Happy New Year – Short Story by Charlie Chin
by Charlie Chin. Posted Feb. 3, 2022. Intro: Welcome to the Year of the Tiger. Charlie Chin’s new story touches on perennial themes of duty and obligation versus free will wrapped around family tensions regarding love and marriage. It brought back fond memories of going to the Wong family association every Sunday as my father…
APIAVote Mobilizes Against Voter Suppression – Interview with Christine Chen
By Eddie Wong. Posted January 29, 2022 Introduction: Christine Chen is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Asian Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote), a proven coalition builder and resource to 78 national and local groups working on APA voter engagement. In the following interview, Christine addresses the recent wave of legislation aimed at suppressing voter…
State of (Dis)Union or How to Lean Away from Despair Towards Hope
Voter Mobilization Must Combat Voter Suppression. By Eddie Wong. Posted January 27, 2022. It’s now the end of January and 2022 is off to a tumultuous start. Like a berserk wrestler who has gone off-script, we’re witnessing back-to-back body slams with “Eye of the Tiger” blaring as the soundtrack. Turmoil, anger, distrust and sadness are…
MOSF 17.2: “THE EXILES” – The Tank Man or the Tank?
THE EXILES is a film for our time, chronicling the career of Christine Choy and the struggle of dissidents and exiles from the democracy movement in China post-1989. The Chinese government, like the GOP, is trying to erase memory and history to maintain power.
Hank Bittle – a short story by Charlie Chin
by Charlie Chin. Posted January 15, 2022. After thirty years of working at the Gatlin, Georgia Feed Mill, Hank Bittle decided to take his first vacation. The boys were both on their own, Lucy was gone for over three years now. Hattie, the waitress at the Cozy Café in town, suggested Hank take a…
MOSF 17.1: SF School Board Recall is a Cover for Racism and Elitism. Vote No!
The San Francisco School Board Recall Special Election on February 15, 2022 channels frustration about COVID school closures into racist and elitist outcomes and agendas.
Mapping the Unfamliar: A Review of Navigating with(out) Instruments by traci kato-kiriyama
By Christian Hanz Lozada. Posted on Jan. 11, 2022. Late in 2021, after reading just a handful of pieces in Navigating With(out) Instruments while bedside as my brother recovered from surgery (surgeons removed a tumor and he’s recovering nicely), I messaged traci kato-kiriyama about feeling seen on so many levels so quickly into their book.…
Maria Ressa and the Spirit of West Side Story
Why the goosebump-inducing moments of Maria Ressa’s Nobel prize-winning speech resonate with the imagery of the new ‘West Side Story’ By Sandip Roy. Posted Dec. 31, 2021. Introduction: On December 10, 2021, two valiant journalists, Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. Both of them head investigative news organizations, Ressa with Rappler in…
MOSF 16.10: Assassin. Abattoir. Academia. America. The Poetry of Truong Tran and Terrance Hayes.
Truong Tran and Terrance Hayes unflinchingly call out White supremacy in their outstanding works of poetry. Plus a look at the “universal human transmissions” as embodied in the gifts of the Magi and the life and death of Jesus.
The Wakasa Monument: What It Is and Why It Matters
by John Ota with statements by Masako Takahashi and Nancy Ukai. Posted Dec. 22, 2021 Introduction: Recently, a controversy has emerged concerning the Wakasa Monument, a large memorial stone built by Japanese Americans at the U.S. prison camp in Utah known as Topaz to commemorate James Wakasa, who was unjustly shot and killed there by…