From Our Archives: UCI Professors Mike Davis on New Orleans and Gilbert Gonzalez on Mexican immigration

On our August 28, 2006 show, we looked back at the Katrina disaster and also the history of immigration from Mexico that is behind the rise of Mexican American protest activity in the Southland.

To hear the audio of the show, click here: . The original interview with Prof. Gonzalez is excerpted during the show.

Life and Times of Nguoi Viet Publisher Yen Do

On our next show, airing August 21, we talked with CSUF journalism prof. Jeff Brody about the life of Nguoi Viet newspaper publisher Yen Do, who passed away last Thursday. See press release.

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Orange County Left and Right Formation

On our August 14 2006 show, we aired clips from earlier shows in 1999 and 2001 about the formation of Students for a Democratic Society at UCI during the first year of UCI, and the formation of the new right in Orange County.

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A Progressive Forum: Orange Coast Voice

Our show airing Monday August 7 focused on the absence of a progressive publication covering Orange County, and why that will change in September 2006.

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 (http://www.ocorganizer.com/), will discuss his plans for the paper, which will be distributed free around the county.

See press release for more information.

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Vietnam and HIV/AIDS

On our July 31 2006 show, we talked with Tenley Mogk, an HIV/AIDS program manager in Hanoi, Vietnam, about the serious AIDS situation there. Some 11,000 deaths from HIV/AIDS have occurred, out of an estimated 110,000 total number of people with HIV/AIDS. See press release.

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Facing Loss: Author Brenda Paik Sunoo

On our July 24, 2006 Subversity show, we talked with freelance journalist, photographer and grief counselor Brenda Paik Sunoo, about her new book, Seaweed and Shamans (2006), a memoir of her life since the loss of her 16 year-old son, Tommy, while he was playing basketball at University High School in Irvine, California, in 1994. See press release with links to more information about the book and author.

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: .

Sex Radical Josephine Ho on NGO's and the State

On our July 3, 2006 show, we aired a talk ("Is Global Governance Bad for Asian Queers?") given by National Central University (Taiwan) Prof. Josephine Ho on anti-sex actions by NGOs and the State in Taiwan. Her talk was given at last summer's first Asian Queer Studies ("Sexualities, Genders and Rights in Asia") conference in July 2005 in Bangkok, where she was a keynote speaker.

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