Race

Can talking about race make a difference?

Airs at: Wed, 08/05/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
Last month, President Obama sat down over beers with a Cambridge cop and a Harvard professor to talk about an ugly incident that brought home how deep racial tensions still run in our nation. The president saw the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. by Sgt. James Crowly as a "... Read more

The State of Black Oregon

Airs at: Wed, 08/05/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
    The State of Black Oregon was published earlier this month by the Urban League of Portland. The report contains a stark inventory of statistics that show a persistent gap in living standards between black and white Oregonians – a gap that is growing wider as a result of... Read more

Decriminalization of gay sex in India and it's effects on South Asian LGBTQs in the U.S.

Airs at: Thu, 08/06/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  APA Compass
This month, APA Compass tackled the topic of homeland politics and how it effects Asian Pacific Americans. To look at it through a very specific issue, APA Compass member Priya Kandaswamy spoke to Dr. Svati Shah and author Minal Hajratwala about the recent decriminalization... Read more

What is the meaning of home? An audio postcard

Airs at: Thu, 08/06/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  APA Compass
Recently, APA Compass took a trip to a local Asian mall to talk to local community members about their ideas about home, homeland politics and maintaining those connections. http://www.flickr.com/photos/vj_pdx/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Read more

I Am Asian American by students from Lane County's Rites of Passage

Airs at: Thu, 08/06/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  APA Compass
Last month we had a chance to meet students from the Pan Asian Rites of Passage program in Lane County, OR. During this month's program, APA Compass aired the audio from the video I Am Asian American by Jia Ming Chen & Eugenia. This is the audio we played. Click here for t... Read more

It Takes A Village

The name of the new show, by veteran KBOO programmer, Shaheed Haamid It Takes A Village is from an old African proverb that recognizes the diversity, differences and unity needed to make a community work. It Takes A Village will attempt to examine some of the current politi... Read more

San Francisco Eight Victory

Airs at: Wed, 08/05/2009 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Circle A Radio
Charges were recently dropped against 4 of the San Francisco 8, leaving only one defendent left. We talk with Richard Brown of the SF8 and Miasha Quint from the Committee to defend the SF 8 about the recent developments, the sucess of the organizing, the cointelpro targeti... Read more

Sankofa

Airs at: Sun, 08/02/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
"Se wo were fi na wosan kofa a, yenkyi"... From the Akan people of West Africa we get "Sankofa", which teaches us to return to our roots to move forward. We take the best of what our past has to teach us to become all we are and grow into our future. Whatever was lost, forg... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 07/22/09

Airs at: Wed, 07/22/2009 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
Seven months into a new administration and the nation still finds itself embroiled in two Asian wars. Many Americans would have difficulty explaining how the Obama administration's conduct of these wars differs from the last administration's. They're certainly not being hel... Read more

What's the future of community media?

Airs at: Wed, 07/15/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
As recent events in Iran have shown, technology has given ordinary people the power to inform neighbors down the street and strangers halfway around the world about important events regardless of government censorship or corporate media indifference. "Community media" - cit... Read more