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For those in San Francisco, here is a press release for an upcoming screening of The Oak Park Story that is happening next week.

For Immediate Release

February 15, 2010

Contact: Valerie Soe (vsoe@sfsu.edu) and Russell Jeung (rjeung@sfsu.edu).

The Oak Park Story World Premiere, March 14-15, 2010 at SFIAAFF

Below is a call for contributions to a documentary about "Asian American heritage" being conducted by a cable network:

Do you have a story to tell about your experience as an Asian American?

The USA Today has an article that should shock no one about the demographic composition of American universities.

In a response to the Christmas Day Underwear Bomber plot, Congressman Gresham Barrett (R) of South Carolina is planning to reintroduce legislation that will deport Iranians (and others) without permanent resident status from the USA.

Filmmaker Jennifer Thym has created a fantasy web series entitled LUMINA. Drawing upon inspiration as varied as web comics, cyberpunk, and manga, LUMINA centers around the story of Lumina Wong (played by JuJu Chan) who meets the proverbial handsome but mysterious stranger Ryder Lee (Michael Chan) and is plunged into a surreal world of fantasy, romance, and intrigue set against the cityscape of metropolitan Hong Kong.

So Barack Obama received his Nobel Peace Prize in what has to be one of the most Orwellian (and shameful) awards in history.

Recently, the University of California system decided to raise tuition fees a whopping 32% a year. Needless to say, students in the UC system were not pleased. This is particularly relevant to Asian Americans given that there is a significant Asian student population in many UC colleges.

Filmmaker Steve Nguyen and Lac Su, author of the acclaimed memoir I Love You's are for White People are organizing a conference for Asian American bloggers.

Here are some follow up links that address the "Geisha bar" controversy detailed in the article Oakland APAs Fight to Keep ‘Offensive’ Bar Out of their Neighborhood.

- The first is the from the blogger Reappropriate who weighs in on the issue by supporting the protests and comments about a debate between 8Asians.com and Asian Pacific Americans for Progress about the protests:

Recently, the Thymos organization of Portland, Oregon created a bit of controversy when two of its members organized an event that caused activists as far as way as California to protest.

What was this event?

A beauty pageant.

In particular, Miss Asian Oregon.