KUCI: Subversity

KUCI Subversity Archive: 1st March on Washington, D.C. for Lesbian & Gay Rights: 20th Anniversary (First aired 1999)

Tue, 13 Apr 2021 17:00:00 -0800

1st March on Washington, D.C. for Lesbian & Gay Rights: 20th Anniversary; CIA Recruiters at UCI Take a walk down memory lane with a look back at the first national gay march during our October 22, 1999 show. Listen to some of the speakers (incl. Allen Ginsberg), and hear show host Dan Tsang talk about the first march thru Chinatown that morning 20 years ago. Hear him read talks by Audre Lorde and other activists. Preceded by news updates, including a report on CIA recruiters spying on students at UCI in 1999the previous Wednesday.

KUCI Subversity Archive: Ramsey Clark et al on War and High Crimes (first aired 1998)

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 01:45:00 -0800

War & High Crimes Our December 22, 1998 show on the Pre-Christmas Bombing of Iraq featured interviews with former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark; Rania Masri, coordinator of the Iraq Action Coalition; and Hussein Ishbi, media coordinator of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). We also discussed the Progressive Librarians Guild's open letter to then-President Bill Clinton over the bombing. Converted from RealAudio to mp3.

KUCI Subversity Archive: Iris Chang on her book, The Chinese in America (first aired in 2003)

Sat, 13 Mar 2021 22:00:00 -0800

Iris Chang, journalist-turned-author, talks in 2003 with interviewer Daniel C. Tsang about writing her new book, The Chinese in America (Viking, 2003), on Subversity Show 10 June 2003 on KUCI. She is best known for her earlier book, The Rape of Nanking. She died in 2004.

KUCI Subversity Archive: William J. Duiker on his book, Ho Chi Minh: A Life (first aired 2000)

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:30:00 -0800

On our December 20, 2000 show, we talked with William J. Duiker on his new biography on Ho Chi Minh. Utilizing national archives in various countries, his portrait of Ho is complex and shatters many myths.

KUCI Subversity Online: Film Director Evans Chan on "Raise the Umbrellas"

Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:30:00 -0800

Evans Chan is a New York-based Hong Konger who returned to his native city to make arguably the best and most comprehensive documentary on developments during the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong, when thousands of activists occupied three areas of Hong Kong for several months in 2014. He is interviewed by show host Daniel C. Tsang in Hong Kong.

KUCI Subversity Online: Vietnamese Refugee Artwork Returning to Hong Kong?

Tue, 07 Nov 2017 15:45:00 -0800

Community Art specialist Samson Wong talks about the history of Garden Streams' work with established and budding artists while they were refugees held in Hong Kong detention camps for refugees from Vietnam, awaiting screening for resettlement, and what happened to the artwork. Interviewed by show host Daniel C. Tsang on 6 November 2017 in Ma On Shan, Hong Kong. Interview copyright c Daniel C. Tsang 2017.

KUCI Subversity Online: Occupy Central Leader Benny Tai Speaks Out

Thu, 02 Nov 2017 13:00:00 -0800

Despite a potential prison term for his role in the Occupy Central with Love and Peace civil disobedience, HKU Law Prof. Benny Tai continues to speak out. In an interview conducted 19 October 2017 at his law school office, Tai addresses legal issues such as retroactivity and double jeopardy as well as what he will do should he get sent to prison. He is interviewed by show host Daniel C. Tsang. Copyright c Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity Show Online: HK Indigenous Leader Ray Wong Speaks Out

Sun, 29 Oct 2017 20:00:00 -0800

Hong Kong Indigenous leader Ray Wong speaks out on Hong Kong's future, despite facing a likely long prison term. The interview, conducted on 16 October 2017, took place at the HKI's Hong Kong headquarters. Show host Daniel C. Tsang interviewed Wong in Cantonese, the language of Hong Kong.

KUCI Subversity Show Online: Brian Hioe on New Bloom and Taiwan Activism

Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:45:00 -0800

Transplanted New Yorker is founding editor of New Bloom, an online magazine from Taipei offering radical perspectives on Taiwan and Asian Pacific. Show host Daniel C. Tsang on November 14, 2016 interviewed him in Taipei. Aired 21 July 2017.

KUCI Subversity Show Online: Activist Edward Leung on Localism in Hong Kong

Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:30:00 -0800

Localist Edward Leung discusses his radicalization in Hong Kong protests and how he identified as a Hong Kong person. Interviewed on 6 June 2016 at University of Hong Kong for KUCI Subversity Online by Show Host Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity Show Online: Breathin': Guangzhou Immigrant Eddie Zheng's Inspiring Story

Tue, 03 May 2016 16:00:00 -0800

One could say that Eddy Zheng (left) made something of himself despite being incarcerated at San Quentin prison for 19 years plus another two in immigration detention. The Cantonese immigrant from Guangzhou, China, was only 19 when he waved a gun and participated in a home invasion... Interview with director Ben Wang, subject Eddy zheng and composer Scott "Chops" Jung

KUCI Subversity Show Online: Le Anh Phong on Finding Phong

Wed, 20 Apr 2016 16:30:00 -0800

KUCI Subversity Show Online: Boiling Pot Panel Discussion

Thu, 03 Mar 2016 18:00:00 -0800

Boiling Point is an explosive drama about racism on campus, done intelligently and sparking discussion on race relations around campuses. Audio is of a March 1, 2016 discussion after screening of the 2015 film. Aired on KUCI Subversity Online March 3, 2016.

KUCI Subversity Show Online: Zunar Shows Pen is Stronger than Sword

Sun, 24 Jan 2016 18:15:00 -0800

Political Cartoonist Zunar, whose pointed drawings target corruption and injustice in Malaysia, faces a combined 43 years' imprisonment in a trial for seditious tweets slated to begin next week in Kuala Lumpur. The tweets lampooned the decision to jail opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on sodomy charges. Zunar was in Irvine as guest speaker on a UCI Law School panel of cartoonists at the Free Expression conference. Interview conducted 23 January 2016 in Irvine, California.

KUCI Subversity Online: Justin Chin 1999 interview

Wed, 06 Jan 2016 16:00:00 -0800

Repeat airing of our KUCI Subversity Show 1999 January 19 interview with poet and performance artist Justin Chin. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang

KUCI Subversity Online: Terror in Little Saigon

Wed, 18 Nov 2015 16:00:00 -0800

ProPublica Journalist A.C. Thompson discusses his PBS Frontline documentary "Terror in Little Saigon" and his reportage on the history of intimidation and murder of Vietnamese American journalists in the 1980s. Interviewer is Daniel C. Tsang, host of Subversity Show. Copyright Daniel C. Tsang c 2015

KUCI Subversity Online: HKU Law Prof Benny Tai on Occupy Central

Sun, 09 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0800

Benny Tai, the Hong Kong University Law Professor who co-founded Occupy Central, spoke 28 April 2015 to a graduate political seminar (Solinger) at University of California, Irvine. Here's his reflections on the protests in Hong Kong that grabbed world attention in Fall, 2014.

KUCI Subversity Online: Seashore Directors Discuss Their Exquisite Film

Tue, 04 Aug 2015 16:00:00 -0800

Brazil is often portrayed in film for its flamboyant, colorful and musical extravagance. Taking a decidedly different stance are queer directors (a couple) Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon, who have written and directed this exquisite portrayal of teen sexual awakening in "Seashore." KUCI Subversity Online interviewed the two directors 31 July 2015 about their latest film. Show host is Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity Online:Hong Kong Boy Protesters in Lessons in Dissent

Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:00:00 -0800

Director Matthew Torne talks about his documentary on Joshua Wong and Ma Jai, teen activists in Hong Kong against National Education. He is interviewed by show host Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity Online: Remembering Vietnam Scholar & Peace Activist David Truong

Mon, 30 Jun 2014 19:00:00 -0800

Historian Ngo Vinh Long recalls his long comradeship with David Truong and the efforts of the national security state in setting up the latter for prosecution in an effort to sabotage the Paris peace talks settling the Vietnam War. Interviewed by Subversity Online host Daniel C. Tsang ? 2014

KUCI Subversity Online: Hieu Tran's short on Queer Asian Males & Sex

Sat, 12 Apr 2014 10:30:00 -0800

Director Hieu Tran's short, Squared, screening at the 2014 Vietnamese Film Festival, addresses sexual expectations and prejudices and challenges conventional wisdom about sexual practices, endowment size and sexual enjoyment of Queer Asian males. He is interviewed by Subversity Show host Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity Online: Chinese Moms On Their Queer Offspring in New Documentary

Thu, 18 Jul 2013 15:30:00 -0800

Queer activists the world over will find this new documentary about coming out refreshingly different. Instead of the typical coming out story from a gay or lesbian teenager or adult, Fan Popo's latest film, "Mama Rainbow," focuses rather on mothers of gay males or lesbians - and how they have become advocates for their offspring. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity Online: Gore Vidal: Speaking Truth to Power

Wed, 17 Jul 2013 17:30:00 -0800

Nicholas Wrathall, director of "Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia," discusses his documentary on the public intellectual that spans Gore Vidal's privileged upbringing to his historical fiction and provocative essays challenging the state, while speaking truth to power. He is interviewed by host Daniel C. Tsang for KUCI Subversity Online.

KUCI Subversity Online: Pansexualist Poet James Broughton Brought to Life on Screen

Sun, 14 Jul 2013 19:00:00 -0800

A captivating documentary, "Big Joy", captures the pansexuality and poetic and cinematic genius of James Broughton, whose involvement in the San Francisco Renaissance predated the period of the Beats. Subversity Online interviews co-director Stephen Silha, a first-time filmmaker, on the life and impact of the affectionate and fairy-like poet, who continued writing into the end of his life in his eighties. In his senior years, Broughton is also engaged in a long relationship with another, younger man. Silha discusses in the interview why he made this film and their use of archival footage, as well as where the Broughton archives are located.

KUCI Subversity Online: Gay Palestinian-Israeli Love Story on Screen

Sun, 14 Jul 2013 17:15:00 -0800

In the best of times, committed relationships across geographic and political boundaries are daunting and hard to realize. Israel-born director Michael Mayer has put on the silver screen (at Outfest Los Angeles 2013) a daring gay love story, "Out in the Dark," involving a Palestinian Birzeit University psych student, Nimr (played by Nicholas Jacob) and attorney Roy (played by noted Israeli actor Michael Aloni). Mayer is interviewed by show host Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity Online: "Facing Fear" & Forgiveness

Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:00:00 -0800

One of the hardest things to do in life is to forgive hateful acts, especially perpetrated by someone on yourself. Documentary filmmaker Jason Cohen's "Facing Fear", featured at the 2013 Outfest Los Angeles, offers convincing evidence that reconciliation and forgiveness are still options even for a gay-bashing victim (Matthew Boger) and his then-neoNazi perpetrator (Tim Zaal). On Subversity Online, host Daniel C. Tsang talked with today Cohen about his film and explore the issues of forgiveness and hatred.

