MOSF 20.8: Dismissing Concerns About Migrants Perpetuates Suffering, Erodes Human Dignity, and Emboldens Tyranny
Many Republican voters dismiss the concerns of Blacks and migrants; this compounds the cruel and unusual punishment of racism, abusive power, and bias. Moving through our national impasse requires changing the very way we relate to each other – from distance to proximity, dismissal to compassion.
MOSF 20.7: Americans May Disagree on Policy – But Trump is Pathology and Pro Wrestling Gone Way Bad
Evidence has steadily accumulated about Mr. Trump’s dangerousness, and his threat to democracy and even the survival of humanity. We cannot understand what’s happening without looking at his antagonistic and delusional psychology.
US Immigration Conflicts: Law & Psychology with Professor Bill Ong Hing
For five decades, Professor Bill Ong Hing has been a towering figure in the field of immigration law. Here are a few of his thoughts on the current crisis.
MOSF 20.6: Migrant Rights are Human Rights! An Emergency and Escalation
President Trump, a convicted felon, has ordered up 7000 National Guard and 700 Marines to cruelly punish those exercising their free speech and standing up for the rights of migrants in LA. If we don’t declare this an outrage, we are in danger of further escalation, martial law, cancellation of elections, and martial law.
The Impermanence of Birthright Citizenship
By Linda Wing. Posted May 22, 2025 My grandmother Mary was born in San Francisco in 1902. Both of her parents were American-born as well —her father in San Francisco and her mother in Monterey. In 1854, her grandfather had immigrated from China to San Francisco at the tender age of 12; her grandmother came…
MOSF 20.4: A Modest Proposal: The Universal Church of DEI (Latin for God; and with CHOLE, because I’m South Asian!)
I was recently reminded that DEI doesn’t just stand for “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” but is also the Latin word for God. I have decided to form the Universal Church of DEI, or rather join the Church that already exists, in our divine human quest to transcend HEI – Hatred, Exploitation, and Ignorance. The divine can only come to us as call to conscience, consciousness, and uplift. The divine has always come to us as a call to love. (By Ravi Chandra.)
Sons of Chinatown: A Memoir Rooted in China and America
By Grant Din. Posted February 15, 2025 William Gee Wong’s Sons of Chinatown tells two improbable stories: his parents’ journeys as a “paper son” and a “paper daughter” from Toishan, China to the United States, and Wong’s journey from Oakland Chinatown to become a pioneer journalist as one of the first Asian American correspondents in…
L.A. Chinatown Associations: Anchors of the Community
– Excerpted from Chinese Historical Society of Southern California’s “Chinatown Associations: Anchors of the Community” project by Susie Ling of CHSSC. Posted 14 February 2025. It is on North Broadway and Hill Street, on Alpine, College, and even Bamboo Lane where our history and legacy exude in Los Angeles Chinatown. On these streets, intermingled between…
Chinese in the 1960-70s Asian American Movement
By Susie Ling. Posted February 13, 2025 The Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, now in its 50th year, focused its 2025 Gum Saan Journal on Chinese in the 1960-70s Asian American Movement (available online at gumsaanjournal.com). According to the 1970 census, Los Angeles County was 1.5% Japanese American and only 0.6% Chinese American.…
MOSF 20.5: Trump and Musk’s First 70 Days: Attempting Technofascist Knockout of Democracy, Empathy, Reality, and Sanity. (And Guess What? Hamilton Saw This Coming.)
“Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” are threatened because this man values himself over the good of the nation, because his party marches in lockstep behind his incompetence, malice, and rapacious exercise of abusive power, and because the body politic and systems that could restrain his abuse have been uninformed about and dismissive of his dangerousness – and have even lined up in support of it.