Latest Aaldef Podcast Episodes
Ep. 105: Little Manila Rising For All; Exec. Dir.Dillon Delvo with Emil Guillermo
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - March 14, 2022 05:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDillon Delvo, executive director of Little Manila Rising, talks to Emil Guillermo about how the Stockton non-profit has expanded its mission to do more and to help more people in South Stockton. From preserving Filipino American history and historic buildings, the LMR's mission now includes publ...
Ep. 104: Asian American Filipinos' Continuing Trauma Over the U.S. Colonization of the Philippines
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - January 03, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn California, 2022 brings new requirements for ethnic studies at the community college and high school levels. It could become a model for schools around the country. It's too late for one Oakland student who has since graduated and gone to Harvard. But even there, Eleanor V.Wikstrom has found ...
Ep. 103: Environmental Justice Warriors: Little Manila Rising's Matt Holmes
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - December 15, 2021 20:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsNote: See Index below for quick access Little Manila Rising, a community non-profit in Stockton, Calif., is taking an aggressive stand to protect its Filipino American community from environmental racism. Matt Holmes heads up the environmental effort and talks about a new project with UC Merce...
Ep. 102: "Try Harder" Director Debbie Lum
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - December 07, 2021 01:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings"Try Harder" director Debbie Lum talks to Emil Guillermo about Lowell High School and the college admissions process captured in the film's profile of five students of diverse backgrounds. What are AAPI going through to get to the elite colleges of their choice? And how are their parents deali...
Ep.101: Little Manila Rising Goes Door-to-Door to Get Out the Vaccine; Protects the Community by Fighting Misinformation.
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - September 09, 2021 06:02 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAmy Portello Nelson talks with Emil Guillermo about Little Manila Rising's "Get Out the Vaccine" drive. Modeled after the "Get Out the Vote" idea, the program goes door to door to give people good information about the virus and vaccines. And it's working, vaccine rates went from the low 30 perc...
Ep. 91: Little Manila Rising's Youth: From Stockton to Stanford And Back On a Mission
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - July 16, 2021 06:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsLittle Manila Rising is an non-profit organization in Stockton, Calif. servicing primarily the South Stockton community. After a recent youth conference produced by Little Manila youth, Emil Guillermo talked with Celine Lopez, a newly-minted Stanford graduate, who hopes to use her senior thesis...
Ep.81: How Little Manila Rising, An Environmental Justice Advocate in Stockton, CA, Makes A Difference
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - April 22, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAn Earth Day/Earth Month Special! A Filipino American group called Little Manila Rising is part of a "people-powered" Green Revolution that's changing how the community in Stockton, Calif. gets involved in environmental justice. Recently, community members, empowered by state money through A...
Ep. 71: Do You Know Angelo Quinto? He's the Asian American/Filipino American George Floyd
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - February 27, 2021 20:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAngelo Quinto died after a policeman had a knee to the back of his neck for 5 minutes. Emil Amok is Emil Guillermo, journalist, commentary, performing artist reads from the column he wrote on www.aaldef.org/blog about Quinto, the need for re-thinking policing, and what this means for Asian Ameri...
Ep.70: Phil Tajitsu Nash on E.O. 9066 and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - February 21, 2021 05:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhy were Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II? President Franklin Roosevelt's signing of Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, 1942 paved the way. And while some where given redress payments in 1988, the battle continues for a few hundred Japanese Latin Americans who were also incarcer...
Ep.67: Farewell to Corky Lee-- My goodbye and my 2017 interview with Corky
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - January 30, 2021 17:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCorky Lee died on Jan. 27 of Covid. He is now the undisputed Asian American photographer laureate. There was no sense of a modern Asian American civil rights movement before Vincent Chin inspired a generation to stand up and be seen. Corky Lee documented it all. I talk of my friendship with Cork...
