tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47445576765570547532024-03-05T05:24:41.374-08:00Subversity ArchiveThis is an audio and show archive of the Subversity show that first aired on KUCI in Irvine in September 1993. It has aired weekly since then except for a break of two years. Show host is Daniel C. Tsang. Each posting relates to a particular show.Subverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05570267783124541567noreply@blogger.comBlogger174125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744557676557054753.post-1159239150162018902011-08-31T19:53:00.000-07:002011-09-01T00:29:06.138-07:00Emmy Nomination for A Village Called VersaillesIn a Subversities update: Director/Producer S. Leo Chiang’s documentary, <span style="font-style:italic;">A Village Called Versailles</span>, has been <a href="http://www.emmyonline.tv/mediacenter/news_32nd_nominees_data_list.html">nominated for an Emmy</a> in the "Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story - Long Form" category. The film, which is about the rebuilding of a community post-Hurricane Katrina, portrays the small New Orleans suburb of Versailles and its inhabitants, made up largely of Vietnamese refugees who have already been displaced once before – after the fall of Saigon.
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<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">A Village Called Versailles</span> follows their stories from arriving to evacuating, evacuating to returning. It culminates when their redevelopment efforts are threatened by the unexpected opening of a government-sanctioned toxic landfill two miles away. In all this, the documentary tries to capture the trauma of displacement, and what is lost in translation between a generation of “boat people” and their children – all of whom must co-exist in Versailles.
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<br />As many reflect on Katrina this week, and as the comparisons to Irene begin, it will be interesting to see the cultural and generational impacts that are often delayed by time. Relevant, too, is the issue of environmental justice in an area of the United States that is so densely pact with first-generation immigrants and economic disparity.
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<br />This is the first Emmy nomination for Taiwanese-born director, S. Leo Chiang. Recipients will be announced on September 26th at New York City’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
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<br />Click <a href="http://avillagecalledversailles.com/">here</a> to learn more about <span style="font-style:italic;">A Village Called Versailles</span>, and <a href="http://kuci.org/~dtsang/subversity/Sv100524.mp3">here</a> to listen to our extensive K-UCI interview with Chiang - conducted before his film made its PBS debut last year.
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<br />Subversities is currently seeking an update from Chiang. We will pass new insights onto readers as we learn them.Subverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05570267783124541567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744557676557054753.post-12467618778821785392011-06-28T16:09:00.000-07:002011-08-30T16:05:07.431-07:00Saving Chinatown, Riverside<div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIlnF-XGumpVhppuDM-6_pWK-cHJs44NGcGso0v0qgWB_nImj0UtXf5TF3TTPwzdkIcwzFBBpMZzurKxu7H4MM8M8PVGazKYmVkhUZzqiEXXclRQxaUT4Yv6EG3oPPWDGmgq2hqxJngzBa/s320/save_chinatown_button.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 257px; height: 320px; float: left; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIlnF-XGumpVhppuDM-6_pWK-cHJs44NGcGso0v0qgWB_nImj0UtXf5TF3TTPwzdkIcwzFBBpMZzurKxu7H4MM8M8PVGazKYmVkhUZzqiEXXclRQxaUT4Yv6EG3oPPWDGmgq2hqxJngzBa/s320/save_chinatown_button.jpg" border="0" /></a>
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<br />Efforts in Riverside, California, to preserve its historic Chinatown may get a boost if enough netizens vote by Thursday early afternoon to support those efforts in the This Place Matters Community Challenge offered by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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<br />These grass-roots efforts, with the active support of the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, are among 100 preservation projects seeking to win 3 cash awards.
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<br />For more information, you can check out this <a href="http://saveourchinatown.org/choosechinatown.html">web site</a>. Voting ends June 30, 2011 at 1:59 PM Pacific time. A link there allows one to vote after registering one's email and zip code and receiving a password. The Riverside Chinatown efforts are listed as: Chinese Historical Society of Southern California - Riverside, California Riverside Chinatown. As of this posting, the group is ranked 29 out of 100 unless more people decide to vote.
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<br />The local preservationists have formed a <a href="http://saveourchinatown.org/">Save Our Chinatown Committee </a>which is seeking to stop development above what has been partially uncovered as the remains of historic Chinatown, first founded in 1870, [CORRECTION: actually the second Chinatown, in 1885, after residents of the first Chinatown were forced out,] with its residents responsible for much of the citrus activity in the county. The Los Angeles Times recently <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-chinatown-20110626,0,1603815.story">profiled</a> the struggle, including the activism of a UC Riverside librarian, Judy Lee.
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<br />A facebook site has also been set up: Save Riverside Chinatown.
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Yet they become <br />interesting because they exhibit many of the tensions that face the developing country after decades of war, as Vietnam copes <br />with being nominally Socialist but practically capitalist, and races to modernize itself, at the risk of leaving behind <br />peasants in the largely rural country.<br /><p><br /><a href="http://www.yale.edu/seas/Harms.htm">Erik Harms</a>, who teaches Anthropology at Yale, has offered a revealing look at <br />the social lives that intersect each other in the wake of this modernization race. Focusing on Hóc Môn, on the edge of <br />Saigon, he writes like a journalist [I mean his writing is readable], revealing social lives as otherwise marginalized <br />residents of this region on the Trans-Asia Highway are able to tell their stories through his new book, <i>Saigon's Edge: On <br />the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City</i>, now out from <a href="http://www.upress.umn.edu/catalog/2011SPRING_UMP.pdf">University of <br />Minnesota Press</a>.<p><br /><br />Harms is interviewed by KUCI Subversity show host Daniel C. Tsang, in the first show of this 2011 summer online series, as <br />Subversity takes a break from radio broadcasts for the summer. The interview is exclusively available online, and as <br />podcasts, with a official posting date of Monday 20 June 2011 but the interview was taped earlier today, 17 June 2011 at <br />KUCI's studios.