Become the Revolution You Want – Reflections on Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown
EMERGENT STRATEGY—Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, by Adrienne Maree Brown AK Press, 2017 Book Review by Alex Hing. Posted August 31, 2018. The Asian American Movement, of course, is part of the larger movement for the liberation of humankind from capitalism and all that it engenders. In our practice and thought we have looked to the…
Our Humanity – Three Poems by Genny Lim
By Genny Lim. Posted August 30, 2018. We live in an age defined by wars and mass migration. The greatest violence committed against humanity was the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing over 80,000 people instantly. It has been 73 years since the tragedy and sadly, the world has not succeeded…
Who (Hu) is American?
By Jon Jang. Posted Aug. 29, 2018. Act I My Grandparents In 1882, President Chester Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act which banned Chinese immigrants from entering the United States as well as denying naturalization to Chinese immigrants to become US citizens. This was the first US law that excluded people in this country solely…
“Home,” the Wentworth Alley Mural
Interview by Eddie Wong. Posted August 26, 2018. “Home,” is a mural that depicts many aspects of working people’s lives in San Francisco Chinatown. In the following video, artist, educator and community organizer Kayan Cheung-Miaw explains the story behind the mural that she designed. She also comments on the process by which students, many of…
From Photographs to Paintings
By Tony Remington. Posted August 24, 2018. I was recently one of the featured artists of the 2018 Pistahan held in San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Gardens. My modest exhibit consisted of paintings from my photographs of the hastily established post-Manilatown senior centers. It was a roughly from a seven year period that immediately followed the…
Gentrification, Artwashing and Community Power in LA Chinatown with CCED’s Annie Shaw and Sophat Phea
Interview by Promise Li. Posted August 24, 2018. This interview highlights some of the histories and strategies in which organizers from Chinatown Community for Equitable Development (CCED), a grassroots, multi-generational, all-volunteer community organization, fought against effects of gentrification, from artwashing to displacement, in Los Angeles Chinatown. Annie Shaw, a tenant organizer and current Campaign Co-Chair,…
Three Poems by Amy Uyematsu
Poetry by Amy Uyematsu. Posted August 22, 2018. Ed. note: If you are reading these poems on a phone, please view the screen in the horizontal position in order to see the line breaks as intended by the poet. …
Art, Activism, and Assemblage
By Lucien Kubo. Posted August 22, 2018. I am a Sansei, a third generation Japanese American. An important part of my life’s experience is that of my parents, their families and the over 110,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated in concentration camps during WWII. Executive Order 9066, based on racist “irrational fear” of foreigners in the time…
Citizenship for All – NAKASEC launches Journey to Justice
By Eddie Wong. Posted Aug. 22, 2018. On May 30 2018, the National Korean American Service and Education Consortium (NAKASEC) announced the “Citizenship for All” campaign, which was promoted via the “Journey to Justice” bike tour from Aug. 1, 2019 to Sept. 6, 2018. Eleven core “Dream Riders” were joined by many allies along the…
Re: East Wind Magazine 1982-1989
by Eddie Wong. Posted September 2, 2018. For those of you who might be curious about the roots of East Wind ezine, I would like to present to you an entryway to the nine issues of East Wind: Politics and Culture of Asians in the U.S., which was published between 1982 to 1989. Think of this collection of articles,…