here: .
. To listen to the latest interview about
Gay
L.A., click here: .
See: AFP dispatch.
This Monday, November 27, 2006, we cover the case of AIDS activist Wan Yanhai, who apparently has been detained again by local authorities in Beijing, China. We look back at his pioneering work raising consciousness about AIDS in China. We include a clip from his previous interview on Subversity in 1998 about being a target of political surveillance.
See press release.
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For more on the lawsuit, see: War Crimes Complaint Against Rumsfeld et al..
See also Karpinsky's testimony.
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On the next Subversity show, slated for Monday 13 November, 2006 on KUCI, we chat with national security analyst and author John Prados about former CIA director Robert Gates, who is George Bush's nominee to succeed Donald Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary. We will discuss what has Gates done in the past and how quickly will he withraw U.S. troops from Iraq? Gates, after all, was deputy CIA director when the U.S. sent Donald Rumsfeld to meet with Saddam Hussein and shake his hands, sealing the U.S. effort to arm Iraq. Gates was also implicated, but never charged, in the Iran-Contra scandal.
For more information with links to resources, see our press release.
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We also air a clip from Bob Avakian, who leads the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, warning not to put faith in the Democrats. And we also give our subversive take on Tuesday's elections, especially one proposition, 83, that is more a reflection of hysteria over sex crimes than anything that would solve anything. We address the pros and cons.
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For more information on Ehren Watada's resistance to an illegal war, see: www.thankyoult.org.
To hear the
audio of a statement by Ehren Watada, his parents' talk, plus brief interviews with
both of them, click here: .
For an archive of recent shows, go to kuci.org/~dtsang and click on Subversity Mp3 archive.
NOTE: At 11:45 AM the same morning, Gold Star Mom Cindy Sheehan and actor Ed Asner speak at UCI at the flagpole at a get out the vote event.
Here's the press release: press release.
To hear the
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.
To hear the
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).
To hear the
audio of
the show, click here: .
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.
To hear the
audio of
the show, click here: .
To hear the
audio of
the show, click here: .
To hear the
audio of
the show, click here: .May Day is when the rest of the world
celebrates
Labor Day.
To hear the
audio of
the show, click here: .
To hear the audio of
the show, click here: . The original interview with Prof.
Gonzalez is excerpted during the show.
To hear the audio of
the show, click here: .
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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.
To hear the audio of
the show, click here: .
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: .
A book signing was slated in Orange County Tuesday, July 25, 2006 at Latitude 33 in Laguna Beach on Tuesday, July 25 from 5:30-7 p.m. Latitude33 is at 311 Ocean Avenue in Laguna Beach.
Information on book: http://www.compassionatwork.com/seaweedshamans.html.
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democracy in the School of Social Sciences at UC Irvine, Wang Dan spoke on "Rethinking the Past and Looking to the Future of China."
Wang Dang was a student leader during the June 4, 1989, Tianmen Square student uprising. Wang is now a
Ph.D. candidate in history at Harvard University.
To hear the audio of
the show with Wang Dan's talk and Q&A, click here: .
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To hear the audio of
the show with Walden Bello's talk, , click here: .
Audio of Avakian reading from the book, a clip of which on the Free Speech Movement was aired on the show, is available at www.bobavakian.net.
To hear the audio of part 1 of
the show, the discussion of Bob Avakian's book, click here: .
To hear the audio 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 series, the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, the International Studies Program, the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding, the Program in Women's Studies, and the Middle East Studies Student Initiative.
To hear the audio of
the show, click here: .
To hear an interview by Subversity show host Daniel C. Tsang with Prof. AbuKhalil for the UCI
Difficult Dialogues Project, click on: .
Prof. Gonzalez is the author of numerous scholarly tomes including "Guest workers or colonized labor?: Mexican labor migration to the United States (2006)," "Culture of empire : American writers, Mexico, and Mexican immigrants, 1880-1930 (2004)," "A Century of Chicano history: empire, nations, and migration (with Prof. Raul Fernandez, 2003) and "Labor and community: Mexican citrus worker villages in a Southern California county, 1900-1950." He teaches in the Chicano/Latino Studies program at UCI's School of Social Sciences.
See press release for further background information. To hear the audio of
the show, click here: .
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On Monday, 17 April, 2006, we chatted with filmmaker Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo (above right during filming), director of award-winning The Buffalo Boy (Mua Len Trau), set in 1940s Mekong Delta of Vietnam.
His film is currently showing at Regal Cinema 16, Garden Grove, 9741 Chapman Avenue (at Brookhurst St.) on selected days: April 16, 22, 23, and 29th. Each day has (corrected) 1 screening: 12:45 PM. Discussion with filmmaker after the showing.
Concurrently in Vietnam, legislators there are considering, ironically, a
proposed new cinematography law that would bar overseas Vietnamese and
other expatriates like Nguyen-Vo from being involved in making Vietnamese
films in Vietnam, despite his film's selection as the official 2005 Oscar
submission from Vietnam. The head of Vietnam's cinematography department
has been quoted in press reports as saying that "expatriates living away
from their native country would not fully understand its ethics, customs,
aesthetics, and cultural values." (Thanh Nien, Ho Chi Minh City, 15 March
2006: www.thanhniennews.com/commentaries/?catid=11&newsid=13564.
See press
release. To hear the audio of the show, click here:
VietNamese Language and Culture (VNLC) in collaboration with Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA) proudly presents CINEMA SYMPOSIUM 3 "From Script to Screen" A panel discussion with a showcase of film clips SUNDAY April 23, 2006 at UCLA Haines Hall 39 3:00pm - 5:30pm -- Symposium with Guest Panelists: Ham Tran (Director/Journey from the Fall), Kathy Uyen (Actress/Kieu), Le-Van Kiet (Director/Dust of Life), Linh Le (Actress/Dust of Life), Mike Nguyen (Director/My Little World),Nguyen Tran (Film Sales Agent), Ringo Le (Director/Saigon Love Story), Tuan Tran (Director/Finding Madison) 5:30pm - 6:15pm -- Special screening of Passage of Life, directed by Luu Huynh Co-winner of ViFF 2003 Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film 6:15pm - 7:30pm -- Light refreshments Admission is free; UCLA parking $8.
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. Thanks to the film's producer for letting us post the audio of the
trailer from the show online. This film is currently showing across from UCI in a limited run. It may end this week unless
viewers show up.Director Morgan has also been interviewed in the OC Weekly and in the New University. See also: Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall for evidence of graffiti's global reach.
