02.08.08
Posted in Community Alerts at 5:30 pm by albert_lim
Hsu Ya-shih, a 35-year-old Chinese American woman, is suffering from leukemia and needs a bone marrow donor. If you’re of Chinese ancestry and are between the ages of 18 and 55, be sure to drop by a couple donor drives going on in New York City this weekend. Who knows? You could save a life.
Feb. 10
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Boon Church of Overseas Chinese Mission
43-72 Bowne Street, Flushing, NY 11355
4:15-6:30 p.m.
Chung Hwa Bookstore
13529 Roosevelt Avenue, Flushing, NY 11354
To learn more about the Cammy Lee Foundation, the organization hosting the bone marrow drives, visit the official Web site.
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11.29.07
Posted in Community Alerts, Crime at 8:29 pm by william_lee
Police are investigating eight recent muggings of Asian men and women in Brooklyn’s 84th Precinct, authorities said Friday.
The first attack occurred Aug. 14, and the last victim was targeted Nov. 12, police said.
In each case, between one and five teens used intimidation and force to swipe property from their victims, whose ages range from 15 to 52, officials said.
The NYPD’s citywide robbery squad has been called in to aid the investigation, officials said.
The 84th Precinct’s commanding officer plans to continue discussions about the crimes with the area’s Asian-American community, officials said.
Police said the robberies appear to be part of a pattern.
Cops ask anyone with information to call (800) 577-TIPS.
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10.18.07
Posted in Activism and Empowerment, Community Alerts, Education at 9:24 pm by feliza_mirasol
A young Filipina immigrant was beaten up by a group of youth at the back of a bus in Brooklyn. A queer Filipina was attacked outside of a club in Long Island after being seen dancing with another woman. A racist remark was made about Filipino medical professionals on the show ‘Desperate Housewives’.
Why are these and other racist incidents happening to the Filipino community in the US? What has been YOUR experience with racism? What can WE do about it?
Seek the answers and join us for a 2-part workshop series on…
Workshop 1: Knowing the Enemy — Systemic Racism in Our Midst
Monday, October 29th, 7:00-9:30 pm
Workshop 2: Unraveling the Enemy — Historical Roots of Systemic Racism & How to Combat It!
Wednesday, November 7th, 7:00-9:30 pm
Suggested Donation: $5
To cover materials and snacks for both workshops
Workshop Series Venue:
Barnard College
3009 Broadway & 117th Street
Room to be announced later
Take the uptown 1 train to 116th Street/Columbia University
LEARN about systemic racism and how it affects the Filipino youth personally and collectively!
UNDERSTAND how systemic racism manifests in the different institutions in US society — education, work place, immigration policies, etc!
DEEPEN our understanding of the historical roots of systemic racism and its direct impact on the Filipino community!
SHARE EXPERIENCES with other Filipino youth & find ways how we can combat systemic racism!
CONNECT our community’s experiences to the experiences of other communities of color!
REGISTER NOW! To register, please visit www.ugnayan.blogspot.com.
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10.17.07
Posted in Community Alerts, Crime at 7:13 am by george_lou
Yup he sure has that look.
Christopher Paul Neil of Canada posted around 200 Internet photos of himself abusing young boys throughout Asia. Victims include 12 young Vietnamese and Cambodian boys, some as young as six years of age.
The manhunt for Neil is being spearheaded by Interpol, the world’s largest international police organization. Go get ‘em!
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10.08.07
Posted in Activism and Empowerment, Community Alerts, Racism at 10:17 pm by feliza_mirasol
Filipinos worldwide need to hold ABC network accountable for its negligence in allowing a racial slur against the Philippine medical community and Philippine medical professionals air on the Sept. 30, 2007 episode of “Desperate Housewives”.
In the Sept. 30, 2007 episode of “Desperate Housewives”, Teri Hatcher’s character is told by her gynecologist that she might be hitting menopause, to which she replies, “Can I just check those diplomas because I just want to make sure that they are not from some med school in the Philippines.” The comment reflects systemic racism at its worst. Targeting an entire education system (rather than targeting individuals based on skin color, which is how we have traditionally defined racism), the comment is based on the racist assumption that the products of a western education are far more qualified than the products of a Philippine education.
