…successful food campaign on Indiegogo, reports L.A. Eater. https://twitter.com/RidingShotgunLA/status/578302379788906498 Choi and Patterson first launched their crowdfunding campaign in January in order to provide affordable, nutritious and locally-sourced fast food to…
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Viral Video Alert: UN Creates Bollywood Music Video Promoting LGBT Rights
…doesn’t love good Bollywood? In fact, this music video, produced by the United Nations’ Free & Equal Campaign, has already picked up more than 2 million views since being uploaded…
North Korea Publicly Acknowledges Existence Of Labor Camps for the First Time
…rights, and expressing even pro forma interest in dialogue,” Greg Scarlatoiu, executive director of the Washington-based Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, said in an email. “The North Korean…
APAHM 2018: Workers’ Rights Advocate Aquilina Soriano-Versoza On Community Empowerment
…communities — immigrants, minorities, the poor — being exploited and denied their rights. So she joined the picket lines demanding change, got involved with student activism organizations, got arrested boycotting,…
Amid UN Scrutiny of Its Human Rights Record, NKorea Lodges Rape Allegation at Activist Shin Dong-hyuk
by STEVE HAN In what appears to be a stab at character assassination, the North Korean government accused North Korean defector and human rights activist Shin Dong-hyuk of rape, stating…
American Sikhs Have Launched An Ad Campaign To Advocate Against Hate
Soon, ads pushing back against hate on American Sikhs will hit airwaves. Leaders and families in the U.S. Sikh community have launched a campaign, “We are Sikhs,” in the face…
Friday’s Link Attack: CancelColbert Campaign; Girls’ Generation Interview; Yuna Kim’s Record Broken
…so much today, because of the issue: On the other end of the video link was Suey Park, the Korean-American Twitter hashtag activist who drew recognition from her campaign #NotYourAsianSidekick….
David Ryu Sets Sights on City Council Seat
…City Hall, Ryu in early April pledged to reject campaign donations from developers who are planning projects in the district, including returning nine donations totaling $4,300 to his campaign. For…
Fighting for Our Rights
…reporter covering civil rights, hate crimes and immigration issues—all represent areas that the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (the whole name) embraced as advocates for a community often referred to…
Prominent Seattle Civil Rights Advocate Alan Sugiyama Dies At 67
A prominent Asian American Seattle community and civil rights activist died Monday at the age of 67 after a public two-year battle with cancer. Alan Sugiyama, an outspoken advocate for…
APAHM 2018: Doreena Wong On a Lifetime in Civil Rights Advocacy
…rights and racial justice organizations, and project director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice’s Health Access Project, which helps Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders gain access to health care through outreach,…
Didn’t Get Into Harvard? Maybe It’s Because You’re Asian, Anti-Affirmative Action Campaign Suggests
…wrong race.” (Tell that to Mom!) As Colorlines argues in this well-reported piece, the campaign seems like a blatant attempt to convince Asian Americans that they’re victims of their own…
Submit Your Home Movies to CAAM’s Memories to Light Campaign
…media such as the “Suzy Wongs,” houseboys and ninjas that have dominated the mainstream culture for far too long,” CAAM points out in their Memories to Light Campaign page. If…
Words Can Be Weapons: Powerful Chinese Campaign Links Teenage Crime to Emotional Abuse
…so they did. “Words Can Be Weapons,” a multimedia campaign based in China, interviewed six teenagers in Shenyang Detention Center. During these interviews, the teenagers revealed the harsh words that…
Tao Okamoto and Boyfriend Tenzin Wild in Banana Republic’s New Campaign
…Look of Banana Republic” campaign, under the direction of newly appointed creative director and EVP of design, Korean American Marissa Webb. The campaign, which has just been released, features “effortless…