KUCI Subversity Online: Democracy Activist Wang Dan on China

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:45:00 -0800

Chinese democracy activist Wang Dan spoke on May 25, 2006 at UC Irvine on "Rethinking the Past and Looking to the Future of China." He was a key student leader at the Tienanmen protests in 1989. This show first aired on KUCI on the Subversity Show on June 19, 2006.

KUCI Subversity Online: "Isolated": Surfers Encounter Politics

Mon, 06 May 2013 16:00:00 -0800

A group of surfers in search of the "perfect wave" encounter political dissidence and state genocide in Papua New Guinea and teach villagers to surf. This Subversity Online interview is with director, writer and producer of "Isolated", Justin LePera. Interviewer is Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity Online: $upercapitalist Seeks Fortune in Hong Kong and Wreaks Havoc

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:15:00 -0800

Blasting across the U.S. and into Asia is $upercaptalist, an independently produced drama that is intelligently written, exquisitely acted, fast-moving and fun to watch. It depicts a smart Asian American Cornell graduate and newly minted hedge fund trader, Conner Lee (played by Derek Ting) sent to Hong Kong to orchestrate the downfall of a major Hong Kong shipping conglomerate. Interview 30 August 2012 with Derek Ting by Daniel C. Tsang for Subversity Online edition.

KUCI Subversity Online: Shattering Israel's Image of Democracy

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:15:00 -0800

British journalist and author Ben White discusses the dark realities facing Palestinians behind Israel's facade of a democratic state. He spoke 7 May 2012 at University of California, Irvine, during "Palestine Liberation Week" - sponsored by UCI's Muslim Student Union.

KUCI Subversity Online: Julius Margolis Memorial Reception

Tue, 22 May 2012 17:30:00 -0800

Friends, family and colleagues of noted University of California economist Julius Margolis recall his lifelong dedication to the field of economics, his founding of Global Peace and Conflict Studies at UCI and his subsequent transformation from Julie to Jules the artist. Also his battles with UC administration that led to the development of University Hills. Audio of memorial reception 16 May 2012 at UC Irvine.

KUCI Subversity Online: Larry Howard Memorial Reception

Thu, 17 May 2012 14:45:00 -0800

Audio of speakers at the Larry Howard Memorial Reception at University of California, Irvine held on 16 May 2012. Various family members, colleagues and friends celebrate Social Sciences Lecturer Larry Howard's life-long connection to UCI and commitment to making the world a better place. Copyright c 2012

KUCI Subversity Online: Filmmaker S. Leo Chiang on Congressman Joseph Cao's DC stint

Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Documentary Filmmaker S. Leo Chiang talks about his latest film, Mr. Cao Goes to Washington, about the politics of Republican Joseph Cao, who in a stunning upset, was elected Congressman in a Democratic, Black-majority district in Louisiana, but failed to keep his seat. Chiang explores Mr. Cao's journey. The interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang, Subversity Show Online host. Copyright c 2012

KUCI Subversity Online: Director Mye Hoang on her tumultuous relationship in Viette (2012)

Thu, 10 May 2012 16:30:00 -0800

Vietnamese American feature film director Mye Hoang discusses her tumultuous relationship in Viette (2012) which she wrote and directed and appeared in. Her powerful memoir covers her initial love affair at 17 with a white, older man (20) and the subsequent falling apart of the relationship, with no help from her immigrant family. Interviewed by Daniel C. Tsang, host of this online edition of Subversity.

KUCI Subversity Online: Tom Hayden on Economic Democracy and Alternative Futures

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:00:00 -0800

60s activist, former California State Senator Tom Hayden spoke about Economic Democracy and Alternative Futures at University of California, Irvine on Tuesday, 29 November 2011 at 7 pm at Humanities Gateway, Room 1030. Presenter: The Chican@/Latin@ Graduate Student Collective.

KUCI Subversity Online: Art Hansen on World War II Experience of OC Nikkei

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:30:00 -0800

Cal State University Fullerton Historian Arthur A. Hansen talks about the often hidden history of Orange County, California, Nikkei in World War II as a lecture at the CSUF Nikkei Heritage Museum 19 October 2011. Permission granted to post audio on Subversity show site and make it freely available.

KUCI Subversity Online: Occupy Orange County - Day 1

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:45:00 -0800

In this special online edition of Subversity, we bring you the first day of the Occupy Orange County, including rally speakers.

KUCI Subversity Online: Director Stephane Gauger on Saigon Electric

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 11:30:00 -0800

Orange County's French Vietnamese filmmaker Stephane Gauger on his new hip hop film set in contemporary Saigon, "Saigon Electric". This is a special online edition of KUCI's Subversity program hosted by Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity: Edgy City: Urban/Rural Space and Ho Chi Minh City

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0800

KUCI Subversity: Greg Louganis Speaks at UCI Graduation

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:00:00 -0800

In an inspirational speech Olympic twice-gold medalist Greg Louganis, of Samoan/Swedish heritage, and a UCI drama alumnus, Friday 10 June 2011 addressed graduating seniors at UCI's Arts School graduation (the event also included graduates from the Physical Sciences). 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 longer a "death sentence." He exhorted UCI's graduating students in the Arts and in Physical Sciences to be imaginative {"to explore your imagination") and have trust in fellow human beings, even though he himself was at times overly trusting of others ("I'd rather trust... than be cynical"). The UCI drama alumnus said this was his first graduation he ever attended.

KUCI Subversity: Catholic Priests and Sex: Reaction to the Research

Mon, 23 May 2011 17:30:00 -0800

Former Guide features editor Bill Andriette, who has written on sex panics, critiques the report on Catholic priests and sex for ignoring research on youths who did not regard sexual relationships with priests as "abuse." He is interviewed by Subversity host Daniel C. Tsang

KUCI Subversity: Catholic Priests and Sex: The Research

Mon, 23 May 2011 17:00:00 -0800

The issue of sex with altar boy (and girls) by Catholic priests has saturated the media, but what does the research tell us? Subversity host Daniel C. Tsang talks with UCI alumna and criminologist Karen Terry about the 143-page report that her research team at John Jay College just submitted to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Her key finding in The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010: Only 5% of the priests were "pedophiles" (sex with pre-pubescents), with the majority of the cases relating to sex with pubescent or adolescent boys.

KUCI Subversity: Larry Agran on Irvine: Town and Gown

Mon, 09 May 2011 17:00:00 -0800

The UC Irvine Libraries celebrate the history of Irvine, California with an exhibit, Irvine: the Vision, the Plan, the Promise, curated by UCI librarian Yvonne Wilson, opening later this week (Wednesday May 11) at Langson Library on the UCI campus. On the 9 May 2011 edition of KUCI's Subversity, we talk with a speaker slated for the exhibit opening, Irvine council member and long-time politician Larry Agran (pictured), about the City of Irvine and his perspective on issues of "town and gown" over the years. Agran also made an unsuccessful bid to run for President in 1992.

KUCI Subversity: Byron Q's Bang Bang; Billie Rain's Heart Breaks Open

Mon, 02 May 2011 17:00:00 -0800

We talk with Byron Q, the director of Bang Bang, a film about gang life. Bryon Q studied under renowned French New Wave director Jean-Pierre Gorin at UCSD and this is his debut film. It features Justin (Thai Ngo), trapped in the gang lifestyle, and his rich Taiwanese best friend Charlie (David Huynh), in the film's strongest role. The multi-ethnic cast brings additional realism to the film. The ever youthful looking Huynh (actually a Vietnamese from Canada) was the focus of a Subversity interview back in 2007. We also talk with Act Up and Riot Grrl activist turned director Billie Rain about his new film, Heart Breaks Open, featuring queer activist and poet Jesus (Maximillan Davis) whose life implodes when he finds out he is HIV-positive. Set in Seattle, the film shows how Jesus comes to rely on his friends as he struggles to make sense of his predicament.

KUCI Subversity: Tony Nguyen's Enforcing the Silence Dares to Address Anti-Communist Violence in the Vietnamese Diaspora in San Francisco Bay Area

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:30:00 -0800

A bold new documentary dares to address something only whispered about in the Vietnamese diasporic communities in North America -- the existence, especially in the 1980s, of a violent group of thugs -- masquerading as "freedom fighters". Enforcing the Silence director Tony Nguyen, himself having been a youth advocate in Washington D.C. and San Francisco, in resurrecting the shortened life of Vietnamese immigrant activist and journalist/editor Lam Trong Duong, pays tribute to those in the Vietnamese diasporic communities that were anti-war and progressive. Lam Doung founded the first Vietnamese youth center in America (Vietnamese Youth Development Center), and published a progressive Vietnamese-language newspaper, Cai Dinh Lang, that reprinted stories from Hanoi. That he supported Ho Chi Minh -- he was an early immigrant in 1971, prior to the fall of Saigon, and he attended Oberlin High on a American Field Service exchange and later stayed to attend Oberlin College -- may have led to his murder in 1981 at the young age of 27. Note: This particular show was an Internet edition only, interview recorded at KUCI studios on 25 April 2011 beginning around 5:30 p.m.

KUCI Subversity: Singapore Woman Director Mun Chee Yong's Take on Surviving in Los Angeles

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:00:00 -0800

If ever there is a list of the top films that address the underside of Los Angeles, Mun Chee Yong's Where the Road Meets the Sun will surely be on that chart. A multicultural cast interact in various languages (mainly English) as they seek to survive on the rough streets of urbanized Los Angeles. Not a documentary by any means, Mun Chee Yong's script casts four men whose lives intersect at a decrepit hotel as they live from day to day, job to job...

