API Movement


Early History of A .A .A.: Birth of A Movement in New York City From N.Y. Asian Coalition Newsletter vol. 1 no. 2 Sept ’72 (misspellings as in original text) Asian Americans for Action was born on a park bench during lunch hours of two Nisei women, close friends of a long standing who shared common interests and beliefs. And as they munched on homemade sandwiches, relaxing in the sunlight amid the rustle of leaves, they talked of many things and chief among them were the war in Southeast Asia (they were early protestors), the Black movement, and the campus uprisings. 05/17/2013
Towards Collective Liberation Have you hugged an anarchist today? After reading Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy, by Chris Crass, I’m inclined to seek out my anarchist friends to acknowledge them for their courage and principled commitment to, and the long history of their tradition’s, organizing for people’s power and freedom. 04/24/2013
Bewildered by Louis Chu Introduction First published in East Wind Vol. 1 No. 1 (1982) 03/12/2013
Made in Oakland from East Wind Vol. 1 No. 1 (1982) Janet Miyoko Tsubamoto 02/18/2013
Asian Americans in Theatre - East and West Coast This East Wind article from 1982 includes interviews with Tisa Chang of Pan-Asian Repertory Theatre and Mako of East/West Players. "Asian American theater expresses the Asian American consciousness." –Tisa Chang 01/12/2013
Marcos' New Republic in Crisis from East Wind Vol.1 No. 1 1982 by Masao Suzuki 12/01/2012
Fighting Racism at the New York Times from East Wind Vol. 1 No. 1 1982 Sasha Hohri 10/19/2012
Gambare! The sting of evacuation pierces the cozy unity of the Terminal Island community. 48 hours to pack 48 years of life. Fathers first! "To take care of her husband's affair was just too overwhelming... so she just sat down and cried." Cry, Terminal Island woman, c 10/17/2012
The 100th Anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act: A Time to Reclaim Our History by Gordon H. Chang Nothing more symbolizes the racist treatment of Chinese in the U.S. than the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. One hundred years ago, Congress enacted legislation that added Chinese workers to prostitutes and imbeciles as undesirable elements prohibited from entering the U. S. It was the first exclusionary immigration act based solely on nationality. Its affect on the Chinese of America was profound as it was on all Asians when the Act was expanded in subsequent years. 09/19/2012
"What Do You Know About the Camps, You Weren't Even Born Yet!": A Sansei View on the WWII Incarceration of Japanese Americans from East Wind Magazine Vol. 1 No. 1 Spring/Summer (1982) 08/29/2012

Early History of A .A .A.: Birth of A Movement in New York City

From N.Y. Asian Coalition Newsletter vol. 1 no. 2 Sept ’72 (misspellings as in original text)

Asian Americans for Action was born on a park bench during lunch hours of two Nisei women, close friends of a long standing who shared common interests and beliefs. And as they munched on homemade sandwiches, relaxing in the sunlight amid the rustle of leaves, they talked of many things and chief among them were the war in Southeast Asia (they were early protestors), the Black movement, and the campus uprisings.

05/17/2013

Towards Collective Liberation

Have you hugged an anarchist today?

After reading Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy, by Chris Crass, I’m inclined to seek out my anarchist friends to acknowledge them for their courage and principled commitment to, and the long history of their tradition’s, organizing for people’s power and freedom.

04/24/2013

Bewildered by Louis Chu

Introduction

First published in East Wind Vol. 1 No. 1 (1982)

03/12/2013

Made in Oakland

from East Wind Vol. 1 No. 1 (1982)

Janet Miyoko Tsubamoto

02/18/2013

Asian Americans in Theatre - East and West Coast

This East Wind article from 1982 includes interviews with Tisa Chang of Pan-Asian Repertory Theatre and Mako of East/West Players.

"Asian American theater expresses the Asian American consciousness."

–Tisa Chang

01/12/2013

Marcos' New Republic in Crisis

from East Wind Vol.1 No. 1 1982

by Masao Suzuki

12/01/2012

Fighting Racism at the New York Times

from East Wind Vol. 1 No. 1 1982

Sasha Hohri

10/19/2012

Gambare!

The sting of evacuation

pierces the cozy unity

of the Terminal Island community.

48 hours

to pack 48 years

of life.

Fathers first!

"To take care

of her husband's affair

was just too overwhelming...

so she just sat down and cried."

Cry, Terminal Island woman, c

10/17/2012

The 100th Anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act: A Time to Reclaim Our History

by Gordon H. Chang

Nothing more symbolizes the racist treatment of Chinese in the U.S. than the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. One hundred years ago, Congress enacted legislation that added Chinese workers to prostitutes and imbeciles as undesirable elements prohibited from entering the U. S.

It was the first exclusionary immigration act based solely on nationality. Its affect on the Chinese of America was profound as it was on all Asians when the Act was expanded in subsequent years.