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05/19/17

Chinese Couplets – with filmmaker Felicia Lowe

Part memoir, part history, part investigation, Chinese Couplets is the filmmaker’s search for answers about her mother’s emigration to America during the Chinese Exclusion era. The film reveals the often painful price paid by immigrants who abandoned their personal identity, the burden of silence they passed on to their off spring and the inter-generational strife between immigrants and their American born children.

03/01/17

Asian American Day Laborers Are A Visible Sign of Poverty

Asian Americans have the highest rate of poverty than any other group in the Big Apple, according to New York City.

27 percent of New York City’s Asian American population lives in poverty. Yet only 1 percent of the state funding goes to combat that poverty. Adult literacy programs are desperately needed, but only a minuscule percentage of the population gets it.

But according to white people, Asian people are the richest people in the world! Right. See what happens when white America spreads false information? Actual, poor Asian Americans (and Asian immigrants) can’t get the financial help or assistance they need to survive. These Asian folks need help and currently, they will do anything just to make something. I’m not sure how to help myself but it says they need funding for adult programs.

01/30/17

Southeast Asian Group Opposes Trump’s Executive Order, Stands ‘Proud As Refugees’

Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC), a D.C.-based nonprofit, recently called on people to support all refugees in defiance of Trump‘s order which not only bans visitors from several Muslim-majority countries, but also blocks Syrian refugees from entering the country.

“As Southeast Asian Americans, we stand proud as refugees, as children of refugees, and as Americans to denounce these Executive Orders that attack, not protect, the very best of our country’s values,” the group said in a press release, just before the action was even signed.

01/31/17

Indian American Leaders Come Out Strongly Against Trump Travel Ban

New Zealand is one of the best countries to live and work in and has a very refined immigration program for skilled people from across the world.