<p><br /><br />Interview with Harms by Yale University posted on YouTube:<br /><iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/z26C7R8Xz1M" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Subverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05570267783124541567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744557676557054753.post-10406229992635394982011-06-13T17:00:00.000-07:002011-06-27T21:56:13.567-07:00Greg Louganis Speaks at UCI Graduation<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4IQ_M4VjTq4IGFgcaSDOpDszJgVw6tD7-JdPpC8mOgPWA8ymbIGKBTOZ_Ok-7O-jfoLLOFAJggKJhv1phTYP5gqTep4Str0pwSvwCQGJsvKL_6-tQHDk4J_wSnXDYHdL5pToAy6GfgfGj/s1600/Louganis2.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 227px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4IQ_M4VjTq4IGFgcaSDOpDszJgVw6tD7-JdPpC8mOgPWA8ymbIGKBTOZ_Ok-7O-jfoLLOFAJggKJhv1phTYP5gqTep4Str0pwSvwCQGJsvKL_6-tQHDk4J_wSnXDYHdL5pToAy6GfgfGj/s320/Louganis2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623129045796305234" /></a><br /><br />Updated: Link to audio of program: <br /><a href="http://kuci.org/~dtsang/subversity/Sv110613.mp3"><br /><img src="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/gifs/listen.gif" /></a>.<br /><br /><br /><h6>Louganis in video feed</h6><br />In an inspirational speech Olympic twice-gold medalist Greg Louganis, of Samoan/Swedish heritage, and a UCI drama alumnus, <br />Friday 10 June 2011 addressed graduating seniors at UCI's Arts School graduation (the event also included graduates from the <br />Physical Sciences).<p><br /><br />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 <br />longer a "death sentence." He exhorted UCI's graduating students in the Arts and in Physical Sciences to be imaginative {"to <br />explore your imagination") and have trust in fellow human beings, even though he himself was at times overly trusting of <br />others ("I'd rather trust... than be cynical"). <br /><br /><p><br />The UCI drama alumnus said this was his first graduation he ever attended.<br /><p><br />On the last Subversity show of this quarter, we air an edited version of his talk in the first part of Subversity this <br />evening, 13 June 2011, at 5-6 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and simulcast via kuci.org.Subverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05570267783124541567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744557676557054753.post-54983027428218670102010-12-06T17:00:00.000-08:002010-12-07T11:33:20.766-08:00Louis Wolf on Investigative Reporting Before WikiLeaksUpdated 12/7/10, 11:21 AM: To listen to the podcast of this program, click on:<br /><a href="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/subversity/Sv101206.mp3"><img src="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/gifs/listen.gif" /></a><br /><br />Before there was <a href="http://libguides.lib.uci.edu/content.php?pid=14352&sid=153650">WikiLeaks</a> there was CounterSpy (1973-1984) and <br />CovertAction Information Bulletin (later <a href="http://redactednews.blogspot.com/p/covertaction-quarterly-back-issues.html">Covert Action Quarterly</a>), which ran from 1978-2005.<br /><br />These alternative magazines exposed U.S. government shenanigans, sometimes relying on leaked documents. <br /><br />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, <i>Dirty Work</i> (with former CIA operations officer Philip Agee, 1978) and <i>Dirty Work 2</i> (1979). <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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 <a href="http://subvarchive.blogspot.com/2008/01/remembering-former-cia.html">tribute</a> to Agee.<br /><br />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 <a href="kuci.org">kuci.org</a>.Subverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05570267783124541567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744557676557054753.post-29753768246023685842010-11-15T17:00:00.000-08:002010-11-16T05:53:33.574-08:00UC Students Face 8% Fee HikeUpdated: To listen to the 15 November 2010 show, click here: <a href="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/subversity/Sv101115.mp3"><img src="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/gifs/listen.gif" /></a>.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.Subverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05570267783124541567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744557676557054753.post-42762679041298163832010-06-14T21:00:00.000-07:002010-06-17T10:55:23.534-07:00Adam Bereki's Lawsuit vs. Huntington Beach Police Department<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIyYcOGcfEb8Pfvqix0CsWZfuShMsVEBfhuqVOG9RZPJWhlqDbY5HN5wHMGja4CzBiazW59ENepVHVzPdTCKyzBeQb_LX9u_eCKG0GrcZDrZrHVBfJTGVmsGHyOvwrzJ7Xv_y-I4h33diR/s1600/bookcover.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIyYcOGcfEb8Pfvqix0CsWZfuShMsVEBfhuqVOG9RZPJWhlqDbY5HN5wHMGja4CzBiazW59ENepVHVzPdTCKyzBeQb_LX9u_eCKG0GrcZDrZrHVBfJTGVmsGHyOvwrzJ7Xv_y-I4h33diR/s200/bookcover.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482462762199497778" /></a><br /><br />Updated: To listen to the 14 June 2010 edition of the Subversity show, click here: <a href="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/subversity/Sv100614.mp3"><img src="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/gifs/listen.gif" /></a>.<br /><br />Irvine -- On the next edition of KUCI's Subversity program, airing Monday 14 June 2010, we talk with Adam Bereki, author of <a href="http://friendlyfirethebook.com/">Friendly Fire: The Illusion of Justice</a>, his memoir about his fight against homophobic discrimination within the Huntington Beach Police Department.<br /><br />We ask 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.<br /><br />A <a href="http://www.surfcityvoice.org/2010/05/friendly-fire-the-illusion-of-justice-book-review/">review</a> of Bereki's book by Subversity's host in the <i>Surf City Voice</i> calls it a "stunning indictment of what the author perceived as the deep machismo, laced with homophobia, of the Surf City's police department."<br /><br />The show airs from 5-6 p.m. on 14 June 2010 on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, and is simulcast via <a href="http://kuci.org">kuci.org</a>.Subverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05570267783124541567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744557676557054753.post-37113031909567605442010-06-07T18:56:00.000-07:002010-06-07T18:57:20.669-07:00Russell Curry on Visiting GazaUpdated: To listen to the 7 June 2010 edition of the Subversity show, click here: <a href="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/subversity/Sv100607.mp3"><img src="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/gifs/listen.gif" /></a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5kVhrZbL9JfTL6ftr1AurdCKfsp-HI8vUxDPPyR90yqUhizdxJ7zo109-FZ0yEFvXjeT6tyUmCnmOZHp5H9QcO0F4_8jY-hgCa9k9G3ZSH-kFjPBZ2ZnEy-GD7B0b3JqxARlVDsQO173J/s1600/russellcd.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5kVhrZbL9JfTL6ftr1AurdCKfsp-HI8vUxDPPyR90yqUhizdxJ7zo109-FZ0yEFvXjeT6tyUmCnmOZHp5H9QcO0F4_8jY-hgCa9k9G3ZSH-kFjPBZ2ZnEy-GD7B0b3JqxARlVDsQO173J/s200/russellcd.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480149427207849090" /></a><br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQCB6cW4YbJtpjHiaHZcNNde1z1tcQz16hUtzxQvKBz4Hk0MDWDrwVoNI57W2q_-v_Lc6ceMGBZNndSwVOUzavwIlovjvml6GYRa2vYEx8VK7D44ZqyJN5oKDYOrbeWKAMe0f7ph87oaHJ/s1600/gazaprotest.