Farewell to Corky Lee-- My goodbye and my 2017 interview with Corky
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - January 30, 2021 17:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCorky Lee died on Jan. 27 of Covid. He is now the undisputed Asian American photographer laureate. There was no sense of a modern Asian American civil rights movement before Vincent Chin inspired a generation to stand up and be seen. Corky Lee documented it all. I talk of my friendship with Cork...
Ep.66: Covid, Dorothy Velasco, Pete Hamill, Race, Environment, Affirmative Action, Harvard, and Ted
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - August 08, 2020 15:37 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEmil Amok's Takes on the latest Covid news, Dorothy Velasco's passing, Pete Hamill, Race, Environment, affirmative action, opening of schools, Harvard, Emil's speech and his friend Ted. Read more at amok.com; Or at https://www.aaldef.org/blog Emil Amok is the moniker of Emil Guillermo, the A...
Ep. 65: John Lewis' "Good Trouble;" Trump's "Bad Trouble." And Another Ted Talk
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - July 31, 2020 18:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsTrump wasn't yelling, "We're No. 1." when the country surpassed 150,000 Covid-19 deaths. He didn't even bother to show up at John Lewis' funeral. Emil talks about the news and more. Plus another experiment into Covid friendship as he has a reunion with a college classmate, now a philosophy profe...
Ep.64: How the Slants Helped To Change the Washington Football Team Name
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - July 17, 2020 08:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEmil Guillermo talks to Simon Tam of the Slants about how his case to trademark what was thought to be a disparaging name didn't hurt but helped in the battle to change the name of the Washington NFL team. Emil also talks to author, journalist Jacqueline Keeler, who led activists through her gro...
Ep.63: Emil Amok's Takeout on Hamilton, July 4th, Mt. Rushmore; Plus...another TED talk!
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - July 05, 2020 00:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsYou are not alone. Emil Amok Guillermo is a journalist, commentator, and humorist. Emil Amok's Takeout is where he works out his talk show days and gives you his take on everything. See his columns at http://www.aaldef.org/blog. Twitter @emilamok. Watch for his shows at ww.zoomcomedian.com ...
Ep.62: Emil Amok on Trump's "Make America Sick Again" Rally, Father's Day, White Privilege; Another Ted Talk, and more.
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - June 20, 2020 04:04 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJournalist/commentator/humorist Emil Amok Guillermo gives his take on everything from Trump's "Make America Sick Again" rally, Father's Day, White Privilege, and Juneteenth. He talks to a friend he hasn't seen in more than 40 years named Ted, who is a philosopher. Listen to more shows on amo...
Ep.61: #BLM, George Floyd, Trump's Reaction, and why FIlipinos should be in solidarity with BLM
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - June 06, 2020 17:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEmil Guillermo has written his "Amok" column covering race, culture and ethnicity for the last 25 years in the Filipino and Asian American media. Professor Daniel Phil Gonzales of SF State's College of Ethnic Studies talks about George Floyd, the protests, #BLM, Trum['s future, gassing innoce...
Ep.60: Emil Amok: My Kind of TED Talk
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - May 30, 2020 00:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEmil Amok Guillermo talks with his old friend, University of Kentucky Philosopher Ted Schatzki about life, Covid, and George Floyd. They met at college and last saw each other when Emil gave a shocking speech. They reunited after 40 years when the pandemic began. This is their third conversati...
Ep.59: Peter Jamero and Emil Amok Guillermo talk about the American Filipino-Native Born Experience.
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - May 23, 2020 16:09 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsA special Filipino American National Historical Society Museum program as Emil Guillermo, museum director, talks to author Peter Jamero, one of the first Filipinos born in America. Filipinos were first brought to America in large numbers in the 1920s and 1930s. But because of discrimination, few...
Ep.58: Emil Amok Talks to a Philosopher about Covid, Pt.2
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - May 18, 2020 19:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIs America too big to fail? Should the government do all it can to prop up the little guy as it has Big Business? Some of the questions in part 2 of "Emil Amok talks to a Philosopher About our Lousy Covid Life." Check out Emil's columns on at www.aaldef.org/blog , and at www.amok.com Also a s...