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We discussed healing and "restorative justice". An earlier Subversity show dealt with restorative justice in hate crimes:
The Quakers (AFSC) have argued for restorative justice in hate crimes; their report is here:
www.afsc.org/community/hatecr.pdf.
. 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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We mourn the passing of Chris Iijima, a long-time grass-roots activist in the struggles of people of color in America, and Asian American vocalist and lyricist, who passed away December 31, 2005 in Hawaii. See an obituary in the Star Bulletin.
Two previous guests on Subversity were profiled Sunday, 22 January 2006 in local papers. Author and sociologist Mike Males is profiled in a cover story of the Los Angeles Times, while Don Katz, who co-founded the Fountain Valley Student Alliance in 1993, is profiled in a full-page profile in the Orange County Register, about his latest succesful battle. He was also featured in an earlier story in the same paper. Links may require free registration.
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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.
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. He was previously on
Subversity in 2001: .
.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.
Scroll down for several photographs of Mike Davis.
On Monday October 18, there is a panel discussion on Gender and Sexuality in Dang Nhat Minh's Films, with the director and Kathry McMahon (CSULB), Lan Duong (UCI) and Dan Tsang (UCI). Moderator: Viet Le (USC). Download and circulate this leaflet [word document].
Until September 2003 it was broadcast from KUCI studios and Web-cast Tuesdays from 4-5 p.m.
Download a leaflet to spread the word about this show: html | Word
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[Beware: huge file!] Our last studio show in 2003 took place on Tuesday, September 23, 2003, when we covered Proposition 54 in California and the homoerotic male teen comic book phenomenon in Japan. See press release. Thank you all for your listenership and participation over the decade we have been on the air!
On our August 12, 2003 show, we talked with Dr. Arnold Schecter of University of Texas about his new findings showing the effects of Agent Orange in Vietnam. The same week, the Independent reported that the U.S. used napalm in Iraq. See press release
On our August 5, 2003 show, we chatted with UCI student queer activist Long Bui, about strategies for activism and his own coming out.
On our July 22, 2003 show, we chatted with Roddy Shaw from Hong Kong, one of the leaders of the huge protests over a national security bill, and also a gay activist there. See press release.
On our July 15, 2003 show, we talked to
progressive librarian and Cuban
poster collector Lincoln Cushing about his new book on Cuban poster art, Revolucion!
See
On our July 1, 2003, show, post-sodomy
decision of U.S. Supreme Court, we
chatted with Peter Ian Cummings, publisher of xy magazine over what's up
the road ahead.
On our June 24, 2003 show, we talked with Prof. Dana Takagi of University of California,
Santa Cruz (where
she is a sociologist). Ten years ago, she wrote a major work on affirmative
action, Retreat from Race: Asian-American Admissions and Racial Politics
(Rutgers University Press, 1993). We discuss the significance of the previous day's U.S.
Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action and its impact especially on the UC system,
including not just students but also faculty. See press
release. To
hear the interview, click on
a
Here's
a parody of the truth(?)
behind George W. Bush's imperialist designs, based on clips from movie classics: Hercubush [RealVideo file;
3 minutes 47 seconds]. Secret reason: "A lack of oil to slap on our manly
torsos!"
LOL.
The earlier parody of the Bush state of the union
address is below.
On our June 10, 2003 show, we
chattted with author Iris Chang on her new book, The
Chinese in America. See press release.
To
hear the interview, click on
a
On our May 20, 2003 show, we chatted with prison activist
convict turned
criminologist Alan Mobley about life in prison and organizing inmates and
their families into
a potential voting bloc. See our press
release. To
hear the interview, click on
a Our April 29,
2003
was pre-empted during
the
fund drive. But you can pledge during the show on the following
week. On our
April 22, 2003
show, we
chatted with CSU
Fullerton Prof. John Ibson about his book, Picturing Men, which is about
male bonding
photos from the last century.
Are males more or less intimate today? We also ask him why he is
collecting thousands of photographs at
swap meets and on e-bay. See press release.
To
hear the interview, click on
a On
our April 15, 2003 show, we brought you journalist Alexander Cockburn's
talk on the invasion of Iraq. He had been on the UCI campus the previous Thursday giving
that talk. The editor of the muckraking CounterPunch and Nation contributor
discussed the U.S. conquest of Iraq and what might be the road ahead for the peace
movement. See press release. To hear the interview, click on
a On
our
April 8, 2003 show, we talked with
Justin Lin, the director of a hot
new
film, and the film's co-writer Fabian Marquez, a UCI film studies graduate. Better Luck
Tomorrow takes off on an Orange County honor
roll killing. A showing of "Genesis", a film about the making of BLT, screened
Wednesday
April 9, 2003 at the Crystal Cove Auditorium, UCI Student Center, at 7 p.m.
Free admission. 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 hear the interview, click
on
a Check out
also Pacific
Time, the
KQED program covering the Pacific Rim. If you are on the UC
Irvine campus, you can also look into
UCI's Political Literature
Collection, a non-circulating collection mostly of
political pamphlets from the early 20th century to today.
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: To
hear
the
interview, click on a
On
our March 25, 2003 show,
we chatted with Gulf War veterans activist Joyce Riley about what the
U.S. military is not telling us about this and other wars. Did the
U.S. set the oil well fires in the first Gulf War? She is with the American Gulf War Veterans Association.
See press release. To hear
the interview, click on a
On
our March 18, 2003 show, we chatted with civil liberties activist and lawyer Ann
Fagan Ginger about civil liberties in wartime. See press release. On our March
4, 2003 show, we interviewed Max Perez, a farmworker from the Taco Bell Boycott
campaign about its hunger strike, now in its second week, in Irvine
outside Taco Bell
Headquarters. We also talked with Larie Gannon, the director of public affairs
for Taco Bell. The hunger strike ended the next day. See earlier press
release. On our February
25, 2003 show, with local activist Stefano Sensi, we chatted with UCI
history prof. Mike
Davis about the global wave of
protests, about Orange County and about UCI. See press release. To hear
the interview as taped the day before,
please
click on a
On
our February 11, 2003 show, we talked about political art, focusing on political
posters, with Center
for the Study of
Political Graphics' Carol
Wells and guerrilla street artist Robbie
Conal. See press release. On our February 4, 2003 show,
we talked
with local activist Duane Roberts about the police harassment of the
Anarchist Black Cross fund-raiser for political prisoners in Anaheim
last month. We also aired the first portion of a talk against the war
in Afghanistan by historian Marilyn Young at UCI last month.
