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8/27/08

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Azine is now API Movement

COMMUNITY

Chinatown San Francisco's Single Room Occupancy
The dimensions of a room were 10 by 12 ft. The tenants moving into SROs are immigrant families.
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NYC SRO Tenants Win Right to Stay
In the Bowery in Chinatown

Victory in Language Access to New York City Services
After four years of struggle, Bloomberg signs an executive order mandating the city department access for the six most common languages in the city other than English
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HISTORY

Asian Contingent Anti-War Flyer Washington D.C. April 1971
Down with U.S. Imperialism at Home and Abroad!

A Call for an Asian American Reality Conference 1970
One of the first means that early activists used to organize was to organize issues conferences. The Asian American Reality conference was an early East Coast conference.

Today's Hiroshimas - A flyer from 1970 tying together the dropping of the atomic bomb and the Vietnam War

VIEWPOINTS

The Colorblind Con
Many people in the USA love the idea of a colorblind society. The rhetoric of a "post-racial" US society that the American media likes to promote means in practice a "post-racial justice" society. Issues of racial and socio-economic oppression are airbrushed away in the patriotism of a more perfect American Empire.
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Challenging America’s ‘Justice Deficit’: Community-based legal organizations not only deliver justice to individual clients, but they also root out patterns of injustice that can provide the basis for larger change.

The Hypocrisy and Danger of Anti-China Demonstrations

Vote for the Barack O-rama but Don't Buy the Show (yet)

STUDENT

Undocumented Asian American Students - About 40% of the undocumented students in the UC system are Asian. A profile from Pacific Citizen
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NEWS

DA Refuses to Charge Officers in Cho Case
After the Orange County District Attorney’s Office decided that two cops who shot a Korean American student eleven times because he had a tire iron, the Cho family filed a civil lawsuit against the La Habra City and the officers.
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IMMIGRANT LABOR

Deported Indian immigrant sues Edison, NJ police and ICE for brutality and violation of constitutional rights
After Police beat the crap out of Rajnikant Parikh last July, 2006, he was deported when he filed a complaint. He has now filed a lawsuit in New Jersey federal court against the Town of Edison, its police department and ICE. The Korean American mayor is defending the police.
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ART/CULTURE

Poem: Song for the Immigrants

"Laundry Day:" Talking with Vi Tri Quach, Visual Artist/Activist

HATE CRIMES

Older articles

ART & CULTURE
Poetry by Todd Lee:
Taiko #1
For Odaiko New England
Manifesto, 2007
How to survive

COMMUNITY
APEN Fights Chevron Refinery Expansion
New York Chinatown Residents Join Lower East Side Groups to Fight for Community Waterfront Development

Bilingual Ballot Speakout at Massachusetts State House: a Civil Rights Rally.

HATE CRIMES
Racial Attack in Seattle Hospitalizes Sikh Taxi Driver

HISTORY
Free the Gym! - I Wor Kuen Statement on NYC struggle against traditional leadership over community facility July 1970

IMMIGRANT LABOR
LA Asian Community-Labor Groups Join Campaign vs. Car Wash Industry

NARRATIVES
1991-1992 by Kevin Minh Allen

NEWS
APIs Organize May Day Contingents for Immigrant Rights
Boston API Movement Merger Celebration As Social Justice Fair

VIEWPOINTS
Asian Law Caucus Details Effects on AAs by Homeland Security Watchlist

"Out Now!" - Why Now?

RACE AND IDENTITY

STUDENT
Shut Up 2 - English-Only Commencements , School officials in Terrebonne Parish, LA are considering banning commencement speech not in English.

Shutting Up An Uppity Asian Student
In NJ, graduating senior Jennifer Chau found out speech is not that free.