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQCB6cW4YbJtpjHiaHZcNNde1z1tcQz16hUtzxQvKBz4Hk0MDWDrwVoNI57W2q_-v_Lc6ceMGBZNndSwVOUzavwIlovjvml6GYRa2vYEx8VK7D44ZqyJN5oKDYOrbeWKAMe0f7ph87oaHJ/s200/gazaprotest.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480150321770789714" /></a><h6>UCI students protest Israeli peace flotilla massacre.</h6><br /><br />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.<br /><br />Curry was last <a href="http://subversities.blogspot.com/2010/02/at-ucs-tumultous-week-in-review-iranian.html">interviewed</a> on Subversity on 28 February 2010 to discuss student protests at UCI with other Black Student Union activists. His March 4 speech was also <a href="http://subversities.blogspot.com/2010/03/highlights-from-march-4-protests-at-uc.html">aired</a> on Subversity on 8 March, 2010. See his photo at the rally. He also spoke out on behalf of the Irvine 11; we <a href="http://subversities.blogspot.com/2010/03/subversitys-new-show-time-irvine-11.html">aired</a> those speeches on 29 March 2010.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM_dLKbQo3_jvr2fm2HVmmr_rlrgnrqn5WCirhR2fkw_7dvdaFNgGJNuFMCL58-pl498OQ2h2NtYI1TybgEec5CcLfXUfFmcavZR66I_BZIU_JInUPcdnnQXccaUl-gLCzvnTIYw38WpCK/s1600/russellcc.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM_dLKbQo3_jvr2fm2HVmmr_rlrgnrqn5WCirhR2fkw_7dvdaFNgGJNuFMCL58-pl498OQ2h2NtYI1TybgEec5CcLfXUfFmcavZR66I_BZIU_JInUPcdnnQXccaUl-gLCzvnTIYw38WpCK/s200/russellcc.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480152570209301378" /></a><br /><br />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 <a href="http://kuci.org">kuci.org</a>.<br /><br /><h6>All photographs © Daniel C. Tsang</h6>Subverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05570267783124541567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744557676557054753.post-82722216995947991912010-05-31T18:48:00.000-07:002010-06-07T18:58:00.768-07:00Israeli Massacre on High Seas: Gaza Peace Flotilla StoppedOur 31 May 2010 Subversity show aired just as news was coming out about the details of the Israeli military massacre of peace activists<br />on the Peace Flotilla heading towards Gaza in an attempt to break the blockade. Show host Daniel C. Tsang brings listeners up<br />to date on developments. <br /><br />To listen to the 31 May 2010 edition of the Subversity show, click here: <a href="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/subversity/Sv100531.mp3"><img src="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/gifs/listen.gif" /></a>.Subverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05570267783124541567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744557676557054753.post-21551808531404358202010-05-24T18:52:00.000-07:002010-05-24T19:02:08.233-07:00Vietnamese Americans Mobilize in S. Leo Chiang's A Villlage Called VersaillesUpdated: To listen to the 24 May 2010 edition of the Subversity show, click here: <a href="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/subversity/Sv100524.mp3"><img src="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/gifs/listen.gif" /></a>.<br /><br /><object style="height: 344px; width: 425px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zv9WQ3c3TlI"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zv9WQ3c3TlI" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></object></embed><br />Irvine -- Hurricane Katrina, instead of just devastating the Vietnamese American community at the edge of New Orleans, galvanized the residents there into mobilizing against a potentially toxic dump site that the mayor imposed on them without consultation. <br /><br />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.<br /><br />Earlier this month, the film screened at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, where it won the audience award.<br /><br />Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, will feature an interview with Director Chiang this afternoon, from 5-6 p.m., on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, simulcast via <a href="http://kuci.org">kuci.org</a>.<br /><br />See: <a href="http://pbs.org/independentlens/village-called-versailles">film web site</a>.Subverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05570267783124541567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744557676557054753.post-68350472339838091042010-05-18T12:22:00.000-07:002010-05-18T12:24:25.463-07:00Laura Poitras' The Oath; Gilbert G. Gonzalez and Vivian Price's Harvest of LonelinessUpdated: To listen to the 17 May 2010 edition of the Subversity show, click here: <a href="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/subversity/Sv100517.mp3"><img src="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/gifs/listen.gif" /></a>.<br /><br /><object width="464" height="289" id="1824431" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" alt="The Oath Trailer Movie Trailers"><param name="movie" value="http://embed.break.com/MTgyNDQzMQ=="></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://embed.break.com/MTgyNDQzMQ==" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess=always width="464" height="289"></embed></object><br><font size=1></font><br /><br /><b>The Oath</b><br /><br />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". <br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />The Oath opens in Los Angeles May 21, 2010. <br /><br /><b>Well of Loneliness: The Bracero Program</b><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUahC4BnVi0WVnR0E4OPXBlmra-27xDCPCkIweXeNB0wGXgp-Azxc0eNZiGHmfEYJGTtSdZPAhr5wH580Y9Ny7ojUDFu8lzOWiMF5q8Phmmq1T-s8w0m6u8M_cNdTs2O0XG8cCMf0JG8At/s1600/braceros.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 108px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUahC4BnVi0WVnR0E4OPXBlmra-27xDCPCkIweXeNB0wGXgp-Azxc0eNZiGHmfEYJGTtSdZPAhr5wH580Y9Ny7ojUDFu8lzOWiMF5q8Phmmq1T-s8w0m6u8M_cNdTs2O0XG8cCMf0JG8At/s200/braceros.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472305517835551282" /></a>. <h6> Mexican nationals in tomato harvest, Muri Ranch on Roberts Island, San Joaquin Valley.<br />Photograph published in: California Annual Farm Labor Report, 1951. Sacramento: State of California, Farm Placement Service. Part of Immigrant Lives in 'the O.C.' & Beyond <a href="http://www.lib.uci.edu/about/publications/exhibits/immigrant/index.php">exhibit</a> at UCI Libraries in 2008-2009.</h6><br /><br />In our second half-hour, we talk with film directors Gilbert G. Gonzalez and Vivian Price. The former is Professor Emeritus at UCI's Chicano/Latino Studies Department, and the latter, who obtained her Ph.D at UCI, is a professor at CSU Dominguez-Hills in interdisciplinary studies who has also made other documentaries on women and labor. <br /><br />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.<br /><br />Harvest of Loneliness: The Bracero Program, makes its <a href="http://www.humanities.uci.edu/fvc/schedS10_05_harvest.html">World Premiere</a> Thusrday, 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: <a href="http://harvestofloneliness.com">Harvest of Loneliness</a>.<br /><br />We dedicate this show to the <a href="http://subversities.blogspot.com/2010/05/rip-tam-tran-and-cinthya-felix-dream.html">legacy</a> of Tam Tran and Cinthya Felix, DREAM Act activists who tragically lost their lives in a car accident last Saturday.