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Doing away with H1-B visa restrictions “would send a strong signal that immigrants are welcome and that vilifying various groups isn’t appropriate”, said Russell Jeung, the Stop AAPI Hate chair.
The pandemic has seen an uptick of violence against Asians, toward the people, their businesses, and their communities at large. Asian-Americans were spat on, harassed, and attacked in streets and even parking lots across America.
The non-English social media landscape operates as an insular echo chamber where little fact-checking is done. “There’s not the same level of balance, in terms of political balance or racial and ethnic balance,” said CAA’s Vincent Pan.
While the pandemic has made this an unprecedented election for all campaigns, it’s brought a particular challenge for the record number of Asian American and Pacific Islander candidates running this year.
On Wednesday, the group, STOP AAPI HATE, laid the blame right at the feet of President Donald Trump, unveiling research that concludes Trump is by far the most influential “superspreader” of anti-Asian racism.
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.”
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 to get…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…