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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. Tonight's Host Miko Lee speaks with authors who have used their personal lives to tell their stories. They both talk and write about trauma, joy and resilience but in two very different ways. First up she chats with Chanel Miller. Many folx might know of Chanel's best selling first book Know My Name which expands on the powerful victim impact letter she wrote to Brock Turner who brutally sexually assaulted her on the Stanford Campus. We talk about her latest work – two delightful books for young people. Then Miko talks with Kazu Haga who weaves his spiritual practice and trauma healing with a deep lineage of nonviolent social change.  In his books, Fierce Vulnerability and Healing Resistance he shares with us his personal journey and offers some insightful visions for our current tumultuous world.  Links to the Author's work: Kazu Haga  Fierce Vulnerability Kinship Lab,  Chanel Miller Chanel Miller The Moon Without Stars Purchase Chanel's books at East Wind Books and Kazu's books at Parallax Press  SHOW TRANSCRIPT APEX Opening: Apex Express. Asian Pacific Expression. Community and cultural coverage. Music and calendar. New visions and voices. Coming to you with an Asian Pacific Islander point of view. It's time to get on board the Apex Express. Miko Lee: Good evening. Welcome to apex express. This is your host, Miko Lee. Join us as you hop along the apex express. Tonight I speak with authors who have used their personal lives to tell their stories. They both talk and write about trauma, joy, and resilience, but in two very different and distinct ways. First up, I chat with Chanel Miller. Many folks might know of Chanel's bestselling first book Know My Name, which expands on the powerful victim impact letter she wrote to Brock Turner, who brutally sexually assaulted her on the Stanford campus. But tonight we talk about her latest work, two delightful books for young people. And then I talk with Kazu Haga, who weaves his spiritual practice and trauma healing with a deep lineage of nonviolent social change. In his books Fierce vulnerability and Healing Resistance, he shares with us his personal journey and offers some insightful visions for our current tumultuous world. First off, listen to my conversation with Chanel Miller. Welcome, author Chanel Miller to Apex Express. Chanel Miller: Thank you so much for having me. It's a delight to be here with you. Miko Lee: I'm really excited to talk to you, and I wanna start with my first question, which I ask all of my guests, which is, who are your people and what legacy do you carry with you? Chanel Miller: Oh, I have so many people. Today, you're my people who continue to help guide me forward. I grew up in the Bay Area and I feel like honestly all of my books are attempts at saying thank you to the people who raised me, the English teachers in my public schools. For helping me stay aligned with myself and never letting me drift too far. And so even though I tell very different stories for different demographics, I think if you look at the root of everything that I write, it's gratitude because they are the people who protected my voice in the first place. Miko Lee: Thank you so much. So we're talking about your third book. Your first book was amazing. Know my name, which is really powerful memoir about surviving sexual assault at Stanford, and this incredible public reclamation of your voice. And then you move from that very personal, internal, very adult work to your second book, which was so lovely and sweet. Magnolia Woo unfolds it all, which was an illustrated book set New York about a little girl and her friend who reunite people with their lost socks. From this all the way to this young person's book and your latest book, the Moon Without Stars, your second, YA novel is based in middle school. So talk to me a little bit about this journey from personal memoir to elementary school to middle school books. Chanel Miller: Yeah, so like you said, the first book was so internal and gutting to write. I knew I needed. Something that would help me breathe a little easier and get in touch with playfulness again. I wrote Magnolia Woo Unfolds it all. It's perfect for kids ages seven to 12. My goal was just to enjoy the process of writing and story making. And it was confusing because I thought if I'm not, you know, during the memoir, I would be like crying while I was writing and it was just taking everything out of me. And I was like, if I'm not actively upset. Is the writing even good? Like, like, you know, does it count? And it turns out, yes, you can still create successful stories and have a good time. So I did that book for myself really. And the kid in me who always wanted to, who was always, writing stories unprompted. Like you said, it was a book about a sock detective and pursuing socks makes no sense. It's almost impossible to return a missing sock in New York City. But I loved the idea of these. This little girl in pursuit of something, even if she doesn't know what the outcome will be. Right. It's just trying even if you're not promised a reward, I love this. And for me it's like I keep attempting to love my reality, right? Attempting to go out into the world with an exploratory lens rather than a fearful one. And so that was very healing for me. After I finished that book, I spent the next year writing this new book, the Moon Without Stars. It's for slightly older kids, like you said in middle school. So my protagonist Luna, is 12 years old and she's biracial like me, goes to middle school in Northern California like I did in Palo Alto. I was just reflecting on my. Upbringing, I would say, and really sitting back and letting memories come to the surface. Trying to see how much, was just unexplored. And then sitting down to, to figure out what it all meant that I remembered all of these things. Miko Lee: So how much of Luna is inspired by Chanel? Chanel Miller: A fair amount, I'd say. And it's not always an intentional, I think fiction deals a lot with the subconscious and you end up writing about yourself on accent luna in the book. She is the campus book doctor, is what I call it. Because when kids are going through something, they'll come to her and she'll prescribe them a book that'll help them for whatever phase of life they're going through. And I know for me from a very young age, I loved reading, writing, and drawing. It's all that I ever wanted to do and I was so mad in school that we had six different subjects and you know, the Bay Area was very tech. Centered, STEM centered. And so I felt all this pressure even through high school to take AP Science classes. In retrospect, I thought, why was I trying so hard to be good at it? Everything. This is impossible. And so for Luna, I own her gifts early. And understand that they were gifts at all. The fact that she loves to read and then she shares her gifts and she takes pride in the things that she's passionate about. She's not ashamed that she's not so hot about math. Miko Lee: So the hating math part is a little Chanel inspired also. Chanel Miller: The hating math part is fully me. I'm sorry to say. Miko Lee: No worries. I think that stereotype about Asians and math is so highly overrated. I'm wondering if there was a Scott for you, a bestie that was also an outcast, if there was someone like that for you when you were growing up. Chanel Miller: Yeah, so in the book, Luna is best friends with Scott. They've been friends since childhood, and as Luna starts to get more attention, their relationship is threatened and it begins to dissolve. I was really interested in how, Luna obviously loves Scott as a friend and she would never. Mean to hurt him, right? It's not inflicting intentional emotional pain, but Scott gets very hurt. I think about how sometimes when we're growing up, we get drawn to certain crowds or paid a kind of attention and we have this longing to be desired to fit in. we sometimes make choices that we're not very proud of, but this is a part of it, right? And so I wanted Luna to reckon with maybe some of the emotional harm she's causing and not run away from it. But also think about like, why am I making these choices and what is important to me? We're all kind of constantly reevaluating our value systems, trying to keep our relationships alive, like this is, starts at a very young age and I wanted her to learn some of the self gifts that maybe I didn't give myself when I was that age. Miko Lee: So in a way, she's a little bit of a remedy for your young self or a gift to your young self. Do you think? Chanel Miller: Oh, that's a nice way of putting it. Yeah, I would definitely say so. I think all writing is, is remedy in some form, at least for me, but I like the, it being a gift to little Chanel. Miko Lee: It's been compared to the classic. Are you there god, it's me, Margaret? What is it like for you to hear that? Chanel Miller: It's an honor, obviously. I think what's most stunning is a lot of the themes that were contested in that book. You know, talking about bodily changes, menstruation like. A lot of that is still kind of hush hush, and I'm surprised by the things that haven't changed , or how our society hasn't completely evolved. I really wanted middle school so hard physically, emotionally, and. It can feel so humiliating that you're trying to solve a lot of your issues in private, and I wanted to take the shame out of it as quickly as possible and just say, this is a universal experience. Everyone goes through these things. It's totally okay to talk about it, even if books get banned. Find a way, find your people. Find a way to have these conversations. Miko Lee: For me, it's so much better than, are you there? God, it's me, Margaret, because it's set in a contemporary. There's a young biracial Asian American girl who's a outcast and really it's about belonging and getting your first period and all the things you have to go through in middle school. That seems really. Relatable for a young woman in our society. I appreciate that. Thank you so much. I read it really quick one night, easily read 'cause it's so lovely. I'm wondering about your process because you illustrated, your last book and then also the cover of this book. And on the cover it's sweet because it has all these cute little zines that she writes about are encapsulated on the cover of the book, which you only realize after you read it. I'm wondering for you as an artist, what comes first in the story, the image or the words? Chanel Miller: That's a great question. Yeah. I like to illustrate my books. Sometimes I'll think of a, something I do wanna draw and then think, how can I build a story around that, or like a visually rich scene. Then I come up with writing to allow myself to draw the thing. Other times I will just write, but I, I will say that when I'm writing, I never have a plot. I'm not an outliner. I am very much an explorer. I'm okay with not knowing for long periods of time where the book is gonna go, what it's about , and how it's gonna end. I don't know any of these things. And luckily I have a very gracious, agent and editor and my editor. I had two editors, Jill and Juan, and they let me just submit chunks of writing for six months. Scenes that didn't go together, that were completely out of order , to show them I'm attempting to build this world and this school full of kids, but I don't know how it's all gonna play out yet. And then after six months, we had enough material to, to begin to identify like who the primary characters were gonna be, what the essential conflict was gonna be. I'm saying this because I want people to know that you don't have to know much before you sit down to write. And the knowing comes with the practice of doing every day, and then slowly things start to reveal themselves. Miko Lee: Oh, I appreciate that. So you don't have a linear timeframe. You kind of just let things come to you. Sometimes they're in images, sometimes they're in words. Chanel Miller: Yes. And then your job is to capture them and be curious about them and then make more until you have enough. Then you can edit, but you edit too early, you're gonna , kill the spirit of the thing. Miko Lee: When do you know you have enough? Chanel Miller: When you fulfill the word count in your contract? No, no, I think it's, it's like you can. Sort of start to feel things click into place or a voice is emerging that's very strong. Even Scott know, Luna's best friend, I didn't have him at the very beginning, I don't think originally. Originally, I think Luna had a sister. It was gonna be a sister book, and then it became a friend. You're just open to it evolving, and then suddenly you're like, oh, I can, I can see this relationship. Can see them existing within the structure. It feels more real to you and at that point you can just go in and start revising Miko Lee: Did you create images for know my name? Chanel Miller: I actually tried to, at the very end, I made a bunch of drawings and I said, can we put these at the start of each chapter? And my editor, who's incredible, she said, you know, when I look at your drawings, they have a different voice than your writing voice. And I was like, that is true. Like, that's a great critique. So instead I went to New York, they were like about to send the book to print and I was like, okay, but I need like one drawing. They said, okay, if you can do it at lunch, like have it done by the end of lunch, we'll put it in the acknowledgement. So I dedicated the book to my family and. I sat at the desk and just did this little, these four little creatures that represented my immediate family and cut it outta my notebook. They scanned it in and sent it off to print with a book. So I did get, I did get it. Miko Lee: And how is the illustrator's voice different from the author's voice? Chanel Miller: The illustrator's voice can be very loose, whimsical, playful, whereas the writing, you know, was so measured and heavy and intentional, and so. I liked that edit, and I also, my editor was confident that I would have more opportunities in the future to write and draw, whereas I felt so vulnerable. It's my first book, it's my only chance to say or do anything, but that's not true. Now I understand like I have time to make all kinds of things. You don't have to shove it all into one project. Miko Lee: And are these, more youth-focused books? Do you feel like that's more a combination of your illustrator and your author voice? Chanel Miller: Totally. The medium like allows you to do both. It kind of asks for images also. Who knows, maybe, I still wanna write, contemporary fiction for adults and maybe I'll adults like visuals too. Absolutely. Miko Lee: Absolutely. Yeah. I'm wondering what you want young readers to walk away with after reading the, your latest book. Chanel Miller: Things smooth out in really unexpected ways. And that you can never truly mess up. Like I messed up so many times growing up or would get a really bad grade. I really would think like, this is the end. Like my future just disappeared. I just can't recover from this, and I always would, and I'm here now, like there, there are so many times I guess, that I thought my life was totally and completely over and, it was never the case. Sure, life could be sour for a bit, or you could be really stressed out, but it's not the end. Different things will change. People will be introduced to help you. Like you just keep showing up in whatever way you can. You won't be stuck in that place. It's been a nice thing to learn, as you get older. I just remember when I felt young, it felt so impossible sometimes, and I promise it's not, Miko Lee: I imagine that with Know my name. Many people came up with you, survivors came up and shared their stories with you, and I'm wondering if that was the same with your second book, if people came up and just told stories about, being a kid detective or what their, if it brought things up for them in a totally different realm. Chanel Miller: Oh yeah, absolutely. In the book, Magnolia's parents are Chinese and, , they're working at a laundromat and a customer comes in and there's, microaggressions happen and, I think with microaggressions you can always. Justify them in your head and say, it's not as bad as explicit violence or something, where it's not a truly a crime. And so you kind of push them to the side, push them to the side, but over time, like they do really stick with you and they're so hurtful and they accumulate and they're not okay to begin with. And I wanted my little character, Magnolia to. Just feel that anger that I often suppress and be like, it's not okay for people to talk to you like that. Like we are allowed to say something about it. It's dehumanizing and it's unacceptable. I wanted to give her the opportunity to confront that emotion and really express what, how it made her feel. Miko Lee: You're just starting your book tour right now. Is that right? For the Moon Without Stars. Chanel Miller: My book comes out January 13th. I'll go on a two week book tour. I'll have two stops in the Bay area. One at, book passage in Cord Madera. One in Los Altos at a church. It's sponsored by Linden Tree Books. We're just doing the event offsite, so if you're in the bay and wanna come say hello, please do that. Miko Lee: Yay. Excited to hear about that. I'm curious, I'm really curious what kind of stories people will tell you about their kind of middle school bully experience or their standing up to bullies and wanting to be in the popular crowd and what's that like? It's such a common middle school experience. Chanel Miller: I'm just really happy that people like have the opportunity to remember, 'cause it's not what we talk about every day. I just love that things are coming up for people and you're like, wow, I never would've thought about that or. I, I, that's why writing is so fun. You get to remember. Miko Lee: It's definitely not what we talk about every day, but definitely that middle school time really, helps shape who we are as adults. That's a really tough time because there's so many hormones going crazy in your body. So many changes that I think a lot of people have big feelings about middle school. Tell us what's next for you. Chanel Miller: I still love writing middle grade like this age is so sweet. It's so rich, emotionally rich. I would like to do something that's, you know, this one was more contemporary realism and I would love to do something that, not pure fantasy, but like breaks the rules of reality a little bit. Just really see where my imagination can go. A little magical realism perhaps. Yeah, absolutely. Miko Lee: I would just encourage you, I really love the Scott and Luna characters and seeing them patch their relationship up in high school as friends and how they can grow. Oh, I think would be a really sweet story also, and how they could explore maybe through magical realism. Some of the, book Doctors Zine World would be fun. Yeah. Yeah. I like those characters, is what I'm saying. I think there's more to come outta those characters and their friendship. Chanel Miller: Oh, that's really sweet. You don't wanna say goodbye to them yet. Miko Lee: Yeah, that's right. Well, it has been a delight chatting with you. Thank you so much for sharing your stories and your work and it's very powerful. Appreciate chatting with you. Chanel Miller: I really appreciate the platform you provide and how you're making room for these genuine conversations. So thank you so much. Jalena Keane-Lee: Next up, listen to blues scholars ode to Yuri Kochiyama. That was Blue Scholars, Ode to Yuri Kochiyama. Miko Lee: Yuri Koyama said, we are all part of one another, and that relates so well to my conversation with author, organizer and teacher Kazu Haga. Welcome, Kazu Haga to Apex Express. I'm so glad to have you with us. Kazu Haga: Yeah, thanks so much for having me. Miko Lee: I'm gonna start with a question that I ask all of my guests because I'm a curious person, and my question is, who are your people and what legacy do you carry with you? Kazu Haga: Oh, wow. Well, when you ask the second question, the immediate response is that I am Japanese. There's a lot of important legacies that come with that. Of course there's so much of my Japanese ancestry that I'm proud of and want to continue to deepen in and understand better. But I'm also aware that, you know, being Japanese, I come from colonizer people, right? And I'm so aware of the. Harm that my ancestors caused to so many people, whether dating back all the way to indigenous. I knew people in Japan, or a lot of the violence that my ancestors committed during the war to Zan Korean communities and Chinese communities and Filipino communities. I feel like in addition to all the beauty and the amazing things that I love about Japanese culture, that's a legacy that I carry with me and a lot of my work has to do with trying to understand what it means to carry that legacy and what it means to try to heal from that legacy and how I take that approach into my own personal life as well as into my activist work. Miko Lee: Thank you so much for recognizing that history and sharing a little bit about your path. I can see so much of how that turns up in your work. So I've had the pleasure of reading your two latest two books. I'm sure there'll be many more to come, I hope. Can you speak a little bit about what inspired you to create healing resistance? Kazu Haga: Yeah, so healing resistance is my interpretation of a set of teachings called kingian non-violence, and it's a philosophy that was based on the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King. And I have the great privilege to have been mentored by a lot of elders who work very closely with Dr. King and were some of the most instrumental leaders in the civil Rights movement. I started my kind of activist career back in 1999 or something like that when I was 18, 19 years old. And for the longest time, the word non-violence didn't have a lot of meaning to me. But when I was 28 years old, I think I took this two-day workshop on this philosophy called King Non-Violence, and that two-day workshop just completely changed my life forever. I thought after 10 years of doing nothing but social justice movement building work, that I had some idea of what the word non-violence meant and some idea of who Dr. King was. But that two day workshop taught me that I knew nothing about what the word non-violence meant. Since I took that workshop, I feel like I've been on this never ending journey to better understand what it means to practice non-violence and incorporate that as a value into my life. And so healing resistance is, yeah, just my spin on the teachings of Dr. King told through the stories of my life experiences. Miko Lee: I really appreciated how you wove together your personal journey with your, understanding of movement building and how you incorporated that in. I'm wondering, I think it was in this book, but I read both of your books close to back to back, so I might be mixing them up, but I wonder if you could talk a little bit about the salt protestors that happened in India and the two years of training that it took them to be able to stand up and for our listeners, just like really back up and explain what that protest was about, and then the kind of training that it took to get there. Kazu Haga: It was actually more than two years. So, you know, everyone, or a lot of people know about the Salt March. It's the thing that I think a lot of people look to as the thing that really sparked the Indian Independence Movement, similar to the Montgomery Bus boycott in the US Civil Rights Movement. It's when a group of people marched across India all the way to the ocean. Engaged in an act of civil disobedience was, which was to go into the water and make their own salt. Salt is something that had been heavily controlled and taxed by the British Empire, and so the people who lived even on the coast of the ocean were not allowed to make their own salt. And so it was an act of civil disobedience to break a British colonial law saying that we are reclaiming this ancestral cottage industry for ourselves. And one of the reasons why it was so powerful and drew so many millions of people out into the street was because when Gandhi envisioned it. He didn't just put out an open call and said, anyone who wants to join the March can join. Ultimately, that's where they landed. But when the March started, he selected, I think it was about 76 of his followers, and he chose these 76 people and said, you all are gonna start the Salt March. And he chose those 76 people because they had lived in Astrom. And did spiritual practice and engaged in creative nonviolent direct action together for 16 years before they embarked on the salt march. So it was 16 years of kinda like dedicated residential spiritual training , and nonviolent direct action training that allowed these people to become the type of leaders that could draw out millions and millions of people into the street. And so it's one of the things that I really learned about the legacy of nonviolence is the importance of training and understanding that preparing ourselves spiritually to lead a movement that can transform nations is a lifetime of work. And to not underestimate the importance of that training and that rigor. Miko Lee: Thank you so much for correcting me. Not two but 16 years and a really a lifetime to, that's right. To develop the skills. I wonder if you've been following the Buddhist monks that are walking across the US right now. Kazu Haga: Yeah. And the dog, right? Miko Lee: Yeah. Whose dog and that dog. And I wonder what your thoughts are on that. Kazu Haga: I've really come to this place where I understand injustice and state violence, not as a political issue, but as a manifestation of our collective trauma. Like all the forms of state violence and injustice that we see, they happen because collectively as nation states and as communities and as a species, we have unresolved trauma that we haven't been able to heal from. And I think if we can see injustice less as a political issue and more as a manifestation of collective trauma, then perhaps we can build movements that have the sensitivity to understand that we can't just shut down injustice that when you're responding to a trauma response, what you need to do is to try to open things up. Things like spiritual practice and spiritual worldviews, like what, however that word spiritual lands on people. I think that there's a broad understanding of spirituality that doesn't have to include any sort of religious stigma. But when we ground ourselves in spiritual practice, when we ground