<br /><br />Subversity airs from 5-6 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via <a href="http://kuci.org">kuci.org</a>. The film directors are interviewed by show host Daniel C. Tsang.Subverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05570267783124541567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744557676557054753.post-14342083864889460092010-05-10T19:00:00.000-07:002010-05-13T10:04:47.157-07:00Orange County Treasurer's RaceUpdated: To listen to our interview with David Lang, click here: <a href="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/subversity/Sv100503.mp3"><img src="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/gifs/listen.gif" /></a>.<br /><br />It is election season again with a June 8 Primary coming up next month. We delve into Orange County, California economics<br />with David Lang, who is seeking to become the next Orange County Treasurer and Tax Collector. We talk with long-time<br />accountant Lang, a long-time community college trustee, about what this position entails and why the two tasks are lumped<br />together. What are the risky investments he would avoid? And what is the legacy of the Orange County bankruptcy of a decade<br />or so ago.<br /><br />We'll also ask him what he means by arguing that the OC investment "focus must be on return <i>of</i> principal over return<br /><i>on</i> principal"? See his <a href="http://www.davelangforoctreasurer.com/bio.html">bio</a>.<br /><br />In the second half of the program, we hope to bring you another episode of National Radio Project's Making Contact program,<br />this one on: Tax the Rich, Help Save America? There's a tax revolt movement going on -- to tax the rich!<br /><br />The Making Contact <a href="http://www.radioproject.org/2010/04/tax-the-rich-help-save-america/">program</a> features:<br /><br />Jim McDermott, Oregon lawyer; Chuck Sheketoff, Oregon Center for Public Policy Executive Director; Jon Shure, Center on Budget<br />& Policy Priorities Deputy Director; Marcy Westerling, Rural Organizing Project, Scappoose Executive Director; Marcy<br />Westerling, Rural Organizing Project Executive Director; Tom Duley, Alabama Arise board chairman; Kimble Forrister, Alabama<br />Arise coordinator; Gwendolyn Gray, Alabama Arise member; Steven Hill, Political Reform Program Director at the New America<br />Foundation & author of ‘Europe’s Promise: Why the European Way Is the Best Hope for an Insecure Age’.<br /><br />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 <a<br />href="http://kuci.org">kuci.org</a>.<br /><P>Subverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05570267783124541567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744557676557054753.post-83219765214404947442010-05-03T20:00:00.000-07:002010-05-04T16:56:21.844-07:00AOKI: On Asian American Co-Founder of Black Panther Party<EMBED><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuV8L2NJobYmEcINwI_ZuxYKWGQFRD7seisxI7ENlMmu2Ox4vkGQBvzvVb_rxROLnLe-U1X0xLgoPc6I5CkFJwCz5EqajMMeSYzWnFFPv27rxVAlWEEg_Y71fgimLvM-QF3wogKDcT93hQ/s1600/aoki.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 126px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuV8L2NJobYmEcINwI_ZuxYKWGQFRD7seisxI7ENlMmu2Ox4vkGQBvzvVb_rxROLnLe-U1X0xLgoPc6I5CkFJwCz5EqajMMeSYzWnFFPv27rxVAlWEEg_Y71fgimLvM-QF3wogKDcT93hQ/s200/aoki.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467095558654225746"/></a></EMBED><br /> Richard Aoki (left). Updated: To listen to this edition of the Subversity show, click here: <a href="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/subversity/Sv100503.mp3"><img src="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/gifs/listen.gif" /></a>. Technical difficulties precluded recording the entire show, however.<br /><br />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. <br /><br />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. <a href="http://www.asamst.ucsb.edu/people/fujino.php">Diane Fujino</a>, who appears in the documentary.<br /><br /><object style="height: 344px; width: 425px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/G5K0cEiRLgw"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/G5K0cEiRLgw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></object><br /></EMBED><br /><br /><object style="height: 344px; width: 425px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SlldzfnrLd4"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SlldzfnrLd4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></object><br /></EMBED><br /><br /><object style="height: 344px; width: 425px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/k7NSZY8h_Sk"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/k7NSZY8h_Sk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></object><br /></EMBED><br /><object style="height: 344px; width: 425px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mOB-mzSnK-k"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mOB-mzSnK-k" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></object></EMBED><br /><br />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 <a href="http://kuci.org">kuci.org</a>.<br /><br />The documentary AOKI will show Tuesday, 4 May 2010 at 7 p.m. at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, <a href="http://asianfilmfestla.org/2010/program-guide/program-50/">screening</a> at the Downtown Independent Theater, 251 South Main St (Between 2nd and 3rd Streets), Little Tokyo, Downtown Los Angeles.<br /><br />DVD copies of AOKI are available from Eastwind Books. See <a href="http://aokifilm.com/dvd/">link</a> for more information including where to request institutional orders.<br /><br />The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival closes Thursday 6 May 2010 with a <a href="http://asianfilmfestla.org/2010/program-guide/program-61/">screening</a> 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.Subverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05570267783124541567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744557676557054753.post-29194010556852243852010-04-27T13:20:00.001-07:002010-04-27T13:21:04.657-07:00Two Film Festivals: Interviews<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMgZqS4DEUxSR8_vcyiqypKx6zTGw4S35l6IQYkSBmlT5zwUjDTH8qeV9Ma_n3BwAXKeNhY5hmRiASJK5so3ZTIyIJVsVt-IXgMW-O-13TvIHyyajvunVhqq5AcQxt05IDPPAUp3OlO7LB/s1600/quentin.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 141px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMgZqS4DEUxSR8_vcyiqypKx6zTGw4S35l6IQYkSBmlT5zwUjDTH8qeV9Ma_n3BwAXKeNhY5hmRiASJK5so3ZTIyIJVsVt-IXgMW-O-13TvIHyyajvunVhqq5AcQxt05IDPPAUp3OlO7LB/s200/quentin.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464492800890955378" /></a><br /><br />Updated: To listen to this edition of the Subversity show, click here: <a href="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/subversity/Sv100426.mp3"><img src="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/gifs/listen.gif" /></a>.<br /><br />We're covering two film festivals this week -- the <a href="http://www.newportbeachfilmfest.com/">Newport Beach Film Festival</a>, 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 <a href="http://asianfilmfestla.org/2010/">Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival</a>.