Donald Trump’s classless firing of FBI director James Comey, just days after Comey reportedly asked for more money for an investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia, elevates the situation to historic levels.
There is only one word to describe Donald Trump going forward.
Nixonian.
Nixon’s t...
My High Plains - Today, ahead of Texas municipal elections this Saturday May 6th, Election Protection, the nation’s largest nonpartisan voter protection coalition, is launching the #KnowB4YouVote campaign encouraging voters to participate in their local elections…
My late mother, the wise Filipina, would always say, “Your health is your wealth.” And when her health failed, she was thankful for her health care through Medicare. And now after today, we’re a step closer to the danger zone. I talk about #TrumpNoCare on the podcast.
But we won’t let the threat to...
Hyperallergic - Originally formed at the edges of downtowns, Chinatowns held on as such commercial and residential areas expanded. Collectively, they represent more than 150 years of immigrant survival since the first wave of Chinese immigration began in the 1850s…
I guess Dr. David Dao didn’t want to drag it out.
He didn’t need 100 days. Neither did United. CEO Oscar Munoz continues his apology tour in the media with a new report that heralds changes in service, including an increase in fees from $1,350 to $10,000 for bumped passengers. Dao’s settlement amou...
While you’re marching on Earth Day at a science march near you, take your earbuds and listen to Emil Amok’s Takeout.
I mean, you’re going to march, aren’t you?
If you’ve doubted that the environment is a racial justice issue, listen to Miya Yoshitani of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APE...
Inquirer - “We aren’t Asian American!” a friend of mind said to me not long ago. “We’re Filipino.” Indeed, we are. My friend would say “Filipino American.” I like to say “American Filipino.” The one thing we got correct was the ethnic part…
https://usa.inquirer.net/3032/asian-american-study-16-poll...
Multilingual exit poll of 13,846 Asian American voters shows strong support for Democratic candidates in 2016 elections
Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) released a new report with detailed findings from its nonpartisan multilingual exit poll of 13,846 Asian Americ...
When the U.S. drops the “mother of all bombs” on Afghanistan as a worldwide message, it’s time for a little sobering perspective.
Maybe we could take a little more time to treat all people with a little more respect, fairness and dignity in our everyday lives. Person to person. And certainly, corpo...
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In the 2016 Presidential Election, 13,846 Asian American voters participated in the nation’s largest nonpartisan multilingual exit poll, conducted by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF). The Asian American Exit Poll was conducted in 11 Asian languages and English in 55 ci...
It is the unmistakable screech heard round the world.
By now, you’ve surely seen that looping video, strung together from the good citizens with cell phone cameras who have learned that video doesn’t lie (below via Washington Post).
It loops on all your newsfeeds and on TV like a modern Zapruder f...
Mr. America First, Donald Trump, the man who never met a wall he didn’t like, has no compassion for the undocumented. Same for the 24 million people he’d gladly lop off Obamacare, or the countless others impacted by his pro-military budget. He’s never shown any real concern for Syrian refugees. But ...
Rafu Shimpo - Isamu Carlos “Art” Shibayama and the Campaign for Justice: Redress Now for Japanese Latin Americans! delegation appeared to have received a favorable hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on March 21…
Art Shibayama, 86, was in Washington, DC and stood by the “Unfinished Business” display at the National Museum of American History. He was there with his friend, Blanca Katsura, also 86.
Both were just 12 when they became part of a shameful and little-known episode of U.S. history. Shibayama and ...
We already know how hard it is to get justice in America. It might get even harder.
In my AALDEF podcast, I talk to two Asian American professors who have filed a discrimination suit against the University of Michigan.
The professors filed in Michigan state court. But where federal laws are conc...
Washington, DC…In what could be the final chapter of the Japanese American redress saga, Art Shibayama and other Japanese Latin Americans (JLAs) will appear before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in Washington, DC on Tuesday, March 21 at 8:30 am.
AALDEF Board member and long...
I admit I wasn’t sure if Islamophobia was going to be beaten back and stopped this time around.
But now a Native Hawaiian judge in the nation’s most Asian American state has spoken for all. Maryland piled on for good measure after the Hawaii court’s decision. But the effect is the same.
Trump’s re...
NPR - On a Friday evening in January, people spilled out of a storefront into an alleyway in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Neighborhood business owners, parents with young children, and artists in warm coats chatted with one another…
Today, the federal district court in Honolulu will hold a hearing at 9:30 am Hawaii time (3:30 pm ET) on the State of Hawaii’s lawsuit challenging Trump’s revised travel ban, which temporarily suspends U.S. refugee admissions and migrants from six Muslim-majority countries. Executive Order 13780, en...
San Francisco Chronicle - When Judge Neil Gorsuch ruled against our family member battling cancer, Grace Hwang, almost three years ago, his decision was heartless. It removed the human element from the equation. It did not bring justice…