On our
January
28, 2003 show, we aired an interview with historian Howard Zinn and talked
with local activists about the state of the local anti-war movement
against U.S. imperialism. See press release.
On our January 21, 2003 show, we talked with Brian Payne, an
organizer with the Student Farmworkers Alliance, in town to plan for a
February hunger strike at Taco Bell HQ in Irvine as part of the
Boycott Taco Bell campaign.
On our January
14, 2003 show, we chatted
with gay performance
artist Tim Miller (one of the NEA 4) about his plans to leave
Bush's America. See press release. On our
January 7, 2003 show, we featured an interview with Wan Yanhai, the
AIDS activist/Web journalist now released from detention in Beijing.
See our press release for more links and
details. Wan is featured in an interview by
Pulitizer Prize winner Tina Rosenberg in the
January/February issue (no. 4) of Seed magazine:
"Wan Yanhai: The Seed Interview". To hear
the Subversity interview as taped,
please
click on a
On
our December 31, 2002 show on New Year's Eve, we took a
subversive look back
at 2002! See our press release
where we thank all those who have appeared on the show in
2002. On our December 17, 2002
show, we aired the first part
of the memorial service for Harry Hay, the founder of gay liberation.
See press release. A basketball game
pre-empted the last 10 minutes of the show. On our December 10,
2002 show, we remembered
Harry Hay, founder of gay liberation, a red, queer, and radical faerie.
We talked with Stuart Timmons, Craig Collins, and Phil Wilkie, and
played an excerpt from his Los Angeles memorial service, the
remembrance by lesbian comic Robin Tyler. See press release. On our December 3, 2002 show,
we talked with
Susan Wright, who chairs the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom,
an SM advocacy group, about what SM is, who's into it, and about whether
a UN weapons
inspector who's
also an SM advocate should quit. We learn a lot of new words. See press
release. On our November 26, 2002 show, we
chatted with John Mayer, author of Nuclear Peace, a book on the
Trident Three (one of whom, Ellen Moxley, is Chinese
American).
See press release. On
our November 19,
2002 show, we chatted with newly arrived UCI Distinguished
Prof.
Elizabeth Loftus about the "myth of recovered memory." Her research 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,
please
click on a
To hear the show,
please
click on a
On
our October 29, 2002 show, we chatted with
conservative Congressman Chris Cox
(R-Irvine) about why he wants to keep his job come election time next
Tuesday and about the Cox Report. It's his eighth run for the
seat. 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.
Our interview with
historian and UCI prof. Mike Davis will air some other time. On our
October 22,
2002 show, we talked with UCI
management prof John Graham, a Democrat, on another quest to unseat from
the House
the "ultra-conservative" Chris Cox (R-Irvine), head of the committee that put
out the
discredited
Cox Report. See press
release. Graham 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
Program.To
hear the
show on RealAudio, please click on a
Mike Davis talks about UCI
Chancellor Ralph
Cicerone at Rally; photo © 2002 Daniel C.
Tsang
On
our October 15, 2002 show, which aired on
the second day of the lecturers' strike at UCI, we broadcast that day's rally
at UCI where historian (and new UCI prof.) Mike Davis, Irvine Mayor Larry Agran, Management Prof. (and congressional
candidate) John Graham plus other members of the university community speak out against increased corporatization and
dehumanization of the university. On our October 8th, 2002 show, we chatted
with UCI lecturer and UC-AFT union leader Andrew Tonkovich about why lecturers
across the UC system would be going out on strike October 14 and 15, 2002. See our press release.
On
our October 1st 2002 show, during the first week
of
KUCI's new fall schedule, when we began our 10th year of
programming on KUCI, we chattted with two local labor activists, John Earl
and Cynthia Hanel, who talk about "Rat Tales" at Disneyland, especially at
it's Goofy's restaurant in the hotel there. See press
release. To
hear the
show on RealAudio, please click on a
On our September 24, 2002 show, we chatted with
gay Chinese American activist Dez Kwok about his PoiZon Azn
identity. Dez talks about coming
out at 15 while in a Chinatown gang. We talk about age of
consent, safe sex and messed up relationships.We also
provided an update on the
situation
of Wan Yanhai, now released from custody in Beijing. See press release.
To hear the
show on RealAudio, please click on a
On our September 3, 2002 show, the day
after Labor Day, we talked with Xiao Qiang of Human Rights in China about Wan Yanhai's case, and with Sweatshop Watch's
Marissa
Nuncio about
sweatshops in California. See press release.
News about the disappearance and apparent detention of AIDS and
gay
rights activist Wan Yanhai in China
broke the last week of August, 2002.
In 1998, he was interviewed
on Subversity about political surveillance. He appeared on
the second
part of a show that also included Kate Martin, the lawyer who
represented show host Dan Tsang in Dan's successful Privacy Act
case against the CIA. You can hear that one-hour program
by clicking on: On our August 27, 2002
show, we talked with Judith
Levine, author of Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting
Children from Sex. We discussed 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 over 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.
To hear the
show on RealAudio, please click on a
On
our
August 20, 2002 show,
we aired a repeat
of a portion of our interview with Dr. Ian Lipkin, the UCI
neurologist who discovered the West Nile virus. We also aired
that day's Free Speech Radio News. On our August
13, 2002 show, we chatted with Richard Herman, the civil rights
attorney defending the rights of inmates inside Orange County Jail. Does Sheriff Mike Carona have
something to answer for what's going on in the jail? Or will the public just not care because of the
media
hype over him? 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. o hear the
show on RealAudio, please click on a
On
our August 6, 2002 show, we aired a
talk given by indigenous rights activist Winona LaDuke,
the vice presidential candidate of the Green Party in 2000. This was a
talk she gave at a panel discussion at the American Library
Association conference in Chicago in 2000. The panel was on Envisioning
the 21st Century: Libraries and Society. The sponsors were: ALA's Social
Responsibilities Round Table; American Indian Library
Association; Progressive Librarians Guild; Alternative Press Center; and
the
Independent Press Association. On our July 30, 2002 show, we chatted
with William
Blum, the author of West-Block Dissident: A Cold War Memoir from
Soft Skull
Press. We ask him is there a West-Bloc? Is he still a dissident?