ourselves in this larger reality that we belong to something so much larger than ourselves as individuals, then a lot more is possible and we're able to open things up and we're able to slow things down in response to the urgency of this moment, which I think is so necessary. When I look at these Buddhist monks spending however months it's gonna take for them to reach Washington dc the patience. The rigor and the slowness. How every step is a prayer for them. And so all of those steps, all of that effort is I think adding to something that has the possibility to open something up in a way that a one day protest cannot. So I'm really inspired by that work. Miko Lee: And it's amazing to see how many people are turning out to walk with them or to watch them. And then on the same hand, or the other hand, is seeing some folks that are protesting against them saying, that this is not the right religion, which is just. Kind of shocking to me. Grew up in a seminary environment. My dad was a professor of social ethics and we were really taught that Jesus is a son of God and Kuan is a daughter of God. And Muhammad, all these different people are sons and daughters of God and we're all under the same sky. So it seems strange that to me, that so many folks are using religion as a tool for. Pain and suffering and injustice and using it as a justification. Kazu Haga: Yeah. It's sad to hear people say that this is the wrong religion to try to create change in the world because I think it's that worldview that is at the heart of what is destroying this planet. Right. It's, it's not this way. It has to be that way and this binary right. Wrong way of thinking. Miko Lee: Yeah. Kazu Haga: But yeah. The first spiritual book I ever read when I was 16 years old was a book by Thích Nhất Hanh called Living Buddha, living Christ. Yes. And in that book he was saying that the teachings of the Buddha and the teachings of Jesus Christ, if you really look at the essence of it, is the same thing. Miko Lee: That's right. Yeah. This brings us to your book, fierce Vulnerability, healing from Trauma Emerging Through Collapse. And we are living in that time right now. We're living in a time of utter collapse where every day it seems like there's a new calamity. We are seeing our government try to take over Venezuela right now and put police forces into Minnesota. It's just crazy what's going on. I wonder if you can just talk a little bit about this book. Clearly it's the Times that has influenced your title and [00:34:00] in influenced you to write this book can be, share a little bit more about what you're aiming to do. Kazu Haga: Yeah, and you know, it's also Greenland and Cuba and Colombia and Panama, and it's also the climate crisis and it's also all of these other authoritarian regimes that are rising to power around the co, around the world. And it's also pandemics and the next pandemics. And we are living in a time of the poly crisis. A time that our recent ancestor, Joanna Macy calls the great turning or the great unraveling so we can get to the great turning where all of these systems are in a state of collapse and the things that we have come to, to be able to rely on are all unraveling. And I think if we are not grounded in. Again, I use this word spirituality very broadly speaking, but if we are not grounded in a sense that we are connected to something so much larger than ourselves as individuals, I think it's so easy to just collapse and get into this trauma response state in response to all of the crises that we are facing, and so fierce vulnerability. It's at the intersection of spiritual practice, trauma healing, and nonviolent action, and understanding that in response to all of these crises that we are facing, we need powerful forms of action. To harness the power necessary to create the transformations that we need to see. And at the same time, can we see even forms of nonviolent resistance as a form of, as a modality of collective trauma healing? And what are the practices that we need to be doing internally within our own movements to stay grounded enough to remember that we are interdependent with all people and with all life. What does it take for us to be so deeply grounded that even as we face a possible mass extinction event that we can remember to breathe and that we can remember that we are trying to create beauty, not just to destroy what we don't like, but we are trying to affirm life. What does that look like? And so if fierce vulnerability is an experiment, like we don't have all the answers, but if I could just put in a plug, we're about to launch this three month. Experiment called the Fierce Vulnerability Kinship Lab, where we'll be gathering across the world. Participants will be placed in small teams, that are regionally based, so you can meet with people in person, hopefully, and to really try to run a bunch of experiments of what is it gonna take to respond to state violence, to respond to these crises in a way that continues to affirm life and reminds us that we belong to each other. Miko Lee: That sounds amazingly powerful. Can you share how people can get involved in these labs? Kazu Haga: People can check it out on my website, kazu haga.com, and it'll link to the actual website, which is convene.community. It's K-I-N-V-E-N-E. It's a combination of the idea of kinship and community. It's gonna be a really cool program. We just announced it publicly and France Weller and Ma Muse and Kairo Jewel Lingo, and it's gonna be a lot of great teach. And we're trying to just give people, I know so many people are yearning for a way to respond to state violence in a way that feels deeply aligned with their most sacred beliefs and their value systems around interdependence, and peacemaking and reconciliation, but also recognizes that we need to harness power that we need to. Step out of the comfort of our meditation cushions and yoga centers and actually hit the streets. But to do so in a way that brings about healing. It's our way of creating some communities where we can experiment with that in supportive ways. Miko Lee: What is giving you hope these days? Kazu Haga: My daughter and the community that I live in. Like when I look up at the world, things are in a state of collapse. Like when I watch the news, there's a lot of things that are happening that can take away my hope. But I think if we stop looking up all the time and just start looking around, if I start looking around in, not at the vertical plane, but at the horizontal plane, what I see are so many. Amazing communities that are being birthed, land-based communities, mutual aid networks, communities, where people are living together in relationship and trying to recreate village like structures. There are so many incredible, like healing collaboratives. And even the ways that we have brought song culture and spirit back into social movement spaces more and more in the last 10, 15 years, there are so many things that are happening that are giving birth to new life sustaining systems. We're so used to thinking that because the crisis is so big, the response that we need is equally big. When we're looking for like big things, we're not seeing movements with millions of millions of people into the in, in the streets. We're not seeing a new nonprofit organizations with billions of dollars that have the capacity to transform the world because I think we keep looking for big in response to big. But I think if we look at a lot of wisdom traditions, particularly Eastern Traditions, Daoism and things like that, they'll tell us that. Perhaps the best way to respond to the bigness of the crises of our times is to stay small. And so if we look for small signs of new life, new systems, new ways of being in relationship to each other and to the earth, I think we see signs of that all over the place. You know, small spiritual communities that are starting up. And so I see so much of that in my life, and I'm really blessed to be surrounded by a lot of that. Miko Lee: I really appreciate how you walk the walk and talk, the talk in terms of teaching and living in a collective space and even how you live your life in terms of speaking engagements and things. Can you share a little bit about the gift economy that you practice and what's that about? Share with our audience what that even means. Kazu Haga: Yeah. I love this question. Thank you. So the gift economy to me is our attempts at building economic structures that learn from how natural ecosystems share and distribute its resources, right? It's an alternative model to the market system of economics where everything is transac. If you look out into nature, nothing is transactional. Right? All of the gifts that a mycelial network gives to the forest, that it's a part of the ecology that it's a part of. It's given freely, but it's also given freely because it knows that it is part of a deeply interdependent ecosystem where it will also receive everything it needs to be nourished. And so there's a lot that I can say about that. I actually working on, my next book will be on the Gift Economy. But one of the main manifestations of that is all of the work that I do, I try to offer as a gift. So I don't charge anything for the work that I do. The workshops that I organize, you know, the Convene three month program that I told you about, it's a three month long program with world renowned leaders and we are asking people to pay a $25 registration fee that'll support the platform that, that we're building, the program on. And. There's no kind of set fee for the teachers, myself, Francis Weller, mam, all these people. And people have an opportunity to give back to the ecosystem if they feel called and if they're able to try to sustain, to help sustain our work. But we really want to be able to offer this as a gift. And I think in the market economy, a three month virtual training with well-known teachers for $25 is unheard of. Of course $25 doesn't sustain me. It doesn't sustain all of the teachers that are gonna be part of this, but I have so much faith that if we give our work freely and have faith that we are doing the work that we're meant to be doing, that the universe will come together to sustain us. And so I am sustained with the generosity of a lot of [00:42:00] people, a lot of donors, a lot of people who come to my workshop and feel called to give, not out of a sense of obligation, but because they want to support me in my work. Miko Lee: Thank you for sharing and I was so impressed on your website where you break down your family's whole annual budget and everything that you spent funds on. Everybody talks about transparency, but nobody really does it. But you're actually doing it. And for reals, just showing something that's an antidote to the capitalist system to be able to say, okay, this is us. This is our family, this is how we travel, this is what we do, and. I found it really charming and impressive in our, it's hard to rebel against a system where everything has been built up so that we're supposed to act a certain way. So appreciate you. Absolutely. Yeah. Showing some alternatives and I didn't know that's gonna be your next book. So exciting. Kazu Haga: Yeah, I just started it. I'm really grateful that I have a partner that is okay with sharing all of our family's finances transparently. That helps because it is a big thing, you know? Yeah. But one of the things that I really learned. But the gift economy is that if there isn't information, if there isn't transparency about what the system's needs are, then it becomes dependent on every individual to figure out. How much they want to give to that system. And I think the gift economy is trying to break outta that the model of individualism and understand that we are interdependent and we live in this rich ecosystem of interdependence. And so if people's needs aren't transparent, then it's hard for people to figure out how they want to engage in that relationship. Miko Lee: Can you share a little bit more the example of Buddhist monks and how they have the basket and. Share that story a bit for our audience. Kazu Haga: Yeah. So historically, in a lot of, particularly south and southeastern, Asian countries, Buddhist monks, they go around, they walk their community every morning, begging, quote unquote for alms. They ask for donations, and the people in that village in that town will offer them bread or rice or whatever it is. That's kind of the food that, that monks and monastics eat. And so if a Buddhist monk is walking around with a bowl and you see that their bowl is already full, you have a sense, oh, this monastic might not need any more food, but the next monastic that comes along might. And so it's this transparent way of saying, oh, this person's needs are met, so let me hold on to the one piece of bread that I have that I can donate today and see if the next person will need it. And so in that way. If I share my finance transparently, you know, if my financial needs for the month or for the quarter are met, then maybe people who attend my workshops will feel like, oh, I don't have a lot of money to give. Maybe I don't need to give to support Kazu Haga, but maybe I can support, the facilitator for the next workshop that I attend. And so, in that way, I'm hoping that me being transparent about where my finances are will help people gauge how they want to be in relationship with me. Miko Lee: Thank you. I appreciate it. You talk a lot about in your work about ancestral technology or the wisdom, our ancestral wisdoms and how powerful that is. It made me think about the day after the election when Trump was elected. I happened to be in this gathering of progressive artists in the Bay Area and everybody was. Incredibly depressed. There was even, should we cancel that day or not? But we pulled together, it was at the Parkway Theater in Oakland and there was an aone leader and she talked about the eighth fire and how we are in the time of the eighth fire and you write about the fires in your book, and I'm wondering if you can talk about the seven fires and the prophecy belt. Kazu Haga: Yeah. So through a strange course of events, I had the incredible privilege early on in my life when I was in my early teens, 11, 12, 13, 14 years old, to spend every summer going to the Algonquin Reservation, Anishnabe Nation, way up in Northern Quebec, and spend my evenings sleeping in the basement of Chief William Commander, who was the holder of the seven Fire Prophecies Wampum Belt. This is a prophecy that told the story of the seventh fire that we are in the time of the seventh fire. And this is a moment in the history of our species where we can remember what it means to be human and to go backwards and to reclaim our spiritual path. If we are able to do that, then we can rebuild a new world, the eighth fire and build a world of lasting peace. But if we are unable to do that and continue down this material journey, that will lead to a world of destruction. And this is, prophecies like this one and similar indigenous prophecies that speak the same exact things are the things that were. Just surrounded, that I was surrounded by when I was younger, and I'm so grateful that even though I didn't really believe this kind of stuff when I was younger, it was like the, you know, crazy hippie newey stuff that my mom was into. I'm so grateful to have been surrounded by these teachings and hearing these teachings directly from the elders whose lives purpose. It was to share these teachings with us because when I look out at the world now, it really feels like we are in a choice point as a species. Like we can continue to walk down one journey, one path, and I could very easily see how it would lead to a world of destruction. But we have an opportunity to remember who we are and how we're meant to live in relationship with each other and to the earth. And I have a lot of faith that if we're able to do that, we can build such a beautiful future for our children. And so I think this is the moment that we're in. Miko Lee: Yeah. Thank you so much. Can you share a little bit about your mom? It seems like she was a rule breaker and she introduced you to so many things and you're appreciating it later as an adult, but at the time you're like, what is this? Kazu Haga: Yeah. You know, she was. She grew up in Japan. We were all born in Japan, but she spent a year overseas in the United States as ex as an exchange student in high school. And she always tells me when she went back to Japan, she was listening to the Beatles, and she shaved her legs and she was this like rebellious person in Japan. But yeah, my mom is never been a political activist in the same way that, that I've become. But she's always been deeply, deeply grounded in spiritual practice. Miko Lee: Mm-hmm. Kazu Haga: And for various reasons have always had deep relationships with indigenous elders in North America and Turtle Island. And so I'm always grateful. I feel like she sowed a lot of seeds that when I was young, I made fun of meditation and I was not into spiritual practice at all. 45 years into my life, I find myself doing all the same things that, that she was doing when I was young, and really seeing that as the foundation of the work that I do in the world today. Miko Lee: And have you, have you talked with her about this? Kazu Haga: Oh yeah. I live with her, so we regularly Oh, I Miko Lee: didn't realize Kazu Haga: that.Yeah, yeah, yeah. So she's read the book and Yeah. We have a lot of opportunities to, to yeah, just talk and, and reminisce and, and wonder at. How life has a tendency to always come back full circle. Miko Lee: Mm. The paths we lead and how they intertwine in some ways. Definitely. Mm, I love that. I let you know before we went on air is that I'm also interviewing the author Chanel Miller in this episode. You shared with me that you are familiar with her work. Can you talk about that? Kazu Haga: Yeah, so, you know, I talk quite a bit in both of my books about how one of the great privileges that I have is to do restorative justice and trauma healing work with incarcerated people, mostly through the prisons in California. And one of the programs that I've had the privilege to be a part of is with the Ahimsa Collective, where we work with a lot of men who have an experience with sexual violence specifically, both as survivors of sexual harm and as perpetrators oftentimes. And in that program we actually used the letter that she wrote and published as an example of the power of what it could mean to be a survivor speaking their truth. And we used to read this letter in the groups with incarcerated people. And I remember the first time I ever read it, I was the one that was reading it out loud. I broke down into tears reading that, that letter, and it was so powerful. And it's one of those written statements that I think has helped a lot of people, incarcerated people, and survivors, oftentimes, they're both the same people, really heal from the scars that they've experienced in life. So yeah, I have a really deep connection to specifically that statement and her work. Miko Lee: Yeah, it's really powerful. I'm wondering, given that how you use art as a tool to heal for yourself. Kazu Haga: You know, I always wished I was a better poet or a better painter or something like that, but I do really feel like there are certain deep truths that cannot be expressed in just regular linear language. It can only be spoken in song or in dance or in poetry. There's something mystical. There's something that, that is beyond the intellect capacity to understand that I think can be powerfully and beautifully expressed through art. I think art and spiritual practice and prayer and things like that are very like closely aligned. And so in that way I, I try to touch the sacred, I try to touch spirit. I try to touch mystery in the things that I can't quite articulate. Just through conversation and giving in a lecture or a PowerPoint presentation, to, yeah, to touch into something more, more important. Miko Lee: And is your spiritual practice built into your every day? Kazu Haga: To the extent possible. One of the traditions that I have really learned a lot from and love is the Plum Village tradition founded by Thich Nhat Hanh. And they're so good at really reminding us that when we wash our dishes, that can be a spiritual practice, right? I'm the father of a young child. And so it's hard to actually sit down and meditate and to find time for that. And so, how can I use. My moments with my daughter when I'm reading her a book as a spiritual practice, how can I, use the time that I'm picking up the toys that's thrown all around the house as spiritual practice. So in that way, I really try to incorporate that sort of awareness and that reminder that I belong to something larger and everything that we do. Miko Lee: After hearing Ty speak one time, I tried to practice the chewing your food 45 times. I could not do it. Like, how does he do Kazu Haga: that? Some food is easier than others. If you eat oatmeal, it's a little harder, but Miko Lee: like that is some kind of practice I cannot do. Kazu Haga: But, you know, I have, a meditation teacher that years ago taught me every time you get inside your car. The moment that you turn the keys and turn on the ignition in your car, just take that moment and see if you can notice the texture of the keys and see if you can really feel your muscles turning to turn the key. And it's in these little moments that if we bring that intention to it, we can really turn what is like a, you know, a mindless moment into something with deep, deep awareness. Hmm. Miko Lee: Thank you for that. That's an interesting one. I have not heard that one before. Kazu Haga: Nowadays I just like push a button so it's even more mind less. Miko Lee: That's right. There's just a button Now. Keys, there's not even the time anymore to do that. That's right. What is it that you'd love folks to walk away with from being familiar with your work? You, there's so many aspects. You have different books that are out, you lead workshops, you're speaking, you are everyday walking through the world, sharing different things. What is one thing you'd love people to understand? Kazu Haga: Between both of my books and all the work that I do, so much of the essence is to try to help us remember. We belong to each other. I think the fear of isolation, the fear that we do not belong, is one of the most common fears that every human being has. Right? At some point in our lives, we felt like we don't belong. And while that is such a real fear, it's also a delusion. Like in an interdependent world, there is nothing outside of belonging, right? And so we already belong. We are already whole, we are already part of the vastness of the cosmos. There is so much power in remembering that we are part of the infinite universe, and I think the delusion that we do not belong to each other is like is the seed that creates the us versus them worldview, and it's that us versus them worldview that is at the heart of what is destroying our planet. In our efforts to create social change, how can we do so in a way that reminds us that even the people that are causing harm is a deeply critical interwoven web of relationships. That we are all in this web of relationship, that there's nobody outside of that, and how can we go about trying to create change in a way that reminds us of that? Miko Lee: Thank you. And my last question is, I'm wondering if there's something that you're learning from your child these days. Kazu Haga: Yeah, the, just the, the pure presence, right? That each moment is so deeply, deeply real, and each moment is to be honored. Like I am amazed at, we were eating asparagus the other day, and she was eating a whole bowl of asparagus, and she desperately needed me to get her the one piece of asparagus that she wanted. She was so frustrated that I couldn't find the one asparagus that she wanted, and so she was crying and screaming and throwing asparagus across the room, and then the moment I was able to find the one asparagus that she wanted, everything is fine. Everything is beautiful. She's smiling, she's laughing, and so just to. Not that we should be like throwing things around if we're not getting exactly what we want, but how can we honor our emotions every moment in a way that in that moment there is nothing outside of that moment. That sort of presence, is something that I really try to embody and try to learn from her. Miko Lee: Thank you so much for sharing with me. I really appreciate reading your books and being in community with you and, we'll put links to your website so that people Awesome. Thank you. Can find out more. And also, I really appreciate that you're having your books published by a small Buddhist press as and encouraging people to buy from that. Kazu Haga: Yeah. Shout out to ax. Miko Lee: Yes, we will absolutely put those links in our show notes. And thank you so much for joining us on Apex Today. Kazu Haga: Thank you so much for having me. Miko Lee: Thank you so much for joining me on this evening conversation with two different authors, Chanel Miller and Kazu Haga, and my little pitch is just to keep reading. Reading is such a critical and important way we learn about the world. I was just reading this thing that said the average Americans read 12 to 13 books a year. And when I checked in with friends and family, they said that could not be true. That they think they know many people who don't read any books. And I am just encouraging you all to pick up a book, especially by an Asian American Pacific Islander author, hear our perspectives, hear our stories. This is how we expand and understand our knowledge around the world. Grow closer to the people in both our lives and people around the world. So yea to reading, yea to Chanel Miller and Kazu Haga. And check out a local bookstore near you. If you wanna find out more information, please check out our website, kpfa.org, black slash programs, apex Express, where I will link both of these authors and how you can purchase their books at your local independent bookstore. Thank you very much. Goodnight. Please check out our website, kpfa.org. To find out more about our show tonight. We think all of you listeners out there. Keep resisting, keep organizing, keep creating and sharing your visions with the world because your voices are important. Apex Express is produced by Ayame Keane-Lee, Anuj Vaidya, Cheryl Truong, Isabel Li, Jalena Keane-Lee, Miko Lee, Nina Phillips, Preeti Mangala Shekar and Swati Rayasam Tonight's show was produced by me, your host, Miko Lee. Thank you so much for joining us. The post APEX Express – 1.15.26 – Chat with Authors appeared first on KPFA.

