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Comedian Hari Kondabolu

Airs at: Fri, 07/06/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  APA Compass
Comedian Hari Kondabolu has appeared on Comedy Central's Live at Gotham as well as Jimmy Kimmel Live in 2007. He recently joined the writing team for FX Network's Totally Biased. While he was touring the Pacific Northwest, he joined Sarika Mehta in the KBOO studios to discu... Read more

John Jung, author of Sweet and Sour: Life in Chinese Family Restaurants

Airs at: Fri, 07/06/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  APA Compass
John Jung tells us about his family's Chinese-American immigrant experience, as the sole Chinese family in a small Georgia town and about his unexpected brush with history and Madame Chiang Kai-Shek.  He is the author of four books exploring how Chinese-American immigrants ... Read more

Rise of a New Racial Stereotype: The Homicidal Asian Male College Student

Airs at: Wed, 07/04/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
 Hosted by Lisa Loving   Today -- have laws put into place after the Virginia Tech massacre created a new racial stereotype -- of the armed Asian male college student? Our guest is Henry Liu, who'll be talking about on his experience being branded as armed and dangerous ... Read more

Abe looks at the resurgence of nullification.

Airs at: Tue, 07/03/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor.  Joe Uris is on vacation.   In the decades before the Civil War, the southern states resisted federal authority by way of the doctrine of nullification, which holds that an individual state has the right to invalidate any federal law which it has ... Read more

Voter Suppression by the Right Wing

Airs at: Mon, 06/25/2012 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod interview Brentin Mock, Investigative Reporter who covers the challenges presented by new voter ID laws, suppression of voter registration drives, and other attempts to limit electoral power of people of color. They'll talk about his re... Read more

Jerry Flanagan of Consumer Watchdog on the Supreme Court's healthcare decision

Airs at: Tue, 06/26/2012 at 12:00am
Hosted by Abe Proctor. Joe Uris is on vacation. It's a big week for the Supreme Court. Monday's decisions on Arizona's "Papers, Please" law and mandatory minimum sentences for juveniles are a prelude to the big one -- a decision on the Affordable Care Act, expected later t... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 06-21-12 Why are Portlanders upset about flash mobs?

Airs at: Thu, 06/21/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
Why are Portlanders upset about flash mobs? Silent disco. Worldwide pillow fights. These and other unusual, satirical or artistic acts have become part of the social phenomenon known as "flash mobs." Using social networking sites like Facebook, flash mob participants have ... Read more

Cory Lira on Fat Activism and the "Obesity Crisis"

Airs at: Fri, 06/22/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
Cory hails from Portland, Oregon. She is a queer fierce fat femme, a cultural worker and educator. Her cultural work predominantly focuses on intersectionality and visibility within identity politics and social justice. Cory specifically dedicates her time to issues of fat ... Read more

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Airs at: Wed, 06/20/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
20th Anniversary of the Watts Gang Truce Pt. II   Carlos Chavez presents part two of the Watts Gang Truce Anniversary program on Political Perspectives. Part one aired last week with a powerful panel discussion titled, Pioneers in Peace. It featured voices from "Freewa... Read more

The president just welcomed thousands who came here illegally as children. What does it mean?

Airs at: Tue, 06/19/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor.  Joe is on Vacation.   The history of the United States is a saga of immigration, whether you're a descendant of immigrants, a descendant of those displaced by immigrants, or an immigrant yourself. In a place such as this -- where being a American ... Read more