KUCI Subversity: VIFF 2011 Filmmakers' Panel: Expanding the Audience Base

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:00:00 -0800

We aired the 10 April 2011 Vietnamese International Film Festival Filmmakers' Panel Discussion on "Expanding the Audience Base" that took place at UC Irvine. Panelists were: Anderson Le, director of programming at the Hawaii International Film Festival; Ann Le, with international division of Universal Pictures; Charlie Nguyen, director of The Rebel; Fool for Love; James Nguyen, director/writer, Birdemic: Shock and Terror; Jenni Trang Le, Assistant Director, Bi, Don't Be Afraid, and of Clash; Khoa Do, Director/Writer, Footy Legends, Mother Fish; Le Thanh Son, director/writer, Clash, and Nguyen Nu Nhu Khue, producer with HK Films in Vietnam.

Filmmaker with a Conscience Khoa Do; Toxic Nail Salons

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:00:00 -0800

He's a Viet Kieu filmmaker with conscience. Hailing from Australia, and emerging as one of the most exciting new filmmakers from the Vietnamese diaspora, Khoa Do presented "Mother Fish," his dramatic and creative take on the boat people's exodus to the West at the 5th Vietnamese International Film Festival ongoing at various venues in Southern California, including UC Irvine. As he discusses in the interview, he made this film to counter anti-refugee prejudice in Australia against a current wave of boat people from more current wars. For the second half of Subversity, we air Making Contact's report on the Toxic Truth about Nail Salons. It focuses on the health effects of prolonged chemical exposure on the salon workers and the move toward "greener" salons.

KUCI Subversity: Yemeni Regime Collapses, Who's Protesting, What's to Come?

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:00:00 -0800

With more countries in the Middle East erupting in protest, we return again to a focus on one of those, Yemen, whose president seems tottering on the verge of quitting. Who are the protesters? And were the pro-U.S. regime to fall, what comes after? On this evening's edition of Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, we talk with William Picard of the Yemen Peace Project again about those questions and analyze recent developments, some horrific, some encouraging.

KUCI Subversity: Host Reflects on Activism Off and On the Air

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:00:00 -0800

An enterprising Asian Studies undergraduate class at McGill University in Montreal has an intriguing mission: Create an experimental radio program to document social change in Asia and the Asian diaspora by interviewing activists, scholars and the like. Samantha Chrisanthus, who studies Political Science and Women??s Studies at McGill University, interviews Dan Tsang about his work in libraries and radio stations, as well as his efforts to document and archive injustice and harm. Sam begins by asking Dan how Subversity started and what led him to radio...

KUCI Subversity: UCI Interim University Librarian Gerald R. Lowell Reflects on Career in Librarianship

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:00:00 -0800

In his short tenure of less than a year heading UC Irvine Libraries, Interim University Librarian Gerald Ray Lowell has managed to uplift library morale and flatten the administrative structure so that more people have been involved in making decisions that affect those of us who work here. He has also taken an important stab at streamlining the academic review process for librarians. This interview with Gerald Lowell -- Jerry as he was known to us -- is being aired today, his last day of work at UC Irvine. He looks back at his extensive career in librarianship and reflects on his life's work. Interviewer is Daniel C. Tsang, show host.

KUCI Subversity: Jesse Cheng Proclaims His Innocence!

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:00:00 -0800

Under seige by fellow activists seeking his resignation as Student Regent of the UC system, Jesse Cheng, a fifth-year UC Irvine Asian American studies major, finally issued a a statement today clarifying his take on his self-described "messy breakup" with his ex girlfriend, a UCLA law student. After the breakup, his former partner, a former UCI Filipina American student, went to the Irvine police, which arrested him last November for attempted sexual battery and attempted rape, but the Orange County District Attorney's Office ultimately decided there was insufficient evidence to justify prosecuting him on misdemeanor charges.

KUCI Subversity: Egypt's Revolt in Historical Context

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:00:00 -0800

The successful revolt in Egypt has laid bare the limits of U.S. attempts to impose its will over the Middle East. We talk with Prof. Ussama Makdisi, a Rice University professor and the first holder of the Arab American Education Foundation Chair of Arab Studies there, and author of a new book on U.S.-Arab relations, Faith Misplaced (Public Affairs). We also provided listeners with a news update on the street protests in Yemen by UCI sociology graduate student Dana Moss of the Yemen Peace Project.

KUCI Subversity: Beyond Egypt: Yemen Erupts in Protest

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:00:00 -0800

The ripple effect from the Tunisian turmoil has reached not only Egypt but also other states in the region, including Yemen. For the next edition of KUCI's Subversity program we look into the evolving situation in Yemen, as protesters and the state deal with the fast-changing political situation. We talk with two activists, one a graduate student from UC Irvine, Dana Moss, and the other William Picard, both of whom collaborated in co-founding the Yemen Peace Project.

KUCI Subversity: Grand Jury Investigation of UCI Protesters Gives Lie To UCI's Commitment to Free Speech

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:00:00 -0800

Despite UC Irvine's professed commitment to the First Amendment [watch UCI video above on Free Speech], troubling recent signs indicate that the heavy hand of the law is coming down on student protesters on campus, reinforcing UCI's new reputation as a new site of student resistance (and repression). A criminal pretrial for 19 UCI students who staged a labor protest last year is imminent (March 7, 2011) while a grand jury has apparently been empaneled to investigate the activities of UCI's Muslim Student Union. For this evening's edition of Subversity, we talk with Carol A. Sobel, a SantaMonica- based civil rights attorney for six MSU students and former students who were called in January 2011 to testify before the Orange County grand jury investigating, apparently, conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor!

KUCI Subversity: Sexual Minorities To March Again at Tet Parade on Bolsa

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:00:00 -0800

A year after participating in the first such Tet parade on Bolsa at in Westminster, a contingent of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered Vietnamese and Chinese Vietnamese plan to march again. We talk again to Gina Masequesmay, from CSU Northridge, about the planned march and whether or not this year's event, slated for 9:00-noon on 5 February, is happening with less controversy than the previous year.

KUCI Subversity: Cal State LA's Asian American & Asian Studies Program Threatened

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:00:00 -0800

In a sign of the times, ethnic studies programs have to fight for their survival, making some wonder if California is turning into an Arizona battle zone. A dean at the multi-ethnic California State University, Los Angeles, ahead of a academic program review, has arbitrarily decided he wants to suspend its Asian American and Asian Studies Program. He did say he would meet up with faculty Monday 29 November to hear what they had to say, but the dozens of faculty members who showed up, from a diverse group of ethnicities and disciplines -- as well as concerned students carrying signs declaring AAAS = Diversity etc, were confronted with an unreceptive dean, who would only promise to get word back by Christmas. On KUCI's Subversity program an hour or so after the meeting Monday, ChorSwang Ngin, the Anthropology professor who chair of the Asian American and Asian Studies program told show host Daniel C. Tsang she was impressed and gratified by the turnout, revealing the University had never shown much commitment to the program over the years, and that enrollment was "growing". She suggested that to "suspend" the program meant its end, which would be quite contrary to the University's commitment to diversity.

UC Students Face 8% Fee Hike

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:00:00 -0800

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. KUCI's Subversity talks with two UCI graduate student activists, Fernando Chirino and Robert Wood, about what lies ahead.

KUCI Subversity: UC Student Regent Jesse Cheng On Why He Came Out

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:00:00 -0800

University of California Student Regent Jesse Cheng appears on KUCI's Subversity show to talk about his decision to "officially" openly declare his queer sexuality Wednesday 20 October 2010 at a speak-out and vigil in the wake of the many gay teen suicides across the United States.

KUCI Subversity: Scholars Tackle Global Yaoi Phenomenon

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:00:00 -0800

A new scholarly work on the globalization of Yaoi has come out and KUCI's Subversity program features an interview with its co-editor and a contributor to this pioneering collection. The Yaoi phenomenon, part of a larger Boys Love visual depiction, features teen male romantic and sexual relationships, originally geared, in Japan, at a female readership. As it spread around the world (and the new book includes a chapter on Indonesia's reception to it), one wonders about its effect on how its readers -- now male and female, young and older -- view same-sex relationships in the real world. On this edition of KUCI's Subversity show, show host Daniel C. Tsang interviews Mark McHarry, co-editor of Boys' Love Manga (McFarland, 2010) and Hope Donovan, a contributor and manga editor.

Sophia Law on Art and Vietnamese Refugees in Hong Kong Detention Camps

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:00:00 -0800

In the 11 October 2010 edition of Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, we talk with Lingan University Visual Studies Prof. Sophia Law (right) visiting from Hong Kong. We ask her about her project documenting and analyzing some 800 pieces of artwork originally collected by Garden Streams, a local community project, from the Hong Kong detention camps of Vietnamese and Chinese Vietnamese refugees in the 1980s and early 1990s. How did she become interested in the issue, and what does she hope will come out of it?

KUCI Subversity: From UCI Alumnus to Green Party Candidate for U.S. Senate: Duane Roberts

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:00:00 -0800

On the 27 September KUCI Subversity show, we talk with third party candidate for U.S. Senate, Duane Roberts of the Green Party and a UCI social ecology alumnus. Interviewer is Daniel C. Tsang, Subversity show host.

KUCI Subversity: Ronald Campbell on his Immigration and California series in the OC Register

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:00:00 -0800

We talk with Orange County Register investigative reporter Ronald Campbell, the author of a heavily sourced and data-based four-part series on Immigration and California currently being published in his paper. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang

KUCI Subversity: From UCI Film & Media Studies Student to Film Star in Vietnam

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:30:00 -0800

KUCI Subversity: What The UC Pension Plan Proposed Changes Mean

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:00:00 -0800

The University of California is currently proposing to offer a reduced pension plan for new hires joining UC after July 2013, while making current employees contribute more towards the plan. One critic of the new proposals is UC-AFT president Bob Samuels, who has been blogging about it. His latest two blog entries state his position bluntly: UC Offers New Pension Plan to Re-Distribute Wealth to the Top and Let the Great Pension Scare Begin. We talk with Samuels about what he means during the first half of the next Subversity show on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County, California, broadcasting Monday, 13 September 2010 at 5 p.m., with a simulcast on kuci.org. Show host is Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity: Quentin Lee on "The People I've Slept With" and on Hong Kong

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:00:00 -0800

On the 23 August 2010 Subversity show, we interview independent director Quentin Lee, about his new film, "The People I've Slept With." A perrenial guest on our show, we'll ask him how he came up with his story line of a sex comedy starring Karin Anna Cheung as a woman who loves sex -- and then needs to figure out who the daddy is of her about-to-be-born baby. We also discuss the Hong Kong creative arts scene, being both from Hong Kong, interviewer and interviewee.

