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On today's show we start in conversation about the ceasefire deal announced on Wednesday after political negotiations between Hamas and Israel. We'll speak with Ziad Abbas as well as Samer Araabi. Ziad Abbas is the executive director of the Middle East Children's Alliance, a Berkeley-based international aid organization whose work includes providing food, medicine, medical supplies, and installs water purification units in schools and preschools throughout Gaza. Ziad is himself a Palestinian refugee. Samer Araabi is a member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Committee (AROC) and co-hosts their weekly Palestine Solidarity Announcements every Friday at noon. Learn more about MECA: https://mecaforpeace.org/ Learn more about AROC: https://www.araborganizing.org/ — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Framing the Ceasefire in Gaza w/ Ziad Abbas & Samer Araabi appeared first on KPFA.

As we've done just about every Monday since October of last year, Law & Disorder returns to our recurring segment – The Palestine Post, discussing the latest news from Israel's genocide in Gaza and on their border regions, and the efforts that people are taking around the world, to stop it. In this episode, we explore the latest developments on the ground as Israel expands its reign of violence to another Gaza hospital, into the border regions of Lebanon and Syria, and into an internationally protected area of the West Bank. We're joined by Samer Araabi, a member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) and a co-host of AROC's weekly Palestine Solidarity Announcements which takes place every Friday at noon. —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Palestine Post: Israel Expands Annexations in Lebanon, Syria, West Bank, Gaza w/ Samer Araabi appeared first on KPFA.

In this Palestine Post segment, we explore the Hezbollah/Israel truce as well as the downfall of Syria's Bashar al-Assad with Samer Araabi, a member of AROC and co-hosts the weekly Palestine Solidarity Announcements every Friday at noon. —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Palestine Post: Hezbollah/Israel Truce & the Downfall of Syria's Regime w/ Samer Araabi appeared first on KPFA.

On today's recurring Palestine Post segment, we explore the potential impacts of government labelling pro-Palestine organizations and organizers as associates to terrorism. We start in conversation with Shane Kadidal, a Senior Managing Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he has worked on several significant cases arising in the wake of 9/11, and has been counsel in major Center for Constitutional Rights cases challenging the material support statute. Then, we continue with Samer Araabi, a member of AROC and co-hosts the weekly Palestine Solidarity Announcements every Friday at noon. — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Palestine Post: ‘Terrorism' Labels and their Impact on the Pro-Palestine Movement w/ Shane Kadidal & Samer Araabi appeared first on KPFA.

In Episode 101 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast - brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - sits down with Club Chairman John Griffiths and Club Manager Guy Swarbrick to look ahead to the upcoming Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show at the NEC. What's going to be on the AROC stand? What else is there to look at? What's a podcast lounge?

We spend this segment in Washington DC, where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is visiting for a series of diplomatic meetings starting Wednesday, with an address to congress, a meeting scheduled with President Joe Biden on Thursday, and then with former president Donald Trump this Friday in Mar-a-Lago. He's also expected to meet with Vice President Kamala Harris during his trip. We're first joined by Maria LaHood, the Deputy Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights who has worked on legal projects related to justice in Palestine for decades, including on the Rachel Corrie legal case nearly 20 years ago. The Center for Constitutional Rights has urged the US Department of Justice to open a federal criminal investigation into the Israeli Prime Minister during his visit to the US, for his responsibility for genocide, war crimes, and torture, saying there is “overwhelming evidence” that, under Netanyahu, Israeli forces have committed these crimes against Palestinians during the nearly 10-month assault on Gaza.  Read CCR's complaint: https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/ahead-netanyahu-visit-dc-center-constitutional-rights-calls-doj We stay in Washington DC, to bring on a Bay Area activist who's traveled to the capital in order to protest the Israeli Prime Minister's visit. Our guest is Reem Assil, an activist and chef, and owner of the Bay Area restaurant Reem's California. Reem is a longtime member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center or AROC. — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Netanyahu Faces Genocide Complaint to DOJ as Protests Target his DC Visit w/ Maria LaHood & Reem Assil appeared first on KPFA.

Part 2 picks up right where we left off in Part 1, with Reem describing finding the anti-imperialist women's soccer team. Through that, she met her partner, who's now her co-parent.   Reem worked in the nonprofit sector until around 2010, when she burned out. She'd moved to Oakland upon her return to the Bay Area, though she was still connected to The City through her work with AROC. She found herself wanting to take care of her community in other ways than what nonprofits were offering.   She and her father had been estranged, but after leaving work, she joined him on a trip to the Middle East. The two were joined by Reem's youngest sister on a visit she calls "transformative." Besides gaining insight into who her dad was as a person, she truly discovered and fell in love with the food of her people. She knew right away that she wanted to create that feeling for others. Her Syrian family took note of her interest, and took her to bakeries in that country to get a glimpse of the kitchens after-hours.   She returned to the Bay Area wanting to do two things: To combat tropes and negative stereotypes about Arab culture and people, and to do that by creating a sense of hospitality. Those two ideas would eventually form the foundation of what Reem's California does today.   But she had to begin somewhere, and so she enrolled in a baking class at Laney College. Out of that class, she got a job with Arizmendi in Emeryville, where she got experience in a co-op and a kitchen. She started forming the idea of what her place would be, and while that came together, she settled on basing it around man'oushe, the street food of her people.   Over a number of years and various kitchen and bartending jobs, Reem took as many entrepreneur classes as she could. The last of these was with La Cocina. The program helped steer her toward more practical, lower-cost methods of doing business. And that's where the saj comes into play. It's what Reem uses to make her man'oushe. "It's like an inverted tandoor," she says.   An uncle in Lebanon was able to have two custom-made sajes for Reem. They arrived and that's what set it all in motion. They were approved for the 22nd and Bartlett market and the farmer's market at the Ferry Building around the same time. At both locations, they served Arabic tea and played Arabic music, creating that vibe Reem had been seeking. Within 16 months, they had grown from one market to five.   Then La Cocina told Reem that it was time to take the operation brick-and-mortar. The first location was in Fruitvale in Oakland in 2017 and lasted a couple of years. Then, after a brief foray into fine-dining, the women owners of Mission Pie asked Reem if she wanted to take over their spot at Mission and 25th. She said yes and started doing the work to get open.   And then the pandemic hit.   Once the Mission location was able to open, Reem's California did better than a lot of nearby restaurants, partly because the food lends itself to take-out so easily. But for Reem, not being able to share space and that hospitality that was at least as important as the food itself was hard. Still, they found ways to connect with the community.   In 2023, they opened a second location in the Ferry Building. They started appearing at Outside Lands a few years ago (and will be there again this year). Reem decided to start transitioning the business to a worker-owned model.   Visit Reem's Mission location, 2901 Mission Street, Tuesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and again for dinner from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Ferry Building location is open Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Follow them on social media at @ReemsCalifornia and follow Reem herself @reem.assil. Her cookbook, Arabiyya, is available on her website.   We end the podcast with Reem's interpretation of this year's theme on Storied: San Francisco—We're all in it.   Photography by Jeff Hunt

In Episode 93 of the Alfa Romeo Driver podcast - brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owner's Club - Editor Guy Swarbrick was joined by the Club's longest serving member Ron Smith. No longer based in the UK – and, as we'll see, he wasn't when he joined, either - but still an active and enthusiastic member, as he has been for most of the Club's 60 year history.

The Mamas for a Free Palestine collective is made up of mothers across the Bay Area who are fed up with business as usual. While they are a relatively new group, these mothers are not new to activism and political organizing. In December 2023 and February 2024, Mamas for a Free Palestine organized alongside Eastbay for Ceasefire Now to rally rank and file workers across various unions and social justice organizations like AROC, Jewish Voice for Peace, PODER, and Anti Police Terror Project to demand that elected officials declare a permanent ceasefire, as well as end the use of public funds for Israel's military. Their rally call: fund care, not killing. Support humanitarian aid for Gaza immediately. Fund community needs like healthcare and affordable housing.

Roco Córdova explores the intersection between the Puerto Rican and Palestinian struggles for liberation. Through their art, Roco aims to evoke emotional responses and provoke action, drawing parallels between shared colonial histories and divergent lived experiences. Find more of Roco here. More info on the Free Palestine movement: AROC, Palestinian Youth Movement & PCRF. Audium Listens III is here! Meet Audium's artists-in-residence, learn about their work and discover their process designing a fully-immersive work at Audium. Hosted by Ollie Mills.

In Episode 87 of the Alfa Romeo Driver podcast, brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club, Editor Guy Swarbrick sits down with AROC management team member David Faithful to talk about some of the improvements to the Club's online experience behind the scenes - and some of the cool new member benefits that technology will enable. Some early examples of the new functionality are shown below. Member login screen My AROC A list of a member's cars A sample AROC Guardian page

Activists in the United States got a tip that a US military cargo ship was transporting arms to Israel and tried to stop it. As US President Joe Biden proposes $14.3 billion to Israel we hear from protesters putting their lives on the line trying to block the military assistance. In this episode:  Mohamed Shehk (@AROCBayArea), Organizer with AROC and National Campaigns Director for Critical Resistance  Sarah Yager (@YagerSarahH), Washington Director at Human Rights Watch Episode credits: This episode was produced by Chloe K. Li, Fahrinisa Campana and our host Malika Bilal. David Enders fact-checked this episode. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer. Alexandra Locke is The Take's executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio. Connect with us: @AJEPodcasts on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Threads and YouTube

10:05 – 10:15 (10 mins) GUEST: Rachel Ehrenfeld, author of The Soros Agenda.  Jew Hating Jew Soros Funds Pro-Hamas Groups Hamas EnablersWatchdog Group: Soros' Foundation Funds Pro-Hamas OrgsSupport of pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian groups in the US is not limited to foreign entities. It also comes directly and indirectly from US-based foundations. George and Alexander Soros' Open Society Foundations (OSF) is one of them.The Washington Free Beacon revealed the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) in San Francisco, "a "fiscally sponsored project" of the George Soros-funded Tides Center, is "urging high schoolers (added emphasis) around the country t o join a "Walk Out for Gaza" protests. The AROC advocated chants, such as "Israel, Israel you can't hide, We charge you with genocide," and "Free, Free Palestine, and "circulating media talking points—saying the United States is "complicit" in the "genocide" of Palestinians and must demand an immediate ceasefire—and signs that read "Decolonize Palestine" and "Palestine Will be Free.” 10:41 – 10:56 (15mins) Weekly: "Vic Porcelli's East Coast Report with Douglas Blair"  Producer with Sean Spicer @seanspicer  @DouglasKBlair - Formerly @DailySignal and @Heritage Words @townhall @contrepoints Proud Oregonian!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The week's episode sees Chiara Shearn talking to AROC Ragazzi Chairman Sam Butler and Ragazzi and Hereford & Worcester Section Secretary Sophie King about their Alfa history, the formation of the AROC Ragazzi Section and their plans for the future of the group.

