CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS

        ORAL PRESENTATIONS order for students in the class

AAS 680 Community Events Assignement - Not DUE until November 27

AAS 680 Community Organization Research Projects/Presentations
[proposals due Fri 11/15 via email; papers due 12/20 before noon]

Mon 11/4 - discussion of Don Mar/Chalsa Loo article on Community Research; finished E. San Juan Jr's article
Wed 11/6 - no class meeting - focus on Elections - barriers to political empowerment; grassroots electoral mobilizations -
read the following asian week articles and monitor elections coverage for Asian American communities locally -

1. APA's Struggle to fit into the Landscape of Progressive Politics by May Chow - Asian Week Oct. 4, 2002
2. Asian Week 10/31/02 Issue - article by May Chow - on voter education efforts in San Francisco.  you need to pick up a copy of the current issue to read this.

Week of 10/28 - 11/1

Read WarTimes articles from class handouts:

Racial Justice Groups Organize Against the War BY TOMIO GERON ;
Commentary: War Hits Home for US Women  BY Clarissa Rojas, Margo Okazawa-Rey and Marisol Arriola
From Sept. 02 issue - read 9-11 One Year Later - graphs and short articles -
http://www.war-times.org/backissues/5art6.html

The War Abroad:  U.S. Military Around the World (Map); The Costs of “Permanent War”; By the Numbers; Timeline; and
The War At Home:  Bush Attacks the Constitution; & Spies in the ’Hood (Operation TIPS)

Wed
Kent Wong's APALA article &
E. San Juan Jr.'s article on the predicament of Pilipinos in the US

Friday
E. San Juan Jr.'s article on the predicament of Pilipinos in the US &
Don Mar/Chalsa Loo piece on Research and Asian American Studies

• Class Discussion Readings - goal - allow group members to 1) summarize main points of readings; 2) lead the class with several discussion questions drawing from the readings
• Groups 6 & 7 responsible for leading a discussion on Margaretta Lin/Cheng Im Tan's piece on domestic violence [likely for friday 10/25]
• Groups 4 & 5 responsible for leading a discussion on Kent Wong's APALA article  [likely for fri 10/25 or mon 10/28]
• Groups 2 & 3 responsible for leading a discussion on E. San Juan Jr.'s article on the predicament of Pilipinos in the US - this is a difficult article... [likely for mon 10/28 or wed 10/30]
• Group 1 responsible for leading a discussion on E-RESERVE READING by Don Mar/Chalsa Loo piece on Research and Asian American Studies  [likely for wed 10/30 or fri 11/1]  http://eres.sfsu.edu/ class password is 'servethepeople'

Week of 10/21 - 10/25

• pls try to catch up with readings - esp. e-reserve readings - E-reserves - password= servethepeople
• Empowerment and democracy for Asian Americans in the 1990's (Omatsu, D.);  and
• Community organizing (CPA)
• those that haven't seen it yet - view Fall of the I-Hotel [curtis choy] in the library.
• for monday 10/21 - Reflection Papers returned -
• read e-reserves - E-reserves - password= servethepeople
• How to be heard -- a guide to advocacy for community organizations (Center for Community Change)
• from the text book sonia shah's article on asian american feminism - Presenting a Blue Goddess: Toward a National Pan-Asian Feminist Agenda pp. 147
• for wed 10/23 - read margaretta lin and cheng im tan's piece on domestic violence and asian americans- Holding up More than Half the Heavens: Domestic Violence in our Communities, A Call for Justice - pp. 321
• for Wed 10/23 we will have a guest speaker - Burton Li of War Times
• you might want to review the wartimes.com website and previous readings on 911, the upcoming war and asian americans for this discussion
• for Friday 10/25 - read kent wong on labor and asian americans - Building an Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance:  A New Chapter in our History pp. 335

Week 1 Assignments
Week 2 Assignments [9/2 - 9/9]

9/9 - 9/13
DUE 9/9 - online readings above
DUE 9/11 -  Media Literacy Reading  - http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~ericmar/medialiteracy911.html
DUE 9/13 - read intro to course text

9/16-9/20
Glenn Omatsu article from the course text - pp. 19-67
Omatsu E-reserve readings on "Empowerment and democracy for Asian Americans in the 1990's" - http://eres.sfsu.edu/ - password = servethepeople
DUE FRI 9/20 - MEDIA LITERACY ASSNMT - details given in class

9/23-9/27
NOTE: The 2 short articles From Colorlines - Spring 2002 and December 2001 - are now posted in the electronic reserves - READ THEM!
1.  The War at Home - Jane Bai and Eric Tang of CAAAV [Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence]
2.  For War and Workers - Julie Quiroz-Martínez of CTWO [Center for Third World Organizing]
for both articles go to library electronic reserves http://eres.sfsu.edu/ - [under instructor's name -  password 'servethepeople']

READ by 9/23 -
Edward Chang - America's First Multiracial Riots -  - pp. 101 - 117

READ by 9/25 -
E-reserves materials on "rodney king" http://eres.sfsu.edu/ - password = servethepeople

•  CPA demands justice for King (CPA)
•  Koreans for social justice (Lee, S.)
•  Statement of Bay Area Asian organizations

READ by 9/27 -
Mil Cho - Overcoming our legacy as cheap labor, scabs, and model minorities cho-  pp. 253-272

Eric's Handout re Friday group project - LA Civil Unrest - Popular Education Exercise

9/30-10/4
Monday 9/30 - continue Rodney King/LA Unrest solutions

READ THESE LINKED ARTICLES  by Wed 10/2-

ON MABEL TENG -

Mabel Teng's biography
1990 Article from Gidra - The Challenge of Asian Empowerment - Mabel Teng
1998 Bay Guardian Critique of Teng
1998 responses from supporters
Mabel's Assessor Race info

NOTE:  No Class Meeting on Friday 10/4 - work on assignments

DUE MONDAY 10/7 - Reflection 1 Assignment

For Wednesday 10/9/02 - Read Peter Kiang article from Text

Read 4-part framework from Electronic reserves http://eres.sfsu.edu/ class password is 'servethepeople'
For Friday 10/11 & Monday 10/14 - readings [focus - how do community groups serve, advocate for, and organize people? - organizations: AAU in Philly, CPA in Boston, IHTA, SOMAD & Manilatown Heritage Foundation in SF]

1.    Philadelphia - Asian Americans United - Campaign Against the Stadium

Philly Chinatown Beats Back a Stadium! - Debbie Wei and Ellen Somekawa  from Freedom Road #1 - Spring 2001
AAU press release re No Stadium Campaign

2.    SF - International Hotel [I-Hotel]/Manilatown/Chinatown

Our Past - Manilatown Heritage Foundation
Resurrection of the I-Hotel  from Asian Week - Neela Banerjee - June 8, 2001
Victory for the I-Hotel - Michael Liu  Asian American Revolutionary Ezine

3.    BOSTON - Liberty Place, Parcel C Campaigns to protect Chinatown

Campaign to Protect Chinatown
Liberty Place Campaign Fact Sheet
Parcel C campaign fact sheet
Parcel C - update
BOSTON CHINATOWN DEMANDS "RESPECT THE MASTER PLAN!" by Kye Leung - April 2002 Bulletin - Campaign to Protect Chinatown

  AAS 680 Community Events Assignement - Not DUE until end of November