To hear the
show on RealAudio, please click on a
On our July 23, 2002 show, we
aired an interview with Filipino director
Gil M. Portes, now working on a film about U.S. military atrocities at
the turn of the last century, events that led Mark Twain to speak out.
See press release.
To hear the
show on RealAudio, please click on a
On our
July 16, 2002
show, at 4:35
pm., we discussed the
erosion of
civil liberties since 9/11 with former National Security Agency
officer Wayne Madsen. He's posted on the Web a petition for
those who want to publicly declare their refusal to cooperate
with the federal government's
Operation
TIPS informant program: No
Cooperation with the U.S. Stasi Petition. See our press
release. See also his piece on the Bush ties to
the Bin Laden family. To hear the
show on RealAudio, please click on a
On our July 2, 2002 show, we
chatted with
Prof. Ngo Vinh Long of University of Maine about Vietnam Today. He's the
author of Before the Revolution: The Vietnamese Peasants Under the
French, now available in paperback from Columbia University Press.
See press release. A major anti-war
activist, he has regularly returned to his native Vietnam, most
recently as a Fullbright Scholar, offering
constructive advice as Vietnam faces entry to 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.
To hear
the show on RealAudio, please click on a On
our June 7, 2002 show, we aired the first part of a celebration of
Jeff Garcilazo's committed life of scholarship and activism. The history
and Latino Studies professor at UCI
passed away last year.
On our May 31, 2002 show, we chatted with UCI's Chancellor Ralph
Cicerone and graduate student
leader Mike Latner about the protest at UCI over graduate student housing. See press release.
On our May 24, 2002
show, we aired a provocative
conversation with
cultural critic Paul Gilroy from Yale as he elaborates on his Wellek
Lectures at UC
Irvine. Asian American Studies assistant prof. Glen Mimura joins us in
interrogating this erudite scholar and intellectual about race, racism,
9/11, Ward Connerly and a host of other challenging issues. See press
release. To hear the show on RealAudio, please click on a
On our May 17, 2002 show, we asked you to pledge
to support Subversity
and resistance programming on KUCI. It's KUCI annual pledge drive....
On our May 10, 2002 show, we looked back at some of our shows this past year and tried to pitch the fund
drive. See press release for all the goodies we will air that day. On our May 3, 2002
show, on academic freedom, we chatted with political scientist Harris
Mirkin, from the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He's at the center
of a maelstrom after he wrote a
scholarly article that had the word "pedophilia" in the subtitle. The state legislature has cut
$100,000 from the university's apppropriations in punishment. See press
release.
To hear the show on RealAudio,
please click on
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
RealAudio,
please click on
Our
April 19 show
was
pre-empted by KUCI alumni who were back on campus for Celebrate UCI. On
our April 12, 2002 show, we
chatted with Bill Ayers, once with the
Weather Underground (the program was postponed from the previous week).
The show is dedicated to Peter Biehl, who died the previous week. He was
an advocate of reconciliation in South Africa. 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. See press
release. To hear the show on RealAudio, please click on
On our April 5, 2002, we were planning to chat
with Bill Ayers about his days as a fugitive Weatherman underground.
See press release. But that interview had
to be rescheduled. We'll try to bring that to you at a later date.
Our apologies for those who tuned in. Alternative
News resumes broadcasting
beginning Spring Quarter 2002 on April 2, 2002, 4-5 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 fm
in Orange County, Calif., and on the Web via kuci.org. Alternative
News will air each Tuesday at that time Spring Quarter 2002. On our
March 22, 2002
show, we looked back at the full life of community activist Josie Montoya
and talked
about her legacy with two Anaheim activists, Francisco Ceja and John
Earl. See press release. To hear the
show on RealAudio,
please click on On
our
March 15,
2002 show,
we chatted with Tamara Menteer of the Whitestone
Foundation, about the realities of civil commitment of
sex offenders. As an ombudsman in Washington State for court monitoring of the nation's first civil
commitment program, she got to see first-hand the limits of this program.
Read the
Notes transcribing the interview by a listener.
To hear the show
on RealAudio, please click on
On our March 8, 2002 show, we
aired cultural
critic Edward
Said's February 28, 2002 talk on "Power, Culture and Politics: The United States and the Arabs," at
Chapman University; see earlier leaflet on his
talk. Our thanx to the Peace Studies
program at Chapman for facilitating our taping.
To hear his lecture
on RealAudio, please click on
On our March 1, 2002 show, we aired the Q&A portion of cultural critic Edward Said's talk at
Chapman
University the day before; and also chatted with Mark McHarry, author of a Z magazine article on sexual
predator laws. 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.
See our press release.
To hear the show
on RealAudio, please click on
On our February 15, 2002 show, we
chatted with Eric C. Wat, author of The
Making of a Gay Asian Community: : An Oral History of Pre-AIDS
Los Angeles,
a new work on social formation in pre-AIDS Los Angeles. See press release. To hear the show
on RealAudio, please click on On our
February
1, 2002 show, we
chatted with Roy Bauer, a dissenting academic in the south Orange County
community college world. See press
release. On our December 21, 2000 show, we chatted
with Sundeep, the survivor with his family of a horrific hate crime
in Anaheim, one of many since 9/11. See press
release. On our December 14, 2001 show, we chatted
with filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi, whose video, Kabul, Kabul is a
lyrical personal take on history and memory during the early days of the
Taliban regime. See press release. On our
December 7, 2001 show, we aired that day's second hour of Amy
Goodman's Democracy Now! in Exile (www.webactive.com), which we dedicated
to two new red diaper babies who joined the world of activists. On our
November 30, 2001 show, we chatted with Jeff Schmidt, Stefano
Sensi and Michael Twardos about Schmidt's book, Disciplined Minds and the alienation of
professional work. Schmidt got his Ph.D at UCI, was active in Science for the People, and has some
choice things to say about graduate
education here. See press release. To hear the
show on RealAudio,
please click on On our November 23, 2001
show, we
chatted with John Earl, a labor organizer with HERE
Local 681, the restaurant and hotel workers' union, about the union's fight against sweet-heart deals in
Garden Grove with hotel developers. We also aired a Free Speech Radio news special on Kashmir. On our
November 16,2001 show, we brought you highlights from a UCI civil liberties forum with two attorneys.
