[nyfoil-l] APF / WBAI tonight: Hunger strike at Queens prison / Election primer / Modern Chinese photo & video

[Aniruddha Das]

Tune in 8:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Tuesday August 24, 2004
ASIA PACIFIC FORUM on WBAI 99.5 FM, New York City
Or listen live on the web at:
www.wbai.org or
www.asiapacificforum.org

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1. Reprisals End Hunger Strike at Queens Detention Center
2. APA Election Primer: Immigration Reform
3. "Between Past & Future" Showcases Contemporary Chinese Art
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1. A last-ditch hunger strike called last Monday by 175 immigrant detainees 
at the privately-run GEO Detention Center came to a halt after detention 
center guards targeted individuals for solitary confinement and threatened 
others with deportation or prolonged imprisonment.  The GEO Group (formerly 
known as Wackenhut) intends to expand its detention contracts nationally 
and Australia, South Africa and Europe. Joining us tonight to discuss the 
cases of the detained are family members of the hunger strikers, along with 
community organizer BOBBY KHAN of the Coney Island Avenue Project.

2.  Tonight we begin a special series on Asian Pacific Americans and the 
2004 presidential election, to run weekly until November 2nd.  Each week, 
our guests will analyze the positions of the candidates on issues with 
relevance to Asian Americans.  Our first topic: immigration reform, with 
guest CATHI TACTAQUIN of the Bay Area-based National Network for Immigrant 
and Refugee Rights.

3.  A joint exhibit at the Asia Society and the International Center of 
Photography, "Between Past and
Future: New Photography and Video from China" showcases more than 130 
cutting-edge works from 60 Chinese artists. Bold experimentation with new 
media during the 1990s--amid new social realities--has opened up ways for a 
new generation of artists to reconstruct their history and identity.  We'll 
hear more about this exciting assembly of artists from Asia Society Museum 
Director MELISSA CHIU.

The show will run at the Asia Society (725 Park Avenue at 70th Street, 
www.asiasociety.org) and the International Center of Photography (1133 
Avenue of the Americas @ 43rd Street, www.icp.org) through September 5, 2004.

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BOBBY KHAN is an organizer at the Brooklyn-based Coney
Island Avenue Project, an immigrant rights organization
that has worked with immigrant detainees since September
2001.

CATHI TACTAQUIN is executive director of the National
Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, an alliance of
local and national organizations and activists from the
immigrant, labor, religious, civil rights and human rights
communities
(www.nnirr.org).

MELISSA CHIU is Director of the Asia Society Museum and
Curator of contemporary art.

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This program is brought to you by Shirley Lin and Leyla Mei of APF.
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