Cia Siab Inc in Solidarity with AAPI Cia Siab, Inc. stands in solidarity with our Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) community as we continue to fight… Posted by Cia Siab Inc on Wednesday, March 17, 2021 In the rise of anti-Asian violence, what can we do to protect ourselves and each other? Here are just a few steps to… Posted by Cia Siab Inc on Monday, March 29, 2021 ➡️Report hate incidents with Stop AAPI Hate: https://stopaapihate.org/ ➡️Report hate incidents with Cia Siab, Inc. at https://www.ciasiabinc.org/hateincidentreport
Love our People, Heal our Communities “The recent attacks in our community have left us heartbroken. As a coalition of direct service, advocacy, and grassroots organization organizations, we denounce violence against members of Asian American communities in San Francisco, Oakland, and the greater Bay Area. We stand in solidarity with victims, survivors, and families who have suffered loss and pain.” Over Valentine’s and Lunar New Year weekend, hundreds of Bay Area community members came together at the Love Our… Posted by Chinese Progressive Association on Friday, March 5, 2021 Here are ways you can take action in support of this work: Share this form with your friends, family, and communities through this link: bit.ly/loveourpeople Donate to the CCSJ victims and survivors fund, click here Donate to the Oakland Chinatown Community Ambassador and Victims Fund or Donate to Eastlake/Little Saigon’s Peace Ambassador Program Oakland specific: Learn about the long-time work in Oakland Chinatown and join us! – Follow up on social media, join our mailing list to stay informed about various opportunities by emailing [email protected], and/or contribute to our Chinatown Coalition Member organizations efforts. Come shop and eat in Chinatown and Little Saigon, wear yellow to show our support to our merchants and residents Follow the leadership of existing organizations and be ambassadors to the community with us — go beyond patrolling and join our Volunteer Strolling efforts to make our streets welcoming, safe, and clean. Share your ideas and experiences about Reimagining Public Safety. Fill out this community survey on reimagining public safety in Oakland (data collected by Oakland Rising) Follow and support the organizations on the ground Oakland orgs: OCC: @oakchinatowncoalition (IG) / @chinatowncoalition (FB) @apen4ej @aapiwomenlead @asians4blklives (IG & TW) @AsianHealth818 (TW), @AsianHealthServices (IG) @AYPAL (TW), @AYPALPower (IG) @EBALDC (TW) @oaklandvnchamber (FB & IG) @trybe (TW), @trybe1122(FB) @OCAeastbay (FB, IG, TW) SF orgs: CPA: @chineseprogressiveassociation (IG); @cpasf (TW); @cpasf (FB) CAA: @caasanfrancisco (IG); @caasanfrancisco (TW); @caasf (FB) CYC: @cyc_sf (IG); @cyc_sf (TW); @cycsf (FB) New Breath Foundation: @newbreathfdn (TW) / @newbreathfoundation (FB) It takes all of us to redefine safety for our communities.
Asian Minnesota Alliance for Justice: CAAL Response This event is hosted by the Asian Minnesotan Alliance for Justice (AMAJ), a collective of Asian American organizations dedicated to fighting for solidarity and justice in MN. The events in Georgia last week were devastating to our community. In the last year, and particularly the last few months, we have seen an increase in attacks and violence directed towards Asian American communities around the United States. This includes attacks targeting our elderly in Asian communities, it includes verbal and physical harassment in public and private spaces, includes 33 Vietnamese community members who were just deported by ICE, and it includes the deaths of Christian Hall and Angelo Quinto, who were recently killed by the police. This is all anti-Asian hate and violence. Our communities are in pain and looking for support. This moment demands all of us, as Minnesotans, to come together to think critically about the moment we are in and move us towards a place of healing and justice. Join us for a public community event to hear from leaders and community members about what has been occurring in Minnesota and nationwide, hear from victims of hate, and work together with us to take action against violence and hate. Speakers include U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, MDHR Commissioner Rebecca Lucero, CAAL Network & Executive Director Bo Thao-Urabe, and others Honoring the Lives Lost in Atlanta. To our non-Asian allies, we urge you to take action against anti-Asian violence and hate. #StopAsianHate… Posted by Coalition of Asian American Leaders – CAAL on Thursday, March 18, 2021 Dear CAAL Leaders, We are devastated by yesterday’s horrific mass shooting in Georgia, where a gunman shot and killed… Posted by Coalition of Asian American Leaders – CAAL on Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Communities Rally Against Anti-Asian Violence “Love Our People, Heal Our Communities” Cross-Cultural Healing Events took place in Oakland and San Francisco San Francisco & Oakland, CA — “In response to the recent surge in COVID-19 related violence against Asian American communities throughout the greater San Francisco Bay Area, the Coalition for Community Safety and Justice (CCSJ) in San Francisco joined forces with a coalition of organizations in Oakland to organize two parallel Days of Action this past weekend, both entitled “Love Our People, Heal Our Communities.” On the first weekend of the Lunar New Year, and a few days after more than 70 Asian American organizations issued a press statement condemning the violence, these two events brought together a multiracial and multigenerational coalition to stand against racism, xenophobia, and violence, and to offer space for healing the grief and pain that Asian communities feel in light of recent events. Together, they called for community-centered solutions to keep diverse communities safe. These include culturally-competent multilingual victim services, cross-racial education and dialogue, prevention-based programs (such as community patrols), and more.” Read the rest of the statement here. Resources: Asian Organizations Across the Bay Area Join Forces to Demand Action Against Violence: Click here for more information. Yamuna Hopwood, Communications Manager; 415-274-6760 x319 [email protected] (English); Jin Xia Niu, Chinese Language Media Specialist; 415-274-6760 x313 [email protected] (English, Mandarin) For those who wish to contribute to victims and survivors, please visit here. CAA Responds to the Attacks in Atlanta Area Both the Oakland and San Francisco events were also live-streamed to Facebook with ASL interpretation, where more than 300 people tuned in. The Oakland event can be viewed here and the San Francisco event here.