KUCI Subversity: Searing Documentaries

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:00:00 -0800

On the 9 August 2010 Subversity show, we talk with the directors of two new documentaries that tackle taboo topics. In the first half hour we talk with Chico Colvard, director of "Family Affair," a daring and uncomfortable yet revealing look at incest within his biracial (white/African American) family. In a quest to explain to himself why it happened and why his three sisters (whom the father sexually violated) still hung out with their father, Colvard's 82-minute documentary makes some surprising revelations. The documentary seems to ask that we not divide those caught in this incestuous web as merely perpetrator and victims but something more complex. Trailer: http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/family-affair/trailer In the second hour, we talk with Mary Ann Smother Bruni, whose "Quest for Honor" documentary takes a searing look at the historical phenomenon of "honor killings" - where females are routinely ostracized and even killed for violating traditional codes of conduct. The setting is Sulemaniyah, in Kurdistan, Iraq, where a local group, the Women's Media Center has joined forces with Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government to try to end this heinous practice. The 64-minute film is in Kurdish with English-language subtitles. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyDvRzQdLDo Subversity's show host is Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity: Searing Documentaries

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:00:00 -0800

we talk with the directors of two new documentaries that tackle taboo topics. In the first half hour we talk with Chico Colvard, director of "Family Affair," a daring and uncomfortable yet revealing look at incest within his biracial (white/African American) family. In a quest to explain to himself why it happened and why his three sisters (whom the father sexually violated) still hung out with their father, Colvard's 82-minute documentary makes some surprising revelations. The documentary seems to ask that we not divide those caught in this incestuous web as merely perpetrator and victims but something more complex. Trailer: http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/family-affair/trailer In the second hour, we talk with Mary Ann Smother Bruni, whose "Quest for Honor" documentary takes a searing look at the historical phenomenon of "honor killings" - where females are routinely ostracized and even killed for violating traditional codes of conduct. The setting is Sulemaniyah, in Kurdistan, Iraq, where a local group, the Women's Media Center has joined forces with Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government to try to end this heinous practice. The 64-minute film is in Kurdish with English-language subtitles. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyDvRzQdLDo Subversity's show host is Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity: Teamsters at UC Irvine

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:00:00 -0800

After five weeks of audio from our archives, Subversity returned Monday 26 July 2010 with a show focusing on labor at UC Irvine. With the recent affiliation of the clericals' union with the Teamsters, CUE has become CUE-IBT Local 2010, Division #9. CUE-IBT stands for Coalition of University Employees-International Brotherhood of the Teamsters. We talked with its local president, Dianna Sahhar as well as its organizer, Ann Theurer, about why the union chose to affiliate with the Teamsters, and its implications. We also discussed what are ongoing issues as the union seeks a new contract.

KUCI Subversity: Russell Curry on Visiting Gaza

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:00:00 -0800

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, who visited the Gaza last year on a separate peace and aid mission. 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.

KUCI Subversity: Israeli Massacre on the High Seas

Mon, 31 May 2010 17:00:00 -0800

Our 31 May 2010 Subversity show aired just as news was coming out about the details of the Israeli military massacre of peace activists on the Peace Flotilla heading towards Gaza in an attempt to break the blockade. Show host Daniel C. Tsang brings listeners up to date on developments.

KUCI Subversity: Vietnamese Americans Mobilize in S. Leo Chiang's A Village Called Versailles

Mon, 24 May 2010 17:00:00 -0800

Hurricane Katrina, instead of just devastating the Vietnamese 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. That mobilization - among young and old - members of the Vietnamese American community, is well captured in a documentary by filmmaker S. Leo Chiang, "A Village Called Versailles" -- to air 25 May 2010 on PBS stations nation-wide, as part of its Independent Lens series.

Directors of The Oath and of Harvest of Loneliness

Mon, 17 May 2010 17:00:00 -0800

On the 17 May 2010 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". 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. 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. 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.

KUCI Subversity Show: OC Treasurer's Race

Mon, 10 May 2010 17:00:00 -0800

It is election season again with a June 8 Primary coming up next month. We delve into Orange County, California economics with David Lang, who is seeking to become the next Orange County Treasurer and Tax Collector. We talk with long-time accountant Lang, a long-time community college trustee, about what this position entails and why the two tasks are lumped together. What are the risky investments he would avoid? And what is the legacy of the Orange County bankruptcy of a decade or so ago.

KUCI Subversity: AOKI: Asian American Co-Founder of Black Panther Party

Mon, 03 May 2010 17:00:00 -0800

Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, talks with directors Wang and Cheng about their documentary, AOKI, on Richard Aoki, who was an Asian American co-founder of the Black Panther Party. Technical problems precluded recording the entire hour, however.

KUCI Subversity: Two Film Festivals: Interviews

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:00:00 -0800

On KUCI's Subversity radio program, we talk with two film directors 26 April 2010: Miao Wang of Beijing Taxi, Quentin Lee of The People I've Slept With and with UCI graduate Ben Jarvis, active in Affirmation, the gay Mormon group profiled in 8: The Mormon Proposition. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang, show host.

KUCI Subversity: My Lai Documentary Director Barak Goodman

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:00:00 -0800

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. On its edition airing 19 April 201), 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".

KUCI Subversity: Remembering Him Mark Lai

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:00:00 -0800

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 Chinese American Transnational Politics from University of Illinois Press. Speakers at the session, whom we air on the program, included Emeritus Prof. L. Ling-chi Wang (UC Berkeley), Poet and Amerasia Journal editor Prof. Russell Leong (UCLA), Prof. Jack Tchen (New York University). We dedicated this show to radical actor Corin Redgrave, who died 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.

KUCI Subversity: Police Misconduct and Community Strategies for Justice

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:00:00 -0800

Why is it that police misconduct cases keep showing up in the news? And what can we do about it? On this edition of Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, which aired 5 April 2010 at 5 p.m., we talk with several UCI law students as well as a community activist about this important issue. 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.

Irvine 11 Solidarity Speak-Out; Angela Davis

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:00:00 -0800

Audio of the March 2, 2010, Irvine 11 solidariy speak-out at UC Irvine, 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. Also: audio of Angela Davis speaking March 1, 2010 at UCI on prisons and higher education.

Abortion Rights and Healthcare; Immigration Reform

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:45:00 -0800

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? 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?

KUCI Subversity: Suspicious Reporting Goes National

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0800

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". On KUCI's Subversity program this Monday morning, we air talks at the forum given by Tom Cincotta, who heads a project at the Political Research Associates (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 I-Watch 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.

KUCI Subversity: March 4, 2010 Rally at UC Irvine

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0800

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 Commons by mid afternoon, ending in a smaller crowd gathered on the lawn outside Aldrich Hall, the scene of a sit-in the previous week. On the March 8, 2010 edition of Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, we aired speeches from the March 4 rally at UC Irvine, as a document of UCI activism reaching a new scale.

KUCI Subversity: Iranian Women Agitate!

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:30:00 -0800

Sussan, an Iranian from Germany, talks about Iranian women's struggles in Iran. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang

KUCI Subversity: A Look Back at Tumultous Week (UCI Sit-in)

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0800

UCI protesters Ryan Davis, Russell Curry and Samiyyah Tillman talk about escalation in protest tactics at UC Irvine. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang

KUCI Subversity: UCI Vice Chancellor Manuel Gomez on First Amendment & Student Activism

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0800

University of California, Irvine has recently drawn international attention over the shouting down of a talk by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren. Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, talks with UCI Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Maneul Gomez, about the First Amendment in the wake of the incident. Gomez reflects on his student activism days as well. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang

KUCI Subversity: UCI Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky on the First Amendment

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0800

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 arrests of the students involved.

KUCI Subversity: Sexual Minorities to March in Little Saigon Tet Parade

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0800

We talk with CSUN Prof. Gina Masequesmay about the historic march coming up of GLBT Vietnamese in the Tet Parade in Little Saigon Lunar New Year Eve 2010. Interviewer is Daniel C. Tsang, Subversity host.

KUCI Subversity: Dang Nhat Minh's "Don't Burn"

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0800

Vietnam's top director participates in panel discussion at USC after showing his antiwar film, "Don't Burn". Prefaced by Subversity show host Daniel C. Tsang on the director, the film and the diary of the National Liberation Front surgeon Dang Thuy Tram that the film is based on.

KUCI Subversity: UC's Hidden Wealth: Another Look

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0800

Economist Peter Donohue takes another look at University of California's financial statements and again discovers unrestricted assets. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity: UCI Chancellor Drake Grilled by Students

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0800

At a public forum 13 January 2010, UCI Chancellor Michael Drake is grilled by students.

KUCI Subversity: UCI Students Fight Fee Hikes

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:00:00 -0800

Irvine - UCI students, faculty and staff gear up for a huge noon rally Tuesday (24 November 2009) at the UCI flagpole. The rally, sponsored by a host of student groups, comes in the wake of Regental action the past Thursday to raise student fees a third for the coming year, starting Spring Quarter. On the 23 November 2009 edition of Subversity, we talked with Dennis Lopez of UCI's Worker-Student Alliance and Muslim Student Association member Hadeer Soliman.

KUCI Subversity: From Liberation Struggle to University President

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:00:00 -0800

Dr. Bui Tran Phuong is president of Hoa Sen University in Ho Chi Minh City and she has an interesting story to tell, one that is rarely heard publicly in Orange County, California. When she was ten, his father, who was in the Viet Minh resistance movement, was arrested with her by the south Vietnamese police under then-Pres. Ngo Dinh Diem. She was released after a day, but her father spent several years in prison, enduring torture. Thus began her political awakening, that brought her to Paris where she joined in distributing agitprop resisting both the south Vietnamese government and U.S. invaders to her homeland, from the political active and (at the time) leftist Vietnamese diaspora abroad. After graduating from Sorbonne, she returned to Saigon and took part in the liberation movement. Today she is a university president and grappling with the challenge of improving higher education in Vietnam in an era of globalization. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang, show host.

KUCI Subversity: Le-Van Kiet's Dust of Life Premieres; Coco Paris LLC Distributes Film

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:00:00 -0800

Irvine -- For the November 2, 2009 edition of Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, at 9 a.m., we feature again Le-Van Kiet, the director of Dust of Life, a gritty, local film focusing on youth in Little Saigon in an era of police surveillance of Asian youth and gang activity. Dust of Life makes its theatrical premiere Friday 7 November 2009. He is joined by the distributors of his film, Dan Tran, President of Coco Paris LLC, and Lee Ngo, marketing consultant, and also a UCI anthropology graduate student.