ABC issued a weak apology which can be read here (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071004/ennew_afp/entertainmentphilippinesustvracism_071004015434).
In addition to an online petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/FilABC/, the Filipino community should contact corporate ABC directly to demand a public apology aired through the network airwaves itself, through which the ignorant comment was made in the first place.
Here are some ABC corporate communications and media relations contacts:
ABC Media Relations:
Chandler Hayes
Email: Chandler.Hayes@abc.com
Telephone: (818) 733-3930
Mozell Miley
Email: Mozell.I.Miley@abc.com
Telephone: (212) 456-6444
Hope Hartman
Vice President, Media Relations, ABC Entertainment
Assistant: Edwin Escobar
PHONE: (818) 460-6360
FAX: (818) 460-5903
Hope.C.Hartman@abc.com
Alison Rou
Vice President, Program Publicity
Assistant: Makena Coscarelli
PHONE: (818) 460-7798
FAX: (818) 460-5903
Alison.Rou@abc.com
Below is a statement made by Ugnayan ng mga Anak ng Bayan, which sheds some light into the background and history of U.S. government policies and relations as it has directly influenced and affected the Philippines.
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Ugnayan ng mga Anak ng Bayan wrote
October 3, 2007
Contact: Joana Palomar, Spokesperson, Ugnayan ng mga Anak ng Bayan, 212-564-6057, ugnayan_nyc@yahoo.com
Statement of Ugnayan ng mga Anak ng Bayan (Linking the Children of the Motherland) on the Racist Comment Made Against Filipinos on “Desperate Housewives”
Progressive Filipino American youth in New York and New Jersey strongly condemn ABC’s Desperate Housewives’ executive producer and writer Marc Cherry and the other producers, editors and the director of the show for the racist remark made against Filipinos in the Sept. 30, 2007 episode. We join the Filipino community and its allies in demanding from ABC a public apology and recognition of the existence of systemic racism in the corporate media and corporate-driven pop culture.
In the Sept. 30, 2007 episode of Desperate Housewives, Teri Hatcher’s character is told by her gynecologist that she might be hitting menopause, to which she replies, “Can I just check those diplomas because I just want to make sure that they are not from some med school in the Philippines.” The comment reflects systemic racism at its worst. Targeting an entire education system (rather than targeting individuals based on skin color, which is how we have traditionally defined racism), the comment is based on the racist assumption that the products of a western education are far more qualified than the products of a Philippine education.
Filipino youth, conscious and aware of our history, know that it was the US who set up the Philippine education system in the first place when the Philippines was a direct colony of the US in the early 1900s. We understand that the main beneficiary of this crippled Philippine education system IS the US, especially in the medical field. The US opens and closes its doors to immigrants based not on qualifications, but on the need for labor. This was the case at the height of the “Brain Drain” in the 70’s and 80’s when there was an influx of medical professionals migrating from the Philippines into the US, and US immigration laws were relatively lenient. However, once saturated with medical professionals, the US closed its doors by setting up stricter immigration policies.
Filipino youth, conscious and aware of the issues of our community, know that the Filipino medical professionals who migrated in the 70’s and 80’s are becoming replaced by a new generation of service workers, mostly domestic workers, who hold the same degrees from the same colleges as the previous generation, but who are working much less desirable jobs. There is a systemic de-skilling of the Filipino community in which the primary beneficiary is the US, and in which the US corporate media and corporate-driven pop culture are complicit. This large-scale de-skilling of an entire population would never be acceptable to white Americans, but is so palatable that it is a punchline in a TV show. That is racism on a systemic level.
Ugnayan ng mga Anak ng Bayan condemns ABC and the staff of Desperate Housewives for being complicit in the problems that plague our community and for perpetuating systemic racism. We support the initiative of so many in our community who are taking action on this issue and urge all to sign the online petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/FilABC/ . We will take action if ABC does not heed the demands of the Filipino community.
