Asian American Movement Ezine - Community Section

Victory for the International Hotel! 30 years after the fight for the International Hotel, a new housing and Filipino American museum will rise up out of its ashes

Little Tokyo Needs a Recreation Center!

Heads Up! Chinatown Tenants/Residents on the Move
Progressive organizers in Boston and New York have launched new efforts to organize Chinatown residents, who are experiencing gentrification.

Restaurant Sweatshops in Koreatown: A Report from the Korean Immigrant Workers Association in LA

Defense of Ethnic Enclaves
Japanese American communities and East Coast Chinatowns face a similar pattern — skyrocketing land values, public-private cooperation, use of "eminent domain" to force out poor, elderly, working class immigrant residents. Grass roots campaigns defend and preserve historic communities from destruction.

Philadelphia Chinatown Wins Fight Against Stadium Development
A united front of Asian Americans has defeated a proposed baseball stadium that would drastically affect Philadelphia's Chinatown as a community.

Liberty Plaza Developer Will Change Plan
A number of communit groups expressed concerns with this oversized scale of the development, traffic, gentrification, and its violation of the Chinatown Community Plan of 1990.

Keeping Affordable Housing in Boston Chinatown
Fighting an uphill battle against market forces, Boston Chinatown residents has been trying to keep affordable housing. Three different projects, Mason Place, the Stearns, and Mass Pike Towers faced expiration of their federal subsidies. The tenants, primarily elderly, disabled, or immigrant drastic rent increases or loss of their units.

Environmental Justice

Tenants Testify to Poor Housing Conditions, Enforcement in SF Chinatown

New York Chinatown Still Fighting for Equity after 9/11 : The community fights to have health and economic effects on Chinatown addressed by government and institutions.

Environmental Justice and Asian Americans
Boston and Richmond, CA examples show that the EJ movement has extended to the Asian American movement.

Other
The Chinese American Urban and Lower Working Class
Chinese workers were in the hotels and food services, health and education, and manufacturing . The lower working class were half to two-thirds of the population.

Socioeconomic Data on Urban Chinese Americans
Tables on Income, education and industries - Boston, LA, NYC, Sf.

Grassroots Chinese American Organizations Build Movement

Boston Asian Bilingual Ballot Struggle Moves to State House

NCRR Releases Curriculum on Interethnic Relations and the Internment: Story of a Latino Youth Who Went into the Camps

CPA Boston Wins Step for Bilingual Ballot

Indigenous People of Guam Hold Self-Determination Summit Amidst Military Buildup

Vietnamese American Wins fDefamation Lawsuit Against Vietnamese Republicans

J-As Campaign for Postage Stamp Commemoration of Nisei Soldiers

VietUnity Organization Identifies Needs in Oakland Vietnamese Community

Little Tokyo Continues Support for Ehren Watada with Candlelight Vigil

Boston Chinese Demand Full Voting Rights

Gabriela: Fighting Patriarchy and Imperialism

Little Tokyo Supports Kurt Isobe

The Asian American Face of the Undocumented

From Chinatown to China: Chinese American Garment Workers Return to Protest the WTO

NCRR Sponsors Guantanamo Muslim Chaplain James Yee

Boston Asian American Voters Win Bilingual Ballots

Marching Against Domestic Violence in NYC

Boston Asian and Latino Voters Win New Rights

Filipino Veterans Fight for Benefits

Faculty excluded from Arroyo ceremony

The Struggle for LGBTQI Filipinos and others

Questioning Society One T-Shirt at a Time: Interview with Ryan Suda

NY Times Korean 'Espionage' Article Spurs Letter Writing Campaign

Fight for Real Democracy in Chinatown

Racial Harassment

Quincy MA: Racism Re-raises Its Head in the hacking down of flagpole and election tactics

Filipino Family Broadens Fights by Building Alliances against San Jose Police Brutality

FBI Resurrects Spying on the Chinese Community

Filipino Family Fights Police Brutality in San Jose, CA

Rally Against Police Brutality in Quincy MA

Boston Area Police Assault Young Chinese AmericansSan Francisco J-town for Sale

Stop the Racist Targeting of South Asians by "Operation Meth Merchant

Slayer of Bang Mai receives 5-year sentence

Police Brutality: Two Koreans in Dublin, California slain

Japanese Americans and Muslims Gather for Peace, Justice, and Civil Rights

The case of Long Guang Huang: A successful struggle against police brutality in Boston Chinatown

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