Scrump and Drew talk about the music of; Whitney Houston, Shai, Tony Jupiter, DRAIN, Freddie Gibbs, Prince, Comeback Kid, Blue Scholars, and more! I Will Always Love You-Whitney Houston If I Ever Fall In Love-Shai Quedate Conmigo-Tony Jupiter Feel the Pressure-DRAIN 30 Girlfriends (Yeah Yeah)-Freddie Gibbs  Let's Go Crazy-Prince Wake The Dead-Comeback Kid Sagaba-Blue Scholars Special thanks to Kenny Omega for the outro.   Patreon Merchandise   Social Media: Twitter Instagram 

Käthe Kollwitz, sie ist die berühmteste deutsche Künstlerin des 20. Jahrhunderts, bekannt für ihre anspruchsvollen und existenziellen Themen. Ihre einprägsame, eigenständige und empathische Bildsprache berührt uns bis heute. In der aktuellen Ausgabe des STÄDEL MIXTAPE betrachten wir ihr "Brustbild einer Arbeiterfrau mit blauem Tuch". Die Spuren harter Arbeit sind der Frau ins Gesicht eingeschrieben. Ganz nah sind wir als Betrachter an ihr dran, doch sie erwidert unseren Blick nicht. Wir schauen gemeinsam auf dieses prägnante Porträt und steigen ein in die Zeit der Industrialisierung, beschäftigen uns mit den Folgen und der Künstlerin Käthe Kollwitz. Musikalisch begleitet werden wir dabei von Oum Shatt, Einstürzende Neubauten, Blue Scholars und Masha Qrella. Mehr Infos auf mixtape.staedelmuseum.de

