Organizing Asian America
Four words from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech are ringing in my ears today: We cannot walk alone. On August 28, 1963, hundreds of thousands of Americans came to our nation’s capitol calling for civil and economic rights for African Americans. About three out of…
When I heard the news of the Oak Creek shooting last year, my immediate reaction was fear for my friend and his family who regularly attended the gurdwara. Thankfully, my friend was safe. Sadly, his uncle and founder of the gurdwara, Satwant Singh Kaleka, was killed while trying to prevent…
Thanks to your participation, we managed to do something really incredible on Twitter: we turned our #18MillionHearts for Immigration Reform chat into a U.S. trend! As far as we know, no group of rabble-rousing, quick-witted AAPIs talking about immigration has ever trended on Twitter – that is, until together we…
