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October 21, 2020

Asian Americans could play a crucial role in the 2020 election (Prism)

Vincent Pan, CAA’s current co-executive director, describes the appeal of progressivism for many Asian Americans: “It’s about doing something to break up the status quo that keeps some people voiceless and invisible.”

September 9, 2020

What Californians stand to lose by not filling out the census (ABC7)

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — From the fires in Northern California to the pandemic, this has been an inopportune time to conduct a census. And with just three weeks before the end of the 2020 census, the state is scrambling…

August 30, 2020

To survive the pandemic SF Chinatown has to adapt — again (SF Chronicle)

While some residents work low-wage essential jobs, many others have lost their income. Chinese for Affirmative Action, a civil rights nonprofit, runs a workforce development program. (Full disclosure: I do some work for the organization.) Many of its clients work…

August 14, 2020

Trump’s WeChat Ban Threatens ‘Lifeline’ for Chinese Diaspora (SF Weekly)

Chinese for Affirmative Action has also been using WeChat as a way to expand their Chinese language digital engagement for residents with limited English proficiency, particularly when it comes to immigrant rights and economic justice. “We’ve expanded our work on…

July 15, 2020

Activists discuss sustaining quest for racial justice (Bay Area Reporter)

Vincent Pan, the co-executive director of Chinatown-based Chinese for Affirmative Action, said that repealing the state’s ban on affirmative action will help advance people of color.“This is a movement proposition,” Pan said. “This isn’t just some technical water bond where…

July 5, 2020

800+ Hate Crimes Against Asians in California Reported in Past 3 Months (CBS SF Bay Area)

More than 800 anti-Asian American hate incidents related to COVID-19 were reported across in California over the three months between March and June, according to advocacy groups that compile the data. The incidents include physical attacks, verbal assaults, workplace discrimination…

July 5, 2020

‘You started the corona!’ As anti-Asian hate incidents explode, climbing past 800, activists push for aid (LA Times)

The scapegoating of China and people of Chinese descent happens again and again, said Cynthia Choi, co-executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action, a group that co-founded Stop AAPI Hate. “Racist demagoguery matched with anti-immigrant policies have always been used…

July 1, 2020

Hundreds of anti-Asian American hate incidents reported in California during pandemic (Mercury News)

Those are some of the 832 incidents of hate, harassment and discrimination against Asian-American and Pacific Islander Californians reported in the past 13 weeks to Stop AAPI Hate, a coalition of advocacy organizations formed to track racism against those…

June 29, 2020

Visa ban does not help in saving US jobs, say industry insiders (China Daily)

The anti-immigrant policies, including bans and restrictions on asylum seekers, Chinese students and academics, green card holders and foreign workers, are Trump’s “intentional and orchestrated tactic” to deflect attention away from his “epic mismanagement of the worst public health crisis”…

June 25, 2020

‘We have been through this before.’ Why anti-Asian hate crimes are rising amid coronavirus (PBS)

But Cynthia Choi, an activist who helped create Stop AAPI Hate, attributed the rise in anti-Chinese rhetoric in the U.S. to President Donald Trump’s use of terms like “Chinese virus” and “Kung flu” to describe the coronavirus. He used the…

June 24, 2020

California effort to restore affirmative action divides Asian Americans (SF Chronicle)

Vincent Pan, executive director of the San Francisco civil rights organization Chinese for Affirmative Action and co-chair of the ACA5 campaign, noted that Asian Americans have suffered from systemic racism in the United States for more than 100 years, including…

June 16, 2020

California forges a path through America’s racial divide (CNN)

One notable aspect of last week’s Assembly vote was that eight of the chamber’s ten Asian-American members voted for repeal. Vincent Pan, executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action, says that shift from 2014 partly reflects immediate factors: better organizing…

May 20, 2020

In Brown Type: History repeats as Asians bear the brunt of coronavirus rage (SF Examiner)

“There is a direct correlation when the president and other elected officials talk about this issue,” said Cynthia Choi, executive director for CAA, on the KALW radio show “Your Call” with host Rose Aguilar. “The general public is not immune…

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