Prometheus Brown - "(East | West) feat. Leua" from the 2023 album Taglagas on Beatrock Music LLC Seattle's own Prometheus Brown has long been an important voice in local hip-hop, dating back to his days as Geologic in the duo Blue Scholars. As the son of Filipino immigrants, he uses the stage to uplift and empower the Filipino community with his lyrics. His first ever musical project as a solo artist has been this four-part EP series, named for each of the four seasons, "after the nonliteral corollary translation for the season's word in Tagalog," as he explains. With Tagsibol and Tag-init released in 2019, he's now released Taglagas, or "fall." He adds, the fourth and final Winter EP, Tag-lamig, should be coming out later this year. Prometheus Brown has also recently joined the KEXP team as a DJ, which you can read more about here. Check out today's Song of the Day below, and revisit his 2022 KEXP in-studio session below that.  Read the full story at KEXP.orgSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Khingz - Fort Cash Money from the 2022 album Over The World on OTOW/ freshcutflowers. Khingz has long been an influential force in the Seattle hip hop scene, with the crowning achievement of Best MC of the Year in 2009 according to Seattle Weekly for his groundbreaking record From Slaveships to Spaceships. A powerful collaborator, Khingz has worked with Geologic of Blue Scholars, Macklemore, and KEXP's own Gabriel Teodros in the hip-hop supergroup Good Medicine, with B-Flat and Crispy of Godspeed as the trio Hi-Life Soundsystem, and, once again, with Teodros as well as rapper Nam under the project The Livin Yard. His latest single and our Song of the Day reiterates Khingz' affinity for collaboration. Over a twinkling piano line and vibrant high hats, Khingz waxes poetic about his desire to bring up the people around him and the power and importance of doing so in “Fort Cash Money.” “Please God make me useful for those I love,” Khingz pleads. “I just wanna be the plug /I just wanna bring them power.” The song comes from Khingz' latest full-length and first in 13 years, Over the World, released last month. Khingz will be playing the Clock Out Lounge on July 23rd for the latest installment of The Good Foot alongside notable names such as the aforementioned Geologic and Grynch. Read the full story at KEXP.org Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