For Episode 77 of the Alfa Romeo Driver Podcast - brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club - Editor Guy Swarbrick sat down with Jack and Rosie Hodson for the first of our new series of profiles of AROC families.

In this Episode Guy Swarbrick sat down with AROC virtual racer and ARCA 4C racer Mike Hilton and Andrew Bergbaum, his partner in a project to bring a very special racing Alfa back to the track. In its heyday, it was an Autodelta car running in Jolly Club livery, taking fourth in the 1966 Monza Four Hours in the hands of Alfa legend Rob Slotemaker. What's happened to it in the 57 years that followed?    

A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists. This Thursday APEX Express proudly presents “South Asians and The Labor Justice Movement.” This episode highlights Sandhya Jha, a pastor, founder and former Executive Director of the Oakland Peace Center, and racial, housing, and labor justice activist. In the first half of the episode, we discuss Sandhya's life, their path into organizing, and what they're up to now. The second half is dedicated to their recent project with the South Asian American Digital Archive's Archival Creators Fellowship Program. This episode was interviewed, produced, and edited by Swati Rayasam Follow @Sandhya Jha on Facebook and check out Sandhya's website https://sandhyajha.com/    APEX Express is a weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists. Listen to the episode live on KPFA 94.1 in San Francisco, 89.3 in Berkeley, and online at KPFA.org.  References throughout the Show and Links: Without Fear Consulting Interfaith Alliance Oakland Peace Center Book – Blueprint for a Revolution Book – The Selected Writings of Eqbal Ahmad Podcast – Bending Toward Justice: Avatar the Last Airbender for the Global Majority The Alliance of South Asians Taking Action – ASATA Bay Area Solidarity Summer South Asian American Digital Archive Archival Creators Fellowship Program Sandhya Jha's project, you can listen to all of the oral histories here. Solidarity Forever Online Exhibit Arab Resource and Organizing Center Block the Boat No Tech for Apartheid  University of California Labor Center Equality Labs California Trade Justice Coalition NAFCON – National Alliance for Filipino Concerns Filipino Community Center Madhvi Trivedi Patak Transcript: South Asians and Labor Justice  [00:00:00]  [00:00:00] Swati Rayasam: Good evening everyone and Happy Thursday, my name is Swati Rayasam. While I'm usually in the background of APEX Express editing, this week I'm honored to bring you a piece from a dear friend of mine Sandhya Jha. We explore Sandhya's background as a mixed race kid, a housing, labor, and racial justice organizer, and a faith leader.  [00:00:50] Swati Rayasam: And then we dive into an amazing project, Sandhya did for the South Asian American Digital Archive's Archival Creators Fellowship program. Stay locked in.[00:01:00]  [00:01:00] Swati Rayasam: I'm really excited actually today to talk to Sandhya Jha, who is a really close friend of mine. Hi Sandhya. Hi there. Sandhya is, a Pastor is a consultant and has been working on this really amazing project with the South Asian American Digital Archive that will get into later in the episode. But yeah, Sandhya I'm just really excited to learn more about you and to hear more of your story and, let's just dive in. [00:01:26] Swati Rayasam: Absolutely.  [00:01:27] Swati Rayasam: We should first talk a little bit about how we know each other, you have this long organizing background. I've been in the Bay Area for the past seven years and I would be totally lying if I said I have not historically been, or I'm not even currently an active fangirl of yours. You are literally a pastor. You are a movement worker, how did you get involved in organizing? [00:01:53] Sandhya Jha: Yeah. So I am the product of my parents who were generous, compassionate [00:02:00] people who thought about the world beyond themselves, but were never involved in organizing or activism or anything like that. I think for anybody who comes from immigrant backgrounds, it's hard to tell our stories without naming who we come from. Right. And so my father was Sunil Kumar Jha from the village of Tildanga in West Bengal. My mother, who is still alive is Jeanette Campbell Jha. She is from Glasgow. So I come from a mixed religion and mixed race home. My parents chose not to name me Sandhya Campbell Jha not to give me that kind of grounding, but I was called Sandhya Rani Jha, which is a lot to live up to, well, yes, Rani does mean Queen. But it was actually handed down to me, part of the reason they wanted that middle name was it was my aunt's name, Durga Rani Upadhyay and she was the one who really [00:03:00] brokered my mother's acceptance into the Indian family and I think that there was something about being accepted on the Indian side of the family and not for many, many years on the Scottish side. That caused my parents and particularly my mother to double down on making sure I knew who I came from and who I came from was my people in the village of Tildanga. [00:03:23] Sandhya Jha: I grew up in Akron, Ohio, so we immigrated to this country when I was a toddler, in the late 1970s, which was a complicated time for Asian immigrants to be in the Midwest because it was a time that the rust belt was rusting and there was a growing sense that we were the reason. But also I grew up alongside folks who were trying to figure out how to put food on the table. So I think that landscape shaped me in a lot of ways. And I also come from people who grew up in poor working communities. And[00:04:00] when I went off to college, there was an organizing campaign. The board of directors of the university had created a for-profit corporation with the exact same board.  [00:04:15] Swati Rayasam: Oh wow.  [00:04:16] Sandhya Jha: So that the universities could subcontract all of their catering, all of their custodial work to this… basically Shell corporation.  [00:04:28] Swati Rayasam: Are we telling on the university?  [00:04:29] Sandhya Jha: Mm, Yeah. Why not? It was Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and I think that's relevant because the tension between Black communities next to Johns Hopkins Medical School and the school itself were very real because this was part of a very long history of exploiting community members. So the workers were organizing, and you know, I had read about activism, I cared about it. I paid as much attention as I could for a high school student. But when I got to college, this organizing [00:05:00] campaign was going, and the workers were really clear, Hey, college kids who are excited about this, we do have a role for you. It's to fill the crowd. It's to cheer us on. It's to when we ask you communicate to the university that our well-being matters to you because they will listen to you in different ways. But the campaign centered the workers and was really clear with us about what our role was because we were the folks with all the privilege by getting to be there, right? We had tons of privilege and it was a really good lesson for me. I am so grateful. The first organizing campaign I was a part of was a labor campaign that understood what it meant to center the people who were the most impacted by injustice and I think that shaped the rest of my career.  [00:05:46] Swati Rayasam: And that's so special too because I think for many people who come into organizing, and I will definitely cop to this myself, like coming up and organizing through high school and college level organizing. When you are a student, nobody ever [00:06:00] tells you that actually you are the least useful kind of organizer that exists. Right. You are in this incredibly enclaved community. Your oppressor, the university, all they have to do is wait for you to graduate institutional memory will not keep you. Yeah. Right. And I think that it is, it's this perfect storm of, you have actually sometimes cool ideas, sometimes very rudimentary ideas, but you also have this turnover issue and you have this sense of self import, which often comes with your teens, early twenties. Yep. As you're just figuring all of that out. So Yeah, self differentiation, right? It's a narcissistic phase in our development. .  [00:06:46] Swati Rayasam: It absolutely is and I think that's so important, and I can't imagine how my life would be shaped if I didn't have to spend a lot of time unlearning the self import and narcissism that I had gained through student [00:07:00] organizing. [00:07:00] Sandhya Jha: Yeah. No, I am really, really grateful for it.  [00:07:02] Sandhya Jha: My first job outta college was working for a member of Congress, which sounds super fancy and pretentious, but, a member of congress from Akron, Ohio. So put that all in perspective. His name, believe it or not, was Tom Sawyer. Oh, wow. What I loved about Tom was back in those days, he believed very strongly that 80% of legislation was nonpartisan and that was the part that he spent most of his time on. He would weigh in with his party, when they were dealing with that 20% pretty consistently. But he was more interested in the stuff that everybody could agree on and I remember for about 15 years after I worked for him, I looked back and found myself thinking that was so naive. How did he not understand where we were about to head with the divisions between the political parties? But at this point in my life, I realize the people I respect most in organizing work keep pointing out that the binary of [00:08:00] left and right actually doesn't serve us very well. One of my biggest heroes in the movement right now is the Reverend Dr. William Barber,  [00:08:07] Swati Rayasam: Hometown hero of mine. Yes.  [00:08:09] Sandhya Jha: Poor People's campaign from North Carolina. And he always talks about how it's not about right and left. It's about right and wrong. And it turns out that when we engage in organizing with the awareness that there are huge swaths of things that most of us are well served by, we can do better organizing. And that was actually how Tom was legislating. And at a certain point I realized that my deep passion was around racial justice, but the distinct experience I had in a multi religious household was an awareness of how religion was being used as a weapon. I had an obsession. Every paper in college I wrote was about the Christian coalition, this right wing, organizing body in the nineties. So a friend of mine [00:09:00] said, You know, there's an interfaith organization working against the Christian Coalition. And it was called the Interfaith Alliance. Her mom had been a superintendent in Washington state in eastern Washington and was a pretty conservative person by my standards. [00:09:18] Sandhya Jha: But, Dr. Chow believed in multiculturalism and believed in teaching evolution. And the Christian coalition had organized to push her out of her position as superintendent and the Interfaith Alliance of Washington State had supported her in that time. [00:09:38] Sandhya Jha: And so Liz said, you know, they've got a national chapter, a national office. And that's where I ended up, cutting my adult organizing teeth which was great because talk about learning lessons for our current moment where religion is being weaponized in ways that are anti-trans, that are anti-queer, that are anti-women, that [00:10:00] are anti reproductive rights, that are anti-immigrant and refugee. I am really grateful to have experienced the power of multi-faith organizing, around a lot of those same issues. So that was what I did in the early two thousands and then I went to seminary and public policy school, and then I ended up out here pastoring a congregation of 10 people in a building of 40,000 square feet. [00:10:29] Sandhya Jha: And long story short, that's how the Oakland Peace Center was born, was out of this dream of cultivating deeper collaboration among nonprofits who were dedicated to a shared cause. The Oakland Peace Center, which is a collective of 40 different nonprofits committed to dismantling the root causes of violence in our community. I was the founder of that organization and it was when I was pastoring First Christian Church of Oakland that I asked the handful of folks who were members of that church, what they wanted to [00:11:00] contribute to the community, and they said they wanted to contribute peace in the midst of violence. And for a dozen folks to have given birth to a space that in non pandemic years, saw over a hundred thousand people do things like the Lawyers for Black Lives Conference and to do Kingian non-violence training and to be a part of food and clothing distribution, to participate in all the very diverse ways that we can create peace is pretty impressive.  [00:11:30] Sandhya Jha: And a couple of years ago, I left the Oakland Peace Center because a colleague of mine said, Anybody can run a non-profit. We need you to do what you're actually good at, and what she meant by that was we need more people of color doing diversity, equity, and inclusion work that is actually grounded in power analysis. That isn't just how do we be nicer to each other in the workplace, but how do we recognize the ways that systems of white supremacy [00:12:00] unconsciously often shape the culture of our workplaces? And what do we do to dismantle that white supremacy culture so that we can be building nonprofits and institutions of higher education and faith organizations, and even corporations that are dedicated to our full liberation, our liberation, the lands liberation. [00:12:23] Swati Rayasam: I mean coming, especially from the place that you come in grassroots organizing and in faith based organizing, what is it actually to transition into this kind of consulting space around racial justice and really interface with a lot of people that I feel like as organizers, we don't really talk to? [00:12:42] Sandhya Jha: One of my favorite things about this shift in my work is I love getting to work with folks who don't think of themselves as organizers, who, it turns out are organizers, Right. I think we sometimes create a cult of here's what an organizer looks like, you [00:13:00] have to be a Martin Luther King or a Cesar Chavez and what I love is getting to work with moms and with teenagers and with folks who think of themselves as caring, compassionate, individuals, and when I go into an organization and work with their handful of folks who care about this issue, the DEI team, I get to teach them how to strategically organize. I get to teach them how do you create culture shift over time? I get to teach them how do you figure out who your allies are? How do you figure out how to move people who are neutral? It turns out that there are a lot more organizers out there than we realize if we don't create one definition of what an organizer needs to look like.  [00:13:45] Swati Rayasam: I have been reading this political scholar Eqbal Ahmed, who really talks about the way the burden is on those of us who are deeply committed to movement work, narrow definition people, the burden is really on us to try and [00:14:00] create a liberatory future that feels both achievable. Mm-hmm. and safe for everybody. Because when people engage in mass struggle and in revolution, there are people who are a hundred percent willing to put their lives on the line. People who are willing to die for the cause. And we absolutely need those people. And there are many people along the spectrum who, if you can create a future that feels like it's within their grasp, they will come with you.  [00:14:30] Sandhya Jha: Yep. I teach a lot of organizing classes and have gotten a chance to teach alongside my beloved colleague BK Woodson at Allen Temple Baptist Church, they have a leadership institute there. And one of the books we use is Blueprint for a Revolution by Srđa Popović. And I feel like I learned a lot as we read that book together and thought about how to apply it to the work we're doing in Oakland. They talked about how by engaging in nonviolent direct action, [00:15:00] they created space for elders to be a part of their work and youth to be a part of their work and families to be a part of their work. By making the movement playful. They gave people hope and gave people courage because dictators are terrified of being mocked.  [00:15:17] Swati Rayasam: Yeah, exactly. And I think by being really restrictive or narrow about who we view as actually valuable organizers. And I think labor movements teach us this a lot, right? We really cut ourselves off at the knees on our ability to build a network or to be in touch with the general population, many of whom are more connected than we ever give them credit for.  [00:15:41] Sandhya Jha: Yeah. Yep. it's part of why I love labor organizing. I talk with a lot of people who are disenchanted with organizing who ask me how I can have stayed involved for the past 25 years. And why I've been able to stay in it is cuz I'm organizing alongside workers and they have [00:16:00] full lives. And the work that they're doing in the movement is so that they can live their full lives. And there's something about having that perspective and recognizing the why all the time instead of getting lost in the weeds of the what. Is so important in this work. I think that has been a big theme of my organizing life is how do we build to the greatest common denominator? As my friend BK often says how do we build towards those shared values that often get erased when we are engaged in the right versus left debate. [00:16:39] Swati Rayasam: Yeah. I think that it is so important and I also think that it's really hard in this moment of what feels like constant trauma and re trauma. [00:16:51] Swati Rayasam: And to some extent especially when we're talking about the left right dichotomy there are real concerns [00:17:00] about safety. Yep. And there are real concerns about security and who you are in community with and who you can find even the smallest level of acceptance from to ensure that you won't have violence visited upon you. And I think that these conversations of united front organizing, Right. trying to bridge across difference mm-hmm. for a shared goal, for a shared liberatory future Yep. Are really important. And they feel kind of impossible to achieve right now.  [00:17:31] Sandhya Jha: It's interesting cuz I think that in many ways that is true. There are a lot of conversations that I think people with privilege expect, people who are marginalized to engage in. And those expectations are unfair, what I found very frustrating was the number of people with a lot of privilege who would be like, Ugh, I just can't talk to those people. And I'm like, Then who's going to? Exactly. and so I do think that some of this is about being willing to have [00:18:00] hard conversations in the places where we have privilege and recognizing who's at actual risk and showing up in ways that are protective of who is at risk. But that doesn't mean walking away from people who aren't where we are. Right. Because the fact of the matter is everybody's on a journey. And I have watched at the same time some of the disposability culture in movements write off people without giving them any way to address harm, repair harm, and find a pathway back into community. [00:18:41] Swati Rayasam: Yeah. And I think that's why, at least I am feeling really hopeful about, what I've seen over the past couple of years, this really important track into transformative justice and restorative justice, to acknowledge that there is harm that has happened, there are harms that happen every day between people. [00:19:00] And also we are all on our own journey to unlearn the things that we have been taught either directly or indirectly by our upbringing, by our environment and that you cannot easily dispose of people and that people are able to come back into community. Now that comes with a very important caveat that like they recognize the harm. Mm-hmm. that. They have done or how they've been party to it, that they acknowledge that there is healing work that needs to be done both with the person that they harmed and also probably in internally.  [00:19:35] Sandhya Jha: Well, and the community, folks who don't do RJ on a regular basis tend to skip the community aspect. Yeah. That there is actually repair that needs to be done with community and there's work community needs to do to figure out how to re-embrace reabsorb people who have done harm in ways that still protect the person who's been harmed. [00:19:55] Swati Rayasam: Exactly. In ways that do not erase the harm that has happened, but [00:20:00] acknowledge, contextualize it and say, Okay, we are patching this and we are working to move forward in step with each other. Absolutely.  [00:20:09] Sandhya Jha: Can I just say that one of the other things that I think you and I have in common is a real passion for bringing joy back into the work of Justice I quote Fabiana Rodriguez a lot on this particular thing, because I was at an event she was doing eons ago, and she looked out at us and most of us were activists and she said, Listen, y ‘all you keep inviting people to a struggle. I'm on your side and I don't wanna join a struggle. I want to join a party. And that was like a call to arms for me when I heard her say that. I was like, Oh my gosh, you're right. We are so much more fun. Like, I've hung out with people who are anti-trans and anti queer and anti-immigrant and anti refugee. They are not fun people. No, no. We have all of the best parties. So I don't know why we don't [00:21:00] capitalize on that more. So I think the role of joy and justice is so important. And this is why I was so excited to have you on the podcast that I launched recently. [00:21:11] Sandhya Jha: Right. Bending Towards Justice Avatar the last Airbender for the Global Majority.  [00:21:15] Swati Rayasam: So literally like bringing it together. Two of my favorite things right, is like TV shows, wholesome TV shows like Avatar, The Last Airbender that I deeply love and organizing. Yes. All the work that I love. And I think it's true You know, what is actually really the important work is to work to build toward a future that is desirable Yep. That people want to be a part of. Yeah. That people can see happen. Yeah. And I think that is a lot of the difficulty that I have seen in some organizing circles. We are so well versed in what we are against and all of the things that are bad that so many people have a really hard time seeing or visioning or communicating [00:22:00] what it is that we are fighting for. Yeah. Right. And it's not enough to say, I'm fighting for a world where we can all be safe. Right. Yeah. I'm not, I'm fighting for a world where we can all take long naps in the middle of the day if we'd like to do that. Right. Yeah. But like really building and visioning that future of like, in this world in which we are all safe, there will be harm that happens. How do we deal with that? Yeah. What do we do with that? How do we make sure that it is able to keep everybody safe and also able to account for the times in which it is not able to keep everybody safe. [00:22:38] Sandhya Jha: Visionary does not have to mean naive. And we need it to be visionary. And sometimes I forget to do the visionary stuff. I've got a colleague, Dave Bell, he's a farmer who is also an anti-racism trainer and we do a lot of work together. He's a white guy who lives in White Swan, Washington, on the reservation and I remember being at a training with him and I [00:23:00] was all fired up and I was so excited about the conversations we were having and the people were really ready to do the hard work and roll up their sleeves. And Dave says to them, I would like to not have to do this work. And I'm like, What is he talking about? This is amazing. We're doing such good work. And he says, I would like for us not to have to talk about racism all the time. I would rather be farming. I would rather be, taking care of the cows in my field. [00:23:26] Sandhya Jha: I would rather be talking about my pottery work that I'm doing badly but learning how to do, I would rather be doing anything than have this conversation. But I don't get to be on the farm with the wheat, with the cows, with my bad pottery until we figured out how to do this anti-racism work. And it was a really humbling moment for me because I also get into that like I'm an organizer, that's my identity space. And it was this reminder of Dave's doing this. So he gets to live in a world where he gets to hang out in the fields and he [00:24:00] gets to, love on the cows. There's something about being reminded that we're doing this so that eventually we don't have to do it. That I think is actually visionary in its own way and it's important.  [00:24:12] Swati Rayasam: Moving into a little bit more of the grit of like why I asked you to be on the show today. I met you originally when I moved to the Bay Area when you were the executive director of the Oakland Peace Center because At that time I was doing organizing work with the Alliance of South Asians Taking Action, which is a 20 year old bay area based organization, that was really founded around the Laki Reddy Bali Reddy sex trafficking. Yep. Caste and labor exploitation case that happened in Berkeley in 1999. And I was just so thrilled to be around and have in community so many rad desis. And you also did work with ASATA, right. Historically and are actively doing work with us.  [00:24:56] Sandhya Jha: Absolutely. One of the places I think I invested the most [00:25:00] energy in where we got to spend a lot of quality time in the kitchen was one of the projects, Bay Area Solidarity Summer, an organizing institute, camp, however you wanna refer to it. [00:25:10] Swati Rayasam: Political education, Summer camp.  [00:25:12] Swati Rayasam: Yeah, exactly. For young South Asian Americans who are committed to activism. What I think was the most beautiful part of that program when I was involved in it, and it's still the case today, is for young South Asians who think that they're the only ones who care about justice issues, who haven't met other people, who are South Asian, and identify as justice seekers first to meet each other and realize that there are people just like them. Then to look around and realize that those of us who are usually 10, 15, 20 years older than them are also committed to the work and have been doing it for decades. And then for them to get exposed to the long history of radical visionary organizing and activism of South [00:26:00] Asians here in the US and also in the homelands of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and diasporic countries all over the world. [00:26:13] Sandhya Jha: There's something about realizing, Oh, you have contemporaries, oh, you have elders, oh, you have ancestors. Mm-hmm. Especially in the face of the model minority lie that so many of us have had imposed on us, this lie that all we are all we're supposed to be is cogs in this larger capitalist machine that are non disruptive, which is why we're allowed to survive. And if we are non disruptive enough, we might even be able to be comfortable. And to discover that there's more to our story than that is so exciting and I love, love, love being a part of that.  [00:26:52] Swati Rayasam: Yeah. I think that is like fundamentally one of the most important kind of activities that [00:27:00] happens in the ASATA universe, I was a kid who also grew up thinking that there were no other South Asians like me, or there were no other folks who were interested in justice. I spent a lot of time doing, reproductive and queer justice in the south; I always think about what would it have meant if I came in, BASS for 18 to 24 year olds. Yep. what would it have meant if I had come in at a fresh 18 and been able to basically be apprised of the fact that I have this history Yeah. That it's not just me. And that actually, immigration and white supremacy and neo-colonial culture has created this project of assimilation that all of our parents have been in on, in a way to survive Yeah. And to be safe. And I tell my, I tell my mom that a lot because she's always a little surprised about the organizing work that I do. And I was just like, Your job was to survive. My job is to liberate. Yeah. [00:28:00] You know? Yeah. And I could not do that if you were not so focused on creating that environment for me. [00:28:07] Swati Rayasam: I love that.  [00:28:07] Swati Rayasam: we'll drop in the show notes, but, BASS – Bay Area Solidarity Summer is solidaritysummer.org. So we'll put that in the show notes as well as ASATA, the Alliance of South Asians Taking Action is ASATA.org. And yeah, I think that is a really good segue into how we got involved in this amazing project.  [00:28:31] Swati Rayasam: You're tuned in to APEX express at 94.1 KPFA and 89.3, KPFB in Berkeley. And online@kpfa.org.  [00:28:43] Swati Rayasam: I think it was Fall 2021 that you and I were talking. Yep. And you were telling me that you were involved in this amazing archival fellowship project. Is run by the South Asian American Digital Archive and [00:29:00] that you were going to do your project about labor. Mm-hmm. and South Asians. Yep. And my immediate, incredibly naive response was, how many South Asians are there in labor?  [00:29:12] Sandhya Jha: Exactly. And it's not naive. It's interesting cuz I think that this project actually emerged out of my favorite part of BASS, which was when the young adults would ask what their opportunities were in the world of justice. And I would say, you know, there's a place for us in labor justice. It had never crossed most of their minds. Right. We don't think of ourselves as having a role especially in formalized unions. And so SAADA, the South Asian American Digital Archives has an archival fellows project. And the whole purpose of it is to diversify their archives and collect the stories that are usually overlooked in the telling of South Asian American stories. [00:29:56] Sandhya Jha: And they have done a great job over the years of collecting the [00:30:00] stories of informal organizing, like the Punjabi Taxi Drivers campaign, the Bangladeshi Nail Workers Campaign. Those were informal labor organizing campaigns. That have been really well archived and they're amazing stories. I wanted to make sure that the next generation of South Asian activists knew about the South Asians who were actually part of the formal organized labor movement. [00:30:30] Sandhya Jha: And so I spent this past year interviewing, maybe a half a dozen or so South Asian American workers. Generally, not always, but mostly what would be classified as low wage workers who found a pathway into formal organizing bodies, unite here or the building trades or any number of the formal unions that keep [00:31:00] the labor movement alive across the country today. And I'm really proud of the fact that we do have South Asian workers who have moved up the ranks to be official organizers or to be at negotiating tables. And so that's part of the story I thought it was worth us telling. [00:31:19] Swati Rayasam: And I am, I'm so excited that we get to dive deeper into this project and I really love your framing too, around the three large bins that you have, solidarity, spirit and struggle. [00:31:34] Swati Rayasam: Right? Yeah. Yeah.  [00:31:35] Sandhya Jha: I started out with certain assumptions about what I was going to learn, partly because I've been doing labor solidarity work for 25 years at this point. I really thought I knew what I was gonna hear. And what I discovered was there were these consistent themes across, the interviews. that there were these notions of, Oh, what's meaningful to me is [00:32:00] getting to organize across cultures, getting to organize with people who, on the surface and even deep down are very different than me, but we share this vision of what our lives can be. And so that solidarity message I found really powerful. Also, and admittedly because I come out of a spiritual background, was probably looking for it. I was really struck by how many of the interviews ended up talking about the role of spirituality and shaping people's values. And in a couple of instances, organizers said, what my religion taught me was that religion needs to be challenged. And building up that muscle was what helped me challenge systems of injustice in other places. But others said that their journey with their faith tradition was what guided them into the work of labor organizing. [00:32:52] Sandhya Jha: And then that third bucket of struggle, I think is the lived experience of how [00:33:00] hard it is to take on oppressive systems of capitalism, how hard it is to take on decks that are stacked against us and what it means to have somewhere to turn in the midst of those struggles. I will say there were also a couple of lessons I was surprised by because my South Asian identity is so central to my organizing work, I was expecting to collect stories of people who were proud South Asians, who were also proud to be involved in the labor movement. And I assumed that they would see connections between those things because I certainly do. But what I discovered is for the most part, they were like, Yeah, I'm South Asian. I'm not saying that doesn't matter, but it's not super relevant to my organizing work. My organizing work is about [00:34:00] our cross-cultural solidarity. And that was something I hadn't been expecting that emerged as I did those interviews. Interesting. And I'm really grateful that the South Asian American Digital Archives likes telling all of the stories because I think I promised them that what they were going to get was, we're proud to be South Asian organizers. And what I got was, yeah, we're South Asian, we're proud to be organizers. And the that SAADA is like, yeah, that's part of our story too.  [00:34:28] Swati Rayasam: Yeah. And I think that's, that I think is incredibly important. We have this really, amazing series of audio clips from your SAADA interviews that really represent a lot of the themes that you were highlighting about solidarity, spirit, and struggle. And I'm just really excited to play them as we talk through these larger themes in your larger project and the experience of South Asian labor organizers. [00:34:55] Swati Rayasam: This clip is from somebody that you and I both know, which [00:35:00] is Prem Pariyar. I was so thrilled that Prem was a part of your project. I think Prem is an incredible organizer, so yeah tell our listeners a little bit about Prem. Prem  [00:35:09] Sandhya Jha: It was pretty exciting to get to work with him you know, he moved here from Nepal and in Nepal he had been a Dalit activist and he came to the United States and had this notion that in the United States there is no caste and he was disabused of that notion very quickly as a restaurant worker dealing with anti Nepali bias in Indian restaurants, dealing with caste bias in Nepali restaurants, well dealing with Caste bias in all the restaurants.  [00:35:35] Swati Rayasam: Hey, everyone, Narrator Swati here, I just wanted to put in an explanatory comma, a la W Kamau Bell and Hari Kondabolu to talk about some terms you just heard. Sandhya referenced that Prem was a Dalit activist and also talked about Caste bias. For those of you who don't know, Caste is a violent system of oppression and exclusion, which governs social status in many south Asian countries, although it is [00:36:00] most commonly associated with India. It works on an axis of purity and pollution, and it's hereditary. At the top of the caste system are Brahmins, by the way Sandhya and I are both Brahmin, and not even at the bottom, but completely outside of the system are Dalits who were previously referred to by the slur untouchable and Adivasis who are indigenous to South Asia.  [00:36:25] Swati Rayasam: Despite being “illegal” Caste bias, Caste Oppression, Caste apartheid, are still prevalent, both in South Asia and as Sandhya references, in the United States. It manifests in many ways that people experience racial injustice, via socioeconomic inequality, systemic and interpersonal violence, occupation, and through the determination of marriage and other relationships. You can learn more at EqualityLabs.org and APEX currently has a show in the works that delves into this more deeply. Now. Back to Sandhya  [00:36:58] Sandhya Jha: What is [00:37:00] delightful to me is Prem went on to get an MSW and is building out amazing mental health resources for Dalit communities for the Nepali community. Seeking to build out a program where there are more and more people in Nepal who are trained with MSW skills.  [00:37:21] Sandhya Jha: I met with one of his professors from CSU East Bay where he got his degree and she said, You know, that the entire Cal State system is adding caste to its anti-discrimination policies thanks to the work he started at CSU East Bay. And it was really beautiful to hear that because the focus of my conversations with him were more around how his experiences in the restaurants led him into the solidarity work with nail salon workers. [00:37:53] Swati Rayasam: To just, kick back to the caste abolition work that Prem has been doing, that caste abolition work [00:38:00] at CSU East Bay has been such critical work in these ongoing conversations around caste that have been in the South Asian community primarily, but have been percolating elsewhere. [00:38:13] Swati Rayasam: You know, the state of California filed a lawsuit against Cisco systems Yep. For caste discrimination in their workplace and there have been all these conversations around caste and tech work and interplay that with the no tech for apartheid work. Right. That has been happening in Palestinian liberation circles. Yeah. And really building that solidarity movement. So I think that Prem is an absolute powerhouse Yeah. In that regard. But yeah, let's listen to this clip.  [00:38:42] Prem: During that time, I got connected with other community organizer, like workers group. I got connected and so I was connected with nail salon workers, who were exploited at their workplace and with them, [00:39:00] I got to go to the capital in Sacramento. And so I thought I need to advocate for the restaurant workers. that was my first experience, like working with other workers and with the assembly members and like other other policy makers I shared what is happening what kinds of discrimination happening at the workplace. So I advocated for the restaurant workers at that time. I shared my stories and I supported the rights of nail salon workers. I was there to support them and they supported me as well, and it was wonderful. And finally that advocacy worked. And the bill was drafted and it was passed finally. And so it was huge achievement at that time.  [00:39:49] Swati Rayasam: I love that. I think that is such a perfect story of when you win, we all win.  [00:39:56] Sandhya Jha: And what I also love about it is he goes on [00:40:00] to talk about how he has remained in relationship with those nail salon workers. That they show up for each other, that they take each other food, that they show up to each other's baby showers and birthday parties, and there's this sense of community that emerges out of this shared struggle. And so that's a cross-cultural campaign. They were mostly Vietnamese. There were some Bangladeshi nail salon workers, but it was mostly people from a different culture than his. [00:40:27] Sandhya Jha: But somebody at the Asian Health Services program that he was at, saw his gifts, saw his passion, and he really responded to that in exactly, the most powerful way. I can imagine. [00:40:38] Swati Rayasam: And I think one of the nice things as well about that is that person at Asian Health Services connected Prem in and the Nail Salon Worker group, California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative, Prem came from Nepal, I'm not sure, but the extent to which his organizing background and how comfortable he was in the US organizing space around labor [00:41:00] issues was probably significantly less that worker group took it upon themselves when they saw Prem come in to say, Oh, you are advocating on behalf of restaurant workers. Great. Why don't you join us? Let's help support and so the nail salon workers saw Prem, saw solidarity with Prem and said, It is our responsibility mm-hmm to bring you into this space to connect you in and to move in, struggle together. Yeah. Toward our shared goals of safety, of health, of rights. Yep.  [00:41:35] Sandhya Jha: Exactly.  [00:41:36] Swati Rayasam: So, we have this clip from Daljit, tell me a little bit about Daljit. Daljit [00:41:42] Sandhya Jha: Yeah. Daljit was an attorney who now reads tarot for people because she needed a break from the toxicity of that career and how it was taking her away from her family. Daljit is a deeply spiritual person and, [00:42:00] as I mentioned before, this theme of spirit showed up in some really beautiful ways in some of the interviews. I loved the way she understood her Sikh tradition as foundationally being connected with the land and foundationally connected with the people who work the land. [00:42:15] Daljit: Agriculture is our culture and the religion that I was born into, Siki, the founder of that faith was a farmer. And so a lot of the scripture, the analogies, the metaphors, the poetry, the music, the songs, the boon, the traditional folk songs, that can be taunting and teasing banter, all that stuff the land is the framework for that. And my most favorite line from the Guru Granth Sahib, our holy book, is, [speaks Punjabi] and that basically means that, the waters our guru, the airs our father, but our mother is Earth. And that's the greatest of all , and that's adherence to ecosystem. That's the [00:43:00] indigenous Cosmo vision that should be paramount. And that's what I try to teach my children. And so I think that's what I was taught as a kid without necessarily being able to pinpoint it, but it was just infused throughout our songs, our music, our food, the Harvest, there's two times a year that our celebrations, whether it Baisakhi or Lohri. It's so connected to the harvest and what is coming out of the soil or not. And you're connected to the cycles of nature. [00:43:28] Swati Rayasam: The connection between nature land, spirituality the way that it shows up in so many faith backgrounds and so many faith organizers, I think is really, really beautiful.  [00:43:41] Sandhya Jha: And I love that Daljit Kaursoni who was raised in this tradition, has found her way to Buddhism and is raising her kids with those connections, but without ever losing this grounding in the liberation of the land, the liberation of the [00:44:00] people. [00:44:00] Sandhya Jha: And for that to be a key element of her spirituality, even as her spirituality evolves, I think it's pretty powerful.  Tafadar [00:44:08] Sandhya Jha: One of the other people I got to interview ,Tafadar, he's a Bangladeshi American in the building trades and is a deeply committed Marxist. For me, this was a particularly exciting interview because I'm Bengali, so from West Bengal, before partition, Bangladesh and what's now West Bengal, were one state. And so it was fun to get to talk with him and to say, Hey, this is our legacy as Bengalis is radical worker organizing. [00:44:40] Sandhya Jha: And I remember saying to him, Some people in the building trades are not super excited to be working with brown people. And some people in the building trades are a little biased against women. And as a very, very progressive South Asian? How do you navigate that [00:45:00] space? [00:45:00] Sandhya Jha: And he said, Here's the thing is, yeah, I organize alongside some moderate to conservative white folks from New Jersey and he said, but in the building trades, if that moderate to conservative white guy from New Jersey decides he doesn't like my feminist politics, or he doesn't like my brown skin, if he decides that's a reason not to train me, he might die. And it was really interesting because even though I've been doing labor justice work for a long time, it was one of those moments I was like, Oh, right. Your work is very dangerous and you all have to rely on each other whether you like each other or not. That is the magic of organizing that no one ever talks about. This is why we can do cross class, cross-cultural work because literally you have to trust each other with your lives. Right. That was a really clarifying moment for me. And it was one of those interesting moments where I was like, [00:46:00] Solidarity is not a romantic thing. Uh, it is very much a matter of life and death. [00:46:05] Sandhya Jha: And I think that is really important and that exact thing that you brought up, you don't even have to necessarily trust somebody. Right. But you do need them. Yep. Right. And like that really clear understanding that like your fates are intertwined and it is truly in everybody's best interest. If you are trained well, irrespective of whether or not at lunch, I'm interested in sitting anywhere near you. I think that's really great. [00:46:32] Sandhya Jha: One of the things that was really exciting about talking with Tafadar was the reminder that labor organizing and formal union organizing at its best can be in solidarity with other movements really worker justice and housing justice and racial justice are inseparable, on some level. And so, one of the most inspiring stories I got to hear across all of these interviews [00:47:00] was a campaign that brought together folks across the anti- gentrification, the immigrant rights, and the labor justice movement. [00:47:14] Tafadar: It's ironic, building affordable housing with deadly exploitation. And, um, to do this, the de blassio administration, they embark on massive major rezonings of poor areas to relax the local zoning laws to be able to bring in these developments. And a couple of years ago, my, my union in local 79's. Took a very sharp turn towards a community organizing approach because labor can't win on our own, and that's the perspective that all of labor should adopt. In order to fight against the sweatshops in our industry. We united with a lot of community organizations in the South Bronx. [00:47:53] Tafadar: We formed the South Bronx, Safe Southern Boulevard Coalition. And along with these groups, we [00:48:00] protested and did a whole lot of activism, lobbying, community organizing to stop the rezoning of Southern Boulevard, which is a massive stretch in the South Bronx, while the De Blassio administration had succeeded in another part of the Bronx where there's like massive displacement still underway right now. And we were determined to stop it there. And it was a beautiful thing that we can unite because on our end as labor, we had to prevent all these trash companies from coming in and exploiting workers. And we were working with these tenants who are afraid of being displaced. And people generally, we do need revitalization of our neighborhoods. We do need investment. We do need things to be changed and made better. For us. If it's not for us, if it's done without us, then eventually we're not even gonna be here anymore. So we had that alliance going on and not only did we manage to stop that rezoning, we also educated the local city councilman on why his position was wrong and supporting the rezoning. And he eventually completely flipped this [00:49:00] position. And now chairs the land use committee of the city council from the perspective that we educated him on, which it's just been a very interesting dynamic. But, there's a lot of rezoning battles all over the city that's like the main front of anti gentrification struggles. And I've been watching those kinds of campaigns go on since I began organizing about 15, 16. I've seen very different approaches to them, but I've never seen any model really work until that one kicked in where Labor and the community came together. So that was one of my favorite campaigns because of that lesson that we were able to concretely put into practice and set as an example for not only for community movements all over New York City, but also for Labor. [00:49:43] Sandhya Jha: I think this hit me in particular because I've done so much work around antis displacement in Oakland, and my experience has been. [00:49:53] Sandhya Jha: That while for most of us on the ground, the connection between housing justice and labor justice is really clear. When you [00:50:00] start getting into the technical policy issues and the funding issues, the folks who are running labor and housing justice or affordable housing, struggle to find ways to collaborate. And it's been one of my consistent heartbreaks for at least a decade at this point because I work at the intersection of those things and sometimes I despair of us being able to find ways to move forward together. And so to hear a story like this one and to be reminded at core, those justice issues can and must be we already knew, must be, but actually can function together to build a better community. That was actually really life giving for me to hear.  [00:50:45] Swati Rayasam: Yeah. I a hundred percent agree. And I think the point that Tafadar as well brings in the clip of just saying we knew that we could do this, but we knew we couldn't do this without community organizing. Right? Yeah. That labor couldn't do this alone. Yeah. [00:51:00] And I think that is a lot of what, when we talk about solidarity politics, it's not just a backdoor way of inclusion for inclusion's sake, we have to all do this. Actually, it is integral that all of us are involved in any of these campaigns because it impacts all of us. And because we are not going to win with only a single constituency and in the very same way that, Tafadar was identifying that labor couldn't do that alone. in community organizing spaces that you and I have been in mm-hmm. , like we are constantly talking about how we cannot do any of this without labor. Yep. And I think a beautiful example of that is the Block the Boat campaign yeah that the Arab Resource Organizing Center, started back in 2014 and then again during 2021 to block the Zim ship from the port of Oakland. And like this community organization [00:52:00] AROC could not do that without working with the longshoreman to collaborate with the port workers. And I think that when we see the marriage of community organizing and labor organizing, that is when we get the power of grassroots organizing. [00:52:16] Sandhya Jha: Something I wanna mention about the SAADA Fellowship that I was really grateful for: two things. First off, they did a really good job of making sure we got trained in grassroots oral history. So they took really seriously what it meant for this to be justice work. And they made sure we had exposure to methodology that was gonna lift up and honor and foster the voices of people whose stories don't get heard often enough. And that was a really big deal to me. The other thing is they made sure that we had an advisory board, people who are in this [00:53:00] work who could help us, figure out who to talk with, who could help us build out an event strategy. And you helped me build out my advisory committee. Anibel Ferris-Comelo who is with the University of California Labor Center,  [00:53:14] Swati Rayasam: Prem Pariyar, a Nepali Dalit restaurant worker, organizer pushing for Caste as a protected category with Equality Labs, a Dalit feminist organization, and a social worker supporting the mental health needs of his and many other South Asian communities in Alameda county.  [00:53:31] Swati Rayasam: Will Jamil Wiltchko with the California Trade Justice Coalition, Terry Valen who I did a lot of organizing with at the beginning of the pandemic, around the struggles that seafarers were facing with the onset of COVID-19. And he's the organizational director of the Filipino Community Center in San Francisco. The president of NAFCON which is the National Alliance for Filipino Concerns and just an all in all amazing organizer [00:53:57] Sandhya Jha: the last thing I wanna mention [00:54:00] is SAADA also helped me set up a digital exhibit with Art by Madhvi Trivedi Patak and I wanted to give them a shoutout because they're an incredible artist, but also they grew up in a working class family and didn't get exposed to what it looks like to do labor justice. And so as they developed the artwork to go with the digital exhibit, they got to experience the possibilities of labor solidarity that they hadn't gotten to experience as a child. And so I really loved that Madhvi was a part of this project as well [00:54:38] Swati Rayasam: All of the clips that you shared really identifying, again, these like huge fundamental pillars of solidarity and spirit and struggle. these clips were amazing. They are so rich and so layered with all of these people's varying and different experiences. Really showing in [00:55:00] all of these different walks of life at all of these ages with all of these experiences, that all of these people have this unified and shared identity in struggle, in spirit, and in solidarity for liberation. [00:55:14] Sandhya Jha: And one of the things that I think is worth celebrating is whether they see it as part of their South Asian identity or not. People who do identify as South Asian now have this resource that says there's a home for you in the labor movement. Yes, there are. There is a value to your voice. There is a value to your wisdom, there's a value to your experience in the labor movement. [00:55:36] Swati Rayasam: I think it's a beautiful project. Sandhya, I think it has been an amazing amount of work I've watched you do over the past year. These stories are so wonderful. I really encourage people to check it out. Where can they find your project? [00:55:49] Sandhya Jha: The website's www.saada.org/acfp [00:56:00] /exhibit/solidarity-forever. We'll put that in the notes. We'll definitely put that in the show notes. [00:56:05] Swati Rayasam: I just wanna make sure that we replug your podcast Bending Toward Justice Avatar, The Last Air Bender for the Global Majority and you can find that at tinyurl.com slash ATLA podcast, Capital P (tinyurl.com/ATLAPodcast). And then the last thing that I also wanna make sure that we plug is Without Fear Consulting. [00:56:27] Sandhya Jha: I love working with folks who know that their organization could be a little more liberative, and are, just not quite sure where to start. I love working with a team of folks who want to be about the work of incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion into the DNA of their organization and I love setting them up so that they can keep doing that long after I'm working with them. So please do find me withoutfearconsulting.com. If you're interested in that.  [00:56:58] Swati Rayasam: Amazing. Sandhya [00:57:00] Jha, Pastor, Racial Justice consultant, podcast host, archivist, singer songwriter, amazing cook. You can do it all. I think you deserve a nap. it has been amazing talking to you. I am so glad to be able to hear about your project and also to hear a lot more about your life.  [00:57:23] Sandhya Jha: Yay. Thank you so much. [00:57:25]  Miko Lee: Please check out our website, kpfa.org backslash program, backslash apex express to find out more about the show tonight and to find out how you can take direct action. We thank all of you listeners out there. Keep resisting, keep organizing, keep creating and sharing your visions with the world. Your voices are important. Apex express is produced by Miko Lee Jalena Keane-Lee and Paige Chung and special editing by Swati Rayasam. Thank you so much to the KPFA staff for their support have a great night.  The post APEX Express 1.5.23 South Asians and The Labor Justice Movement appeared first on KPFA.

