Category: NSC Demands
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Living Legacies from the 1969 Occupation of Alcatraz
By MARY UYEMATSU KAO January 29, 2022 Rafu Shimpo Japanese Americans were imprisoned in concentration camps by the U.S. governement in 1942 and stripped of their Constitutional Rights. Many of these camps were set up on indigenous tribal reservations against the wishes of those reservations. Regardless, there is a long history of solidarity between Japanese…
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Poll: Distrust of Asian Americans is rising
Americans continue to wrongly blame people of Asian descent for the coronavirus, and a greater percentage are harboring distrust of their loyalties, according to a new report.
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Remembering Vincent Chin and the Deep Roots of anti-Asian Violence
Like with Chin’s killing, recent anti-Asian hate crimes reflect a willingness to conflate individual Asian people and US tensions with Asian countries. As Americans — including politicians — looked for someone to hold responsible for Covid-19, Asian Americans were targeted given the virus’s origins in China. And since the US is now locked in economic…
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Wisconsin school board members dismissed book about Japanese American incarceration as being ‘unbalanced,’ parents say
White Supremacist attacks on teaching U.S. history continue June 30, 2022, 11:26 AM PDT By Kimmy Yam Parents are pushing back after a committee whose members sit on a Wisconsin school board did not move forward with approving a book about Japanese American incarceration during World War II for a sophomore English literature class. Muskego-Norway…
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“Who Killed Vincent Chin?” Screening and Panel Discussion
July 14, 6:30-8:30PM: Join us at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo, LA, to commemorate 40 years since the murder of Vincent Chin. FREE RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/who-killed-vincent-chin-screening-and-panel-discussion-tickets-367232210427
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LA Times Column: A Search for Answers to Anti-Asian Violence
Frank Shyong, March 22, 2022 William Yu, 46, is healing from the multiple stab wounds he suffered in Chinatown earlier this month at the hands of a random attacker. But the incident has already left scars on the way that he and his family see themselves, said his brother David. Now he cannot stop thinking…
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Activists seek to preserve historic Japanese-American site
NBC NEWS: March 26, 2018, 5:33 AM PDT / Updated March 26, 2018, 5:32 AM PDT By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil IRVINE, Calif. — A historic site representing one of Southern California’s earliest Japanese pioneer settlements may be in danger of being destroyed in a possible sale, according to activists from the Japanese-American community. Historic Wintersburg — a 4.5-acre…
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Fires at Historic Wintersburg in Huntington Beach, CA: Part of a larger trend?
With anti-Asian hate crimes continuing to rise across the U.S. and other countries globally, up over 330% nationally, the attacks have taken various forms, from microagressions, racial slurs, Asian Americans being spat upon in public spaces, various physical attacks including sexual violence and murder. The crimes have also included vandalism and destruction of places of…
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Solidarity requires consideration of white supremacist murders of allies as well
A timeline of 1,944 Black Americans killed by police Black Americans are more likely to be killed by police. The police are rarely held accountable. And it goes beyond police killings as well. Nationally, Black people are the most targeted of all groups for hate crimes. Most perpetrators of hate crimes are white supremacists. It…
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Opponents of Anti-Asian violence must fight for mental health and housing reform
The case of attack on model Bew Jirajariyawetch raises questions about why violent schizophrenics are not receiving supervised treatment and housing for the benefit of all Thai model in a NYC subway station survives a violent attack on January 20, but questions “why nothing has changed.” 61-year-old homeless attacker, Martial Simon is identified as a…