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May 4, 2023
New survey shows increase in anti-Asian hate, discrimination. Here’s how we can stop it. (USA TODAY)

The scale at which AA and PI people have their rights violated is shocking. These findings should be a wake-up call: The fight for our civil rights is not just a history lesson but a movement we must engage in…

May 1, 2023
Does using the term ‘Asian American and Pacific Islander’ make sense anymore? (SF Chronicle)

“If we lump everyone together, we are and we have missed those differences, and it has led to this belief, this falsehood, that there is no need to focus on educational equity,” said Cynthia Choi, co-executive director of the civil…

April 13, 2023
Asian Americans spent decades seeking fair education. Then the right stole the narrative (The Guardian)

Affirmative action opponents have used racial scapegoating to reframe the national debate, exploiting middle-class fears amid a toxic obsession with meritocracy. By Jeff Chang

March 24, 2023
The Federal Response to Anti-Asian Racism in the United States

Cynthia Choi, co-executive director at Chinese for Affirmative Action, speaks at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’s briefing on March 24, 2023 on the federal government’s response to anti-Asian racism in the United States.

March 21, 2023
‘We’ve become targets’: mass shootings are reshaping Asian Americans’ views on guns (The Guardian)

Newtown Action Alliance, along with the progressive groups AAPI Victory Alliance, MomsRising and Chinese for Affirmative Action, formed the AAPI Against Gun Violence coalition to engage the Asian diaspora on the issue of gun violence prevention.

March 20, 2023
Texas Bill Targeting Homeowners From These Four Countries Met With Condemnation in SF (SF Standard)

After a Texas legislator introduced a bill that would ban land sales to citizens of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, a committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has voted to condemn it. Representatives from Chinese for Affirmative…

March 19, 2023
It’s been two years since the Atlanta spa massacre. Has America learned anything about stopping Asian hate? (SF Chronicle)

The advocacy group Stop AAPI Hate began tracking incidents in March 2020, and through March 2022 it received 11,500 self-reports of harassment and physical attacks.

February 23, 2023
Texas Bill Barring Chinese Real Estate Ownership Renews Anti-Asian Racism Debate (SF Standard)

In early February, Nick Gee flew from San Francisco to his hometown of Houston to join the local protests against a proposed state law aiming to ban citizens of China from purchasing real estate in Texas.

February 21, 2023
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February 13, 2023
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‘It doesn’t have to be this way’: California introduces bill addressing harassment on public transit (The 19th)

Introduced by Sen. Dave Min in partnership with Stop AAPI Hate, the bill would address systemic safety issues on public transit systems across the state.  By Mariel Padilla

February 13, 2023
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One in 10 Anti-Asian Incidents Happen on Public Transit. Now California’s Agencies Have To Track Them (SF Standard)

Stop AAPI Hate told The Standard that it has also recorded many verbal assault incidents on San Francisco’s public transit. According to its two-year data report, 9% of all the anti-Asian incidents reported happened on public transit. Written by Han Li

January 30, 2023
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Half Moon Bay shooting victims’ families who lived on farms left without homes or income (NBC News Asian America)

The tragedy left survivors and victims’ families fearful to return to the farms where they lived and earned their livelihoods. By Sakshi Venkatraman