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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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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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African Americans Call for Boycott of Asian American Businesses in South Dallas Some African American leaders are calling for a boycott of Asian American businesses in the Dallas, Texas area. The event at the center of this call came from a December 9th dispute between a minister at the local Nation of Islam mosque and the Asian owner of the Diamond Shamrock gas station and convenience store over use of the minister’s debit card. The minister, Jeffrey Muhammad, wanted to use the card for five dollars, below the posted minimum limit. An argument ensued in the store in South Dallas, the center of the local African American area. 12/23/2011 |
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Alternative Census Poverty Measures Show Big Jump in Asian American Poverty Under a more up-to-date poverty measure, called the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), the Census estimate for the Asian American population jumps from 12.1 under the current measure to 16.7 percent. This change is three times the effect for other racial groups. The poverty rate for the total population is 15.2 percent under the current measure and 16 percent under SPM. 12/07/2011 |
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APALC Files Suit on Sexual Harassment, Lost Wages in Little Dhaka An edited version of APALC Press Release 12/03/2011 |
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With Lín xìnbu at Zucotti Park by Star Wang  11/29/2011 |
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Bay Area Asian Grassroots Groups support OccupyOakland Asian American grassroots groups in the Bay Area are joining in the denunciation of the police attacks on OccupyOakland protestors and supporting the Occupy movement. They have joined a multi-racial group called Bay99 to strategize ways of incorporating support into their work in their community organizations and unions. Working groups formed to support the infrastructure of the encampments, to plan parallel actions that bring the work in low-income and communities of color forward, and to build unity among our groups. 10/28/2011 |
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Call to Occupy Portsmouth Sq., SF Chinatown Oct. 30th from Pam Tau Lee and Ben Lee Been there? Done that? Time to do it again!  10/28/2011 |
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Chinese Exclusion 'Regret,' Bilingual Ballots, Shark Fin&Foie Gras, APA Occupy, Gaysian? The U.S. Senate expressed regret for the Exclusion Acts that barred Chinese from legally immigrating to the U.S. in Senate Resolution 201. Rep. Judy Chu from California has introduced a companion resolution in the house. But so what? There's no money or actions attached to the legislation. In fact, the Senate added an amendment to bar any claims agains the government. Isn't it better to wait for a more favorable time to introduce a bill that means something?  10/19/2011 |
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