A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists.

KPFA - APEX Express

APEX Express – October 21, 2021

APEX Express – 10.14.21 Fall Film Highlights

APEX Express – October 7, 2021

APEX Express – September 30, 2021

APEX Express – September 23, 2021

APEX Express – September 16, 2021

[caption id="attachment_365737" align="alignright" width="345"] ASATA member Swati Rayasam speaks at a protest in San Francisco after Trump’s escalation against Iran. The protest was led by Arab Resource and Organizing Center and ANSWER Coalition in coordination with a global day of protest. January 25, 2020.[/caption] On tonight's show, we share two feisty and powerful tales of grassroots activism. On the first half of tonight's South Asian edition, members of ASATA - the Alliance of South Asians Taking Action, an activist collective in the Bay Area - remember and reflect on the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Co-authors and ASATA members, Sunaina Maira, Madihah Akhtar and Sabiha Basrai read salient excerpts from their paper titled "South Asian American Progressive Organizing in the Bay Area: Reflections on a Post 9/11 era." The paper also highlights the many changes and challenges that Muslim and South Asian American communities have experienced, and, continue to experience in the two decades since 9/11. It also shines a light on the multiple ways in which these communities have responded resiliently, against racism, Islamophobia, xenophobia. To read the full paper, visit asata.org on or after Sep 11, 2021. Music Credits: In the second half of the show guest producer Anuj Vaidya interviews environmental activist Sanjiv Valsan in Bombay, about efforts to save Bombay’s urban forests, and to rewild them - that is, to reclaim them, to make them wild again, to reforest them - by planting native species.     Show hosted and produced by Preeti Gamzeh; editorial support: Ruhi Putta; tech support: Frank Sterling

APEX Express – September 9, 2021- 20th anniversary of 9/11 and Re-wilding our urban spaces: Two Tales of Grassroots Activism

APEX Express – September 2, 2021

APEX Express – 8.26.21 DragonFruit Episode 2 | Juicy fruit: the ripe time to talk about relationships

APEX Express – August 19, 2021

APEX Express – 8.12.21 KSW’s We Won’t Move Episode 2

APEX Express – 8.5.21 Holding Our History

APEX Express – July 29, 2021

APEX Express – July 22, 2021

APEX Express – 7.15.21 Dragonfruit Podcast 1

APEX Express is a weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Asian Americans from all corners of our communities. A collective of media makers, djs, and activists produce a show that airs each week on KPFA 94.1FM. APEX Express is committed to building a broader social movement for justice and collective liberation for all oppressed people, including poor and working-class people, people of color, women and queer people. We support grassroots organizing and cultural work that advance these goals. APEX is a space for building consciousness and promoting critical discussion about these efforts. As part of KPFA, we are committed to promoting independent community media that is free and accessible to everyone. We work collectively to share our skills and resources, and to build the capacity and confidence of community members to tell their own stories.  Within our group, we prioritize maintaining a culture of mutual support, respect, and love.

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