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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 <a href="http://asianfilmfestla.org/2010/?search-class=DB_CustomSearch_Widget-db_customsearch_widget&widget_number=preset-default&all-7=&cs-Category-0=&cs-Genre-1=&cs-Title-2=Beijing+Taxi&cs-Director-3=&cs-Country-4=&cs-Venue-5=&cs-Date-6=&search=SEARCH">screens</a> 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.<br /><br />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 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 <a href="http://kuci.org/~dtsang/subversity/Sv080331.mp3">interviewed</a> on Subversity back on 31 March 2008. The film <a href="http://asianfilmfestla.org/2010/?search-class=DB_CustomSearch_Widget-db_customsearch_widget&widget_number=preset-default&all-7=&cs-Category-0=&cs-Genre-1=&cs-Title-2=People+I%27ve+Slept+With%2C+The&cs-Director-3=&cs-Country-4=&cs-Venue-5=&cs-Date-6=&search=SEARCH">screens</a> at the Asian Pacific Film Festival at DGA, 7920 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood this Saturday May 1 at 7 p.m.<br /><br />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, has 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 <a href="http://newportbeach.bside.com/2010/films/8themormonproposition_newportbeach2010">screens</a> at the Newport Beach Film Festival, Wednesday April 28, at 8:30 p.m. at Edwards Islands 3, Fashion Island. <br /><br />Subversity airs 26 April 2010 at 5-6 p.m.on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, and is webcast simultaneously via <a href="http://kuci.org">kuci.org</a>.<br /><br />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 <a href="http://newportbeach.bside.com/2010/films/womanrebel_newportbeach2010">screens</a> at Edwards Island 2 in Fashion Island this Wednesday, April 28 at 3:30 p.m.<br /><br />The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival opens Thursday April 29 at the DGA in West Hollywood, <a href="http://asianfilmfestla.org/2010/program-guide/program-1/">screening</a> 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.<br /><br />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 <a href="http://asianfilmfestla.org/2010/program-guide/program-14/">screens</a> with another Freida Lee Mock film at DGA on Saturday May 1 at 2 p.m.Subverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05570267783124541567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744557676557054753.post-54703968226065682832010-04-19T18:00:00.000-07:002010-04-21T10:13:20.284-07:00My Lai Documentary Director Barak Goodman<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgg7ntM0ee6B_FbpxOo82rAO38V-CQOaiE95ueOGxo26HTSepEnecFKjC34e5l8ffwBeCdkMX_5kFnVjDCGbzZEop4W-tO9A25omhZSq_URpmRc70NGpbjrykDxTo3ak5Gzp_q8MKPcLQB/s1600/MyLai.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgg7ntM0ee6B_FbpxOo82rAO38V-CQOaiE95ueOGxo26HTSepEnecFKjC34e5l8ffwBeCdkMX_5kFnVjDCGbzZEop4W-tO9A25omhZSq_URpmRc70NGpbjrykDxTo3ak5Gzp_q8MKPcLQB/s200/MyLai.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461919814142308274" /></a><br /><br />Updated: To listen to this edition of the Subversity show, click here: <a href="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/subversity/Sv100419.mp3"><img src="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/gifs/listen.gif" /></a>.<br /><br /><br />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.<br /><br />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". <br /><br />Subversity airs 19 April 2010 from 5-6 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, and is simulcast via <a href="http://kuci.org">kuci.org</a>. <br /><br />To see a trailer clip of My Lai, click here: <a href="http://video.pbs.org/video/1451980822/">http://video.pbs.org/video/1451980822/</a>.<br /><br />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 <a href="http://kuci.org">kuci.org</a> 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.Subverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05570267783124541567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744557676557054753.post-19090531591207795852010-04-13T01:17:00.000-07:002010-04-13T01:24:37.895-07:00Remembering People's Historian Him Mark Lai<object style="height: 344px; width: 425px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xpw4rnm41Tc"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xpw4rnm41Tc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></object></embed><br /><br />To listen to this edition of the Subversity show, click here: <a href="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/subversity/Sv100412.mp3"><img src="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/gifs/listen.gif" /></a>.<br /><br />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 <a href="http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/38fcd8qx9780252035258.html"><I>Chinese American Transnational Politics</i></a> from University of Illinois Press.<br /><br />Speakers at the session whom we aired included Emeritus Prof. L. Ling-chi Wang (UC Berkeley), Poet and <i>Amerasia Journal</i> editor Prof. Russell Leong (UCLA) and Prof. Jack Tchen (New York University).<br /><br />The show airs from 5-6 p.m. 12 April 2010 on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via <a href="http://kuci.org">kuci.org</a>. Podcast will be posted later on.<br /><br />We dedicate this show to radical actor Corin Redgrave, who <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/apr/11/corin-redgrave-appreciation-john-bird">died</a> 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: <a href="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/subversity/Sv990601.ram"><img src="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/gifs/listen.gif" /></a>.Subverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05570267783124541567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744557676557054753.post-58883320379933238962010-04-06T15:14:00.001-07:002010-04-06T15:15:33.414-07:00Police Misconduct and Community Strategies for Justice<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKVE0epJtPdkMyR8_4MLdNbw3yMD0Sh7wUJlYAhHNZIBpVQ3UYTDR5nSzOpponIBK6glz8LwYh0jiXamBgtCGZgRF0gObk2iOfp_mDkDLlvk6OzIrjYuTXFy98oeSmGENQx1xTjmNDtHay/s1600/P1030530rev.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKVE0epJtPdkMyR8_4MLdNbw3yMD0Sh7wUJlYAhHNZIBpVQ3UYTDR5nSzOpponIBK6glz8LwYh0jiXamBgtCGZgRF0gObk2iOfp_mDkDLlvk6OzIrjYuTXFy98oeSmGENQx1xTjmNDtHay/s200/P1030530rev.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457148159019394290" /></a><h6>UCI law students Denisha McKensie, David Rodwin and Vivian Lee interviewed on KUCI. Photo © Daniel C. Tsang 2010. UPDATED: To listen to this edition of the Subversity show, click here: <a href="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/subversity/Sv100405.mp3"><img src="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/gifs/listen.gif" /></a>.</h6><br /><br />Why is it that police misconduct cases keep showing up in the news? And what can we do about it? On the next edition of Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, airing this afternoon at 5 p.m., we talk with several UCI law students as well as a community activist about this important issue.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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."