See press release. 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,
please click on On our October 26, 2001 show, we aired
the first hour of the forum on Terrorism, War & the Media at UCI last Saturday. On our October 19,
2001 show,
UCI neurologist and activist Stefano Sensi joined us in chatting with Dr.
Ian Lipkin, UCI neurologist who discovered the West Nile Virus, about
the challenges faced by the public health system in the wake of 9/11
and the anthrax scare. See press release.
We also aired the latest dispatch from Free Speech Radio News. To hear the
show on RealAudio,
please click on
On Saturday, October 20, 2001, Subversity co-sponsored a forum on
Terrorism, War & the Media:
What You Don't Hear in the Mainstream Media. Speakers are: David Barsamian (Alternative Radio),
Laura Flanders (Working Assets Radio), Sonali Kolhatkar (Afghan Women's Mission) and Glenn Mimura
(UCI Asian American Studies). The forum began at 3 pm at the UCI Social
Sciences Lecture Hall.
Downloadable leaflet: Word Document.
On our October 12, 2001 show, we chatted with Bill Blum, a compiler of
books on U.S. atrocities abroad,
about covert action. See press release.
To hear the
show on RealAudio,
please click on On
our October 5, 2001 show, we focused on the backlash since 9/11 on
academia, and chatted with Jonnie Hargis, who temporarily was suspended
-- without pay -- from
his library job because of a
pro-Palestinian e-mail he sent.
He's garnered the
support of his former boss in the former UCLA map library, and the
editors of the Daily Bruin. See press
release. For the media fall-out from this show, see this update.
To
hear the show on RealAudio,
please click on On
our September 28,
2001 show, we spoke with civil rights attorney Carol Sobel
about what's coming down the pike in the wake of 9/11, and what to do if the FBI comes knocking. See press release. To hear the show on RealAudio,
please click on On our
Septmber 21, 2001 show, we chatted with anti-nuke activist and reporter
Harvey
Wasserman about the dangers of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station
in the wake of September 11's terrorist attacks. See press release. To hear the show on RealAudio,
please click on On our September 14
show,
three
days
after the attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., we mourned the loss
of life and chatted with the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee's
West Coast representative, Michel Shehadeh, about how he is dealing with -- and overcoming -- the
anti-Arab American backlash in the wake of Tuesday's attacks. We also discussed the repressive
legislation that is already coming down. CNN has also issued a statement on
the false allegation that it aired an old video to show some
Palestinians cheering. See original show press
release. To hear the show on RealAudio,
please click on In part two of that show, we
also discussed with
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky the
CIA
training in Afghanistan of
"freedom fighters" like Osama Bin Laden. Prof. Chossudovsky believes the CIA is still "hosting"
bin Laden. He also fears this warmongering is prelude to U.S. control of Central Asia. See
Prof. Chossudovsky's Centre for Research on Globalisation.See
additional
press release. To hear the second part of the show on RealAudio,
please click on On our September 7,
2001,
we
aired an edition of Amy Goodman's
Democracy Now! in Exile, on the Racism Conference in Durban, South Africa.
See press
release. On
our August 31, 2001 show, we chatted with Anti Racist Action's
Michael Novick about another
protest, this Sunday, at the Shack and about the history of white power
music, especially in Orange County. 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
press
release. Novick is interviewed in this week's cover story in OC
Weekly. To hear the show on RealAudio,
please click on
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,
please click on
On our August 17,
2001 show, we chatted with
Katherine Whitlock, author of an AFSC report
(in Adobe Acrobat Format) questioning hate crimes legislation as the route
for social change. 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. See press release. To hear the show on RealAudio,
please click on
For an article on Danny Silverman, whom we interviewed last month, 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.
On our August 10, 2001 show,
with a guest interviewer Stefano Sensi, we chatted with Chuck Munson, anarchist librarian. See press release. The interview is excerpted
[Title: "Washington"] in an Italian left magazine, Carta.
We
also
talked with Carol Brightman of Refuse and Resist Los Angeles about
what was in store for Mumia Abu Jamal as he faced a court date next
week. See press release To hear the show
on RealAudio, please click on On
our August 3,
2001 show, we chatted
with Ramsey Kanaan, a co-founder of the radical collective, AK Press, on
anarchism, and on the politics and economics of radical book distribution.
See press release. Coincidentally, the Los
Angeles Times the same day ran a feature on "The
Anarchists
Next Door". To hear the show on RealAudio, please click on On our July 27, 2001
show,
we
discussed what really
happened on the streets of Genoa during the G-8 protests with Stefano
Sensi, who was there on the frontlines. Sensi and show host Tsang had
also interviewed anarchist librarian Chuck Munson for an Italian
magazine prior to the G-8; we'll air that interview in a future
program. See our press
release. To hear the show on RealAudio, please click on On our July 20, 2001
show,
we
chatted with a teenager
who challenged his high school's censorship of Internet access. See press release. To hear the show on RealAudio, please click on Also, check out
the Sunday, July
15, 2001 article by OC reporter and KUCI DJ Richard Chang:
L.A. public radio seeks new audience in O.C.. It mentions both
this show and Alternative News: "KUCI's approach is decidedly
alternative, with noncommercial, underground music and talk shows such as
'Subversity', 'Chicano Talk', 'Alternative News' and
'Campus Talk'." On our July
13, 2001 show, we chatted with Stuart Timmons, a screenwriter for a new
documentary on Harry Hay, a founder of the modern gay movement. 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 Our our July 6, 2001 show, we
chatted with Lisa McGirr (Harvard), a historian on the 1960s origins of
the new right in
Orange County, an interview postponed from last month.
We discussed her new book, Suburban
Warriors, and the need for the
left to go beyond stereotypes
of the right. See our press release.
To hear the show on RealAudio, please click on On our June 12, 2001, we aired
a talk by historian Jon Wiener (UCI) on his
FOIA battle over the John Lennon files. See amended press release. We had planned to
interview Asst. Prof. Lisa McGirr (Harvard) on her new book about Orange
County conservative organizers, Suburban Warriors. See press release. However, at the last minute, we had
to reschedule. Stay tuned for further updates. Sorry. On our June 5,
2001 show, we attempted to bring you part of a congressional hearing into
the Pacifica Network. See press release. Stay
tuned! On our May 15, 2001 show, we chatted with Tim Bui, director of
Green Dragon, a dramatic film feature about first wave of Vietnamese
refugees in April 1975 at Camp Pendleton. It's the opening night film at
the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film &
Video Festival May 17. And on May 22, 2001 we chatted with Quentin
Lee, director of a new gay film, Drift, and also a new novel. See our press release. On our May 8 show, during KUCI's
fund drive, we chatted with some anarchists who were witnesses to police
brutality in Long Beach during May Day. The real scoop on a violent day
(by the cops)! We also discussed the growing police paranoia, prospect of
grand juries, and prisoner solidarity. See our press release.