Historic Walkout Rally and Teach-ins at UC Irvine

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:00:00 -0800

In our 5 October 2009 edition, KUCI's Subversity program looks back at the historic walkout rally and teach-ins at UCI on September 24, 2009 with Dennis Lopez and Raul Perez from the Worker-Student Alliance at UC Irvine. We'll also play audio from the day's noon rally that drew hundreds in a show of unity among workers, students, faculty and staff. Dennis Lopez, a graduate student in English, and Raul Perez, a graduate student in Sociology, have been major forces in bringing students and workers together to fight for in-sourcing and for social justice.

KUCI Subversity: UC's Hidden Wealth; Why is UC Pleading Poverty?

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:00:00 -0800

It sure sounds like the University of California is in financial crisis, with layoffs, paycuts/furloughs, massive student fee increases and campus protests. But economist Peter Donohue thinks otherwise. Looking at the UC's own financial reports, he has discovered billions hidden away in its unrestricted reserves. The UC likes to say these funds are already committed, but Donohue says these are not legally restricted. They could be freed up to offset the massive loss of state funding. But unlike the CSU system, UC funding is only 13% -18% dependent on state sources. Show host Daniel C. Tsang talks to Donohue about why the UC is pleading poverty. On the show, we also aired a clip from the 24 September 2009 rally at UCI of popular Sociology lecturer Chuck O'Connell talking about neoliberealism.

KUCI Subversity: UCI's Disorientation Week

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:00:00 -0800

Irvine -- As incoming UC Irvine students converged on campus the week starting 21 September 2009 as part of Orientation Week, they encountered a UCI in turmoil Not only will their fees increase, UCI's faculty and staff are undergoing paycuts, furloughs and in some cases layoffs. Opposing the increasing privatization of the university are local activist groups out in force. And on Thursday, faculty have planned walkouts and teach-ins, while the UPTE union has planned a strike. UCI's Radical Student Union has premiered a historic first, UCI's Disorientation Guide, aimed at uncovering what is not widely known about the institution, and seeking to provoke students and other readers into action. In the show's first half hour, we talked with John Bruning and Tim Brown, members of the Disorientation Guide collective, about why they put out this first Disorientation Guide. In our second hour, we talked with Michael Moore, a union leader from UPTE, which will be on strike on September 24 university-wide, to call attention to the misplaced priorities of the current central administration, where administrative salaries have headed skyward even as the university claims it is in a budget crisis. Interviewer is Subversity show host Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity: Dean Salinger on Closing SAAS

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:00:00 -0800

On the 14 September 2009 Subversity Show we aired our exclusive interview with Sharon V. Salinger, Dean of Undergraduate Education at the University of California. Under fire for closing an important unit on campus, SAAS (Student Academic Advancement Services), which served first-generation, low-income and disabled students, Salinger says it was budget cuts that led to the closure and layoffs of five staff members, including the SAAS director. The U.S. Department of Education recently renewed funding to UCI for the same services provided to SAAS, which closed August 31, 2009. A faculty member, with two academic advisors, will constitute the new team. The new federal grant provides more student financial aid as well as additional funding for student advisors. Salinger is hoping former SAAS student peer advisors will continue to work in the new restructured unit. Salinger is interviewed by show host Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity: Prados on the CIA and Vietnam

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:00:00 -0800

We talk with National Security Archive senior fellow John Prados, about his research into declassified CIA documents from the Vietnam War. He has just compiled the National Security Archive's new analysis on the CIA's Vietnam Histories, which shows the extent of CIA intervention in Vietnam. He is also the author of numerous intelligence-related books, including the latest, Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945-1975, from the University of Press of Kansas. In the massive book, Prados weaves together U.S., South Vietnamese and North Vietnamese perspectives, as well as those from the anti-war movement. UCI is included in the book: Surveillance of UCI students protesting the war in the 1960s at the El Toro Marine base gets a paragraph, relying on Naval Intelligence surveillance files declassified to Subversity's host Dan Tsang which Tsang wrote up as: The Few, the Proud, the Spies Spying on civilians was part of El Toro's mission, OC Weekly, 15 July 1999: http://www.ocweekly.com/1999-07-15/columns/the-few-the-proud-the-spies/

KUCI Subversity: Lincoln Cushing on American Labor Posters

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:00:00 -0800

Lincoln Cushing returns as a guest on KUCI's Subversity show Monday 24 August 2009 to talk about a new book of labor posters he has co-compiled, Agitate! Educate! Organize! American Labor Posters from Cornell University Press. Cushing is an artist, librarian, archivist, and author. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang, Subversity host. Copyright c 2009

KUCI Subversity: Mark LeVine on UC's Future

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:00:00 -0800

On our 17 August 2009 show, Subversity looks at the future of the University of California with UCI History Prof. Mark LeVine. Prof. LeVine has been active in efforts to look beyond the current crisis at what the future bodes. An ad hoc group he has helped organize meets regularly; for more information contact Prof. LeVine at mlevine@uci.edu.

KUCI Subversity: UCI Students & Alumni Organize to Save SAAS!

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:00:00 -0800

We talk with recent UCI graduates Debbie Lee, who started a Facebook page, Save SAAS at UCI Now! and Luz Colin, about what one can do to reverse the announced elimination of UCI's SAAS unit serving first-generation, low-income and disabled students. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang. Copyright c. 2009

KUCI Subversity: Director Susan Morgan Cooper of An Unlikely Weapon on Vietnam War Photographer Eddie Adams

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:00:00 -0800

An interview with Susan Morgan Cooper, a documentary filmmaker, about her latest film, a profile of Pulitizer-Prize winning photographer Eddie Adams. "An Unlikely Weapon," profiles the life of Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams, who shot the iconic photograph of national police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shooting to death a captured Viet Cong prisoner, Nguyen Van Lem on a Saigon street in 1968. The photograph, capturing the shooting at the exact moment of impact, won Adams a Pulitzer Prize. The photograph was credited with turning the American public against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Adams, after the war, also documented the plight of Vietnamese refugees leaving their homeland. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang, show host. Copyright c 2009

KUCI Subversity: UC Student Regent-Designate Jesse Cheng on Students and the Future of UC

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0800

University of California Student Designate Jesse Cheng from UC Irvine discusses how he became politically aware with Subversity show host Daniel C. Tsang. They also talk about Irvine PD pulling them over in separate incidents they consider racial profiling. Jesse Cheng argues for student involvement as the UC considers addressing future plans for educating the state's students. Copyright c 2009

KUCI Subversity: Unions Respond to University of California Pay Cut/furlough Plans

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0800

University of California Regents July 16 2009 imposed a furlough/pay cut plan on thousands of UC employees, but for the UC's unionized workers, the University has to negotiate with them or the plan does not apply. On the 20 July 2009 edition of Subversity, we continue to bring you the union response. We talked with Dianna Sahhar, a long-time Library Assistant at UCI, just back from negotiations as a CUE leader, and asked her what the University is proposing and her union's reaction. She reveals that because the plans call for monthly pay cuts, the furloughs when taken will not entail further cuts, and thus will be recorded as "paid" leave. She is President of CUE Irvine, Local #9 from March 2008 to2010. She is a graduate of UCI with a BA in Social Ecology from 1983, and has worked at the Library for almost 20 yrs now. We also talked with Juan Castillo, Lead Organizer for AFSCME 3299, who was at Friday's town hall meeting and his attempt to question the UCI Chancellor from the floor got Chancellor Michael Drake stymied for a second -- with Drake finally saying he was not "negotiating" with Castillo. Interviewer is Show host Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity: Hai Vo on Sustainable Eating

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0800

We talk with Hai Vo, who was a leader of the local UCI chapter of Real Food Challenge, a national initiative to shift college dining investments to more sustainable systems. We talk to Vo about what sustainable food means. He is interviewed by Subversity host Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity: Vietnam War Architect Robert McNamara's Mea Culpa

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0800

With the passing earlier Monday morning 6 July 2009 at age 93 of Robert McNamara, architect of the Vietnam War, we look back on our 6 July 2009 show at his mea culpa ("In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam," 1995) and regret for waging war against the Vietnamese people. Subversity show host Daniel C. Tsang. We also air National Radio Project's 2006 program on Daniel Ellsberg, who with Tony Russo released the McNamara-commissioned Pentagon Papers. That audio is linked here: http://www.radioproject.org/archive/2006/2306.html.

KUCI Subversity: Obama's Immigration Reform Plans; Michael Jackson as Queer Icon

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0800

n the first half hour, we talk about President Obama's plans for immigration reform, with Mary Giovagnoli, the director of the Immigration Policy Center. In the second half hour, we discuss the late Michael Jackson as a queer icon, with Kaelin Alexander, a graduate student at Cornell whose research has focused on queer studies. We focus on how and why the mainstream gay media is avoiding discussion of Michael Jackson's attraction to boys.

KUCI Subversity: University of California Salary Cuts; Disciplining Academic Labor

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:00:00 -0800

In the first half hour, we address the University of California's proposal to impose as high as an 8% pay cut on UC employees. We talk with union leader Bob Samuels, who has been the president of UC-AFT, the union representing lecturers and librarians at the University of Calfiornia system. The University would have to get the UC-AFT's consent to impose the pay cut on them. On the second half of the show, we re-air portions of our November 2005 interview with Jeffrey Schmidt, the author of "Disciplined Minds," a critique of how academic and other salaried professional labor is "disciplined", with universities and other employers eager to serve idelological (corporate or government) interests. Show host: Daniel C. Tsang

KUCI Subversity: From Red Guard to Film Director, Anna Chi

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:00:00 -0800

In an earlier incarnation, Anna Chi was a poster child for the Chinese Cultural Revolution, when her letter to her father, written as a child, urged her dad to listen to Chairman Mao and the Party. She became known as Yong Hong ("Forever Red"). Filmed in Surrey, British Columbia, Chi's latest film, Dim Sum Funeral, uses the occasion of a "traditional Chinese" funeral of the family matriarch to bring a dysfunctional family together, sparking surprising conversation and new understandings -- as well as an unexpected ending. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang, Host of Subversity.

KUCI Subversity: Campus Activism is Not Dead!

