Anti-Asian Racism: Solidarity Is Our Survival

#BuildingSolidarity#StopAsianHate
Written By With Chloe Studio

In response to the ongoing anti-Asian hate and the most recent tragic shootings in Atlanta, Georgia which killed eight people at three different spas including six Asian women, join the People’s Collective for Justice and Liberation for an Anti-Asian Racism Town Hall: Solidarity Is Our Survival on Saturday, March 27, 2021 from 10:00am-12:00pm hst / 1:00pm - 3:00 pm pst / 3:00pm - 5:00pm cst / 4:00pm - 6:00 pm est.  

Together, we will join Asian American organizers, and other people of color we are in community with to provide historical context of white supremacy cis heteropatriarchy, especially in the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and engage in meaningful dialogue on why anti-Asian racism continues to happen as well as provide solutions and action items including local groups and campaigns to support on the ground.  The town hall will also offer moments for collective healing.

This town hall comes timely as it’s exactly one year since the People’s Collective for Justice and Liberation’s first town hall Anti-Asian Racism: Race, Struggle and Solidarity in The Time of a Global Pandemic which gathered more than 7,000 registrants on Zoom, over 34,000 viewers across all social media channels and had the hashtag #AntiAsianRacism trending in the US.

In one of our past town halls, one of our prominent and fierce speakers, Linda Sarsour, shared with us that “solidarity is our survival” which trended on live tweets across the globe.  The sentiment of solidarity is a statement that resonates powerfully through each of our town halls as it is part of our analysis that we need to build solidarity in order to attain freedom for all oppressed peoples.

SPEAKERS

  • Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, Highlander Center; M4BL

  • DJ AkikoLUV, Breathwork for Recovery

  • Edgar Fabián Frías, Contemporary Artist

  • Jamila Aisha, WPN Power

  • JM Wong, Massage Parlor Outreach Project (MPOP)

  • Kabzuag Vaj, Freedom Inc.

  • Leialoha Kaula, Ka Lei Haliʻa O Ka Lokelani; Ka ʻAha Lāhui O ʻOlekona Hawaiian Civic Club

  • Lydia X. Z. Brown, Fund for Community Reparations for Autistic People of Color's Interdependence, Survival, & Empowerment

  • Mayma Garvey, Alakaʻi of Ka Lei Halia O Ka Lokelani

  • Rosa Alicia Clemente, Know Thy Self Productions

  • Suraiya Sharker, NAPAWF GA

 

ORGANIZATIONAL CO-SPONSORS

  • 18 Million Rising

  • AAPIs for Civic Empowerment Education Fund

  • API Chaya

  • Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO

  • Asian Pacific Islander Community Actions

  • Asian Solidarity Collective

  • Ballot Initiative Strategy Center

  • Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies

  • Can’t Stop! Won’t Stop! Consulting

  • Indigenous Environmental Network

  • Empowering Pacific Islander Communities

  • Freedom Inc. 

  • The Gathering for Justice

  • Highlander Research and Education Center

  • Justice League NYC | CA

  • Ka ʻAha Lāhui O ʻOlekona Hawaiian Civic Club o Oregon a me SW Washington

  • Ka Lei Haliʻa O Ka Lokelani

  • Massage Parlor Organizing Project

  • Movement for Black Lives

  • Pillars of the Community 

  • The People’s Collective for Justice and Liberation

  • Release MN8

  • Sacramento API Regional Network

  • Transgender Law Center

  • United We Dream

  • University of Connecticut Asian and Asian American Studies Institute

  • WPN Power

 

THIS TOWN HALL WAS ON

Saturday, March 27, 2021

 

TOWN HALL RECORDING

Captions for the recordings are in progress.

 

TRANSCRIPTS

Download transcripts for this town hall.

Word Docs —

Google Docs —

 

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