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'I Feel Like I Was Meant to Do This': Asian American Activists Reflect on Their Work in the Last Year – NBC Connecticut


It was very hard that week, she says, adding that being in community with other AAPI justice leaders that week was crucial for her to remain resilient. She remembers being on a call with the Asian American Leaders Table and processing what an Atlanta-area sheriff s office said was the result of one man having a bad day, instead of what many advocates say was an act fueled by racism and sexism.
The fact that we could be together right after what happened was really important, Kulkarni says.
Though anti-Asian racism in the U.S. has gained more attention in the last few months, coinciding with the reporting of increasingly violent attacks, advocates say it s crucial to remember that Asians have experienced discrimination from the time they arrived in the country in waves throughout the 1800s but that also, throughout American history, AAPI activists have been working to fight injustices in the name of advancing the civil rights and humanity of Asians in the U.S. ....

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'I feel like I was meant to do this': Asian American activists reflect on their work in the last year


I feel like I was meant to do this : Asian American activists reflect on their work in the last year
CNBC
5/6/2021
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Manjusha Kulkarni describes the March 16 Atlanta-area shooting of eight people, including the killing of six Asian women, as beyond our worst nightmares.
Kulkarni, 51, is South Asian American and executive director of the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council. In February 2020, she co-founded Stop AAPI Hate, the national coalition working to document and address rising anti-Asian hate incidents during the coronavirus pandemic.
Though she s spent her career advocating on behalf of Asian American and Pacific Islander, AAPI, communities, the mass shooting targeting Asian women and law enforcement s handling of it afterward were a low point for Kulkarni. ....

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'I Feel Like I Was Meant to Do This': Asian American Activists Reflect on Their Work in the Last Year – NBC10 Philadelphia


It was very hard that week, she says, adding that being in community with other AAPI justice leaders that week was crucial for her to remain resilient. She remembers being on a call with the Asian American Leaders Table and processing what an Atlanta-area sheriff s office said was the result of one man having a bad day, instead of what many advocates say was an act fueled by racism and sexism.
The fact that we could be together right after what happened was really important, Kulkarni says.
Though anti-Asian racism in the U.S. has gained more attention in the last few months, coinciding with the reporting of increasingly violent attacks, advocates say it s crucial to remember that Asians have experienced discrimination from the time they arrived in the country in waves throughout the 1800s but that also, throughout American history, AAPI activists have been working to fight injustices in the name of advancing the civil rights and humanity of Asians in the U.S. ....

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New NJ Asian activists speak out against anti-Asian hate and attacks


Those are some of the emotions that have wracked
Asian Americans in North Jersey after witnessing unprovoked race-based attacks as Asians have been scapegoated for the COVID-19 pandemic that originated in Wuhan, China.
But Asian Americans are harnessing that emotion and using it to fuel a mass movement designed to stem the tide of hate against Asians. In cities across the United States in recent weeks, tens of thousands of people took to the streets to demonstrate. 
More than 150 years after Asians first settled in America,  Asian Americans are for the first time mobilizing en masse in a civil rights movement. The recent attacks have prompted many to speak out for the first time, shedding cultural norms. ....

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