<br /><br />Subversity airs today from 5-6 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via <a href="http://kuci.org">kuci.org</a>. Podcasts available after the broadcast and will be posted here.<br /><br />*********************************************************<br /><br />“Police Misconduct and Community Strategies for Justice” <br />Panel Discussion and Q & A <br /><br />Thursday, April 8, 2010 <br />5:00 to 6:30 p.m. <br />UC Irvine Cross-Cultural Center<br />Dr. Joseph L. White Conference Room<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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. <br /><br />Informal reception with light refreshments to follow. <br /><br />For more information: ochra.uci@gmail.com.<br /><br /><br />***********<br /><br />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.Subverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05570267783124541567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744557676557054753.post-59375722270538615272010-03-29T18:53:00.001-07:002010-03-29T18:55:23.821-07:00Irvine 11 Speak-Out; Angela Davis; New Show Time<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrsSLE6fpmOHu6d7itdLFvOnhQLuNhGkGzXT1eXOYAu3Hk45UCnO0WFLBsHqItHdMN6guLI-8X2uGwvX45WqKxrsrCC-zmC8o2_2IpoqbiMEeASsm8tDXC-CGMZAaXZinFdITAehjsZMWv/s1600/angela2.bmp"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 123px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrsSLE6fpmOHu6d7itdLFvOnhQLuNhGkGzXT1eXOYAu3Hk45UCnO0WFLBsHqItHdMN6guLI-8X2uGwvX45WqKxrsrCC-zmC8o2_2IpoqbiMEeASsm8tDXC-CGMZAaXZinFdITAehjsZMWv/s200/angela2.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454199874940030482" /></a><h6>Angela Davis after March 8, 2010 talk at UCI. Photo © Daniel C. Tsang 2010. UPDATED: To listen to this edition of the Subversity show, click here: <a href="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/subversity/Sv100329.mp3"><img src="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/gifs/listen.gif"></a>.</h6><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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. <br /><br />This edition of Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, airs from 5-6 p.m. today on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, and is simulcast via <a href="http://kuci.org">kuci.org</a>.Subverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05570267783124541567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744557676557054753.post-91890438329331237422010-03-22T11:38:00.001-07:002010-03-22T11:41:04.463-07:00Hyde Amendment & Health Care; Immigration Reform<h5>UPDATED: To listen to this edition of the Subversity show, click here: <a href="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/subversity/Sv100322.mp3"><img src="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/gifs/listen.gif" /></a>.</h5><br /><br />Last night the U.S. House of Representatives passed historic legislation to provide health-care coverage for millions of uninsured Americans. What's behind Obama's executive order enforcing the Hyde Amendment that barred federal funding of abortion? <br /><br />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?<br /><br />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. <br /><br />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.<br /><br />Featuring:<br /><br />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.<br /><br />URL: <a href="http://www.radioproject.org/2010/01/hyde-ing-the-right-to-choose/">http://www.radioproject.org/2010/01/hyde-ing-the-right-to-choose/</a>.<br /><br />2. Immigration Reforms, How a Broken System Breaks Communities:<br />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.<br /><br />Featuring:<br /><br />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.<br /><br />URL: <a href="http://www.radioproject.org/2010/01/immigration-reforms/">http://www.radioproject.org/2010/01/immigration-reforms/</a>.<br /><br />Subversity airs today (22 March 2010) from 9-10 a.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via <a href="http://kuci.org">kuci.org</a>.Subverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05570267783124541567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744557676557054753.post-3189492546004142212010-03-15T13:02:00.000-07:002010-03-15T13:11:08.927-07:00Suspicious Activity Reporting Goes National<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq65Rsb0EbXMMGpyMdmCabXfGpfhk2mydVY4eLLGNJc1WJA-9A6tpP0vovCkfdcpWHOOnQv7HtBpvNDNwzdBL1Gx84vqqQ8yyQeioAGCgAufh3r9h-BUGkcZ-F6wVAJMwEvf_1jv_50GL2/s1600-h/TomC.GIF"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq65Rsb0EbXMMGpyMdmCabXfGpfhk2mydVY4eLLGNJc1WJA-9A6tpP0vovCkfdcpWHOOnQv7HtBpvNDNwzdBL1Gx84vqqQ8yyQeioAGCgAufh3r9h-BUGkcZ-F6wVAJMwEvf_1jv_50GL2/s200/TomC.GIF" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448892723847373426" /></a><h6>PRA's Tom Cincotta speaks at CAIR forum on Suspicious Activity Reporting. Photograph © Daniel C. Tsang, 2010. UPDATED: To listen to this edition of the Subversity show, click here: <a href="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/subversity/Sv100315.mp3"><img src="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/gifs/listen.gif" /></a>.</h6><br />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". <br /><br />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 <a href="http://www.msuuci.com/?p=1658">spoke</a> 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.<br /><br />On KUCI's Subversity program this Monday morning, we air talks at the forum given by Tom Cincotta, who heads a project at the <a href="http://www.publiceye.org/index.php">Political Research Associates</a> (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 <a href="http://www.lapdonline.org/iwatchla">I-Watch</a> 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.<br /><br />Chairing the CAIR forum was <a href="http://uprisingradio.org/home/?p=12586">Ameena Mirza Qazi</a>, CAIR deputy executive director and its staff attorney.<br /><br />The show airs from 9-10 a.m. on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange County and is simulcast via <a href="kuci.org">kuci.org</a>.Subverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05570267783124541567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744557676557054753.post-73911522640450979142010-03-08T12:33:00.001-08:002010-03-08T12:34:45.450-08:00March 4, 2010 Rally at UC Irvine<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqBrVwFgLbVkgugDtr3QSc7TS8SbWAqYko2nqbEhFjHnrWerW68Nj2O2c8wjEYHGz25bwM_80yXotRolfBfW2M2tT2MIfSFYtO8NEs4V1QnTEcMdiLFvr8JKwuFwVCq6LF_PubZ6zQKPWb/s1600-h/march4rally.GIF"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqBrVwFgLbVkgugDtr3QSc7TS8SbWAqYko2nqbEhFjHnrWerW68Nj2O2c8wjEYHGz25bwM_80yXotRolfBfW2M2tT2MIfSFYtO8NEs4V1QnTEcMdiLFvr8JKwuFwVCq6LF_PubZ6zQKPWb/s200/march4rally.GIF" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446312613091848658" /></a><h6>Russell Curry ("Sonny Boy") rallies crowd to "Put your fist in the sky" at March 4 rally at UC Irvine. Photograph © Daniel C. Tsang. UPDATED: To listen to this edition of the Subversity show, click here: <a href="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/subversity/Sv100308.mp3"><img src="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/gifs/listen.gif" /></a>. </h6> <br />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 Commonjavascript:void(0)s by mid afternoon, ending in a smaller crowd gathered on the lawn outside Aldrich Hall, the scene of a sit-in the previous week.