[Originally released Feb 2018] Debbie Bookchin is a widely-published journalist and author whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Nation, and numerous other publications. She served as press secretary to Bernie Sanders when he served in the U.S. House and she recently co-edited a book of essays by her father, Murray Bookchin, called The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy (Verso Books 2015). Debbie joins Brett to discuss the life and work of her father, Murray Bookchin, as well as the Rojavan Revolution, the rise of fascism, Social Ecology, Marxism, Anarchism, her father's legacy, and much, much more!  Find Debbie, and much of her work, on twitter: @Debbiebookcin  Learn more about and support the legacy of Murray Bookchin here: MurrayBookchin.org Outro Music: "Opening Salvo" by Blue Scholars, find and support them here: http://bluescholars.com Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio

August 25, 2021 In today's episode of Knowledge With Homage I talk about water. Topics include why civilizations popped up near sources of water, why most disease is connected to your body being dehydrated, how water came to be on earth, the moon possibly being made of plasma, primary water, climate change and much much more! I also play music by Mos Def, Black Thought Common and Lauryn Hill, Dr Dre and Blue Scholars. My site: homagethelionkiller.com/ Primary Water Institute: www.primarywaterinstitute.org/index.html Scientist said moon is plasma: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhIwZuPGfss&t=420s Drought stuff: www.cbsnews.com/news/drought-west…s-modern-history/ The Water cure explained: mindfulfamilymedicine.com/the-watercure/ You're Not Sick, You're Thirsty! www.amazon.com/Water-Health-Heal…sty/dp/0446690740 Why Civilizations form near water: courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-or…vilizations/ Why there's water on earth: theconversation.com/why-is-there-wa…on-earth-153931

As part of Sound & Vision's miniseries exploring the Filipino influence on Seattle's hip hop scene, today we highlight isangmahal arts kollective. KEXP's Gabriel Teodros speaks with MCs Prometheus Brown (aka Geo of Blue Scholars) and El Dia (co-founder of Youth Speaks Seattle) about how isangmahal was foundational in the work they did and created a much needed all ages space that gave rise to some talented MCs in the city. “It was like a bubble of creative youth expression in the city that centered a lot of marginalized voices,” Geo says. Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/sound/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As broadcast July 28, 2021 with bonus miles for every podcast VIP aviator.  Tonight as the world prepares to mark 30 years since the release of Nirvana's "Nevermind" in 1991, there was really nothing else we could have opened the show with as we travel to Seattle for this week's Round Trip with Lizz Kalo.  Obviously, the hub of the Northwest United States has been a shining beacon of music of many varieties for decades now, and it does indeed show in the playlist with classics from Jimi Hendrix & Ernestine Anderson to newer stuff from the likes of Macklemore & Allen Stone.  There truly is something for everybody in The Emerald City.#feelthegravityTracklisting:Part I (00:00)Nirvana – Come As You AreSpirit Award – Work It OutLa Fonda – Delusional BirdWINEHOUSE – Pretty LipsSea Salt – GentleNight Hikes – Belltown (edit) Part II (31:56)Macklemore – Inhale DeepBlue Scholars – 50 Thousand DeepFleet Foxes – If You Need To, Keep Time On MeHardcoretet – Apple BloomB'shnorkestra – Go To OrangeEpicentre – Get Off The PlaneSeattle Pure Dynamite – I Wonder LovePart III (62:56)The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Castles Made Of SandAllen Stone – Consider MeMacklemore & Ryan Lewis feat Mary Lambert – Same LoveDeep Sea Diver – Shattering The HourglassErnestine Anderson – Never Make Your Move Too SoonThe Overton Berry Trio – Hey Jude Part IV (95:48)Night Hikes – AvilaCommon Market – Connect ForTomo Nakayama – Tick TockSurf Mesa feat Emilee – ily (i love you baby)Billy Carter – Don't Push Me To Love My EnemyUrban Zakaya – I Don't Love You

On December 1st, 2006, Rahwa and Asmeret Habte took over Hidmo on 20th & Jackson. In a very short amount of time, Hidmo became known as a community center cleverly disguised as an Eritrean restaurant in Seattle's Central District, and a mecca for Seattle hip-hop. The space Rahwa and Asmeret helped create along with their family and friends became a safe space for youth in the neighborhood, an organizing hub for a large amount of community organizations in the city, and an all-ages venue for musicians who had very few venues accessible to them. Hidmo brought together community in a way that very few venues in our city ever have, and what happened those 4 years on 20th & Jackson can still be felt throughout our community, and the world today.  Rahwa tragically passed away earlier this year, and in honor of her legacy and the legacy of what she helped build, we brought together a playlist of some of her favorite artists who have graced the hut, along with personal memories shared from the artists themselves, including Blue Scholars, THEEsatisfaction, Khingz, JusMoni, Hollis, Shabazz Palaces, Meklit, Invincible, Dakota Camacho, Beyond Reality, Siren's Echo, One Be Lo and more. 1. Blue Scholars - The Distance (feat. Rahwa Habte & Semone Andu) * words from Prometheus Brown 2. Khingz - Blaq Han Solo (feat. Rahwa Habte on the outro) * words from Meklit 3. Meklit - This Was Made Here * words from Dakota Camacho 4. Dakota Camacho - Hita (unreleased) * words from Imani Dinish 5. Invincible - People Not Places (feat. Sabreena da Witch) * words from Invincible 6. One Be Lo - Books a bout you (HisStory) * words from Stas THEE Boss 7. Shabazz Palaces - Capital 5 (Recorded After Hours at the Gun Ballad Resource Center on Sweeper St.) 8. THEESatisfaction - EEN SAH EWE * words from SassyBlack  9. Vitamin D - Home Don't Feel Like Home (feat. Yirim Seck & Game Solo)  10. Hollis - All My Weight * words from JusMoni 11. JusMoni - Never Too Late (feat. Khingz) 12. Chev - Universal Branches * words from King Khazm 13. Black Stax - River 14. Beyond Reality - Souls Journey (feat. Felicia Loud) * words from Kylea 15. Siren's Echo - Perfect Peace Gabriel Teodros is the host of Early on KEXP, weekdays from 5-7am PT, and Larry Mizell, Jr. is the host of The Afternoon Show, weekdays from 1-4pm PT on KEXP.org, the KEXP app or 90.3 FM in Seattle. Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, the boys deep dive into the criminally underrated hip hop duo Blue Scholars.

