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04/29/02: Asian Pacific
American Heritage Month closing ceremonies. Come hear Eric Liu speak. Eric
Liu was hailed "1 of the 25 most influential Asian Americans in the
country" with good reason. He
served as Clinton's speechwriter and domestic policy adviser as well as
director of the National Security Council.
As author of the controversial New York Times Notable Book of 1998 The
Accidental Asian, Liu will be speaking on his stumble into identity at the
APAHM closing banquet. Third World Center, 6pm. |
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check out abercrombie’s new
line. How can a company that does
$1.4 billion in sales a year and is worth more than double that hawk such ridiculous
items? People will buy these shirts, and further perpetuate stereotypes of
Asian Americans. ACTION MUST BE TAKEN NOW. Obviously, we cannot allow
ourselves to again be silenced and "model-minority-ized".
Hopefully, A&F will be taken as an example for other retailers in the
future. CONTACT INFO
Customer service line:
888-856-4480 -- call this number and log a complaint CEO's contact information: Mike Jefferies, phone:
614-283-6500 6301 Fitch Path New Albany, OH 43054 |
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04/01/02: Opening Ceremonies
04/06/02:
DANCE ‘California Knows How to
Party’: Constructing East & West Coast Under-ground Hip-Hop Scenes.
Featuring Kuttin Kandi, NYC and Rhettmatic, LA. 11pm-2am, Quad lower level. photos flyers |
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04/13/02:
Summit/Mini Conference 1:30-5pm, Frist 205-209. Session One (1:45-3:15):
“Before Lucy Liu: Role of Minorities in Hollywood”-
Jadin Wong “Living in a Japanese Internment Camp”-
Rose Ochi “Creative expression: spoken word poetry
and the Minority community”-Giles Li Asian American Identity/
Masculinity-Steve Lin “Wards Cove Case”—Garry Owens and Nemesio
Domingo Session Two (3:30-4:45):
“Race Theory and White privilege” (Race
Politics)-Steve Lin “Why won’t Susie Wong die?”- Jadine Wong
“Hate Crimes tomorrow, today, and
yesterday”- Giles Li “Asian Americans in the White House”-Rose
Ochi “The Minority Voice in Organizing”—Garry
Owens and Nemesio Domingo GILES LI Giles Li serves as the
Director of Communications for the Organization of Chinese Americans, a
national nonprofit APA civil rights and education group based in Washington,
D.C. He currently sits on the board
of APA Film and DC Asians for Peace and Justice. He is also one-half of the spoken word duo Re:verse and
published his first chapbook of poetry last year entitled, The Only Poet Left
is Me. STEVE LIN Steven Lin is a program
director for the Posse Foundation, a diversity leadership colleges
scholarship program for urban, public high school students. ROSE OCHI Rose
Ochi was the first Asian American woman to serve at the Assistant Attorney
General level. She has held leadership roles in several organizations
including National Vice President of the JACL, President of the National
Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, and is part of the Board of
Trustees of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (first AP). Ochi has
received numerous public recognition for her professional achievements and
years of dedicated community service including the U.S. DOJ Distinguished
Service Award, the National Asian Legal Consortium American Courage Award,
and the Pat Brown Institute Public Service Achievement Award.
JADIN WANG
Jadin
Wong high-powered theatrical agent and iconoclastic singer and dancer of San
Francisco’s Forbidden City Night Club.
In 1995, she was the only Asian American woman who was honored at the first Sadie awards. Featured on the cover of Life magazine as
a dance at the first San Francisco Chinatown night club, Wong represents a
great deal of history not talked about.
NEMESIO DOMINGO
Nemesio
Domingo is a founding board member and vice-president of the Northwest Labor
and Employment Law Office (LELO).
LELO is a minority workers group founded in 1973 that organizes
locally and internationally for workers' rights. He is also LELO's representative to the founding board of the
Rainier Valley Community Development Fund that will oversee a $50 million
fund to mitigate the negative impact of a light rail project through a major
part of the Seattle minority community.
GARRY OWENS
Garry
Owens is a board member of the Northwest Labor and Employment Law Office
(LELO) and a lead person in the Ward's Cove Human Rights Project and the
Popular Edcation Collective. He also
serves as co-chairperson of the Annual Fundraising Campaign. He and Nemesio
represented LELO at the United Nations World Conference Against Racism,
Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban, South
Africa. He was a founding member of
the Seattle Chapter of the Black Panther Party. |
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04/17/02:
“Backlash: Discrimination facing Asian Pacific Americans after 9/11”
4:30 pm, Frist 302 04/24/02:
Prof. Gary Okihiro: “White Out: Whose History Is It Anyway?”
Panel Discussion 4:30pm,
McCosh 64 |
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