To hear the show on RealAudio, please click on
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. The OC
Weekly of February 1, 2001 covered the
upcoming Irvine protest. To hear the show on
RealAudio,
please click on On our May 1, 2001
show, we commemorated May Day, a day
celebrated in China, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Cuba, and by the proletariat
everywhere. We chattted with labor historian Dana Frank and brought you a
feature from National Radio Project. See press
release.
On our April 24, 2001 show, we featured the events of the past weekend
in Quebec, with a report from Subversity's own foreign corresondent based
in Toronto. See press release. On our April 17, 2001 show, we chatted with Marissa
Nuncio of Sweatshopwatch.
See press release
Show host Dan Tsang was the keynote speaker at the Second Annual USC Asian
Pacific American Issues Conference: Uniting Our
Tongues, Saturday April 14, 2001 at Taper Hall of Humanities,
University of Southern California, at 10 a.m. See the Sing Tao
coverage
of his talk the following day.
On our March 20 show, we
chatted with
director Hunt Hoe about his new documentary on Asian identities,
Who is Albert Woo?. See press
release. To hear the show on
RealAudio,
please click on On
our March 13, 2001 show, we discussed the renewed hysteria since the
Santee school shootings with social critic Tim Wise and criminologist
Mike Males. Who's to blame? See press release.
To hear the show on
RealAudio,
please click on
On our March 6, 2001 show, we chatted with a CPUSA archivist over the
Library of
Congress's acquisition of microfilm of party documents sent to Moscow
for safekeeping during the red scare. See press release. If you happened to tape
this show, let us know!
On our February
27, 2001 show, we chatted with the hotel workers' union representative
John Earl
about an Anaheim ID ordinance that is kicking up a lot of ruckus
there. 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.
To hear the show on
RealAudio,
please click on On our
February 20, 2001 show, we chatted with Ervin Staub, a UCI Chancellor's
Distinguished Fellow, in town to talk on genocide. We asked him about
humanitarian interventions among other topics discussed. See press
release.
On our February 13, 2001 show, we chatted with an early critic of the
Vietnam War,
history professor
Ngo Vinh Long in an interview conducted the previous week in Hanoi. See
press
release. Unfortunately, at this time, we are not able to post the
audiofile of this interview due to technical reasons. We may be able
later.
On our January 22, 2001 show, we aired a "profiling the profilers" panel
discussion from UCI's Martin Luther King, Jr. symposium events the
previous week. Panelists, comprising two police officers, a lawyer and
the host of Subversity, discussed racial profiling, especially in Orange
County.
On our January 17, 2001 show,
we chatted with H. Bruce Franklin, author of Vietnam and Other American
Fantasies. See press release.
To hear the show on
RealAudio,
please click on
On our January 10, 20001 show, we chatted with A.J.
Langguth, one-time New York Times Bureau chief in Saigon (during
the war). The USC journalism prof. has written a new book, Our
Vietnam. We talk about the people he features in his book; they are
participants from all sides of the confict. Langguth predicts 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 On our
January 3 show,
we chatted with
Tim Miller, performance artist and one of the NEA4, about Glory Box, his
one-main show. See
press release To hear the show on
RealAudio,
please click on On our
December 27, 2000
show, we chattted with
Steve Kubby and Doug Sribner on the medical use of marijuana. The show
followed Alternative News which focused on the latest coup (this time at
WBAI) in the Pacifica saga. See press
release.And have a nice holiday!
The show host's essay, Resistance is Fertile:
Video & Audio Activism on
the Net, was the featured article on the kuci.org home
page beginning December, 18, 2000 through mid-February, 2001.
On our December 20, 2000 show, we chatted
with William
J. Duiker, biographer of Ho
Chi Minh (Hyperion, 2000). See press
release. To hear the show on
RealAudio,
please click on
On our December 13 show, we chatted with Jenni Gainsborough of The Sentencing
Project about whether or not
Clinton's draconian anti-drug policies may have led to the apparent Bush
victory in the presidential race. See press
release. On our December 6, 2000 show, we chatted with
a spokesman for a company that just won a county contract to take aerial
photos of our back yards. See press release.
Then on part two (at 5:30 p.m.), we chatted with peace activist Brian
Willson. See press release.
On our November 29 show, we looked at labor
struggles including the IWW organizing faculty at one of the Claremont
Colleges. We
chat with political scientist cum labor organizer Dana Ward of Pitzer
College. We also discuss his anarchist views. See press release. To hear the
show on RealAudio,
please click on
On our November
22, 2000 show, we discussed this topic: Would Ho Chi
Minh have liked Clinton's trip to Vietnam? We chatted with two longtime
observers
of cultural politics. See press release.
On our November 15, 2000 show, we chatted
with a freed inmate who was wrongly imprisoned for almost two decades.
See press release.
On our post-election show, on November 8, 200, we asked: What do
the election results mean for third parties like the Greens? We chatted
with
pollster Chris Collet. See press release.
To hear the show on RealAudio, please click on
On
our November 1, 2000 show, we chatted with a
spokesperson from Yes on Prop. 36 (seeking treatment rather than
incarceration for drug offenders) and with a candidate seeking
re-election to a community colleges board of trustees. See press release.
On our
October 25, 2000 show, we featured Ralph Nader's talk at Chapman. See press release.
To hear the show on RealAudio, please click on
On our October 18, 2000 show, we chatted with the Orange County DA's
new liaison to the Vietnamese
community. See press release.
On our October 11, 2000 show, we talked with the premier anti-surveillance
investigative
reporter, Duncan Campell about political control and surveillance. See press release.
On our October 4, 2000 show, we continued our focus on activists in local
elections with an
interview with Chris Mears about his candidacy for Irvine City
Council. He's a consumer rights attorney who's been a homeless
advocate. See press release. The show airs
right
after Alternative News,
which has the same host.