Alfa Romeo Driver Editor Guy Swarbrick sits down with AROC management team member David Faithful to talk about the Club's new website, which launched this week. Behind the clean, modern feel is a completely new website, built with an emphasis on making it easier for Club officials and members to share content. David talks through the features available from day one - and about some of the plans for future enhancements.

In this week's episode, Editor Guy Swarbrick looks back at the NEC Classic Motor Show where he sat down with Alfasud Registrar Ian Brookfield to talk about the cars on this year's AROC stand, Jonathan Trinder to learn more about his 47 year old Alfasud ti and Club Chairman John Griffiths to get an insight into what's involved in planning and preparing for one of the biggest classic motor shows in the world.

Alfa Romeo Driver Editor Guy Swarbrick is joined at the round table by Club Chairman and East Midlands Section Secretary John Griffiths, Alfa Female supremo, GT Registrar and Thames Valley Section Secretary Kirsty Hodson, and management team member and MiTo Registrar David Faithful. They look back at some of the events over the Summer - particularly National Alfa Day - and the events still to come - MITCAR and The Classic Motor Show at the NEC. Kirsty reflects on the launch of Alfa Female and David talks about the relaunch of the AROC parts service, while John and Guy look back at some recent events to commemorate the loss, two years ago, of AROC founder, Chairman, Alfa Romeo Driver Editor - and British Saloon Car Champion - Jon Dooley.   And if you'd like to follow the travels of Alfa Female bear Aria, who we talk about in this episode, you can go to https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100085231119957 

As the 2022 events season kicks off in earnest, Alfa Romeo Driver Editor Guy Swarbrick sits down with Club Chairman and Events Director to look back on a successful Spring Alfa Day and look forward to the events planned for the rest of the year - as well as a couple of exciting initiatives being run in conjunction with Alfa Romeo. Are you part of a three (or more!) generation family of Alfisti? If so, please get in touch with as at editor@aroc-uk.com

On International Women's Day, AROC Board member, GT Registrar and Thames Valley Section Secretary Kirsty Hodson sat down to talk with 156 GTA and 916 Spider and GTV owner Susan Fuller and MiTo owners Jade Pidgely and Sophie King to talk about Alfa Romeos, AROC and the experience of being an Alfa Female.

In Episode 52 of the Alfa Romeo Driver podcast, brought to you by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club. Guy Swarbrick sat down with the Senior Product Manager for Alfa Romeo at Stellantis, Rob Lake to talk about the forthcoming Alfa Romeo Tonale, the marque's first foray into the ultra-competitive C-SUV market. They talk about why Alfa Romeo is building SUVs, what makes an Alfa an Alfa - and how those characteristics can be applied to help Alfa stand out from the crowd. They also talk about Rob's lifelong passion for Italian cars, which includes 30 years of AROC membership and an award-winning Alfasud. You can read more about the Alfasud at AROC Archive (aroc-uk.com)

This week Alfa Romeo Driver Editor Guy Swarbrick talks to Mike Stark. Mike's 3.8 litre Busso-engined 156 GTA was a big hit among AROC members at National Alfa Day and on the Club's stand at the NEC Classic Motor Show. Mike talks about his history in motorsport, the history of the car, his record-breaking runs up Shelsley Walsh - and provides some useful hints and tips for anyone interested in getting involved in this uniquely British form of grass-roots motorsport.

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Our very own Ajay dropped an album on Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, and all other DSP's over the weekend. The project is called Roc Paper Scissors. Check it out! We review it in today's episode. 

In this episode of Who Belongs? we speak with Lara Kiswani, Executive Director of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center based in San Francisco, and Theresa Montaño, professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at California State University, Northridge, to discuss the efforts to develop an ethnic studies curriculum in California. On September 30, California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed Assembly Bill 331 which would have made ethnic studies a high school graduation requirement across the state. For more than a year, Professor Montaño has been a part of an advisory committee tasked with drafting a model curriculum based on the anti-racist principles of ethnic studies. The curriculum provides sample lesson topics on things like housing segregation, Central American immigration, Filipino labor organizing, and indigenous struggles over land, just to name a few. Lara Kiswani’s organization, AROC, is part of the coalition promoting the inclusion of lessons related to the experiences of Arab Americans. The guests help us understand why ethnic studies is needed, why the bill was vetoed, and what comes next. For a transcript of this episode visit https://belonging.berkeley.edu/whobelongs/why-newsom-vetoed-ethnic-studies

Damien Dally joins Chairman John Griffiths, Club Manager Nick Wright, Board Member David Faithful and Editor Guy Swarbrick around the virtual round table to talk about his Alfa Romeo life and the future of the marque. 

Most of you will know Tom Landon-Smith as the Race Director of UltraTrail Australia but did you know he was a World class cross country skier and adventure racer? In Ep72 of Running Matters we discover the man behind the biggest monument of Australian trail running. We discuss the evolution of AROC sport, from a niche adventure racing company to being absorbed by global juggernaut Ironman and the expansion of UltraTrail from 150 runners to 7000 in a little over a decade.  We chat about some of the incredible performances  from athletes like Killian Jornet, Dylan Bowman, Brendan Davies, Lucy Bartholomew and Ryan Sandes but also why UltraTrail is such a welcoming and inclusive event for runners of all abilities. Tom covers the connection to the Blue Mountains and it's people and why keeping his event environmentally sustainable is of such importance. Tom details the never-ending challenges (fire, flood, pandemic, avalanche, etc) of trying to produce an event in 2020 and explains the final insurmountable hurdles for this year's race. As usual, we dig deep on the big issues like being swamped by muddy hugs on the finish line, carrying house bricks on the mandatory gear list and being dominated by his wife in the Perisher Pub Crawl for 7 years straight! If you enjoyed the Podcast, please subscribe or follow Running Matters to be notified when each episode is released. Feel free to use the online discount codes below: GU Energy Australia (15%): RUNNINGMATTERS Fractel Performance Running Caps (15%): runningmatters T8 Running kit (10%): RUNNINGMATTERS20 Runnulla (10%): Mention Running Matters in store. Precision Hydration (15% off the entire first order of electrolytes): RUNNINGMATTERS15

Most of you will know Tom Landon-Smith as the Race Director of UltraTrail Australia but did you know he was a World class cross country skier and adventure racer? In Ep72 of Running Matters we discover the man behind the biggest monument of Australian trail running. We discuss the evolution of AROC sport, from a niche adventure racing company to being absorbed by global juggernaut Ironman and the expansion of UltraTrail from 150 runners to 7000 in a little over a decade. We chat about some of the incredible performances from athletes like Killian Jornet, Dylan Bowman, Brendan Davies, Lucy Bartholomew and Ryan Sandes but also why UltraTrail is such a welcoming and inclusive event for runners of all abilities. Tom covers the connection to the Blue Mountains and it’s people and why keeping his event environmentally sustainable is of such importance. Tom details the never-ending challenges (fire, flood, pandemic, avalanche, etc) of trying to produce an event in 2020 and explains the final insurmountable hurdles for this year’s race. As usual, we dig deep on the big issues like being swamped by muddy hugs on the finish line, carrying house bricks on the mandatory gear list and being dominated by his wife in the Perisher Pub Crawl for 7 years straight!If you enjoyed the Podcast, please subscribe or follow Running Matters to be notified when each episode is released.Feel free to use the online discount codes below:•GU Energy Australia (15%): RUNNINGMATTERS•Fractel Performance Running Caps (15%): runningmatters•T8 Running kit (10%): RUNNINGMATTERS20•Runnulla (10%): Mention Running Matters in store.•Precision Hydration (15% off the entire first order of electrolytes): RUNNINGMATTERS15