This episode of The Weekly Mix is co-hosted by KEXP's 90.TEEN DJs, Sebastian, Sofia K, DJ 9, DJ Kennady and Vega Vi. As they get ready to vote in their first federal election, these exceptional young curators reflect on the songs that have inspired them, from social and political engagement to personal empowerment. The mix features local talents Rell Be Free and Blue Scholars, international songstresses Stella Donnelley and Lava La Rue, and classics like Fugazi and Death. Tune in and VOTE! 1. Brandon Maralis - Thugs Cry 2. Rell Be Free - Paythefeee 3. Aurelio Valdez - Rent Money 4. King Youngblood - Melanin (feat. Huey The Artist) 5. Oya Storms - Well Done 6. Death - Politicians In My Eyes 7. Yves Tumor - Noid 8. Dumb Fucks - a.c.a.b. 9. Blue Scholars - Proletariat Blues 10. Stella Donnelley - Beware of the Dogs 11. SAULT - This Generation (feat. Laurette Josiah) 12. A. Billi Free & Tensei - Against the Wall 13. Harleighblu & Bluestaeb - Queeen Dem (feat. Janne Robinson) 14. Anna Wise - One of These Changes Is You (feat. Pink Siifu) 15. Noname - Song 33 16. The Objex - Criminal State 17. Lava La Rue - Widdit 18. The Coup - The Guillotine 19. Grope - …And Justice For All 20. Descendents - ‘Merican 21. Fugazi - Burning Too DJs Sebastian, Sofia K, 9, Kennady and Vega Vi are the rotating hosts of 90.TEEN, every Saturday from 6-7am PT on KEXP.org, the KEXP app or 90.3 FM in Seattle.  Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosts Dope KNife and Linqua Franqa got bills, y'all. We all do. Medical bills, student loans, car payments, carceral debts-- most of us know the dread of a letter from Navient or a phone call from Sallie Mae. So do rappers from indie heavy hitters Sammus and Blue Scholars to mainstream giants like J Cole. But what do we do with all this debt? Author, documentarian, and organizer Astra Taylor joins DK and LF to discuss a radical new organizing strategy to not only abolish debt but establish a new society where debt no longer needs to exist. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

08-04-20 an incredible hour with adam steckley, director of operations at Blue Scholars Initiative in miami, fl. started in 2019, Blue Scholars is a non-profit education platform designed to teach 3rd & 4th graders the importance of the biscayne bay ecosystem. even with the pandemic, Blue Scholars has developed a digital learning platform to keep the kids engaged and educated on their role in preserving miami's backyard water world. Learn more about Blue Scholars at www.bluescholars.org

We induct Seattle’s Blue Scholars into the Peltoncast Hall of Fame, then look back at the year (2004) they got their start. Plus comings and goings for UW men’s basketball and the Seahawks bring back another edge rusher. Contents Intro … Continue reading →

We explore the stories of three musicians who work day jobs to supplement their work as artists. First is Lesli Wood, who fronts the band Skates! As a lawyer by day, she used to have to hide her tattoos and neon hair in court in order to be taken seriously. Then, we meet Mark Arm of the iconic Seattle grunge band, Mudhoney. His day job is stuffing records and managing the warehouse for the record label his band is on, Sub Pop. Lastly, we talk to Geo. He’s best known for his Seattle hip-hop group, Blue Scholars, but his main job now is running two acclaimed café/bars in Seattle called “Hood Famous." Support the show.

Backtracks (AAPI Month): Mitski, Blue Scholars. Featuring Still Woozy, Elujay, Omar Apollo, Col3trane, Izzy Bizu, Renni Rucci, PNAU, Mark Redito, Sabina Ddumba, Tank & The Bangas, Rico Nasty, and Haiti Babii. (Playlist linked here) That wild ass freestyle + applicable reaction GIF More fun stuff related to Blue Scholars here and here PSA the Ari Lennox album is out now! Dorian Electra - Flamboyant music video I'm serious about this Pistols Drake leak If anyone was wondering why M said "Most of you probably won't understand [6/8 time]" during J's backtrack

Good morning folks, welcome back to Fyr Rok Gym and Coffeeshop. In this episode Tyler talks about his love of shoveling snow, current and past explorations of fitness as well as current listening and readings. We kick this episode with a little bit of Southside Revival by the Blue Scholars. Thank you for listening! #FyrRokGymandCoffeeShop

Get ready to meet the radicalest rascal this side of the rockin’ Red River! Radical Robbie makes his first appearance in this episode of Belo the Flo. The homies review a nearly classic album by the Northwest based Blue Scholars. They also give some advice in a sort of “Dear Abby” experiment.

Part 2 of 2. Chera Amlog and Geo Quibuyen are the husband and wife duo behind Hood Famous Bakeshop in Seattle. On this two-part episode, they discuss the influence of their Filipino culture, meeting in middle school, their activism work and the influence of Geo’s music career as a member of Blue Scholars and The Bar. Hood Famou Social Media & Web: hoodfamousbakeshop.com instagram.com/hoodfamousbakeshop twitter.com/hoodfamousBS facebook.com/hoodfamousbakeshop twitter.com/prometheusbrown twitter.com/FoodAndSh_t twitter.com/sheerah No Blueprint & AmbassadorStories Social Media: instagram.com/ambassadorstories/ twitter.com/AMBStories facebook.com/NoBlueprintPodcast/ ambassadorstoriesllc@gmail.com Support + Merch paypal.me/AmbassadorStories patreon.com/AmbassadorStories ambassadorstories.bigcartel.com/ Official Websites: NoBlueprintPodcast.com/ AmbassadorStories.com/

Part 1 of 2. Chera Amlog and Geo Quibuyen are the husband and wife duo behind Hood Famous Bakeshop in Seattle. On this two-part episode, they discuss the influence of their Filipino culture, meeting in middle school, their activism work and the influence of Geo’s music career as a member of Blue Scholars and The Bar. Hood Famou Social Media & Web: hoodfamousbakeshop.com instagram.com/hoodfamousbakeshop twitter.com/hoodfamousBS facebook.com/hoodfamousbakeshop twitter.com/prometheusbrown twitter.com/FoodAndSh_t twitter.com/sheerah No Blueprint & AmbassadorStories Social Media: instagram.com/ambassadorstories/ twitter.com/AMBStories facebook.com/NoBlueprintPodcast/ ambassadorstoriesllc@gmail.com Support + Merch paypal.me/AmbassadorStories patreon.com/AmbassadorStories ambassadorstories.bigcartel.com/ Official Websites: NoBlueprintPodcast.com/ AmbassadorStories.com/

My guest for episode 10 is Jill Mangaliman, executive director of Got Green. Got Green is a south-Seattle based grassroots organization led by low income people and people of color that “cultivates multi-generational community leaders to be central voices in the Green Movement in order to ensure that the benefits of the green movement and green economy ... reach low income communities and communities of color.” Got Green is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, and Jill has been with the organization since the early days. I talked with Jill about the challenges of organizing a community that is rapidly being displaced and about the ways in which coming together can effect change – and not just from a policy perspective. It can awaken us to new ways of interacting and remind us to model the world we are trying to build with the people who are in the struggle with us. I hope you enjoy my conversation with Jill as much as I did. Resources: Got Green website: http://gotgreenseattle.org 10th anniversary event: May 19th http://gotgreenseattle.org/rooted-in-power-2018/ Don't Displace Dove: https://southseattleemerald.com/2017/10/28/beacon-hill-community-rallies-to-denounce-esther-little-dove-johns-displacement/ Jill Mangaliman: "How can the economy be environmentally sustainable?" (video): https://youtu.be/zfmbBh6JcEU *** Intro/outro music, recorded with permission: "Joe Metro," by Blue Scholars. www.youtube.com/watch?time_contin…e=6&v=Wz79goWQrYU ***

My guest for episode 9 is Sue Lenander, program director for Plant for the Planet Seattle. She is also, I learned during our interview, an extremely committed and courageous activist. I wanted to interview Sue to find out how she recruits families and spreads her organization’s message -- and to explore the connection between trees and community building. We talked about those things, but Sue also shared a bit of her own story –- how she came to realize that her life choices had contributed to our climate crisis and how she honors her commitment to be part of the solution. She has participated in or is connected to some of the most impactful direct action climate resistance of this decade. Get ready to be inspired by my conversation with Sue Lenander. Resources: Climate Change for Families: https://climatechangeforfamilies.com/ Plant for the Planet (global): https://www.plant-for-the-planet.org Valve Turners: http://www.shutitdown.today/ Wangari Maathai Foundation: http://wangarimaathai.org/ Related: A blog post about my family's experience planting trees: http://www.buschick.com/?p=7985 A blog post that references one of the valve turners: http://www.buschick.com/?p=9377 *** Intro/outro music, recorded with permission: "Joe Metro," by Blue Scholars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=Wz79goWQrYU ***

My guest for Episode 8 is Elmer Dixon, one of the founding members of the Seattle Chapter of the Black Panther Party. Next month marks the 50th anniversary of the Seattle Panthers, so I was incredibly honored to have the chance to interview Mr. Dixon about the party’s work in the community and as a community – and about how his experience as a Black Panther continues to inform his life today. Resources: 50th Anniversary celebration info: https://www.seattlebpp50.com/about My People Are Rising: http://mypeoplearerising.com/ *** Intro/outro music, recorded with permission: "Joe Metro," by Blue Scholars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=Wz79goWQrYU ***

My guest for today’s episode is author and consultant, Peter Block. Peter has written a number of books, including Community: The Structure of Belonging, which I read recently and learned a lot from. What I love about Peter’s book is that it doesn’t just focus on our interactions; it tackles the cultural assumptions and practices that have created the fragmentation that make it difficult to build cohesive communities. It challenges common beliefs about what makes a leader and the most effective ways to bring about change. And, it provides important insights and practical steps to help us build the communities we want to live in. Resources: http://peterblock.com/ commongood.cc/ *** Intro/outro music, recorded with permission: "Joe Metro," by Blue Scholars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=Wz79goWQrYU ***

