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Philly Social

Communities • June 11, 2024 • By 18MR Staff

PHILADELPHIA! Are you a badass Asian who wants to organize with other rad Asians? Join 18 Million Rising for a Philadelphia Social! We’re hosting a meet and greet on June 27 so we can kick it with local organizers. There will be 🥟 snacks and drinks 🧋- bring a friend!…

Orange background with a hand drawn tiger with white belly, over a circle of South Asian lotus flower motifs, in orange and white. Under that, a bowl full of green leaves, red, and orange herbs. At the top, a purple box that says "Our Community is our Remedy" in white. Below, a dark green box that says in white, "DID YOU EAT YET?" Bottom right is a portrait of Jen Soriano, her left arm folded to hold her face, black short hair, with medium-fair skin, in a white blouse. Below that in dark green, says in white, "Jen Soriano".

Did You Eat Yet? May 2024 – APAHM with Jen Soriano

Communities • May 20, 2024 • By 18MR Staff

Hello fellow freedom lovers! My name is Jen Soriano – some people call me JenSo – and I’m an author, musician, and former board member of 18MR. I’m excited to be guest editing this month’s newsletter for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month! I’ve dedicated most of…

Mostly green textured graphic with an illustration of a dark-skinned hand holding a red 1940s style house key. There are three of them staggered down. In the background is an overexposed photo of a crowd. Text reads: Al-Nakba: Resistance Until Return! Liberated Palestine Within Our Lifetime!

Nakba Day

Communities • May 14, 2024 • By 18MR Staff

On May 15, 1948, over 700,000 Palestinians were displaced in the Nakba - Arabic for “catastrophe.” This May 15, we’re remembering the 76 years of the ongoing ethnic cleansing and genocide, demanding all of us to #Escalate4Gaza. In the same year as the first Nakba, the U.N. released a Universal…