Most of you will know Tom Landon-Smith as the Race Director of UltraTrail Australia but did you know he was a World class cross country skier and adventure racer? In Ep72 of Running Matters we discover the man behind the biggest monument of Australian trail running. We discuss the evolution of AROC sport, from a niche adventure racing company to being absorbed by global juggernaut Ironman and the expansion of UltraTrail from 150 runners to 7000 in a little over a decade. We chat about some of the incredible performances from athletes like Killian Jornet, Dylan Bowman, Brendan Davies, Lucy Bartholomew and Ryan Sandes but also why UltraTrail is such a welcoming and inclusive event for runners of all abilities. Tom covers the connection to the Blue Mountains and it’s people and why keeping his event environmentally sustainable is of such importance. Tom details the never-ending challenges (fire, flood, pandemic, avalanche, etc) of trying to produce an event in 2020 and explains the final insurmountable hurdles for this year’s race. As usual, we dig deep on the big issues like being swamped by muddy hugs on the finish line, carrying house bricks on the mandatory gear list and being dominated by his wife in the Perisher Pub Crawl for 7 years straight!If you enjoyed the Podcast, please subscribe or follow Running Matters to be notified when each episode is released.Feel free to use the online discount codes below:•GU Energy Australia (15%): RUNNINGMATTERS•Fractel Performance Running Caps (15%): runningmatters•T8 Running kit (10%): RUNNINGMATTERS20•Runnulla (10%): Mention Running Matters in store.•Precision Hydration (15% off the entire first order of electrolytes): RUNNINGMATTERS15

MMB Online Acum două săptămâni s-a întâmplat . Ne codim toți ăștia de o organizăm să-i zicem a cincea ediție, pentru că la fel ca o industrie întreagă, la fel ca o lume întreagă, ne cam vine să nu punem anul ăsta la socoteală în niciun fel. Dacă n-ați fost pe fază, asta-i vestea proastă: că s-a întâmplat și nu ați prins conferința. Vestea bună e că ea va apărea integral pe nostru de YouTube în curând. Așa că faceți bine și dați repejor cu subscribe ca să fiți pe fază. Din cele 24 de paneluri și prezentări, eu am fost prezent în 10, în calitate de moderator. Nu că vreau să mă laud, dar cred că treaba asta mi-a dat ocazia să iau pulsul industriei cu o acuratețe destul de mare. Și nu-i vorba aici doar de patria noastră, ci de industrie la modul general, dat fiind faptul că am avut speakeri invitați cam de peste tot. Așa că azi vă dau concluziile mele. Adică fix ce am înțeles eu. Ce paneluri am moderat Pe rând, în ordine cronologică au fost așa: The Music Business in Crisis. Invitați: Tom Deakin (UK) Director - Global Member Relations, MERLIN (societate care reprezintă drepturile de autor ale independenților la nivel global), Kees van Weijen (NL) President - Impala (asociația europeană a caselor de discuri independente), Didier Gosset (BE) Membership & Communication Manager - Impala Music, Corinne Sadki (FR) Head of study, communication and digital development at Le Bureau Export / President EMEE (EMEE - asociație europeană a birourilor de export) Survival of the live(est). Invitați: Nicoleta Sandu (RO) Head of Booking - Global Records, Edy Chereji (RO) Head of Communication & Brand - UNTOLD Universe, Guido Janssens (RO) Managing Partner - Emagic, Președinte AROC (asociația organizatorior de evenimente din România), Ștefan Zaharescu (RO) Booking Manager - /FORM SPACE How did the producers take it. Invitați: James Morgan (UK) Founder - Pieces of 8 Music, Alex Pelin (RO) Songwriter, Producer, George Calin (RO) Artist / Music Producer / DJ - Manuel Riva The insanity of remaining sane. Invitați: Mihaela Ivan Holtz (USA/RO) Psychotherapist,  Ekaterina Bazhanova (RU) Artist Manager / Founder - Music Development Russia Cum va schimba pandemia publicul de evenimente muzicale. Invitați: Cristian Stan (RO) Promoter - Sublime Romania, Codruț Dumitrescu (RO) Music Manager - Overground Music, Antonio Nartea (RO) Event Manager - Expirat, Emil Ionescu (RO) Managing Director - BestMusic Live Concerts & iabilet.ro Închiși în casă, dar deschiși la public. Invitați: Cornel Ilie (RO) Artist Vunk, Doru Trăscău (RO) Artist The Monojacks,  Dan Byron (RO) Artist byron Cum ajuți autoritățile să ajute industria. Invitați: Ștefan Teişanu (RO) Antreprenor | Director - Centrul Cultural Clujean, Anca Lupeș (RO) Founder - Mastering The Music Business, Iulia Popovici (RO) Co-founder - Trans-sectorial Association of Independents in Culture (ATIC) Somewhere, somehow, there's business to be done. Invitați: Rachel Karry (USA) Co-Founder & President - World Artists United | Founder & Executive - Music Entrepreneur Conference, Keren McKean (UK) Business Development Manager | Former Manager - Snow Patrol, Neeta Ragoowansi (US) President - MMF-US, Entertainment Attorney, Co-Founder/SVP - NPREX, Global Co-Chair - Women in Music Artist management in time of crisis. Invitați: Hannes Tschürtz (AT) Founder - Ink Music, Grace Puluczek (ES) Founder & CEO - 3 Notes Management,  Ekaterina Bazhanova (RU) Artist Manager / Founder - Music Development Russia, Jake Beaumont-Nesbitt (UK) Policy Advisor - The International Music Managers Forum Is Spotify still a music streaming app? Invitați: Dragoş Stanca (RO) Founder - UPGRADE 100 & Think Digital, Henriette Heimdal (UK)...

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In this week's episode, Guy Swarbrick talks to his fellow judges about how they cast their votes in the recent lockdown photo competition. With Guy are Club Chairman John Griffiths and AROC's answer to Craig Revel Horwood - author, photographer and regular contributor to Alfa Romeo Driver, Peter Collins. You can see all of the photos being discussed at https://alfaromeodriver.podbean.com/p/episode-7-photo-competition/

Guy Swarbrick talks to the team behind the new AROC Archive - 55 volumes of the Club magazine online for members. With Baord member and Surrey Section Secretary Grant Richardson, former magazine Editor, Club Chairman and BTCC driver Jon Dooley and Club webmaster Bill Smith.

Guy Swarbrick describes how the Club's new esports series cam about, talks to four of the competitors - Elio D'Alessandro, Timothy Perry, Alex Smith and Rob Whitney - about their backgrounds, gaming setups and reasons for competing - and to Nick Day from Championship sponsor and long-time AROC partners Chriss Knott Insurance.

Guy Swarbrick talks to the Alfa Romeo Owners Club's newest board member David Faithful about running the MiTo Register, starting a racing team, joining the AROC board and his thoughts on the future of the Club. 

Status pandemie Covid-19 Au trecut 8 săptămâni și o zi de când autoritățile au emis și pus în aplicare primele măsuri de luptă împotriva Covid-19. Ele au vizat, atunci, evenimentele de mai mult de 1.000 de oameni. În 57 de zile s-a ajuns la stare de urgență națională prelungită până la jumătatea lunii mai și la o serie de măsuri drastice, între care interzicerea liberei circulații a populației și carantinarea totală a unor zone și orașe din țara noastră. Săptămâna trecută au apărut primele din partea organizatorilor de evenimente (AROC) publicate de Ministerul Culturii ca și un de revenire la normalitate în horeca. Deocamdată însă nu există nicio informație oficială cu privire la felul în care vor evolua restricțiile privind adunările publice (deci și evenimentele) după 15 mai. Între timp, numărul de cazuri confirmate în România ajunsese sâmbătă, 2 mai, la 12732, cu 165 confirmate în precedentele 24 de ore. Asta înseamnă cu 2097 de cazuri mai multe decât acum o săptămână. Adică o creștere de 19,71%. Creșterea e semnificativ mai mică decât cea înregistrată acum trei săptămâni, dar ea există în continuare. Numărul de decese la noi in țară ajunsese la 701, cu 93 mai multe decât acum două săptămâni. Și numărul săptămânal de decese a scăzut în România față de acum 7 zile. La nivel global, media de creștere zilnică a cazurilor confirmate în ultima săptămână a fost de +3,4%, cu o diferenta în minus de 5,85% față de acum două săptămâni. Cifrele astea globale și naționale par să indice faptul că pandemia pierde din puteri la nivel global și că la noi în țară încă s-a atins punctul maxim al numărului cazurilor semnalate. Nu dau informațiile astea ca să ne panicăm mai tare, ci le dau pentru că eu consider că e imperios necesar să fim realiști în perioada asta, să rămânem cu toții calmi și cu picioarele pe pământ și, mai ales, să nu avem așteptări false nici cu plus, nici cu minus. Ce e Topu' la bula mea? Acum vreo trei săptămâni am făcut al pieselor despre Covid-19. Am descoperit atunci mai multe chestii interesante: YouTube este un indicator destul de eficient al succesului general al unui gen muzical, al unui artist sau al unei piese. Lumea de la mine din bulă ascultă muzici foarte diferite și în general mișto. Fascinația omului pentru topuri este nemărginită și făr' de moarte. De-asta m-am hotărât ca, lunar, să fac un top al succesului pe YouTube înregistrat de piesele lansate în ultimele 30 de zile. Voi face mereu la fel: întreb la mine pe Facebook ce muzică s-a lansat luna asta, apoi ordonez piesele primite în comentarii după numărul de views pe zi pe care îl au de la lansare. Adică numărul de views din ziua în care fac topul împărțit la numărul de zile care au trecut de la lansarea piesei. Știu că modul de departajare nu-i perfect, însă e topul meu, bula mea, deci fac ce vreau! Lăsând gluma la o parte, chiar cred că numărul de views pe zi reprezintă un indiciu clar pentru succesul unei piese, mai ales în prima lună de la lansare. La ce e bun Topu' la bula mea? Păi eu zic că e destul de evident: aflăm cu toții despre muzică nouă, descoperim artiști și ne prindem cum stau genurile muzicale unul față de celălalt în preferințele poporului. Să nu uităm că YouTube este modalitatea principală în care românii consumă muzică online. Ce zic eu între piese sunt părerile mele personale. Am să încerc să zic de bine când e de zis de bine și să tac atunci când ar fi de zis de rău. Eu zic, deși știu că zic degeaba. M-aș bucura mult să primesc niște feedback despre "Topu' la bula mea". Ce e bine, ce poate fi mai bine și ce ar trebui să nu mai fie - astea-s informații care m-ar ajuta mult să pot să fac din topu' ăsta o treabă mișto și de durată.