<br /><br />On today's 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.<br />The show airs 9-10 a.m. on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange County, California, and is simulcast via <a href="http://kuci.org">kuci.org</a>. <br /><br />See also: <a href="http://democratizeeducation.wordpress.com/">Democratize Education: Taking Control of Our Education</a> blog.Subverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05570267783124541567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744557676557054753.post-19303201414034468542010-03-01T21:25:00.001-08:002010-03-02T14:48:15.161-08:00A Look Back at a Tumultous Week (UCI Sit-in...); Iranian Women Agitate<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOJ4Zfu2FT59gp71x49pVu0nkz5Sx2IaawBw6P3vKpYnk_z7NJIoDR5Rghera3jL9rg_k0GFwJfrdqfiBbG8DUUsn86yAtYTnR2ktd25k0a9yvHSQYEITdlOlS16H3RK9OFcXkQ8aQJiwT/s1600-h/after.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOJ4Zfu2FT59gp71x49pVu0nkz5Sx2IaawBw6P3vKpYnk_z7NJIoDR5Rghera3jL9rg_k0GFwJfrdqfiBbG8DUUsn86yAtYTnR2ktd25k0a9yvHSQYEITdlOlS16H3RK9OFcXkQ8aQJiwT/s200/after.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443506093951685122" /></a><h6>After sit-in, UCI protesters outside Aldrich Hall with pink citations for "failure to disperse." Photo © Daniel C. Tsang 2010. UPDATED: To listen to audio of our interview with Irvine activists Ryan Davis (with citations in photo), Russell Curry and Samiyyah Tillman, click here: <a href="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/subversity/Sv100301a.mp3"><img src="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/gifs/listen.gif" /></a>. To listen to audio of our interview with Iranian activist Sussan, click here: <a href="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/subversity/Sv100301b.mp3"><img src="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/gifs/listen.gif" /></a>.</h6><br />Irvine -- On the next edition of Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, we look back at a tumultous week, not just at UC Irvine but also across the UCs. At UC Irvine, the arrest of 17 protesters sitting in at the administration building, seeking "in-sourcing" of service workers accompanied by a large action outside raised the <a href="http://subversities.blogspot.com/2010/02/uci-protests-escalate-17-activists.html">stakes</a> in advance of a state-wide March 4, 2010 movement against the privatization of education in California. A protest blog argues: "<a href="http://occupyca.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/yesterday-the-dumpsters-tomorrow-the-world/">Yesterday the dumpsters, Tomorrow the World!</a>".<br /><br />We'll talk with UC Irvine protesters who give their take on what's happening and their long list of <a href="http://democratizeeducation.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/we-move-for-some-basic-laws/">demands</a>. Some protesters believe that with UC Regents and UC Student Association endorsing the March 4 actions, the struggle has been <a href="http://occupyca.wordpress.com/2010/02/27/march-4-the-regents-or-how-and-why-a-movement-gets-co-opted/">co-opted</a>. We'll discuss that.<br /><br />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:<br /><br />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 <a href="http://www.revcom.us/a/192/IWD_statement-en.html">statement</a> 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.<br /> <br />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.<br /><br />The shows airs Monday 1 March 2010 at 9 a.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, Calif., and is simulcast via <a href="http://kuci.org">kuci.org</a>. Show host is Daniel C. Tsang.Subverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05570267783124541567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744557676557054753.post-86893915770191791622010-02-22T15:31:00.000-08:002010-02-22T16:40:59.260-08:00UCI Student Affairs Vice Chancellor Manuel Gomez on 1st Amendment & Student Activism<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTuAVeBofQeDrVjHDOlw7p1eyXgAIgMpbDpmpBt1j0fBCwvXN7zdFCEjf6xtB6oe-RTk4bcFM7B9BMFHpQhZxLSFsUDs0n8I8heyNbsOXJN9Jmzs9woIUtmss9gvqH9NaAO3R3uYOagM0a/s1600-h/vcgomez.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTuAVeBofQeDrVjHDOlw7p1eyXgAIgMpbDpmpBt1j0fBCwvXN7zdFCEjf6xtB6oe-RTk4bcFM7B9BMFHpQhZxLSFsUDs0n8I8heyNbsOXJN9Jmzs9woIUtmss9gvqH9NaAO3R3uYOagM0a/s200/vcgomez.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441113469383476322" /></a><h6>Manuel Gomez in his plush office. Photo © Daniel C. Tsang, 2010. UPDATED: To listen to audio, click here: <a href="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/subversity/Sv100222.mp3"><img src="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/gifs/listen.gif" /></a>.</h6><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />In "<a href="http://heldref-publications.metapress.com/media/320e3xtuumdyvk6pxgfy/contributions/u/1/5/0/u15077x2k2154653.pdf">Imagining the Future: Cultivating Civility in a Field of Discontent</a>," Gomez focuses on the situation at UCI as tensions were addressed in the wake of the Zionist Organization of America's initial complaint to the U.S. Office of Civil Rights over the alleged mistreatment of Jewish students. ZOA has since also <a href="http://www.zoa.org/sitedocuments/pressrelease_view.asp?pressreleaseID=1715">claimed</a> UCI students solicited donations for Hamas during a talk at UCI of British Member of Parliament George Galloway. <br /><br />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 <a href="http://www.zoa.org/sitedocuments/pressrelease_view.asp?pressreleaseID=1816">boycott</a> of UCI in terms of donations and enrollment. <br /><br />UCI has also sent <a href="http://www.ocregister.com/news/students-235387-riverside-student.html">disciplinary letters</a> to the 8 UCI students arrested, including MSU President Mohamed Abdelgany, a first step in campus administrative proceedings.<br /><br />In response, the various Muslim activist groups, including the <a href="http://www.mpac.org/article.php?id=1027#axzz0gHlVEKgU">Muslim Public Affairs Council</a>, have called on UCI allow "free speech" for protesters.<br /><br />Gomez's interview is being aired this morning on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, at 9 am (simulcast via <a href="http://kuci.org">kuci.org</a>). He is interviewed by Subversity host Daniel C. Tsang.Subverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05570267783124541567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744557676557054753.post-17149452689709453722010-02-15T11:24:00.000-08:002010-02-17T10:24:06.610-08:00UCI Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky on the First Amendment<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiErrXVQXaEzeL4oJPrbXjRh-xkCfIYS6cldKT9i_fZ_eBOM6k1sDs9Z1USCsg9Yqh7GcvoGsgGU_PWNFSQ0-pvX3PvHY4t00EWgn44iAohyvfs_Av1EkZ3VUtGAbmKfVdVbXUlURnDVvQC/s1600-h/chem.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiErrXVQXaEzeL4oJPrbXjRh-xkCfIYS6cldKT9i_fZ_eBOM6k1sDs9Z1USCsg9Yqh7GcvoGsgGU_PWNFSQ0-pvX3PvHY4t00EWgn44iAohyvfs_Av1EkZ3VUtGAbmKfVdVbXUlURnDVvQC/s200/chem.