AAS 680 - Fall 2002

Week 2 [9/2-9/11/02]
For Monday 9/9 & 9/11 - READINGS

YURI KOCHIYAMA on 9-11

Brief Executive Summary of National Asian Pacific Legal Consortium's 2002 report: Backlash: When America Turned On Its Own
http://www.napalc.org/literature/annual_report/9-11_report.htm

HATE BACKLASH - More explicit examples of the incidents, Asian Pacific American Legal Center 10/1/01

New Dangers for Immigrants - P. 12-13 [From Mapping the Immigrant Infrastructure, Executive Summary, Applied Research Center Spring 2002]
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3 short articles From Colorlines - Spring 2002 and December 2001 -
1.  The War at Home - Jane Bai and Eric Tang of CAAAV -
2.  For War and Workers - Julie Quiroz-Martínez of CTWO
for both articles go to library electronic reserves http://eres.sfsu.edu/ - [under instructor's name -  password 'servethepeople']

3.  From Dec. 2001 Colorlines - Challenges of the New Terrain by Francis Calpotura  http://www.arc.org/C_Lines/CLArchive/story2001_12_01.html
Japantown Peace Vigil Shows Unity in Face of Terrorist, Hate Attacks, Nichi Bei Times, Kenji G. Taguma, September 24, 2001

Yuri Kochiyama on A History of Linkage [Asian Americans and African Americans] - from Hardboiled [UCB]

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Extra readings, resources, etc. -

Good list of various Asian American organizations' statements re 9-11 and the WAR on Terrorism -  http://www.aamovement.net/911.html

From Colorlines - The Slippery Slope of Racial Profiling by Nicole Davis http://www.arc.org/C_Lines/CLArchive/story2001_12_05.html
From Colorlines -Detained or Disappeared? by Tram Nguyen, ColorLines Executive Editor  http://www.arc.org/C_Lines/CLArchive/story5_2_03.html

WEBSITES OF ORGANIZATIONS -
APICAW (Asian Pacific Islander Coalition Against theWar) is a coalition of individuals and organizations from Asian and Pacific Islander communities of the Bay Area. We believe that true peace and security can only come through global justice. Working in solidarity with other anti-war groups and community organizations, our mission is to build an anti-war and anti-interventionists movement that upholds the sovereignty and human rights of opporessed people within the US and abroad.

ASATA (The Alliance of South Asians Taking Action) works to educate, organize, and empower the Bay Area South Asian communities to end violence, oppression, racism and exploitation within and against our diverse communities.

DRUM (Desis Rising Up & Moving) is a community-based social justice organization of working class and poor South Asians immigrants in New York City founded in 1999. Our mission is to organize low-income South Asian immigrant for racial, economic, and social justice on critical local struggles and their global roots.

WOMEN OF COLOR RESOURCE CENTER - Bay Area Events listings     http://www.coloredgirls.org/proj/antiwar/events.cfm

911 Events -