My guest for episode 6 is Tim Lennon, executive director of the brand new nonprofit, Langston Seattle. Langston is housed in the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute, a beautiful facility in the Central District neighborhood. For the past 40 years, Langston Hughes (or LHPAI) has been run by the City of Seattle and has served as a performance and gathering space for black art and artists. After 40 years, the city has decided to stop managing the programming that happens at Langston Hughes. Though the city will continue to manage the facility, it will hand over control of the programming to the community, through the nonprofit, Langston. Tim, who just started in his role as the new director last month, is well suited to lead this effort. He has worked in the art world in a number of capacities, at Elliott Bay Book Company, the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, and most recently, as the director of the Vera Project, an all ages, youth arts organization. Tim has spent his career bringing people together around art and is deeply invested in the health and future of this city. I really wanted to pick his brain about how we build community through art and what he envisions for the future of Langston. Resources: Langston’s website: https://www.langstonseattle.org/ Langston Hughes African American Film Festival: https://www.langstonseattle.org/lhaaff/ *** Intro/outro music, recorded with permission: "Joe Metro," by Blue Scholars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=Wz79goWQrYU ***

Debbie Bookchin is a widely-published journalist and author whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Nation, and numerous other publications. She served as press secretary to Bernie Sanders when he served in the U.S. House and she recently co-edited a book of essays by her father, Murray Bookchin, called The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy (Verso Books 2015). Debbie joins Brett to discuss the life and work of her father, Murray Bookchin, as well as the Rojavan Revolution, the rise of fascism, Social Ecology, Marxism, Anarchism, her father's legacy, and much, much more!  Find Debbie, and much of her work, on twitter: @Debbiebookcin  Learn more about and support the legacy of Murray Bookchin here: MurrayBookchin.org Follow the Kurdish struggle here: http://theregion.org Outro Music: "Opening Salvo" by Blue Scholars, find and support them here: http://bluescholars.com Reach us at: Brett.RevLeftRadio@protonmail.com follow us on Twitter @RevLeftRadio  Follow us on FB at "Revolutionary Left Radio" Intro Music by The String-Bo String Duo. You can listen and support their music here: https://tsbsd.bandcamp.com/track/red-black This podcast is officially affiliated with The Nebraska Left Coalition, the Nebraska IWW, and the Omaha GDC. Check out Nebraska IWW's new website here: https://www.nebraskaiww.org

Nora Laughlin is a single parent who was born and raised in West Seattle and lives there today with her 12-year old daughter. Nora started a project in West Seattle called Sharing the Harvest, which connected gardeners who had excess harvest with food banks in need of fresh produce. I love the concept of Sharing the Harvest for all the obvious reasons. It provided fresh produce to people who wanted and needed it, and it took advantage of local resources to fill local needs. But I also love it because it was simple. It didn’t require a lot of infrastructure or a new organization or fundraising or campaigning or petitioning government officials. All it took was one person with a good idea who was willing to give some of her time to make it happen. Additional information: Sharing the Harvest: https://www.facebook.com/sharingtheharvestseattle/ White Center Food Bank: https://www.whitecenterfoodbank.org/ *** Intro/outro music, recorded with permission: "Joe Metro," by Blue Scholars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=Wz79goWQrYU ***

Estela Ortega is the executive director of El Centro de la Raza, a community organization based on Beacon Hill in Seattle. El Centro is s a beautiful and special place that has been providing comprehensive services -- including food assistance, childcare, training, and English instruction -- for the Latinx and Chicano communities (and anyone else who needs them) for over 45 years. Everything about El Centro, including its name (the center for people of all races) embodies the value of community, but I wanted to talk to Estela about El Centro’s recent success building affordable housing in a city that is rapidly becoming the exclusive domain of the rich. For more information about El Centro de la Raza and Plaza Maestas, visit www.elcentrodelaraza.org/. *** Intro/outro music, recorded with permission: "Joe Metro," by Blue Scholars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=Wz79goWQrYU ***

This is the second part of my interview with King County Councilmember Larry Gossett. We can’t figure out where we’re going until we understand – remember – where we’ve been, and what I love about Larry Gossett is his deep connections to our city’s history AND his continued commitment to engage in the present and work toward a better future for all. *** Intro/outro music, recorded with permission: "Joe Metro," by Blue Scholars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=Wz79goWQrYU ***

This is the first in a series of interviews with King County Councilmember Larry Gossett. We talked about the importance of organizing and building alliances in movements for social change. If you’d like to learn more about Councilmember Gossett’s legacy, check out the book Gang of Four: Four Leaders, Four Communities, One Friendship, by Bob Santos and Gary Iwamoto. *** Intro/outro music, recorded with permission: "Joe Metro," by Blue Scholars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=Wz79goWQrYU ***

This is the intro episode of Remember, a podcast about building community. Host Carla Saulter talks to guests about ways we can build connected, resilient, inclusive, interdependent communities to help us tackle our nation's -- and our world's -- most pressing problems. *** Intro/outro music, recorded with permission: "Joe Metro," by Blue Scholars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=Wz79goWQrYU ***

This week the Vinyl Preacher is coming out of the Pacific Northwest. Casey Kloehn is the Lutheran pastor part of the Belfry Lutheran/Epsicopal deal at UC Davis. She provides stunning insight on the transfiguration and on the place of Detlef Schrempf's place in the cultural zeitgeist. I promise we talk about Matthew's transfiguration, but first we need to get some OJ talk out of the way. Check out the Spotify Playlist featuring Bey, the Blue Scholars, and the debut of a hot new act...Marvin Gaye. https://play.spotify.com/user/vinylpreacher/playlist/75gc291LPNIjFtgnkVSEns The Vinyl Preacher is supported by LuMin (the Lutheran Campus Ministry Network) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It is produced by Nick Morris.

Campus pastor to the St. Lunatics, Rebecca Boardman, joins Zach on the pod to talk about the Festival Sunday of Campus Ministers...the Sunday after Christmas. In memory of the Rev. Matthew Keadle the podcast has a U2 track and a Blue Scholars track. Also, a call to action regarding the ingestion of fried sticks of cheese. Check out the playlist on the Spotify...https://play.spotify.com/user/vinylpreacher/playlist/7xuYYxnP68zpXCZW492Xmz The Vinyl Preacher is produced by DJ Draze Force and supported by LuMin and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Full show: http://kNOwBETTERHIPHOP.com Remember, Remember Artist Played: unselftitled, Yasiin Bey, Mos Def, conshus, Grey Matter, Alicia Keys, LOrange, Mr. Lif, Uyama Hiroto, Shing02, Lotus, Oriel Poole, Hakibros, Sebastian Hochstein, Sadat X, Jurny Big, DJ Kair One, Romare, Purple Kloud, Arrested Development, Nouvelle Vague, LegSweep Specialist, Beet Unique, Blue Scholars, E-Turn, SPS, Swamburger, Phonte, Eric Roberson, JONES, De La Soul, Damon Albarn, Takuya Kuroda, OutKast, GOODie MOb, OutKast, Slick Rick, IMAKEMADBEATS

Tons of amazing bands and singers fly below the radar, and this week I am turning the spotlight on three of my favorites that I think you'll dig. I introduce Blue Scholars, The Ruts and Esthero, and discuss why you need to check them out. I also review the new record from De La Soul.

My guy Prometheus Brown aka Geo of The Blue Scholars came through for an epic in depth convo about all things food and music related. From his formative years at UW to becoming a respected MC and his most recent adventure as a chef doing Filipino pop up restaurants, this is a tale you don't want to miss. #ItsTheBiggest

“There's more that we can do than we think we can.” Malik Watkins, better known by his stage name MaLLy, is an independent hip-hop artist from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Active since 2007, MaLLy has cemented his place in the Twin Cities music scene with a strong discography boasting three critically acclaimed albums—The Passion, The Last Great..., and The Colors of Black—along with several well-received EPs including Free on the 15th and Strange Rhythm. MaLLy has toured nationwide with Atmosphere on their “Welcome to Minnesota” tour in 2012, and with Brother Ali on his “Home Away From Home” tour in 2014. Other notable live performances include shows alongside underground hip-hop luminaries such as Souls of Mischief, Blue Scholars, Watsky, and Evidence, and two appearances—one as a performer (2011) and one as co-host with Brother Ali (2012)—at Soundset, the largest Hip-Hop festival in Minnesota. MaLLy continues to work on new music, as well as participate in community-oriented organizations dedicated to the arts, creativity, and entrepreneurship such as Giant Steps and Kulture Klub Collaborative. On this episode of the podcast, MaLLy shares the story of where his name came from, talks about being comfortable using humor on stage and why many hip hop artists take themselves very seriously. He talks about the early music he was exposed to by his mother, the time he spent learning how to make music before he shared it with anyone and how his relationship to fear has drive his work and life. MaLLy also talks about the stereotypes and perceptions held about hip hop artists and opens up about his personal journey to make music as a way of making positive connection in the world rather than chase after fame or attention. 