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438507568399861010" /></a><h6>Erwin Chemerinsky, left, with students after his talk. Photograph © Daniel C. Tsang 2010. UPDATED with audio link: To listen to audio, click here: <a href="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/subversity/Sv100215.mp3"><img src="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/gifs/listen.gif" /></a>.</h6><br />Erwin Chemerinsky, the founding dean of the new UCI School of Law, February 11, 2010 talked at UC Irvine about the First Amendment in the wake of the shouting down of the recent lecture at UCI by the Israeli Ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren and the <a href="http://collegelife.freedomblogging.com/2010/02/08/israeli-ambassador-xxxx-at-uci/15647/">arrests</a> of the students involved.<br /><br />Chemerinksy's talk, previously scheduled, happened several days after the Oren lecture, in a larger lecture hall to accommodate the crowd of mostly students who packed the room. <br /><br />As a public service, KUCI's Subversity program airs Chemerinsky's entire talk and the subsequent Q and A session. The show airs today (15 February 2010), airing 9-10 a.m. on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, and simulcast via <a href="http://kuci.org">kuci.org</a>. <br /><br />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:<br /><br />· It was unjust to arrest students for simply having the courage to<br />stand up and speak out against a man responsible for propagating the<br />deaths of thousands of innocent people.<br />· Civil disobedience has historically played an instrumental role in<br />the civil rights movement in America the eventually ensured equality<br />and human rights for all minorities.<br />· Michael Oren is a representative of a state that is condemned by<br />more UN Human Rights Council resolutions than all other countries in<br />the world, and he should not be honored at UC Irvine.<br /><br />The statement said "we will not support an educational<br />institution that threatens to punish its’ students with suspension and<br />expulsion for standing up for their principles."<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0bhViw0PnZAfNDil6EafKXAAdwOwEeX0XpUzAGeg2G7TlbrYV2KsZvgAF0WoykRg5Hkv_5BK9zetqgB-lUSRNRDnKbrO_pbcy4NsPWi_PSHGx4I0vrZe_xRgzBP93gpwFYq71YbAobLF6/s1600-h/stand.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 142px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0bhViw0PnZAfNDil6EafKXAAdwOwEeX0XpUzAGeg2G7TlbrYV2KsZvgAF0WoykRg5Hkv_5BK9zetqgB-lUSRNRDnKbrO_pbcy4NsPWi_PSHGx4I0vrZe_xRgzBP93gpwFYq71YbAobLF6/s200/stand.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438505526709725410" /></a><br />Supporters of the arrested students have started a Facebook page, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=296764351034">"Drop All Charges Against the Eleven"</a>, which as of this morning has 4,657 members.<br /><br />Meanwhile the controversy has again <a href="http://www.ocregister.com/articles/students-234267-uci-campus.html">enraged</a> the Jewish community, with Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie, who heads the Rabbinical Council of Orange Council, even <a href="http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/uci-233378-ambassador-students.html">suggesting</a> that Chancellor Drake consider expelling the students. [An earlier version incorrectly attributed a call for ending donations to UCI to Rabbi Elierzrie; but <a href="http://www.zoa.org/sitedocuments/pressrelease_view.asp?pressreleaseID=1816">another group</a> has formally called for that.] At the same time, the Muslim Public Affairs Council <a href="http://www.mpac.org/article.php?id=1027#axzz0fca6kS5C">weighed in</a>, calling for an investigation into the arrests.<br /><br /><object id="flashObj" width="425" height="288" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/47552158001?isVid=1&publisherID=987209017" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="videoId=65670603001&playerID=47552158001&domain=embed&" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/47552158001?isVid=1&publisherID=987209017" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="videoId=65670603001&playerID=47552158001&domain=embed&" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="425" height="288" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" swLiveConnect="true" allowScriptAccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object>Subverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05570267783124541567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744557676557054753.post-80093184232235705532010-02-09T16:12:00.000-08:002010-02-09T16:13:33.192-08:00Sexual Minorities to March in Little Saigon Tet Parade<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk3LRj8c9WkFBCtNEpuxxAzN3CTFYos_nD-BaIG0rn6AFR0FFrtDblJxQ28sw3i6EBBNUCE-eiXtY2aaA-Lxk9MwzP4v0_A97w29ohTlXn9_fTea7F98i4cKzShOxHaklGHR-slfK0r38t/s1600-h/gina.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 212px; height: 256px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk3LRj8c9WkFBCtNEpuxxAzN3CTFYos_nD-BaIG0rn6AFR0FFrtDblJxQ28sw3i6EBBNUCE-eiXtY2aaA-Lxk9MwzP4v0_A97w29ohTlXn9_fTea7F98i4cKzShOxHaklGHR-slfK0r38t/s320/gina.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435865465254988674" /></a><h6>Gina Masequesmay. Photo from CSUN web-site. UPDATED with audio links: To listen to audio, click here: <a href="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/subversity/Sv100208.mp3"><img src="http://kuci.org/%7Edtsang/gifs/listen.gif" /></a>.</h6><br /><br />In a historic first, Vietnamese American lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered [LGBT] plan to march as part of Little Saigon's Tet parade this coming Saturday, Lunar New Year Eve. While they have marched in Orange County before (at the OC Pride march in Irvine) and in San Jose and San Francisco, this is the first time they plan a march in the heartland of the overseas Vietnamese community in the U.S.<br /><br />On KUCI's Subversity show Monday 8 February 2010, at 9 a.m., we talk with CSU Northridge scholar <a href="http://www.csun.edu/~gm61310/">Gina Masequesmay</a> <br />about queer life within the Vietnamese American communities. The CSU sociologist did her Ph.D <a href="http://antpac.lib.uci.edu:80/record=b2850344~S7">dissertation</a> 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, <a href="http://antpac.lib.uci.edu:80/record=b3886095~S7">Embodying Asian/American Sexualities</a> (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2009). <br /><br />Four groups plan to join together in this march, according to march organizers, embracing "marriage equality" in the context of the Prop. 8 controversy.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.songthat.com/">Song That Radio</a> 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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.gvalliance.org/">Gay Vietnamese Alliance</a> 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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />The Subversity show airs on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, and is simulcast via http://kuci.org. Podcasts are available later.<br /><br />The march is slated to begin after 9:30 a.m. Saturday 13 February 2010 at Bolsa and Magnolia in Westminster, California.Subverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05570267783124541567noreply@blogger.com0