How NCRR Shaped the CWIRC Hearings
by Miya Iwataki. Posted September 1o, 2018. Reflections on the 30th Anniversary of the Signing of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 August 10, 2018 marks the 30th Anniversary of the signing of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, a victory in the long struggle for redress and monetary reparations for Americans of Japanese ancestry…
End National Security Scapegoating of Chinese Americans
by Cynthia Choi. Posted September 8, 2018. Did you read recent reports that Trump called almost every student from China a spy and that FBI Director Christopher Wray sounded the alarms by calling China the “biggest and broadest threat” to our national security? Wray added that China is a “whole-of-society” threat.” I did too and…
Representing the PI in AAPI
By Thomas Mangloña II, K Parker, and Betsy Rohney. Posted September 7, 2018. Origin stories of creative projects often bloom from struggle and strife. The birth of Oceania Connects is no different. Where are you from? Much of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) diaspora have encountered this phrase. While science shows both ethnic groups…
Organizing Dorchester’s Southeast Asian communities: An Interview with Kevin Lam
By Michael Liu. Posted September 5, 2018. Intro: Kevin Lam is the Organizing Director for the Asian American Resource Workshop in Boston. Michael: Could you tell me a little bit about yourself and your background in organizing? Kevin: I was born and raised in Poughkeepsie, New York. Both my parents ended up there due to…
Serendipity: Japanese Breakfast, Jay Som, Magik*Magik
by Eddie Wong. Posted September 3, 2018. I don’t think I could live without music. The four Wong kids listened to rock and pop music as we folded and sorted clothes in the back of my mom and dad’s laundry in Hollywood, CA. AM radio specifically KRLA,KHJ, and KFWB blared Motown, Beach Boys, Beatles, Otis,…
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,…
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…
Environmental Justice is Rooted in Community
A video story produced by Connie Hsu, Deanne Liu, Nancy Truong, and Eddie Wong. Posted September 11, 2018. Pam Tau Lee is a veteran community, labor, and environmental justice organizer in San Francisco. East Wind ezine is proud to present this series of short videos that cover how she became an activist and her thoughts…