Asian American Activists Want So Much More Than To Not Be Attacked
In California’s Bay Area, organizers are fighting for Asian Americans to feel safe from hate crimes and racism, but also from climate change, the housing crisis and more.
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Story By Sarah Ruiz-Grossman
Photo of Vivian Huang By Kristen Murakoshi
Amid a rise in anti-Asian racism, activists in California’s Bay Area are fighting for a future in which Asian and other communities of color feel safe from hate crimes, but also from climate change, the housing crisis and more.
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Extended interview with Alvina Wong and Terisa Siagatonu about their communities in the Bay Area, from the Aloha Friday Conversation.
Alvina Wong, is Campaign Organizing Director for the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, or APEN. She works with Asian immigrants in Oakland, California, a hot spot for reported attacks. I think they are afraid to go out because of Covid, says Wong, And because it just feels like everyone s against us right now.
In January a Thai man was shoved and died from his injuries in San Francisco. Several elders have been attacked in Oakland. Sports figures, celebrities, and law enforcement continue to draw attention to more than 700 incidents in the Bay Area alone. Chinese have lived in California for 200 years.
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