This Episode we talk to John Fleming owner of one of the first multi-rotor CASA accrediated, training organisations in Australia, about the industry and the changes he has seen in the 13 years he has been involved. We talk tips for newbies, changes and what might be around the corner in this fast paced every changing industry.Links and Sponsors |For Drone Safety Equipment onlinehttps://safedroningaustralia.com.au/For UAV Training RePL, ReOC, ARoC,https://fpvaustralia.com.au/

A-t- on le temps d’attendre dans le rap actuel ? Références cités dans l'émission : Nemir – Ailleurs (album de Nemir, 2013) – Nekfeu – Dinos – Deen Burbigo – Des Heures (Nemir, 2017) – Hors-Serie (album de Nemir, 2018) – Destin Commun (Dinos & Nemir, 2014) – Apparences (album de Dinos, 2014) – Sneazzy – Imany (album de Dinos, 2018) – Toujours pas Imany mais presque (album de Dinos, 2016) – Plaque Diplomatique (Dinos & Joke, 2016) – Joke – Ultraviolet (album de Joke, 2018) – Kyoto (album de Joke, 2012) – Tokyo (album de Joke, 2013) – Kekra – PNL –Ateyaba (album de Joke, 2014) – Kaaris – Pharaon (Joke, 2014) – Casino (Joke, 2014) – New Jack City(Joke, 2014) – Delorean Music (album de Joke, 2015) – Vision (Joke, 2017) – Playa Pt.2 (Joke, 2017) – Mendeleïev (Joke, 2017) – Caramelo (Joke, 2017) – Yeezus (Kanye West, 2013) – Daft Punk – Arca – Chief Keef – Lil Durk – Tha Carter III (album de Lil Wayne, 2008) – Myth Syzer – Jul – Drake – So Far Gone (album de Drake, 2009) – Thank Me Later (album de Drake, 2010) – Take Care (album de Drake, 2011) – Nothing Was The Same (album de Drake, 2013) – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late (album de Drake, 2015) – Take A Mic – Strict Minimum (album de Take A Mic, 2018) – Cyborg (album de Nekfeu, 2016) – Esquimaux (Nekfeu Népal, 2016) – Nepal – Nekketsu (Nekfeu & Crystal Kay, 2016) – O.D. (Nekfeu & Murkage Dave, 2016) – Vinyle (Nekfeu & Alpha Wann, 2016) – Feu (Nekfeu, 2015) – Squa (Nefkeu, 2016) – Réalité augmentée (Nekfeu, 2016) – Future – Frank Ocean – Channel Orange (album de Frank Ocean, 2012) – Nostalgia Ultra (album de Frank Ocean, 2011) – Pyramids (Frank Ocean, 2012) – Endless (album de Frank Ocean, 2016) – Blonde (album de Frank Ocean, 2016) – Fianso – Je Suis Passé Chez So (album de Fianso, 2017) – Bandit Saleté (album de Fianso, 2017) – Affranchis (album de Fianso, 2018) – Rentre dans le cercle (émission de Fianso, 2017-en cours) – Or Noir (album de Kaaris, 2013) – Okou Gnakouri (album de Kaaris, 2016) – Dozo (album de Kaaris, 2017) – Tchoin (Kaaris, 2016) – Diarabi (Kaaris, 2017) – Or Noir Part. II (album de Kaaris, 2014) – Feghouli (Kaaris, 2017) – Marchand d’Ivoire (Kaaris, 2017) – Kébra (Kaaris, 2017) – Le Bruit De Mon Ame (album de Kaaris, 2015) – Eric Bellinger – Eric B. For President Term 1 (album de Eric Bellinger, 2016) – G.O.A.T. (Eric Bellinger & Aroc, 2016) – One Of Them (Eric Bellinger & 11:11, 2016) – 11:11 – RJ – Aroc – Isha – La Vie Augmente Vol. 2 (album de Isha, 2018) – MP2M (Isha, 2018) Coups de cœur : Le coup de cœur de Clément Lorès : l’album La Vie Augmente Vol.2 d’Isha et le morceau MP2M, un très beau morceau sur un sujet très poignant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccXev... Le coup de cœur de Clément Chatellier : le projet Eric B. For President Term 1 dont est issu l’excellent G.O.A.T. et le tout aussi bon One Of Them avec l’ami 11:11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoScn... Jingle par Midnight Quake (@MidnightQuake) C'est carré : le podcast qui se pose des questions sur le rap musique Animé par Clément Lorès (@CLRSAPT) et Clément Chatellier (@WakuTDP) Produit par Derapage Media (@DerapageMedia)

The hottest mix show of various genres, past and present! It's DJ A-ROC

The hottest mix show of various genres, past and present! It's DJ A-ROC

The hottest mix show of various genres, past and present! It's DJ A-ROC

The hottest mix show of various genres, past and present! It's DJ A-ROC

The hottest mix show of various genres, past and present! It's DJ A-ROC

The hottest mix show of various genres, past and present! It's DJ A-ROC

This rebroadcast of Cat's show on KPFA's Full Circle commemorates the one year anniversary of the landmark SFO protest against one of Trump’s first executive orders: The Muslim Ban.On this episode of WE RISE:Lara Kiswani of the Arab Resource Organizing Center gives a retrospective on the 3 Muslim Bans that went into effect since Jan. 2017...We investigate the connection between the bans and U.S. imperial and military interests…We are joined in studio by 2 members of the Palestinian Youth Movement to investigate the move to make Jerusalem the capital of Israeli settler state…We talk about the powerful, tireless resistance movements.RESOURCESArab Resource and Organizing Center http://araborganizing.org/ Bay Resistance https://bayresistance.org/ Stop Urban Shield http://stopurbanshield.org/ Palestinian Youth Movement http://www.pymusa.com/FILMSEdward Said’s “On Orientalism” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVC8EYd_Z_g Reel Bad Arabs https://vimeo.com/56687715

First up is DJ Skywalker then followed by AROC & ISM of Detorit Unplugged Radio, and then we will play the Underground Takeover Cypher

Special Guests and More (Subject To Change) JiggSaw Kedar Anthony also known as (JiggSaw) a 24 year old music artist from Newark, New Jersey, started his music career off singing at a young age around 8 or 9. Singing songs from influential artist like Usher and Brian Mcknight. Attended Hart Middle School, shortly after he moved on to Westside High School. Aroc In 2009 Aroc started his movement and brand entitled Everybody Workin. Which lead him to selling merchandise such Tshirts, female boyshorts, cups etc. Not soon after Aroc along with longtime friend and SuperProducer , J Manifest orchestrated a strategy that would put 9 nice Mc's on one song and called it Everybody Workin. With Aroc's business savvy the movement turned into EveryBody Workin Records,Inc with songs featured from Premoe,Hugg E Bear and Aroc himself. Kritikal Kritikal, a/k/a the First Classhole, is taking the music industry by storm! Having received a substantial amount of radio play on HOT 97 & Power 105.1 in New York, New Jersey & Connecticut, as well as on SiriusXM's Hip Hop Nation with singles of his own, Kritikal received national exposure with the success of his bar raising featured appearance on the remix of Alessia Cara's #1 single “Here”, in early December 2015.

Oakland vigil for Orlando. Photo by Hyejin Shim. Tonight on APEX Express, we have guest host Mia Nakano with the Visibility Project, a national portrait and video collection dedicated to the Queer Asian American Women & Trans* community. She helps us delve into a discussion with our community about life after the Pulse Orlando tragedy.  We bring you perspectives from queer, radical Asian American, South Asian, and Muslim community members including Cayden Mak from 18 Million Rising, an AAPI political advocacy and awareness organization, Poonam Kapoor and Mohammed Shaik Hussain Ali from Trikone, a Bay Area based LGBTQ South Asian group, and writer and activist Canyon Sam. And we welcome educator and performer Sokeo Ros into the studio. His one-man show From Refugee Camp to Project uses dance, video, and storytelling to talk about his journey from Asia to America, from housing projects to artistic projects. Community Calendar On Friday at 8 pm, two great books are released at once at Myns Warehouse in Oakland. Jai Arun Ravine will read from The Romance of Siam: A Pocket Guide, which is a subverted travel guide that interrogates the desire white people have to lose and reinvent themselves in Thailand. Joining Jai is Miriam Ching Yoon Louie who will read from her comedic novel, Not Contagious—Only Cancer. As a reminder, there's a march from the Castro to Galeria de la Raza on Saturday starting at 2:30 to honor the victims' lives in Orlando. Meet at the intersection of Castro and Market streets. Galeria hosts speakers and performers who stand in solidarity against those who wish to harm, create fear and remove our freedoms from us. Come stand against homophobia, islamophobia and exclusion. Earlier on Saturday, AROC in partnership with the National Lawyer's Guild-SF and the Electronic Frontier Foundation host a community defense training. Know your rights on the street, on the web, and beyond. Protect yourself against undercover cops, informants, and cooperating witnesses. This training is from 1-4 p.m. at the Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics. On Sunday at 1:30, OUT RUN a documentary by Leo Chiang and Johnny Symons will be showing at the Castro Theater. Mobilizing working-class transgender hairdressers and beauty queens, the dynamic leaders of the world's only LGBT political party wage a historic quest to elect a trans woman to the Philippine Congress. This screening features a Q+A with the directors and film subject Raymond Alikpala. The post Diving Deep into #PulseOrlando appeared first on KPFA.

Aroc is the West Coast’s heir-apparent for the next multi-talented hip-hop freshman. Hailing from Inglewood, California and going to school in Venice, Aroc’s come-up has been years in the making — his attention squarely on quality output to his work. Roc’s roots are humble — raised singlehandedly by his mother, he came to rapping at age 16, eventually linking with Nieman Johnson (YFS, 300 Entertainment) in 2004. Years of developing his sound and voice have grown him into a presence primed to take on the upper echelons of the rap game. His hustle shows in his early social media numbers, already sitting at 2k followers on his soundcloud and 3.7k on instagram. Reaching his stride in 2015, Aroc has been featured on Eric Bellinger’s “Turn Down For You,” and “Gina,” in addition to featuring the magnificent Jhene Aiko on his own record, “Team Us,” with a full-length debut album and myriad projects on the way in 2016.

The Completion of Peter lesson given to PRUMC Young Professionals on February 16, 2014 incorporating portions of a Rooster Once Crowed into a discussion on the four wayposts Peter hit on his way to becoming the rock on which the church was built.

Aroc, a motivational lyricist from Rocky Mount, North Carolina, is making a name for himself in a postive way. He has combined his passion for music and self imposed responsibility to the youth to influence and encourage the next generation of entertainers to always stay true to one's self. Aroc came to this realization through personal trials and tribulations coming of age in a ruthless world known as "street life". Instead of becoming a product of his environment, he became more independent and is truly the definition of a workaholic. With the streets as his classroom, Aroc has learned the meaning of hard work and plans to make North Carolina musically p   

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The first RocCast of 2009 getting things back on track. We start of with some pure vocal tracks laying down the foundation. The preachers than profess our love of house music.  Half way through we give you some primetime floor fillers and we finish with some diva vocals and uplifting hard beats with synth.  This is sure to please all fans of the RocCast. Back and on track ARoc styles. DJ Alex Roc

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