Ugnayan vows to continue the struggle of Filipino youth and all Filipinos against systemic racism; and to fight for the genuine development of our community and for the life and liberation of the Filipino people as a whole.
Demand an apology from ABC!
End systemic racism!
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Ugnayan ng mga Anak ng Bayan (Linking the Children of the Motherland or UGNAYAN)
Reclaim our history of struggle!
Reroot in our culture of resistance!
Resurge and advance our role in effecting change!
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www.ugnayan.org | ugnayan_nyc@yahoo.com
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09.19.07
Posted in Activism and Empowerment, Community Alerts, Culture, Education at 3:34 am by feliza_mirasol
As part of the International Day of Action Against Political Persecution and Repression, we invite you to a cultural program and vigil to commemorate the victims of Philippine Dictator Ferdinand Marcos on the eve of the 35th Anniversary of his declaration of Martial Law…
BALIKWAS*
* balikwas: v. to turn suddenly to the opposite side, to suddenly rise from a lying position.
Decriminalizing Political Dissent and Asserting Our Right to Our Bodies, Livelihood and Liberation
When: Friday, September 21, 2007
Time: Gather at 4:30pm, Vigil until 6:30 pm
Where: In front of the Philippine Consulate
556 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10036
Directions: 7 train to 5th Avenue-Bryant Park, F/V/D/B to 47-50 Rockefeller Center. Walk to 5th Avenue between 45th & 46th Street
What: Participatory street theater, cultural performances, solidarity statements
**** Wear black and bring images to show the repression/resistance during Martial Law 35 years ago and the on-going crisis today. ****
September 21, 2007 marks the 35th anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law in the Philippines by late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. During his 14 years of US-backed dictatorship, Marcos placed 120,000 Filipino men and women in arbitrary arrests and detention, committed 1,500 extrajudicial executions of activists and perpetrated 769 forced disappearances. Marcos was ousted by the People Power of 1986.
Today, the Filipino people are under another reign of terror. With the same shameless attempt to cling to power and with the same support from the US, Philippine de facto president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) has cracked down on political dissenters.
There have been 866 victims of political assassinations in the Philippines since GMA took office in 2001. Her government has become one of the cruelest perpetrators of violence against women activists. Filipina women are being beaten and tortured, abducted and executed–76 women have been assassinated, 29 disappeared, and 22 imprisoned for political work. Filipino students and the youth are not immune to such brutality–76 youths have been killed, 54 of whom were minors. The latter includes 9-year old Grecil Galacio, whom the Philippine military shot dead on March 31, 2007 for being a “communist insurgent.”
The rate of terror that GMA has inflicted in her six years in office has now surpassed that of the entire 14 years of the Marcos dictatorship.
GMA’s absolute boldness can only be attributed to the support of the US, who considers her government as its closest ally in Asia for the so called “war on terror.” With the US $30 million military aid to the Philippines, GMA has enacted one repressive policy after another: Calibrated Preemptive Response in 2005; martial-law like Presidential Proclamation 1017 in 2006; and the Human Security Act of 2007. All are designed to give GMA and her military the power and legal basis to persecute and repress those who expose and oppose her anti-people, anti-women rule. Her latest effort is to extend her reach beyond the Philippine borders, arresting and persecuting Filipinos abroad. This is exemplified by the arrest of Prof. Jose Maria Sison, beloved leader of the Philippine people who has committed his life to working for lasting peace in his homeland.
Moreover, just as Marcos bled the country dry to enrich his personal coffers, GMA’s economic policies, which only serve to enrich multinational companies and to expand the US empire, has led to the plunder and degradation of Philippine resources and to a hemorrhage of migration. More than a million Overseas Filipino Workers, enough to fill six 747s per day, are projected to leave the Philippines in 2007, 70% of those migrating are women. More than 8 million Filipinos have been forced to migrate abroad to escape the economic and political crisis in the Philippines. Abroad, majority of the overseas Filipinos become sources of cheap labor for the host country and are vulnerable to systemic racism and continue to be impacted by the worsening conditions in the Philippine homeland.
