History


Art for the Community: A Short History of Basement Workshop in New York

Getting Started
Basement Workshop was started by a group of fellow urban planners and artists in 1971 on Elizabeth St. in New York Chinatown. It began with projects such as the Asian American Resource Center, which compiled information on Asian American communities, a magazine named Bridge, which was widely read, and a cultural publication called "Yellow Pearl....

03/01/2004
Chinese-American Workers: Past & Present - Present Workers' Conditions

Section 2: Present Workers' Conditions

Today, like immigrants of other nationalities, many Chinese people continue to leave Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other parts of the world to come to the U.S. in search of a better life. Yet once they arrive, racial and language barriers force thousands of...01/20/2004

Book Review: Revolution in the Air

Mike Liu

Azine Boston began a Political Reading Group earlier this year. Members alternatively choose various readings for discussion. From time to time, we will post notes from members of the group.

Revolution in the Air (Verso 2002) a recently published assessment of the New Left by Max Elbaum begins well enough. In explaining the development of the Sixties radicals, Elbaum...12/29/2003

National Coalition for Redress and Reparations Statement on Redress for Japanese Americans

1980

This is the official position 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 - ed.

On July 12, 1980, individuals and organizations from Japanese communities from throughout the nation...12/10/2003

Unbroken

By Sasha Hohri, Leon Sun and Eddie Wong
from East Wind Winter/Spring 1985

We are now in the middle of the 1980's, and it is becoming increasingly cleat that Asian American artists are facing critical challenges, not just in the realm of survival but of growth as well.

Under Reaganism, most Asian American artists are...11/23/2003

What Price Justice? A commentary on the acquittal of Chol Soo Lee

from East Wind Magazine Vol. 1 No. 2 Fall/Winter (1982)Subheadings were added to the original publication to make this more readable on the web.

By Ranko Yamada

A tremendous victory occurred on September 3,1982 when the jury found Chol Soo Lee not guilty in the retrial...11/23/2003

Through Strength and Struggle - A Victory for Garment Workers in Boston

reprinted from East Wind, Spring/Summer 1987)

By Therese Feng and Shirley Mark Yuen

In a national atmosphere that is increasingly anti-women, anti-minority, and anti-worker in sentiment, Chinese women and other ethnic immigrant garment workers in Boston recently earned a victory that is significant for women and non-English speaking minorities...11/23/2003

Asian American Students

from East Wind Vol. 2 No. 2 (Fall/Winter 1983)

by Eric Nakano

College - a time for learning, growth and struggle. Packed into four or five short years is the stuff that shapes the future of each new generation of Asian students. College is like an intensive preparatory course on life; hopes and aspirations are shaped, self-identity is molded,...11/23/2003

A Look At Today's Asian Pacific Student Movement

from East Wind Magazine Vol. 2 No. 2 (1983)

Subheadings were added to the original publication to make this more readable on the web.

The contemporary Asian Pacific student movement has been growing and developing in step with the changes that have occurred on the campus and in society since the late 60's. Today, the economic crisis, Reagan and the conservative tide of...11/23/2003

Asian Pacific Student Union: Into the 80's

from East Wind Magazine Vol. 2 No. 2 (1983)

Subheadings were added to the original publication to make this more readable

by Hope Nakamura and Paul Lee

"My own involvement in the Asian student movement was based on my desire to find out what being Sansei meant. Being involved in APSU not only helped me learn about my people, it...11/23/2003

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