On Sunday October 1, 2000, there was a Protest to Survive gathering at
Koo's
Cafe, 1505 N. Main in Santa Ana. Music, video, and panel discussions,
plus CD release party for Resist and Exist. Subversity host Dan Tsang
appeared on a panel on the LA Protests.
Subversity host Dan Tsang also guest hosted the first show of a new KUCI
public affairs
program, All Sides Now
on Friday, September 29, 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.
To hear the show on RealAudio, please click on
On our September 27 show, we chatted with two
activists who are running
for local offices. See press release. On
our September 19, 2000, we chatted with openly gay Jason Fasi,
a 17-year-old athlete and activist. See press
release.
Subversity's host Dan Tsang is the 2000 winner of the Media Award from
Orange County Cultural
Pride, the group that sponsors the gay festival in Irvine in August.
On our
September 12 show, in the wake of the Orange Unified School District
vote allowing gay/support groups to meet, we wondered what is it like
being an openly gay teacher in South Orange County? We chatted with
Luis Torres, co-chair of GLSEN-OC. See press
release. Read also about Torres' tangle with opponents claiming that
kids
are taught "fisting". On
our September 5 show, the day after Labor
Day, we highlighted resistance to globalism. We featured activists from
around the world on labor issues. See press
release. On our August 29, 2000 show, we
chatted with an emerging Korean
American anarchist about the anarchist conference and the police abuse
at D2K protests in Los Angeles; and present an interview from another
show with the parents of Lori Berenson, a U.S. human rights activist
and freelance journalist who won her right to another trial, this time
in civilian court in Peru. See press
release.
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:
On our August 22, 2000 show, we chatted with attorney Nadia Davis, about
her winning the release of Arthur Carmona after the 18-year-old spent 2
and a half years for a crime he did not commit. See press release We also aired the press
conference of Medea Benjamin of the Green Party in her quest for the U.S.
Senate seat now
held by Diane Feinstein. Amin David, speaking as an individual (he heads
Los Amigos of Orange County) also spoke how he has despaired of the two
party system and as a Democrat now supports Medea Benjamin's campaign.
To hear the show on RealAudio, please click on
On our August 15, 2000, we reported
on protests during the Democratic Party Convention in Los Angeles.
We brought you an update from civil rights attorney Carol Sobel on the
previous night's
police crackdown on
concertgoers etc., and also highlights of Sunday's Mumia march,
including a talk by Mumia's son, and an interview with his lead lawyer,
Leonard Weinglass. See press release. To
hear the show on RealAudio, please click on Read
my LA Times Voices
essay, Anarchistic
Advice to LAPD.
On our August
8, 2000 show, we chatted with some Philly folks
about lessons for L.A. from the GOP convention protests during the massive
civil rights onslaught by the Philadelpia police. See press release.
On our August 1, 2000 show, we aired
reports on that week's protests at the Republican National Convention in
Philadelphia. The online archives utilized are www.phillyimc.org [has
up-to-the-minute updates on protest activities] and www.radioproject.org.
The North American Anarchist Conference: A Festival of Communities in
Resistance, takes place August 11-17 in Los Angeles. There will be panels
on Police Abuse and Cop Watch. Subversity supports any efforts at
resisting
the police state. Check out its Web-site: naac.8m.com. You can susbcribe to the
updates on NAAC by e-mailing: augustcollective_la@disinfo.net.
Ask to be put on the mailing list. Other queries to: naacweb@hotmail.com. Or call 626-644-1973
On our July 25, 2000 show, we featured a syndicated program from WBAI on "Unsealing Mississippi's
Past", about how racism and state terrorism co-mingled in that state for
several decades through the 1970s. See press
release.
On our July 18, 2000 show, we brought you Ken Prewitt's talk, "The
Politics of Census 2000" at a recent
data conference; he's the director of the U.S. Census. See press release. To hear the show on RealAudio,
please click on
On our July 11, 2000 show, we
brought you some progressive voices from a library conference. See press release. On our July 4, 2000 show, we
brought you our own commemoration of Independence Day! We chatted with
some anarchists
on what America means to this new generation of activists. See our press release. To hear
the show on RealAudio, please click on On
our June 27, 2000 show, we
chatted with Steve Kubby, the medical marijuana advocate who is seeking
the
Libertarian Party's vice presidential nomination. See press release.
The show's host has won the 2000 Jackie Eubanks Memorial Award from the
American Library Association for his work with alternative press
acquisitions and service. See ALA news release
and a nice mention in OC
Weekly [scroll to end]. See also the posting on
infoshop.org anarchist site. On our June 20 show (new time and day),
we chatted with William Blum, author of the new Rogue State.
See press release. To hear the interview
using a RealPlayer, click on:
On our June 16, 2000 show, we chatted with one of the LA8,
Michel
Shehadeh, of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. See press release. To hear the interview
using a RealPlayer, click on:
The following week, KUCI begins its summer programming. Subversity moves
back to Tuesdays, at a new time. Beginning with our Tuesday, June 20
show, we'll air from 4-5 p.m.
Our June 9, 2000 show featured the
radical inspirational poetry of Mitsuye Yamada. See press release. Read also an article
about the exhibit of her works; and a description of the exhibit.
There was an OC Weekly-sponsored Arthur Carmona Benefit Concert Sunday
June 4, 2000 at Galaxy
Theatre, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, Calif. Info.: (714) 957-0600.
At 16 he was railroaded and now 18, in state prison, for "a crime he did
not commit". See more on his case from the OC Weekly: Carmona
stories. On our June 2, 2000 show, we chatted
with Sandy Berman, penultimate librarian of the toiling masses. See press release. To
hear the interview using a Real Player, click on:
On our May 26, 2000 show, we aired Making Contact: Consuming
Education from the National Radio Project. See Press Release.
