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“It’s very clear that Trump and his administration and other elected officials are trying to distract the American people from the bungling of this public health crisis management and trying to blame China,” said Choi, adding that “it is irresponsible…
Hong Mei Pang, director of advocacy for Chinese for Affirmative Action, acknowledged the “huge disparity” in how communities are experiencing COVID-19. Pang described race as “really a factor,” and she noted the challenge for immigrants in connecting with the state…
A group of Asian American organizations documenting the surge of racist incidents related to the COVID-19 pandemic received nearly 1,500 reports of anti-Asian harassment and discrimination over the last month, they said in a new report released Friday.
“Those who were already vulnerable—whether you’re an immigrant, undocumented, or because of your gender identity and sexuality—the pandemic has amplified that,” Choi told VICE. “Those who were suffering before the pandemic, their situation is worse off.”
“AAPIs are becoming increasingly fearful of being harassed or attacked going to work, walking in their neighbourhoods and going to public places,” Choi says, based on the incident descriptions received by Stop AAPI Hate.
Lu is one of over 17 million people who have applied for unemployment insurance in the past month. Working with Chinese for Affirmative Action, a Chinatown-based nonprofit, she was able to file a claim on March 29. If she hadn’t…
[The Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council and Chinese for Affirmative Action] has also noticed a surge in racist behavior. After launching a site March 19 to track anti-Asian hate incidents, the group and its partners got more than 1,100 reports in…
“When we started reading about news reports about the outbreak in China, we were also at the same time monitoring how it was being covered,” Cynthia Choi of the California-based Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) told me. Choi and other…
The Levi Strauss & Co. and the Levi Strauss Foundation (LSF) will together focus their monetary support on organizations that champion marginalized people who are likely to be hit hardest by the Covid-19 crisis. They include Chinese for Affirmative Action, which…
San Francisco State University found a 50 percent rise in the number of news articles related to the coronavirus and anti-Asian discrimination between Feb. 9 and March 7. The lead researcher, Russell Jeung, a professor of Asian-American studies, said the figures represented…
Stop AAPI Hate, a project launched to track incidents of verbal harassment, physical assault and other forms of discrimination against Asians related to the Covid-19 pandemic, has been tracking nearly 100 such incidents a day. The project is a joint…
Several reasons may explain why Asian women are reporting three times more hate incidents than men — for example, it’s possible that Asian men are more likely to stay quiet about such incidents. But Cynthia Choi, co-executive director of Chinese…