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The Digital CultureSHIFT: Moving from Scale to Power to Achieve Racial Justice
Racial justice thought leaders spoke at this year's Netroots Nation on race, technology, media activism, and building our movements on and offline. Read the full transcript from the keynote panel.
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Fighting (and Voting) for the Internet Asian Americans Know, Love, and Need
From #OscarsSoWhite to #Asians4BlackLives, we're creating a thriving political and cultural Asian American community online. But we can't take an open, democratic internet for granted. Read More
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From A Child of Refugee Parents: We Can Make Things Better
As a child of refugee parents, my parents barely spoke English. We weren't rich. My family of Asians weren't the model minorities. Read More
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The Digital CultureSHIFT: Moving from Scale to Power to Achieve Racial Justice
Racial justice thought leaders spoke at this year's Netroots Nation on race, technology, media activism, and building our movements on and offline. Read the full transcript from the keynote panel. Read More
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PRESS ADVISORY: Coalition of Asian American organizations opposes FBI request to exempt NGI biometrics database from Privacy Act requirements, cites civil rights concerns
The most marginalized members of our communities—non-citizens, Muslim Americans, LGBTQ Asian Americans—are most impacted by the FBI’s biometrics system. We need to be concerned about this issue and speak out for the millions it will impact. Read More
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Remembrance as Resistance: 'Comfort Women' and the U.S. Pivot to Asia
Emerging U.S. military strategy in Asia has led to implied endorsement of Japan's denial of its WWII 'Comfort Women' system. The legacy of elders who broke the silence against Japan's wartime sexual slavery system is a call for Asian Americans to fight militarism and state violence with a transnational movement of remembrance, resistance, and solidarity. Read More
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What Opening the Set-Top Box Means for AAPI Representation
AAPIs know all too well the limited opportunities that cable TV provides for nuanced and diverse representation. Unlocking the set-top box and integrating cable and streaming video programming could help us access more content that speaks to our identities and experiences, and provide a larger audience for AAPI content creators. Read More
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To the next POTUS: For communities of color, encryption is a civil right
In a political moment of heightened xenophobia, profiling and over-policing, encryption has become a key civil rights protection for targeted communities. Read More
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Towards a Selfish Solidarity: Building Deep Investment in the Movement for Black Lives
The need for a deep and selfish solidarity of South Asians with #BlackLivesMatter became nationally visible last year. Sureshbhai Patel, an Indian man visiting America to care for his grandson, was mistaken for “a skinny Black man” by a neighbor who called the cops. When the cops could not communicate with him, because Mr. Patel does not speak English, one officer brutally slammed Mr. Patel into the ground, leaving him partially paralyzed. The police were called on Mr. Patel because he was mistaken for “a skinny Black man;” he was brutalized, beaten to the point of literal paralysis but not killed, because he was understood to be Indian and immigrant. Read More
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