This week we feature a sound montage of the latest Occupy Wall Street activities including Monday’s raid in Oakland, the movement to halt the deportation of Pancho, and the Mario Savio Young Activist Awards at OccupyCal, which went to Christsna Sot, Josh Healey, and Apex’s own Ellen Choy!
Professor Valerie Soe and a student in her Asian American Community Arts Workshop at San Francisco State University join us to talk about their culminating event, Asians Moving Power.
And we talk with Terry Park, the recently crowned Mr. Hyphen, and Melissa Hung, founding editor of the premier magazine on Asian America.
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
- On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, check out FOX AND JEWEL at Dance Mission in San Francisco. This is a performance about a humble mochi-shop owner who takes on a greedy developer in Japantown told through jazz, poetry, animation and live action. Featuring taiko artist/dancer/choreographer Melody Takata, poet and writer Ravi Chandra, actor/comedian Todd Nakagawa, and more.
- On Saturday, Manilatown Heritage Foundation hosts Komiks Expo 2011, a comic book convention to showcase Filipino and API artists in cartoon, comic book, and graphic novel. Feature special guest, Whilce Portacio, from Marvel Comics.
- Friday, December 2, catch Asians Moving Power, a compilation of activism and art in the American Asian community at the International Hotel Manilatown Center.