Ep.57: Emil Amok's Takeout on Stephen Miller, Colonial Mentality, Asian Americans, APA Heritage Month, and Skin-Whitening
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - May 11, 2020 16:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe're colonized by Covid but we're fighting back--by staying home! Professor E.J.Ramos David, author of "Brown Skin, White Minds," talks to Emil about colonial mentality, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and skin-whitening. David is also featured in promotional clips on the new PBS documen...
Ep.56: Emil Amok's Takeout--Lumpia Party Celebration Asian Pacific American Heritge Month
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - May 02, 2020 01:33 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAsian Pacific American Heritage Month in 2020 is like no other because of the Covid Crisis. We talk to Gem Scorp, an essential Asian American, and Filipino nurse, about fighting the virus as a nurse in NYC's Elmhurst Hospital. But then faces racism on the subway when someone calls him "Chinese."...
Ep.55: Emil talks to a Philosopher about Covid, Asian Americans, and more.
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - May 01, 2020 00:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsProf. Ted Schatzki is in the Philosophy Department of the University of Kentucky. A former classmate of Emil's, the two talk about Covid and the future. Shelter long enough and it becomes a philosophical question. See Emil's writing at http://www.aaldef.org/blog And at http://www.amok.com ...
Ep54: FANHS Museum Storytelling Lifeline
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - April 19, 2020 08:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis is a special Filipino American National History Museum editon of Emil Amok's Takeout. Host Emil Guillermo, museum director, talks with Mel LaGasca, a Filipino American Community leader whose life exemplifies how the Filipino middle class developed in America. LaGasca grew up working in the ...
Ep: 202005: FANHS Museum Storytelling Lifeline
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - April 19, 2020 08:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis is a special Filipino American National History Museum editon of Emil Amok's Takeout. Host Emil Guillermo, museum director, talks with Mel LaGasca, a Filipino American Community leader whose life exemplifies how the Filipino middle class developed in America. LaGasca grew up working in the ...
Ep.20203: Asian Americans In The Covid Era
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - April 17, 2020 06:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEmil Amok was a columnist for Asian Week, at one time the most read Asian American publication in the U.S. Phil Nash, a longtime civil rights attorney and activist, was a fellow columnist. Nash, now a professor in Asian American Studies at University of Maryland talks about life for Asian Americ...
Ep.53: Asian Americans In The Covid Era
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - April 17, 2020 06:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEmil Amok was a columnist for Asian Week, at one time the most read Asian American publication in the U.S. Phil Nash, a longtime civil rights attorney and activist, was a fellow columnist. Nash, now a professor in Asian American Studies at University of Maryland talks about life for Asian Americ...
Ep.52: A Filipino Nurse in NY Battles Covid19
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - April 11, 2020 17:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEmil Amok's Takeout talks to Gem Scorp an RN at Elmhurst hospital in New York about what he's seen on the frontlines fighting the virus. Scorp, an 18-year nursing vet, describes the virus' effects up close and how people can die suddenly from new symptoms, showing how the virus mutates and at...
Ep.20202: A Filipino Nurse in NY Battles Covid19
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - April 11, 2020 17:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEmil Amok's Takeout talks to Gem Scorp an RN at Elmhurst hospital in New York about what he's seen on the frontlines fighting the virus. Scorp, an 18-year nursing vet, describes the virus' effects up close and how people can die suddenly from new symptoms, showing how the virus mutates and at...
Ep 51: Numbers don't lie: Trump Virus Spawns Anti-Asian American Hate
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media - March 27, 2020 05:18 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAfter a long hiatus, Emil Amok's Takeout is back with a new show. And all because of the virus. The threat to Asian Americans isn't Covid-19. It's POTUS-45, Donald Trump. His insistence on calling the virus "The Chinese Virus," and now "The Wuhan Virus" is only causing a new wave of anti-Asian A...
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