Mon, 11 May 2009 11:00:00 -0800

Rumors to the contrary, activism is not dead on school and college campuses. We talk with Hoku Jeffrey, the southern California coordinator of BAMN, an activist group organizing youth to fight for immigrant rights and affirmative action. The discussion comes in the wake of an arrest of a labor activist at UC Berkeley by campus police who subsequently reported him to immigration authorities for possible deportation. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity: I Am That Girl; Treeless Mountain

Mon, 04 May 2009 09:00:00 -0800

Grace Rowe, who stars in I Am That Girl talks about her role that she wrote of a party girl who maxes out her credit cards. The film portrays her rude awakening as events take an unexpected turn during a camping trip to the Sierras with a guy friend. We also talk with Director So Yong Kim of the exquisitely directed and depicted Treeless Mountain, focusing on the journeys taken by two really young girls in South Korea when their mother takes off. These films were shown at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity: Tze Chun's Children of Invention; Christopher Wong's Whatever It Takes

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:00:00 -0800

Show host Daniel C. Tsang interviews two directors showing films at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, including the opening night film.

KUCI Subversity: Director Doan Hoang, "Oh Saigon/Saigon Oi"; Radical Student Union Protests at UCI

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:00:00 -0800

we talk with Doan Hoang, the director of a daring and revealing documentary, Oh Saigon (Saigon Oi), exposing to the world family fissures in the Hoang family -- the last family airlifted out of Saigon at the impending fall of Saigon in April 1975. Director Hoang exposes dark secrets in the family, including a communist uncle who fought for the liberation of Vietnam and a half-sister left behind initially in Vietnam. Director Hoang is also active in Vietnam Relief Effort, celebrating its tenth anniversary. We also talk with UCI sociology graduate student John Bruning about current activism on campus by the Radical Student Union, opposing sweatshop-made clothing with UCI-logos and the visit of former Pres. Vicente Fox to UCI.

KUCI Subversity: Sad Fish at VIFF

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:00:00 -0800

An interview with Sad Fish director Le-Van Kiet, by Subversity show host Daniel C. Tsang. Sad Fish stars established actress Kieu Chinh (Joy Luck Club, Journey from the Fall) , newcomer Orchid Lam Quynh (a UCI aluma), Long Nguyen (Journey from the Fall) and Jayvee Hiep Mai (Journey from the Fall). Exquisitely filmed, Sad Fish, a drama tinged with comedy, tells drenching stories of unconventional lives from Little Saigon, California, portrayals of nostalgia for homeland but also of daily routines of longings, relationships and domestic turmoil that transgress conventional boundaries. The film also depicts male intimacy and tension between "Happy Together"-type characters played by actors Jayvee and Long. Interview copyright c 2009

KUCI Subversity: Surveillance of Muslims in Orange County and Beyond

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:00:00 -0800

Recent revelations that the FBI has been infiltrating local mosques to spy on mosque-goers have cast a chill on the local Orange County, California, Islamic community. On our 23 March 2009 show, we discuss the impact with Ameena Mirza Qazi Staff Attorney of CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Greater-Los Angeles Area Chapter. We also discuss FBI surveillance of UCI students. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang, KUCI Subversity Show Host.

KUCI Subversity: Chinese in North Vietnam

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:00:00 -0800

The issue of overseas Chinese and the politics of the homeland are often studied by scholars but relatively little attention has been paid to the Chinese who lived in North Vietnam before the country was reunited. We talk with one scholar, history Prof. Xiaorong Han from Butler University, who has done just that, focusing his research on Chinese living in North Vietnam from 1954 to 1978. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang, show host.

KUCI Subversity: A Reporter's Life at the Los Angeles Times

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:00:00 -0800

The LA Times killed its Orange County edition March 3 2009. We talk with long-time LA Times journalist, now retired, David Reyes about an earlier era when the Times cared enough to cover the OC. Joining in the conversation is OC Voice publisher/editor John Earl. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang

KUCI Subversity: Iranian Women

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:00:00 -0800

What is the situation of women in Iran? We talk with Sussan, an activist from Iran in exile in Europe. She is in southern California organizing events around International Women's Day. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang, show host.

KUCI Subversity: Indonesian Women-Directed Chants of Lotus

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:00:00 -0800

I0n a repeat airing, an edited version of an interview with UCI's film and media studies Professor Fatimah Tobing Rony, who is one of the co-directors of a film from Indonesia (that was released theatrically there). The film highlights women directors, and the film, Chants of Lotus ("Perempuan Punya Cerita"), covers women's own stories about such controversial subjects as teenage sex, abortion, child trafficking and AIDS. Our interview was first aired last April on Subversity. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity: Race and Sex in The Vagina Monologues at UCI

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:00:00 -0800

The Vagina Monologues is an annual benefit performance, which aims to raise awareness and funds for anti-violence against women groups within local communities. The Vagina Monologues is part of a global movement to stop violence against women and girls called V-Day. Half of the proceeds of the UC Irvine Vagina Monologues production supports the entire budget of the Campus Assault Resource Center. The other half of the show's proceeds go to Planned Parenthood, stage costs, and this year's national V-Day campaign against Rape in the Congo. The 'V' in V-Day stands for Victory, Valentine and Vagina. Show host Daniel C. Tsang interviews: Lead Director: Hailee Pollard. She's a fifth year undergrad in the theater department. This is her second year as a director of the Vagina Monologues. Cast Member: Playing The Woman Who Loved to Make Vaginas Happy (sex worker), Natalie Newton is a 3rd year graduate student in anthropology, a 2nd generation Vietnamese American, and a long-time queer and feminist activist. Cast Member: Playing They Beat the Girl out of my Boy (transwoman), Mani Dhaliwal is a 4th year majoring in Biomedical Engineering/ Pre-med, she immigrated from India when she was 7, and this is her first time participating in the Vagina Monologues.

KUCI Subversity: Labor Update, Union Democracy Needed

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:00:00 -0800

As the U.S. enters a new Obama era, what are the prospects of a better future for American labor? We talk with a former KUCI Public Affairs host who has been a labor activist locally as well as a labor organizer from Northern California. John Earl is a former organizer and researcher for the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union, Local 681 (now UNITE HERE) in Orange County. He was also one of the organizers of a democratic reform movement in that union that led to the formation of a breakaway union, Local 50 UNITE HERE a the Disneyland resort in 2005. Since then he has been involved in efforts to help organize day laborers in the county. He is currently the publisher of the Orange Coast Voice newspaper. Steve Zeltzer is active in United Public Workers for Action and is the founder of Labor Video Project. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity: Obama's Silence on Gaza

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:00:00 -0800

History Prof. Gary Leupp (Tufts University) discusses Pres.-elect Obama's silence on Gaza and the naming of a neocon to be envoy on Iran, as well as the war on Afghanistan. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang

KUCI Subversity: The Owl and the Sparrow

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:00:00 -0800

Director Stephane Gaugher and Executive Producer Timothy Linh Bui talks with show host Daniel C. Tsang about The Owl and the Sparrow, a feature film set in Ho Chi Minh City.

KUCI Subversity: Hidden Katrina Story

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:30:00 -0800

Investigative reporter A.C. Thompson discusses his Nation article on post-Katrina killings and shootings of black men in the Algiers Point neighborhood of New Orleans. Interviewer: show host Daniel C. Tsang

KUCI Subversity: Bill Ayers on Reforming Education

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:00:00 -0800

University of Illinois-Chicago Education Professor Bill Ayers discusses the need for people to organize around education and other issues and not expect the new president to do it. He also reflects back on being the center of national attention during the election campaign. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang, host of Subersity.

KUCI Subversity: "Were the World Mine" Director and Lead Actor on their Musical Romp through Small-Town America

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:00:00 -0800

Director Tom Gustafson and lead actor Tanner Cohen talk with host Daniel C. Tsang about "Were the World Mine," a musical fantasy about queer teen love. Set in a boys academy, it stars Tanner as Timothy, a queer teen who's often the target of homophobic attacks. A sympathetic English teacher recruits him to star in the school's adaptation of A Midsummer Nights' Dream, and in the process, he creates a love potion that turns the object of his teenage lust (a rugby star) queer, as well as many others in his small town.

KUCI Subversity: Privileging Marriage is Misplaced

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:00:00 -0800

American University law prof. Nancy D. Polikoff in her new book, Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage (Beacon Press, 2008) argues that other types of relationships and families are ignored if we persist in focusing on the battle to get legal recognition of gay marriage. She would prefer not making marriage privileged over other relationships. She is interviewed by Subversity host Daniel C. Tsang

KUCI Subversity: Radical Opposition post-Obama's Win

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:30:00 -0800

Ethnic Studies Prof. Dylan Rodriguez (UC Riverside) discusses the dangers the radical left face in embracing an Obama win. He's concerned about how to sustain radical opposition to an imperialist state. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang, host of Subversity.

KUCI Subversity: Olive Tree Initiative

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:00:00 -0800

UCI undergrads Omar Bustami and Moran Cohen talk about their trip to see for their own eyes the situation lived by Israelis and Palestinians. They went as part of a student group under UCI's Olive Tree Initiative. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang, host of Subversity

KUCI Subversity: Immigrant Lives Past and Present

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:00:00 -0800

As a prelude to the UCI Libraries Fall 2008 exhibit on Immigrant Lives in 'the OC' and Beyond, we re-air a May Day 2006 interview with UCI labor historian Gilbert Gonzalez on Mexican immigration in the context of U.S. imperialism. Interviewer is show host Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity: Hong Kong Filmmakers Oppose Corporate 'Hijacking' of Asian Film Festival; Parental Notification

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:00:00 -0800

In part 1, Hong Kong filmmaker Simon Chung, of Ying E Chi, an independent film nonprofit, talks about what happened in Hong Kong with a local movie chain taking over a film festival Ying E Chi founded in 2004. In part 2, we air a dispatch from Making Contact of the National Radio Project on Parental Notification, Prop. 4 on the California ballot.

KUCI Subversity: Saving Marriage; Bill Ayers on his Fugitive Days

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:00:00 -0800

In part 1: Mike Roth and John Henning, directors of a documentary, Saving Marriage, discuss the lessons from the Massachusetts attempt to save gay marriage. In part 2: Bill Ayers, the former Weatherman, talks about his fugitive days. (Excerpt from April 14 2002 Subversity interview.) Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity: Charlie Nguyen, Director, The Rebel

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:00:00 -0800

Timed for the DVD Release of "The Rebel", a film from VIetnam set in French colonial era, director Charlie Nguyen talks about the challenges of filming in Vietnam and his role as a returning Viet Kieu (Overseas Vietnamese). Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang

KUCI Subversity: Remembering Peter Miguel Camejo

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:00:00 -0800

Comrades of Third Party Candidate Peter Miguel Camejo remember this stock broker cum leftist candidate for president and governor. We talk with Matt Gonzalez and Donna Warren about the life and times of Peter Camejo. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang, show host.