On our May 19, 2000 show, we chatted with Craig Curtis,
author of Fabulous
Hell, a novel about AIDS. See Press
Release. This show is dedicated to Kiyoshi Kuromiya, the Asian
American gay pioneer
and leading AIDS activist who founded Critical Path AIDS Project in
Philadelphia. He died May 10. He was a guest on Subversity (February
1996) when he was a plaintiff in the ACLU lawsuit over the
Communications
Decency Act. The law was later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
For
his involvement in various social change movements, see: Obit. During our
May 12, 2000 we brought you an
interview with
Christian Sweeney of the UAW about the new tentative contract with student
workers in the University of California system, and also Free Speech
Radio's latest newscast. The show aired during the
KUCI fund drive. See
Press release. Please
help support alternative programming in Orange County. Call 949
824-5824 to pledge! Among the premiums: A subscription to CovertAction
Quarterly! (plus cds, music discount card, T-shirts)
On our last show, on May 5, 2000, we chatted with Eric Anderson,
author of a new autobiography, "Trailblazing" (Alyson, 2000.) "Gumby"
is arguably the first openly gay high school track coach. He's currently
a graduate student at UCI. We'll also chatted with Erich Phinizy, one of
his former students, and a co-founder of the Huntington Beach Student
Alliance. See press release. Read the OC
Weekly's review
of his book. To hear the interview using
a Real Player, click on:
On our April 28, 2000 show, we interviewed a dissident who would be
celebrating Vietnam's Liberation Day on April 30. See the press release.
On our April 27 show, we focused on the
impending
anniversary of Vietnam's liberation of the south and the controversy in
Oakland over
an exhibit of Ho Chi Minh's portraits. We chatted with the artist and
gallery
director. See press release. To hear the
interview using a Real
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On our April 14 show, we broadcast alternative feature news programs.
On our April 7 show, we discussed truth and reconciliation
in South Africa, and a new documentary on the topic. We chatted with
Peter Biehl, father of Amy Biehl, the Fulbright scholar killed in
South Africa as she was trying to help the people there. KUCI's John
Klug also joined the discussion. See press release.
On our March 31 show, we chatted with Hunt Hoe,
the director
of "Seducing Maarya", a film about incest etc. among Indian community in
Montreal. It's one of the flims from the Newport Beach Film Festival
that next week. We talked about family values, morality, sex, and gay
South
Asians. See press release. To hear the
interview using a Real
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On our
March 17 show, we chatted with Jerry Dunn, the
former UCLA student who put out Joey, a new gay mag for gay boys. And we
offered updates
on the El Modena gay straight alliance and the now averted UCI SWU
strike.
See press release.
On our March 10 show, we chatted with Gary T. Marx, a scholar whose
prolific output has
focused on surveillance. See the press release.
On our March 3 show, we discussed the
upcoming
Super Tuesday elections. Should California voters cross party
lines (and liberals vote for McCain)? We chatted with Bao Nguyen, the UCI
student behind Wednesday's protest in Little Saigon against McCain.
Also we brought you the
latest newscast from the still striking Pacifica reporters. Bao Nguyen is profiled in OC Weekly March
10-16, 2000: Quiet Riot. See our
press release. To hear the
interview using a Real
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Our our February 25, 2000 show, we interviewed journalist Jerome
Valenta, just released from prison after an appellate court threw out his
conviction. See press release. To hear the
interview using a Real
Player, click on:
Our February 18, 2000 show was on Alternative News. See press release.
Our first segment was a Freespeech Radio's newscast put out by striking
Pacifica reporters.
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Our February 11, 2000 show featured uppity gay
and straight youth stirring things up in South Orange County. See the press release. To listen to the show using a
RealPlayer, click here:
Our last show, on February 4, 2000, featured crime statistics
critic
Mike Males on the Color of Justice and Proposition 21, the "juvenile
injustice" initiat
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On our June 17, 2003 show, we talked with Mike Kiley, the founder of UCI's Anime
Store, but now with TokyoPop; and also with award-winning manga artist Hans
Tseng [photo, on left, © Daniel C. Tsang, 2003], on the topic of Manga
mania in America. See press
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"State of The Nation: Not Good" -- digital editing and parodying of Bush's
speech shows
what's really (?)
on
the president's mind (you can
run this video clip in Real Player, Windows Media Player, or Quicktime) and
crack up! LOL.
Also, check out the neat Orange County Peace
Coalition site. .
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Mike Davis is interviewed at KUCI's Studio B
On
our February 18, 2003
show, with Stefano
Sensi joining in, we chatted with Prof. Michael Hardt, co-author of
Empire, said to be a
modern update of the Communist Manifesto. We also talked with local
activist
John Earl on union reform. See press release.
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Cox 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".
The show is dedicated to gay liberationist Harry Hay, who passed away this past week. See press release.
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On our November 5, 2002
show, we chatted with the director and cast of a new Pinoy film, The Flip Side.
You can check out the film at Edwards University in Irvine
etc., the next two
wks (starting Nov. 8). See also my film review. The show is
dedicated to affirmative
action advocate Tien
Chang-Lin who passed away this past week. We speak with
director/writer Rod Pulido 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. .
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Wan Yanhai's
most recent work in China has involved exposing the tainted blood
scandal that has devastated many villages in Henan province; see
his report.
Back in 2000, Wan was profiled in an op ed in the San Jose
Mercury News: China's
First AIDs, Gay Activist. Photos of him by Dan appear in
Wan Yanhai Photos. .
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A new book has come out on the Asian American movement. Asian Americans: The Movement and
the
Moment, edited by Steve Louie and Glenn Omatsu (Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Press, 2001). Show host Dan Tsang has a chapter in it on his early days in Hong Kong and the
beginnings of a gay Asian movement in the U.S. He participates in a one-day UCLA teach-in September 29 on the
new
book. Check out the information on the new book; it is also available as
a pdf brochure; it gives a table of contents,
brief bios and also info. on how to order.
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On our April 3, 2001 show,
we featured a
report on the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) and discussed a local
teach-in
scheduled for Wednesday April 11
at UCI with Stefano Sensi and Kota Inoue, of the recently created
Academia & Action group at UC Irvine; see our earlier press
release.
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Show host Dan
Tsang
read from Legacy to Liberation: Politics and
Culture of Revolutionary Asian Pacific America (AK Press), with other
anthology contributors such as John Delloro, Cheryl Deptowicz, Diane
Fujino, Mo
Nishida, and Faith Santilla, on
Sunday, November 12, 2000 from 2-4 p.m. at People's Core, 300 West Cesar
Chavez Blvd., Los Angeles (@ Broadway in Chinatown). The event was
sponsored by Red Phoenix, a Southern California Radical Asian American
Group. See
leaflet.
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Sound gets louder later. . . . Many thanx to the
UCI graduate student who pledged $100 to KUCI to support Subversity
during the first day of our fund drive!
. 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
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