We tried something a little different this week, heading over to the ShoWare Center in Kent to do a live show before the Tacoma Stars game. Unfortunately, we were a bit harder to find that normal, but there were still about 20 or so people who made it over. In any case, we were treated to a pretty spectacular match that featured lots of loud music, dancing mascots and scoring.  The Stars won, too, on a Mike Ramos goal with less than 2 seconds remaining on the clock. The show consisted of Stars VP of Business Development John Crouch. He gave us some of the history behind the reborn Stars and some of their plans for the future. We also discussed the Obafemi Martins transfer, the new kits and the reaction to the new announcer hirings. We closed out the show by taking a few questions from the crowd. Songs: - remove  Blue Scholars; insert "Magic Man (cover)" - Helms Alee  

We tried something a little different this week, heading over to the ShoWare Center in Kent to do a live show before the Tacoma Stars game. Unfortunately, we were a bit harder to find that normal, but there were still about 20 or so people who made it over. In any case, we were treated to a pretty spectacular match that featured lots of loud music, dancing mascots and scoring.  The Stars won, too, on a Mike Ramos goal with less than 2 seconds remaining on the clock. The show consisted of Stars VP of Business Development John Crouch. He gave us some of the history behind the reborn Stars and some of their plans for the future. We also discussed the Obafemi Martins transfer, the new kits and the reaction to the new announcer hirings. We closed out the show by taking a few questions from the crowd. Songs: - remove  Blue Scholars; insert "Magic Man (cover)" - Helms Alee  

The sun's been out, the mercury rising and we're feeeeelin' great about it. We kick off the sunshine vibe with a remix of Rare Earth's classic I Just Want to Celebrate complete with Public Enemy scratched in. Then it's into the funk with Bootsy and Deee-Lite followed by Utah Saints remixing Watermelon Man. The hippo hop wobble funk takes over with Vent and a phat bassline from A. Skillz. After some reminiscing about the early rave scene here in Van, we move into some solid IDM with Paul Kalkbrenner. Rowdy beats ensue with Ellen Allien and a Die Antwoord remix. After that a bit of hiphop by way of The Let Go and Blue Scholars before we end with some chilled IDM from Vector Lovers. Tracklist: Rare Earth - I Just Want To Celebrate (Mocean Worker Remix) Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart (Bootsified To The Nth Degree) King Curtis - Watermelon Man (Utah Saints Remix) Vent - Lunatics A. Skillz - Cold As Ice Paul Kalkbrenner - Queer Fellow Ellen Allien - Stadtkind Die Antwoord - Enter The Ninja (DJ Fishticks Remix) The Let Go - Searching For Sun Blue Scholars - Hussein Mnemonic - Das Verkaufte Lachen Vector Lovers - Kobe

Episode 2 of SefJam Radio. This time around our tracks include music from Brother Ali, P.O.S., Japandroids, The Killers, Shad, Macklemore, Blueprint, The Head & The Heart, & the Blue Scholars. Click Here To Listen, Enjoy!

This week starts with a great track from Little People, travels to Norway for some Xploding Plastix. The French hip hop collective of Chinese Man features the use of a sample from Washboard Rhythm Kings' recording of Hummin' To Myself. We get into some underground hip hop from the Pacific Northwest with Blue Scholars, down to LA with some AWOL One, and out east with Aesop Rock. We glitch it up a bit with Berlins' Christian Kleine, into some Ms. John Soda and Paris' Saycet. The show closes by taking it down a notch with Deaf Center, some Clint Mansell & Kronos Quartet, and the solid songwriting and soprano voice of Joel Thibodeau's Death Vessel. Tracklist: Little People: Mezzo Xploding Plastix: Errata Chinese Man: I've Got That Tune Blue Scholars: Cinematropolis AWOL One & Daddy Kev: Rhythm Aesop Rock: No Regrets Christian Kleine: H.Y Ms. John Soda: Hiding/Fading Saycet: Chromatic Bird Deaf Center: White Lake Clint Mansell & Kronos Quartet: Summer Overture Death Vessel: White Mole

Guest Singer for The Little Bits at Sunday Streets Following up on last week's epic recap of 2011, this week we feature the MUSIC of 2011 including songs by Makana, Ras Ceylon, Hopie Spitshard, Rocky Rivera, Kiwi, Blue Scholars, Goh Nakamura, The Invisible Cities, The Little Bits, Senbei, and a rousing music video by Magnetic North and Taiyo Na featuring Jin (see below). We also honor the passing of activist and fellow radio producer, Yvette Hochberg, with a poem by Genny Lim. Hosted by Robynn.   The post APEX Express – January 12, 2012 appeared first on KPFA.

War Update, WikiLeak of the Week, Sit-in at Old Queens, Environmental, Mental Health Update, adventures at Rutgers Day, Music, Comics and Gaming, Today at the RutgersZone. Music: Lords of the Highway-"Freaky Tiki", Blue Scholars-"27", Gogol Bordello-"Immigrant Punk", George Gershwin's "Promenade (Walking the Dog)"

War Update, WikiLeak of the Week, RUSA presidential candidates, Environmental, Rutgers News with Targum Editor in Chief Mary Diduch, Comics and Gaming, Music. Music: Lords of the Highway-"Freaky Tiki", Blue Scholars-"27", Instrumental Quarter-"Beautiful Shopping Day", George Gershwin's "Promenade (Walking the Dog)"

War Update, WikiLeak of the Week, Local, Mental Health Update - Mood Disorders Part 2, Rutgers News with Targum Editor in Chief Mary Diduch, Music, Comics and Gaming, This Week at the RutgersZone. Music: Lords of the Highway-"Freaky Tiki", Blue Scholars-"27", Gogol Bordello-"Immigrant Punk", George Gershwin's "Promenade (Walking the Dog)"

War Update, WikiLeak of the Week, Local, Political, Environmental, Rutgers News with Targum Editor in Chief Mary Diduch, Music, Comics and Gaming, Entertainment, This Week at the RutgersZone Music: Lords of the Highway-"Freaky Tiki", Blue Scholars-"27", Gogol Bordello-"Immigrant Punk", George Gershwin's "Promenade (Walking the Dog)"

Archive: http://groovement.co.uk DJ A-UP’s first words were “Boom, bap”, and he’s here to restore your faith in hip-hop. Now resident at Groovement-associated live hip hop night IN THE LOOP after serving his years in the now sadly-departed Manchester hip hop institution C’MON FEET, he only plays that good shit. Check DJ A-UP’s mixtape series on Mixcloud here: DJ A-UP 1. Billy Paul – Don’t Think Twice It’s Allright (1968) 2. Fashawn – Samsonite Man (2009) 3. Star Slinger – Mornin’ (2010) 4. Von Pea – Good Life (2010) 5. Shad – Rose Garden (2010) 6. Illecism – Plus Sign Vibe (2010) 7. J Dante X Man Mantis – Hi Love (2009) 8. Revolutionary Rhythm – Los Angeles Times (2010) 9. Bibio – Lovers’ Carvings (2009) 10. Blue Scholars – Big Bank Hank (2011) 11. The Gerald Wilson Orchestra – California Soul (1968) 12. A.D.O.R. – Let It All Hang Out (Pete Rock Remix) (1992) 13. Krispy 3 – On Tempo (’94 Lick) (1994) 14. Groove Theory – Baby Luv (1995) 15. Neneh Cherry feat. The Notoroious B.I.G. – Buddy X (Falcon & Fabian Remix) (1993) 16. Blu – MyBoyBlu (2008) 17. Exile feat. J. Mitchell – Your Summer Song (2009) 18. Break Next Beat – Autum Skies (2010) 19. MeLo-X feat. Jesse Boykins – She is Forever (2011) 20. Plato – Make ‘em Clap (2011) 21. Pulled Over By The Cops feat. Nate Santos – Authority (2011) 22. Jay Lee – I’m Dreaming (2010) 23. DJ King Most – Daylight (2008) 24. Legion & Lemon feat. Eric Clapton – Inside of Me (2010) 25. Danny Drive Thru – Go Slow (2007) 26. The Stuyvesants – Greene Ave. Anthem (2010) 27. TiRon – For Your Smile (2010) 28. Phil Ade – Break Me Off (2011) 29. J.J. Brown – World’s A Stage (2009) 30. BrandUn DeShay – Wish Me Luck feat. Dom Kennedy & TiRon (2010) 31. Omas – Ninethousand90 (2010) 32. A Tribe Called Quest – We Can Get Down (1993) 33. Damu The Fudgemunk – Brooklyn Flower (2010)

War Update, WikiLeak of the Week, Local News, Environmental News, Rutgers News with Neil Kypers of the Targum, a seal in Perth Amboy, Rutgers Upward Bound event in the LSC, Comics & Gaming, Music Update Music: Lords of the Highway-"Freaky Tiki", Instrumental Quarter-"A Beautiful Shopping Day", Madvillian-"Accordion", Modest Mouse-"Custom Concern", Blue Scholars-"27", Gogol Bordello-"Immigrant Punk", George Gershwin's "Promenade (Walking the Dog)"

The gang packs up the lake cabin and heads back for civilization, but not before digging one more gem out of The TBTL Archives. Today's selection, 'TBTL Breakin' II, Electric Boogaloo' our live show featuring: Blue Scholars, Ken Jennings, and live listener wedding, and much much more.

TBTL Electric Boogaloo! Blue Scholars use a crazy contraption to bring the hip-hop, Ken Jennings (Jeopardy Champ) squares off against the TBTL Tens, Smoosh, Say Hi, and The Lonely Forest bring the music, Cooking With Sean DeTore, A Crazy Surprise Thing That Actually Happened, and much much more!

Blue Scholars! Performing tracks off their upcoming album and talking about which hip-hop legends have bad breath.

We spent most of the week sorting through a pile of new releases that arrived at our doorstep. Your ears should be pleased with what made the cut. New hip-hop from the likes of Ghostface Killah & DOOM, the Blue Scholars, and Juice Aleem get things started. The second half moves along with top-shelf electronic […]

My Odeo Channel (odeo/c8d607a82578d1da) http://freedownloads.last.fm/download/42423040/Strange%2BFruit%2B%255Bfeat.%2BPeace%2Band%2B%2527Drea%255D.mp3 Danny "cafe surreal" http://freedownloads.last.fm/download/1484656/Whatever%2BYou%2BSay.mp3 Little Brother "the way you do it" http://www.fuzedmusic.com/01%20Joe%20Metro%201.mp3 Blue Scholars "Joe Metro"

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It's the first Thursday of the month, you know what that means: Asian Pacific Islander American HIP HOP! This week's featured artist: Seattle's BLUE SCHOLARS! Join us as we talk live with Pinoy emcee Geologic and Iranian American dj/producer Sabzi about their new album, Bayani. Also hear APIA participants of the recent US Social Forum in Atlanta report back about their experiences, share their analysis of the issues API communities face. Plus our a special Blue Scholars Hot 7 @ 7 mix by DJ Phatrick, community calendar and more! Contact: 510-848-6767×464; apex@kpfa.org ; for more stories: www.apexexpress.org. For Apex's hip-hop site: www.myspace.com/apexexpress The post APEX Express – July 5, 2007 appeared first on KPFA.

Blue Scholars on IndieFeed Hip Hop

Blue Scholars on IndieFeed Hip Hop