KUCI Subversity: Ping Pong Playa Director Yessica Yu and Actor Jimmy Tsai

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:00:00 -0800

"Ping Pong Playa" director Yessica Yu and actor Jimmy Tsai discuss how they tried to poke fun at Asian American and mainstream stereotypes, including the model minority myth in their comic take on a NBA wannabee turned ping pong player. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang, show host.

KUCI Subversity: Remembering Lindon Barrett

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:00:00 -0800

Faculty colleagues and former and currents students of Lindon Barrett, UC Riverside Professor of English and African American Studies, and earlier at UC Irvine, remember his life and scholarly contributions. Participating: Profs. Katherine Kinney, George Haggerty, Winston James, former UCI Ph.D students Arnold Pan and Lelia Neti, and current Ph.D student Jamie Park, with Daniel C. Tsang, show host.

KUCI Subversity: Remembering Photographer Dolores Neuman

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:00:00 -0800

Friends of Dolores Neuman, a photographer who documented the social movements of our times, remember her vivacity and free spirit. Writer Amanda Spake, Producer Janet Cole and Director Rob Epstein talk to host Daniel C. Tsang about her life and legacy.

KUCI Subversity: Earthquake Relief: Organizing to Help

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:00:00 -0800

Wei Li, a doctoral student in Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine, spearheaded a relief drive at UCI, raising over $30,000 in just four days. He also organized a candlelight vigil at UCI for the victims of the earthquake. Show host Daniel C. Tsang talks to him about his humanitarian efforts as well as his academic career.

KUCI Subversity: Demystifying Diasporic Vietnamese Politics

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:00:00 -0800

Managing Editor Hao Nhien Vu was fired from Nguoi Viet daily after anti-communist protesters demonstrated against the paper; he now writes a blog, Bolsavik.com, that demystifies diasporic Vietnamese politics in Little Saigon and beyond. Interviewer: Subversity host Daniel C. tsang

KUCI Subversity: Filming "Up the Yangtze"; APIAVote Town Hall Highlights

Mon, 19 May 2008 09:00:00 -0800

"Up the Yangtze" director Yung Chang is interviewed by show host Daniel C. Tsang about his exquisite documentary on lives on a cruise ship as the Yangtze is flooded for the Three Gorges Dam Project. We also aired highlights from the first APIAVote Town Hall at UC Irvine that featured Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama.

KUCI Subversity: The Man of Two Havanas; Director speaks out

Mon, 05 May 2008 09:00:00 -0800

Vivien Lesnik Weisman, in her documentary, "The Man of Two Havanas," takes a look back at her father and her life with him as he survived numerous bombing attempts by Cuban exiles in Little Havana. She talks with show host Daniel C. Tsang about her film and why she wanted to make it, as well as what it was like to live in Miami as a small girl. The film argues that the U.S. embargo against Cuba hurts the people in Cuba as well as Cuban exiles abroad.

KUCI Subversity: Boys in Jordan; Women in Indonesia

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:00:00 -0800

Director Amin Matalqa talks about his new film, Captain Abu Raed, the first feature film from Jordan. Co-Director Fatimah Tobing Rony talks about her new film, from Indonesia, Chants of Lotus. Interviewer: show host Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity: Actor, Director, Model Edward Gunawan

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:00:00 -0800

Indonesian-born and Singapore-raised actor, director, screenwriter and model Edward Gunawan talks about his life and career now from Los Angeles. The Asian gay artist recently acted in and wrote a short, "Just" and also directed another short, Laudromat. He's appeared on the cover of Frontiers.

KUCI Subversity: Behind America's Obsession with Sex Scandals

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:00:00 -0800

Why is America so obsessed with sex scandals? In the wake of the gubernatorial sex scandals (both in and out of office) we talk with former male escort Tony Valenzuela about what really is going on behind closed doors all over America. Interviewer is Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity: Winter Soldier 2008; Ant-war Veterans Speak Out

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:00:00 -0800

On the 5th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we hear from veterans who were deployed abroad and who talk about the atrocities and abuse they experienced or engaged in. See http://warcomeshome.org.

KUCI Subversity: Summer of Love

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:00:00 -0800

Subversity airs a broadcast of the Commonwealth Club of California's 2007 radio program: Summer of Love at 40: The Roots of a Counter-Culture. David E. Smith, founder of the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, is featured on the program (and the only one wearing a tie). Other guests are: Paul Krassner, founder, the Realist Magazine; Wavy Gravy, activist and clown, former Frozen Dessert; Wes "Scoop" Nisker, author, radio commentator, former DJ, KSAN, with moderator Peter Finch, co-host of KFOG Morning Show.

KUCI Subversity: Talking Sex in Hong Kong and the U.S.

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:00:00 -0800

In Part 1: We air a dispatch from National Radio Project's Making Contact, "Still Talking About Sex," which features former U.S. Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders. In 1993, Elders became the first African American Surgeon General of the United States. Criticized and attacked for her public statements promoting comprehensive sex education, the distribution of condoms in public schools, and the possibility of the legalization of drugs, Elders was forced to resign about a year later. The statement Elders is often remembered for is when she said masturbation is a part of human sexuality, and so perhaps it should be taught to children. On this edition, of Making Contact, we'll hear from the former surgeon who to this day remains a fierce advocate for health related policies. In Part 2: We delve into the Edison Chen sex scandal that has gripped Hong Kong and the surrounding region for a month. The hip hop singer and actor has now admitted taking most of the hundreds of photographs circulating on the Internet showing him in bed (separately) with up to a half dozen local starlets. We discuss the legal and civil rights implications in the current law enforcement crackdown in the wake of the theft of his images. Show host is Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity: Passion & Politics of Coffee

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:00:00 -0800

Martin Diedrich tals about his love of coffee and why he escaped Starbucksization after the coffee behemoth took over Diedrich's Coffee and now runs Kean Coffee. Interviewed by show host Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity: Christian Zionism in Bush's America: The Einstein Sisters Bag the Flying Monkeys

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:00:00 -0800

Irving Wesley Hall, the author of a satirical work, The Einstein Sisters Bag the Flying Monkeys: Christian Zionism in Bush's America, talks with Subversity show host Daniel C. Tsang about Christian fundamentalism, homophobia and religious right politics.

KUCI Subversity: Ngugi on Being a Writer in a Society in Crisis on the occasion of his 70th Birthday

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:00:00 -0800

As UC Irvine prepares to celebrate "Ngugi's Spirit," on Saturday (see below), for our Martin Luther King Day show we converse with Distinguished Prof. Ngugi wa Thiong'o on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Ngugi is the Director of the acclaimed International Center for Writing and Translation at UCI. He is also a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature with Comparative Literature as his home department. Joining us in the conversation on "Being a Writer in a Society in Crisis" is Gabriele Schwab, Chancellor's Prof. of English and Comparative Literature at UCI. We'll focus on the current turmoil in Kenya. Show host & interviewer is Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity: Remembering former CIA officer/whistleblower Philip Agee

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:00:00 -0800

Philip Agee's friend and collaborator in the anti-CIA struggle Louis Wolf talks with show host Daniel C. Tsang about Agee's progressive work exposing the CIA's dirty work and discusses Agee's legacy today.

KUCI Subversity: Anis Shivani on Pakistan's Current Crisis

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:00:00 -0800

Anis Shivani is a writer originally from Pakistan. He is currently working on a novel. He talks with show host Daniel C. Tsang about what's behind the current crisis in Pakistan, a client state of the U.S.

KUCI Subversity: Remembering Community Historian Allan Berube

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:00:00 -0800

Amber Hollibaugh & Gerard Koskovich talk with host Daniel C. Tsang about the life and times of Allan Berube, gay liberationist, community-based historian, and recipient of the MacArthur fellowship.

KUCI Subversity: Hoang Tan Bui Case Settlement

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:00:00 -0800

In the wake of the week's $950,000 settlement by the Hoang Tan Bui family in the civil suit against the City of Westminster, we revisit the case and re-air an interview with Phuong Bui, the widow. Hoang Bui, a Caucasian Vietnamese, was unarmed when he was shot by a Westminster policeman and run over in the police officer's cruiser and killed. The case stirred Little Saigon and led to protests against police abuse.

KUCI Subversity: What Constitutes Torture?

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:00:00 -0800

Center for Constitutional Rights staffer Lynne Kates talks about what constitutes torture. Forcing someone to stand for hours is torture, but the then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld authorized its use. On Making Contact, Georgetown Law and Philosophy Prof. David Luban analyzes the history of torture in U.S. policy.

KUCI Subversity: Government Surveillance since 9/11: FBI Pays a Visit

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:00:00 -0800

University of Washington Asian American Muslim graduate student activist Shemon Salam gets a visit from the FBI when he exercises his First Amendment rights. Interviewer is Daniel C. Tsang, host of Subversity.

KUCI Subversity: James Petras on Venezuela and CIA Destablization

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:00:00 -0800

Emeritus Prof. James Petras, a long-time observer of Latin and South American social change, discusses what is in store in Venezuela and CIA destabilization there in the wake of the referendum outcome. Interviewer is Daniel C. Tsang, host of Subversity.

KUCI Subversity: Q! Film Festival Founder John Badalu

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:00:00 -0800

On the UCI campus to curate a queer shorts film festival, Q! Film Festival Founder John Badalu discusses with show host Daniel C. Tsang alternative and queer film programming in Indonesia and Southeast Asia.

KUCI Subversity: Cultural Production & the Screenwriters' Strike

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:00:00 -0800

Director/screenwriter Tony Bui ("Three Seasons") talks about why he is striking as a member of the Writers Guild of America. UCI Ph.D student in anthropology Sylvia Martin offers an ethnographic analysis of the picket line. Both are interviewed by show host Daniel C. Tsang

KUCI Subversity: Mike Davis on Wildfires ("Katrina in the Suburbs"), OC, Academia

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:00:00 -0800

Cultural critic and UC Irvine history Prof. Mike Davis talks about "Katrina in the Suburbs: The Politics of Wildfires in Southern California" in a talk 31 October 2007 at UC Irvine. He's interviewed about OC, academia and UCI by Subversity host Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity: Solos: Daring film from Singapore

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:00:00 -0800

Loo Zihan, a young filmmaker, directs and acts in this daring film from Singapore about the final stages of a boy's sexual and emotional relationship with a man. The film also depicts the boy's mother. Subversity host Daniel C. Tsang talks to Loo Zihan about his innovative and lyrical film, whose visual depiction of homosexual lovemaking among males (there is also a threesome) meant it could not be shown in Singapore, where homosexual acts among males remain criminalized.