JOIN US on Friday, September 21, 2007. Stand up for human rights, for your right to expose and oppose corruption and human rights violations. In solidarity with the people of the Philippines, stand up and oppose US interference in Philippine affairs, demand justice for the victims and survivors of state violence. For us in the US, we must demand accountability from the government that, in our name, has wreaked havoc and continues to wreak havoc around the world.
Never Again to Martial Law!
Makibaka! Huwag Matakot! (Struggle! Don’t Be Afraid!)
The People United, Will Never Be Defeated!
Long Live International Solidarity!
To volunteer, participate or for more information please contact us:
DAMAYAN Migrant Workers Association (contact@damayanmigrants.org |(212.564.6057)
Gabriela Network NY/NJ (gabnet@gabnet.org |(212.592.3507)
Ugnayan ng mga Anak ng Bayan / Linking the Children of the Motherland (ugnayan_nyc@yahoo.com)
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09.09.07
Posted in Community Alerts at 3:50 pm by admin
Scale 4 Physical Attack: The majority group vandalize minority group things, they burn property and carry out violent attacks on individuals or groups. Physical harm is done to members of the minority group. Examples: lynchings of blacks, pogroms against Jews in Europe, tarring and feathering Mormons in the 1800s. |
CHICAGO (AP) - Members of various Chicago Asian-American groups held a vigil yesterday at Montrose Harbor on the city’s lakefront for a Vietnamese immigrant who was pushed into Lake Michigan and drowned.
- Click here to read the full article on WQAD.com
- Read more about the vigil at Montrose Harbor in this article in the Chicago Tribune.
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08.28.07
Posted in Community Alerts at 2:17 am by admin
Police in Manhattan are searching for a slasher, a man who walks up to women on the street and cuts them. Over the past six weeks a stalker has been walking the streets of Manhattan targeting Asian women at random - slashing them across the right forearm in broad daylight.
The latest attack was on the afternoon of August 17th at 32nd Street near Broadway. The other two were on July 16th, in the morning and afternoon near Grand St. and Chrystie Street in NYC Chinatown.
- Black Male
- 25 - 30 Years Old
- Thin
- 5′8 - 5′11 tall
- Light grey sweatshirt with 09 on the back
ABC 7 News: Police Searching for slasher in NYC
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08.11.07
Posted in Activism and Empowerment, Community Alerts at 6:33 am by telly_wong
Attention FALLOUT CENTRAL readers/listeners/supporters in Hong Kong:
We will be holding a workshop/orientation meeting next Saturday, August 18, 2007 (from Noon - 1PM) in Hong Kong. We are seeking progressive individuals who are interested in challenging negative stereotypes and misrepresentations of Asians on a global level.
Through solidarity and the establishment of a worldwide network, we believe we can shift perceptions and create positive social change.
If you are interested, please RSVP to telly@falloutcentral.com. We will provide the location in our reply.
See you there.
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07.31.07
Posted in Community Alerts at 5:36 pm by admin
Scale 1, Antilocution: Antilocution means a majority group freely makes jokes about a minority group. Speech is in terms of negative stereotypes and negative images. This is also called hate speech. It is commonly seen as harmless by the majority. Antilucution sets the stage for more severe outlets for prejudice.
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Several news outlets have recently brought attention to the ‘Anti-Asians Anonymous’ Facebook networking group constructed by students at Fox Chapel Area High School in Pittsburgh, PA.
As indicated in our mission statement, anti-Asian American racism is under-whelmingly reported by mainstream media outlets. Do you want to see more of these types of incidents brought out into the open so that they can be addressed? Contact the media outlets in the links listed above to tell them that you appreciate their reporting on issues that directly affect Asian Americans.
A single email message can make a difference– a single email message is precisely what brought the ‘Anti-Asians Anonymous’ incident to light.
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