CAPI USA: Organizations Representing Asian American Communities Across the Nation and Allies Release Statement Rejecting Criminalization and Retribution, and Call for Responses Addressing the Root Causes of Racial Violence Organizations Representing Asian American Communities Across the Nation and Allies Release Statement Rejecting Criminalization and Retribution, and Call for Responses Addressing the Root Causes of Racial Violence: “SAN FRANCISCO, CA (February 17, 2021) — As a national network of local and national Asian American organizations and individuals that convened in the wake of the pandemic a year ago, we have been working together to share best practices and lessons learned from responding to anti-Asian violence. We are horrified by the continuing acts of violence against members of our Asian American communities across the country, from New York to Oakland’s Chinatown. We stand in solidarity with the survivors, victims, and their families during this challenging moment, when fear accompanies even the most basic daily experiences. We all deserve to live without the threat of violence and to feel safe in our neighborhoods. True safety for all must come in the form of investment and resources, not punitive measures that create division and reinforce our criminal justice system’s discriminatory structures. Many grassroots Asian American organizations, including some who are part of this network, have worked for decades as part of multiracial efforts to secure such resources for all of our communities…” Read more of the statement here. Resources: Statement from Asian American organizations in the Bay Area From @18million Rising, “Call on Me, Not the Cops” in Asian languages: https://18millionrising.org/2020/06/callonme.html From APANO: A Resource Guide for AAPI Anti-HateActivists,Victims and Survivors of Hate https://www.apano.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/PUAH-Resilience-to-Hate-Resource-Guide-3_23_20.docx.pdf From Advancing Justice – AAJC and Hollaback! Bystander Intervention Training: https://www.advancingjustice-aajc.org/events From Vision Change Win: Community Safety Toolkit https://www.visionchangewin.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/VCW-Safety-Toolkit-Final.pdf Hate Reporting Sites: Stopaapihate.org Standagainsthatred.org
Asian Pacific Environmental Network If you live in the Bay Area and want to join our volunteer list just go to apen4ej.org/volunteer Share this form with your friends, family, and communities through this link Donate to the CCSJ victims and survivors fund. Donate to Little Saigon’s Peace Ambassador program
APANO Responds to Tragedy in Atlanta APANO unites Asians and Pacific Islanders to build power, develop leaders, and advance equity through organizing, advocacy, community development, and cultural work. We envision a just world where Asians and Pacific Islanders and communities who share our aspirations and struggles have the power, resources, and voice to determine our own futures, and where we work in solidarity to drive political, social, economic, and cultural change. Learn more at www.apano.org. How you can help: Donate.. All donations will go directly to support the victims and their families and to support crisis intervention across the Asian American community. Here are more ways to support efforts in Georgia.
AAU | Dismantling Anti-Blackness in the Asian Community “We must look further. We must dismantle our history of economic inequity and racism.” Visit this document for resources on dismantling Anti-Blackness in the Asian Community. Vist this document for the full statement, resources to learn more and action items. Sign the petition for Christian Hall Visit this doc for our full statement, resources to learn more, and action items: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ldXQTx5ZcaOt6gIUihfp1slNM1h5uunthlFWvjkmMN4/edit Posted by Asian Americans United on Thursday, March 4, 2021 Missed an event? Check out this website to be more involved in your local city!
Safety Tips for Those Experiencing or Witnessing Hate In response to the alarming escalation in xenophobia and bigotry resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Asian Pacific Planning and Policy Council (A3PCON), Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), and the Asian American Studies Department of San Francisco State University launched the Stop AAPI Hate reporting center on March 19, 2020. The center tracks and responds to incidents of hate, violence, harassment, discrimination, shunning, and child bullying against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in California and where possible throughout the United States. This resource provides safety tips for those in particular experiencing or witnessing hate. Their approach recognizes that in order to effectively address anti-Asian racism we must work to end all forms of structural racism leveled at Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color. Their 5-pronged approach is to: – Serve as the leading aggregator of anti-Asian hate incidents – Offer multilingual resources for impacted community members – Provide technical assistance from rapid response to preventative measures – Support community-based safety measures and restorative justice efforts – Advocate for local, state, and national policies that reinforces human rights and civil rights protections
Justice For Muslims Collective (JMC) Civic Engagement Campaign Dear Community, We are less than a week away from one of the most important elections of our lifetime. Today, we are thrilled to launch our JMC election brief called, We Count: Arab, Muslim, Middle Eastern, and South Asian (AMEMSA) Voters in Virginia. The brief gives an overview of our civic engagement campaign to call 65,000 AMEMSA voters in Virginia, our findings from a survey we conducted with low-propensity working-class voters in Northern Virginia, community reflections on civic engagement campaigns, and resources. Read the full brief here and share it! Overall we found from a survey with 176 voters that: The overwhelming majority of AMEMSA registered voters who took our survey stated a strong yes (86%) to voting in November. A small minority (3%) stated a strong no to voting during this election. Issue Areas and Priorities: The two leading issues our respondents wanted the next President to prioritize were fighting racism and Islamophobia (40%) and expanding access to affordable healthcare (36%). Public Health: The top two public health issues that voters wanted to be addressed were COVID19 (52%) and expanding access to affordable healthcare (39%). Public Safety: The top 3 public safety issues that voters wanted to be addressed were hate crimes against people of color (38%)and police accountability and reform (36%). In addition, 17 percent of voters who took our survey stated government surveillance of mosques and Muslim communities was their number one public safety issue they wanted to be addressed.