“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…
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…
#Don’tExcludeUs! – San Jose JAs in Solidarity
By Susan Hayase and Tom Izu. Posted Aug. 21, 2018. Times change. What once was a pivotal development can become routine. In 1981, over 700 Japanese American former incarcerees and their Sansei children broke decades of silence on the injustice of the fall-out from Executive Order 9066 — a forced expulsion and mass incarceration that…
An OG’s Reflections by May Chen
An OG’s (Older Generation) Reflections. Posted Aug. 21, 2018. This article is a companion piece to the interview with Cathy Dang, Executive Director of CAAAV, Organizing Asian Communities, which also appears in East Wind ezine, Fall 2018. by May Chen Meeting, supporting, and working with Cathy Dang and others in today’s new generation of community…
Cathy Dang: Organizing with Discipline, Rigor, Love and Revolutionary Heart
Interview and Editing by May Chen. Posted Aug. 21, 2018. Cathy Dang grew up in her parents’ nail salons. They were refugees from Vietnam, arriving in 1979. Cathy was born in Ridgewood, Queens, NYC. The family eventually moved to LA, where she worked continually in the family’s nail salon. College is where her political consciousness…
Book Review: A Time to Rise
A Time to Rise: Collective Memoirs of the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP) Edited by Rene Ciria Cruz, Cindy Domingo, and Bruce Occena Foreword by Augusto F. Espiritu Reviewed here by Florante Peter Ibanez (a former KDP member – Los Angeles/San Diego Chapters). Posted Aug. 21, 2018. This is a collective book project that began…
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,…