KUCI Subversity: Defending Critical Thinking in Academia

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:00:00 -0800

Show host Daniel C. Tsang talks with Reginald Dylan, an activist who speaks out for critical thinking in academia. RCP head Bob Avakian speaks on the topic in an audio clip.

KUCI Subversity: Chinese Political Poster Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:00:00 -0800

Lincoln Cushing and Ann Tomkins talk about their new book, Chinese Posters: Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (Chronicle Books) with KUCI Subversity show host Daniel C. Tsang. Also participating is activist Steve Louie on the impact of the poster art on political movements in the U.S.

KUCI Subversity: Armenian Genocide and Los Angeles Times Censorship (Encore edition)

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:00:00 -0800

Journalist Mark Arax, whose article on the Armenian Genocide debate was spiked by the Los Angeles Times, discusses mainstream journalism and politics of genocide writing. He is interviewed by show host Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity: CIA at 60: Domestic Surveillance Continues

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:00:00 -0800

60 years earlier, the U.S. National Security Act set up the CIA. The act was used by the CIA to justify illegal surveillance of Americans. KUCI's Subversity show host Daniel C. Tsang talks about his own Privacy Act lawsuit, Tsang v. CIA, which was settled out of court with a promise from the CIA not to spy on his First-Amendment protected activities in future. Also on this program is his attorney, Kate Martin, who heads the Center for National Security Studies. Airing are excerpted interviews from an earlier Subversity show as well as a recent KUCI Privacy Piracy show where Kate Martin and Daniel Tsang appear.

KUCI Subversity: Sex Offenders & Human Rights

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:00:00 -0800

Sarah Tofte, Human Rights Watch Researcher, discusses her new report on the limitations of sex offender laws, "No Easy Answers: Sex Offender Laws in the US". She is interviewed by Subversity host Daniel C. Tsang

KUCI Subversity: UCI Law School Saga: Unanswered Questions

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:00:00 -0800

Questions remain unanswered at UCI Irvine where the Chancellor has not disclosed what led him to initially take back the deanship offer to Duke Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky. The show features highlights from an emergency UCI faculty senate meeting of 20 September 2007 as well as an interview with Sociology Prof. David S. Meyer, who seeks more answers to what Chancellor Michael V. Drake's actions. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang

KUCI Subversity: UCI Law School Saga: Two Profs Speak Out

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:00:00 -0800

UCI Profs. Elizebeth Loftus and David Theo Goldberg discuss the controversial hire and and firing of new UCI law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky. Interviewer: Daniel C. Tsang, host of Subversity. Prof. Loftus is a founding law school faculty member and served on the dean search committee. Prof. Goldberg, who heads UC's Humanities Research Institute, drafted an online open letter asking UCI to rehire Prof. Chemerinsky.

KUCI Subversity: Bush "War Crimes" Commission Testimony

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:00:00 -0800

On the same day as Gen. David Petraeus was slated to present the latest Bush administration spin to Congress on the disaster in Iraq, we looked back at the grassroots commission to investigate war crimes of the Bush regime and air highlights from the testimony, including those of former Abu Graib commander Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinsky, and independent journalist Dahr Jamail, who has reported extensively from Iraq about the impact the war on the people there. Original audio from http://www.bushcommission.org.

KUCI Subversity Labor Day Show; Part 2: Labor Press and Labor Conditions in Vietnam

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:30:00 -0800

CSU Monterey Bay Assoc. Prof. Angie Ngoc Tran talks about the role of labor press in Vietnam in exposing working conditions in part 2 of our Labor Day show. Host: Daniel C. Tsang

KUCI Subversity: Labor Day Show

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:00:00 -0800

Part 1: Fall of '55 documentary director Seth Randal and historical consultant archivist Alan Virta discuss the historical antecedents to Idaho Sen. Larry Craig's recent fall from grace in tearoom sex. Part 2: CSU Monterery Bay Assoc. Prof. Angie Ngoc Tran talks about labor conditions and labor press in Vietnam. Host, Daniel C. Tsang

KUCI Subversity: Lady Borton on Vietnamese Feminist Poetry

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:00:00 -0800

Lady Borton talks about a book she worked on, the first bilingual compilation of Vietnamese femnist poems, The Defiant Muse, now out from Feminist Press. Host Daniel C. Tsang interviewed Lady Borton in Hanoi, Vietnam.

KUCI Subversity: Paul Shannon on Sex Offender Law Reform

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:00:00 -0800

Paul Shannon discusses with show host Daniel C. Tsang why he believes sex offender laws in the U.S. needs to be reformed.

KUCI Subversity: Journalist Mark Arax on Censorship at the Los Angeles Times

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:00:00 -0800

Mark Arax, an Armenian American journalist at the Los Angeles Times, left the paper after an editor scotched an article he authored on the Armenian genocide. The show discusses mainstream media and the lack of freedom of speech in this particular case.

KUCI Subversity: Viet Weekly, Free Press and Anti-Communism

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:00:00 -0800

Daniel C. Tsang, host of Subversity, talks with Viet Weekly publisher Le Vu, whose Vietnamese-language magazine is under attack by anti-communists who do not believe in freedom of the press.

KUCI Subversity: Prison Industrial Complex/Freedom of Speech & Anti-Communism

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:00:00 -0800

UR Riverside Assoc. Prof (ethnic studies) Dylan Rodriguez discusses the largest prison expansion program in California. In part 2: counter-protester James Du discusses why he has been the lone man confronting the anti-communists protesting the Viet Weekly in Garden Grove. Interviews by Daniel C. Tsang, host of Subversity.

KUCI Subversity: John Pilger, Freedom Next Time, Resisting Empire

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:00:00 -0800

Author, filmmaker and journalist John Pilger discusses resisting empire and his many years giving voice to the people around the world. He is the author of a new book, Freedom Next Time from Nation Books. Interviewed by Daniel C. Tsang, host of Subversity.

KUCI Subversity: Queer Asians Living in the Margins: Researcher Alain Dang

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:00:00 -0800

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force policy analyst Alain Dang talks to Subversity show host Daniel C. Tsang about the NGLTF national survey of queer Asians. Dang graduated from UCI and UCLA.

KUCI Subversity: Vietnamese Canadian Actor David Huynh

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:00:00 -0800

Vietnamese Canadian Actor David Huynh talks about his title role in "Baby" as well as his stage and upcoming film roles with Subversity show host Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity: Journalism & Reportage in Orange County

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:00:00 -0800

Will Swaim, former publisher of OC Weekly (now publisher of The District in Long Beach), John Earl, editor of The Orange Coast Voice and Jeffrey Brody, Communications Professor at CSU Fullerton, debate Orange County news journalism and reportage with KUCI's Subversity show host Daniel C. Tsang.

KUCI Subversity: Actor Dustin Nguyen in The Rebel

Mon, 07 May 2007 09:00:00 -0800

Actor Dustin Nguyen and KUCI's Subversity show host converse about Dustin Nguyen's acting career, with the latest two of the films he's starred in made in Vietnam and showing at the VC film festival (www.vconline.org). The Rebel, a martial-arts genre film set in 1920s French colonial Vietnam, was made in Vietnam. For the first time, Dustin Ngyuen plays a bad guy.

KUCI Subversity: Nationalism and Vigils -- Philip Grant

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:00:00 -0800

UCI Anthropology graduate student Philip Grant talks with KUCI Subversity host Daniel C. Tsang about the role of nationalism in vigils such as those over the Virginia Tech massacre. He also discusses his research in Iran.

KUCI Subversity: Orange County's Dust of Life with Director Le-Van Kiet

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:00:00 -0800

"Dust of Life" film director Le-Van Kiet talks with KUCI Subversity host Daniel C. Tsang about his new film, about Orange County, California's dust of life, Vietnamese youth who end up joining gangs, and the impact on the family and society. His film showed at the closing night of the Vietnamese International Film Festival 2007 at UC Irvine.

KUCI Subversity: Cage-Free Eggs campaign comes to UCI: UCI Prof. Claire Kim

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:00:00 -0800

For months UCI political scientist and Asian Americanist Claire Kim has been trying, without success, to get University of California, Irvine (UCI) to serve eggs of cage-free chickens in its dorms and campus restaurants

KUCI Subversity: Dorothy Fall on Vietnam War Journalist Bernard Fall

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:00:00 -0800

Author Dorothy Fall discusses her book on her husband, Bernard Fall, whose scholarly works, Street Without Joy and Hell in a Very Small Place, on the French disaster in the Vietnam War, are classics. He predicted that the U.S. would be unable to win the war politically, even if it had superior military power. The book is Bernard Fall, Memories of a Soldier-Scholar (Potomac Books).

KUCI Subversity: Remembering Gay Liberation Pioneer Barbara Gittings

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:00:00 -0800

Remembering the decades-long activism of Barbara Gittings, who died 18 February 2007 in Pennsylvania. Subversity's show host was honored to share the panel with her just three months before at UCLA's library school, where she talked about how she managed to get gay and lesbian books into libraries.

KUCI Subversity: Author Stuart Timmons on Gay L.A.

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:00:00 -0800

Author Stuart Timmons talks about a new book he has co-authored, with historian Lillian Faderman, Gay L.A., about the underground histories and struggles that led to today's emergence of public lesbian and gay communities in the Los Angeles region.

KUCI Subversity: Civil Liberties Attorney Shayana Kadidal on Challenging State Repression

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:00:00 -0800

A talk given by civil liberties attorney Shayana Kadidal (from the Center for Constitutional Rights) about the National Security Agency surveillance lawsuit, as well as the legal limboland now confronted by those incarcerated at Guantanamo, in the wake of Congressional action stripping habeas corpus rights from those imprisoned there.

KUCI Subversity: CSU Prof. As'ad AbuKhalil on "The Islam Factor in Western Popular Cultures"

Mon, 15 May 2006 09:00:00 -0800

Cal State Stanislaus Political Scientist As'ad AbuKhalil, talks about "The Islam Factor in Western Popular Cultures: Beyond the Danish Cartoons." This talk, given 19 April 2006 at University of California, Irvine, was part of the Ford Foundation-funded Difficult Dialogues series.