[nyfoil-l] APF / Radio today: Asghar Ali Engineer_dispute in APICHA _wAve

[Aniruddha Das]

Tune in 8-9 pm EST
Tuesday March 16, 2004
ASIA PACIFIC FORUM on
WBAI 99.5 FM, New York City

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1. On Ending Religious Violence in India: Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer
2. Acting Up?  APA AIDS Activists Challenge APICHA
3. Worldwide Premiere: Sung Rnos wAve
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Tonight on Asia Pacific Forum we'll hear from Dr. ASGHAR ALI ENGINEER, who 
has been at the forefront of the battle for religious reform and tolerance 
and for an end to religious violence in India for more than 40 years. We 
play an interview conducted on a recent trip by Dr. Engineer to the U.S.

An escalating dispute between a group of APA activists and service agency 
APICHA (the Asian & Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS) has pitted 
management and board members against former clients and former board 
members.  APICHA was founded in 1989 to provide culturally competent 
HIV/AIDS-related services, outreach and research to the API community in 
New York City.  However, the self-named "Ad-Hoc Committee for a Happier 
APICHA" has accused the non-profit of dismissing select clients who 
disagree with their policies and from straying from its original 
mission.  Members of the Ad Hoc Committee have staged protests at the 
APICHA offices and meetings, and APICHA has in turn filed suit this January 
seeking to bar them from the offices along with $500,000 in damages based 
on allegations of trespassing, staff harassment, and client 
endangerment.  Former APICHA board member MANNY TORRIJOS and two former 
APICHA clients will appear to discuss the specific concerns of the Ad Hoc 
Committee.  Representatives from APICHA declined to be interviewed tonight.

Finally, the award-winning Ma-Yi Theatre Company presents SUNG RNO's newest 
play, wAve.  This bold adaptation of the Medea myth follows modern-day 
Korean American couple Jason Park and M. through the cycles of 
hallucination and tragedy brought on by betrayal.  APF interviewed 
playwright Rno following wAve's premiere on Sunday March 14th .

wAve officially opens Saturday, March 21st and is scheduled to run through 
April 11th at the Ohio Theater (66 Wooster St.).  For more information, 
visit <http://www.ma-yitheatre.org/>www.ma-yitheatre.org.

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Dr. ASGHAR ALI ENGINEER has been studying and organizing around the roots 
of religious riots and religious violence in India since 1961. He is also 
amongst the leaders of a reform movement within the Muslim community, 
particularly the Bohra Muslim community in India, focusing on the issue of 
gender justice. He is the founder and director of the Center for the Study 
of Society and Secularism 
(<http://www.csss-isla.com/>http://www.csss-isla.com).

MANNY TORRIJOS is a former board member of the Asian & Pacific Islander 
Coalition on HIV/AIDS (APICHA) and a member of the Ad Hoc Committee for a 
Happier APICHA.

SUNG RNO's plays include Cleveland Raining, Gravity Falls from Trees, and 
Ya Sing Counts to Thirteen, which won the 2002 New York Fringe Festival 
Excellence Award for Best Overall Production. Rno has also received a 
NEA/TCG playwriting fellow with Ma-Yi Theatre Company, first prize in the 
Seattle Multicultural Plawright's Festival, and commissions from the Mark 
Taper Forum, Joseph Papp Public Theater, and the Ma-Yi Theatre Company 
(<http://www.ma-yitheatre.org/home.html>www.ma-yitheatre.org/home.html).

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This program is brought to you by Shirley Lin, Aniruddha Das, Tomo Geron, 
and Heidi Chuah of the APF Collective.
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