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Changes to the Azine A message to our readers Thank you for your interest and support over the years. However, due to limitations in our resources, we are unable to continue one of original intents i.e. to be a source of current news on Asian American activism. We will continue to archive documents from Asian American activist individuals and groups and be a resource to those interested in activism. If any of our readers have realizable ideas or interest in contributing to the Azine to make it more useful to Asian American activism, please write us. 01/15/2012 |
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Internment & Family: Interview with Jim Matsuoka (This article ends abruptly as in the original National Coalition for Redress & Reparations 1980 pamphlet) Jim Matsuoka is a longtime activist in the Los Angeles Japanese American community. He is the assistant director of the special education program at California State University Long Beach. UNITY: What was your experience with the camps?  05/05/2012 |
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Invisible Minority: Chong and Voting There may be no greater symbol of Asian Americans being this country's invisible monority than the case of Daniel Chong. Chong was the UC student that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) threw into a holding cell and promptly forgot about. Wiithout food and water, Chong also had to endure a cell without toilet facilities.This went on for five days, and Chong had to drink his own urine to survive, and he was covered in his own feces when the DEA finally heard him. Chong spent a week in the hospital, the first several days in intensive care. 05/04/2012 |
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SF State Professor's Film Explores Racism in 19th-century Pacific Northwest Here's information about a new film by noted Asian American media artist Valerie Soe. The film is entitled "The Chinese Gardens" and addresses 19th-century anti-Chinese racism in the Pacific Northwest and its relationship to anti-immigrant racism in America today. Though the April 6 screening date has passed, the film will be screened in other cities in the upcoming weeks. There is also a link to a trailer for the film at the end of this press release: 04/08/2012 |
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AAPIPRC Organizes National Conference on Applied Research Here's a press release for an upcoming conference in Washington DC on April 11. People in the area might want to check it out: PRESS RELEASE, March 6, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION CONTACT: Sophia Cheng, 925-330-4448 / aapipolicy@gmail.com AAPIPRC ORGANIZES NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLIED RESEARCH 04/08/2012 |
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Winds - Poetry from National Coalition for Redress and Reparations Pamphlet 1980  03/05/2012 |
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The Ballad of Chol So Lee from the Chol Soo Lee Defense Committee 1978 vocals and copyright: Siu Wai Anderson, Sam Takimoto, Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo THE BALLAD OF CHOL SOO LEE This is a story about a man named Chol Soo Lee. His case is not uncommon; it reflects on you and me.
Chol Soo Lee came to this country to walk the streets of gold All he found were broken glass alleys where the gangs were pushin dope He tried to find an honest job to try to make ends meet  03/04/2012 |
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Unemployement, New Axis of Evil: Iran, China, North Korea, Intermarriage While Asian Americans overall have unemployment rates about equal to whites i.e less than African Americans and Latinos, long term unemployment is a big problem. Unemployed Asian Americans are unemployed for six months of more at rates comparable to African Americans, the highest of all racial groups. The Center for Economic and Policy Research has issued a March report based on government data that shows about half of all Asian American unemployed are long-term unemployed. 02/28/2012 |
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A history of the camps: Japanese American imprisonment during World War II This history is from a pamphlet of the grassroots organization that won redress and reparations, the National Coalition of Redress/Reparations from 1980. The NCRR continues today in Los Angeles as Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress.   |
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Army Charges Racist Harrassment in the Death of Private Danny Chen On December 21st, the American military announced that the Army had charged eight soldiers in Private Danny Chen’s battalion in connection with Private Chen’s death. The soldiers were based at Combat Outpost Palace in Kandahar province. Chen was found dead by a gunshot wound on Oct. 3rd. The only child of Chinese immigrants, Chen grew up in Chinatown and graduated in 2010 from Manhattan’s Pace University High School. He hoped to join the NYPD after the Army. He joined the army because of the terrorist attacks of 9/11.    |
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