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Iraq Civilian Deaths

Five Years too long; Stop the F**king war. Save a few thousand lives. Take the three to five trillion!!!* dollars and spend it on Katrina relief, better schools, bailing out mortgages and building rental housing, pills and food for the poor, and any of a million better uses.

* Estimate based on Nobel Prize Winner Joe Stiglitz

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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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COMMUNITY

APEN Fights Chevron Refinery Expansion
The Asian Pacific Environmental Network has joined a coalition of neighborhood groups. The coalition is opposing the expansion of a Chevron refinery in Richmond, California that has been poisoning the Bay Area community for decades. The Richmond Planning Commission approved the expansion but the coalition is fighting on.
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Richmond

New York Chinatown Residents Join Lower East Side Groups to Fight for Community Waterfront Development
Community groups and tenants associations have formed a coalition, the O.U.R. Waterfront, to defend the situation of the area’s residents. Its slogans are NO to luxury development!, NO to gentrification and displacement!, and YES to community needs!
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Bilingual Ballot Speakout at Massachusetts State House
Taking their campaign for bilingual ballots forward, the Chinese Progressive Association and the Coalition for Asian American Voting Rights organized a Civil Rights Rally at the Massachusetts State House Monday.
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 Elderly Resident Speaking in Favor of the Bilingual Ballot
Speakout at the State House

STUDENT

Shut Up 2 - English-Only Commencements Weighed in Louisiana.
After Vietnamese co-valedictorians used some Vietnamese sentences in their graduation speeces, school officials in Terrebonne Parish, LA are considering a policy banning any part of a commencement speech not in English.
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Shutting Up An Uppity Asian Student
In Linwood, NJ, graduating senior Jennifer Chau found out that speech is not that free. Her principal cut off her microphone while she was giving her salutatorian speech because she began to criticize the school.
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VIEWPOINTS

The Hypocrisy and Danger of Anti-China Demonstrations

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

ART/CULTURE

Poem: Song for the Immigrants

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

HISTORY

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

HATE CRIMES

Older articles

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

COMMUNITY
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

HATE CRIMES
Racial Attack in Seattle Hospitalizes Sikh Taxi Driver

HISTORY
Environmental Justice In Hawai'i: A Hawaiian issue - Unity Mag. 1993
Misleading Assumptions: The Case of Asians and Pacific Islanders and Environmental Justice

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
Asian American Voters Continue to Face Discrimination and  Improper Voter ID Checks
OC Korean Americans Demand Investigation into Police Killing of Young Artist

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

"Out Now!" - Why Now?

RACE AND IDENTITY

STUDENT
Hunter Students Fight For Meaningful Asian American Studies Program
Conquering Harvard: Asian American Studies
North Carolina Colleges Become Battleground on Banning Undocumented Students

 


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