Anti-Asian hate is not welcome in politics
By Guest Contributor: Christine Chen, Executive Director of APIAVote (@apiavote) Edison town council member Sapana Shah realized something was wrong…
Category: Politics
Over 100 Cambodian American Refugees Face Deportation after Targeted ICE Round-Up
The Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC) reports that over one hundred Cambodian American refugees have been arrested and detained…
University of Maryland Students Organize Rally for Immigrant Rights as Part of Week of #AAPIAction
This past week, Asian American scholars and activists (organized under the group, AAPIVoices) staged a nationwide week of action (#AAPIAction)…
Canada’s NDP Party Elects Sikh-Canadian Jagmeet Singh as Leader
In a historic vote, the third largest political party in Canada — the social democrat New Democratic Party (NDP) —…
Survivor of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Faces Deportation by US Immigration | #FreeNy
Ny Nourn was born into war and violence. Nourn’s mother fled genocide in Cambodia to a refugee camp in Thailand…
Fate of White House’s Black, Hispanic, and AAPI Education and Community Outreach Initiatives In Doubt Under Trump
In a major feature story published today, NBC News reports that three major White House Initiatives — each designed to…
Widow At Risk of Deportation Following Hate Crime Murder of Her Husband
Earlier this year, I reported on the hate crime murder of 32-year-old Srinivas Kuchibhotla, an engineer shot and killed at…
Flushing City Councilmember Peter Koo Deploys Sexist Attacks Against Challenger Alison Tan in Debate
On September 12th, New York City’s registered Democrats will head to the polls for the Democratic primaries, and voters living…
Asian American Advocacy Group Launches 22-Day, 24hr White House Vigil to Defend Immigrants | #DREAMAction17
Asian American advocacy group, National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC), is currently one week into a marathon 22-day vigil…
Kal Penn, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Rest of President’s Arts Committee Resign in Protest of Trump’s Response to Charlottesville
Yesterday, all seventeen private members of President Trump’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities jointly resigned in protest of the…
BREAKING: Gold Star Father Says his Travel Privileges are being “Reviewed”?
Khizr Khan, the Pakistani American and Muslim father of US Army Captain Humayun Khan who was killed in 2004 while…
Beyond Hope: Fighting Within a Fascist America
By Guest Contributor: Sudip Bhattacharya “Sudip, what’s going to happen to us? Can he really create a registry…?” The words…