President Obama has asked Homeland Security to wait till fall for its deportation review. But our families and friends can’t wait. - CM
Don’t get me wrong. We love bunnies, and don’t think ANY animals should suffer. But we also recently learned that Gap Inc.’s shareholders approved a plan to stop using angora rabbit fur in clothes. Yet they can’t find it in themselves to compensate victims of the Aswad Composite Mills fire?
Right.
http://gapdoesmore.com/
Right.
http://gapdoesmore.com/
Found the video of this interview (part 2, 3, 4, 5) with Dr. Maya Angelou via Colorlines. The best way to remember a writer and intellectual is in her own words.
The pressure on me, the challenge on me, was always mitigated by love. That is to say it was softened by love because my grandmother loved me, my uncle loved me, and my brother loved me. I came through that. I have come through so many challenges because of love.
What an incredible woman, what an incredible life. Rest in power.
Is the UCSB shooting is a teachable moment for Asian America?
“mi·so·gy·li·ni·ty”: [noun] masculinity defined by the objectified ownership of female sexuality.
Yeah, it’s a made up word (courtesy of Jenn at Reappropriate). But it’s also the disturbing thread between Friday’s UCSB shooting and the fringe of the project combatting Asian American stereotypical emasculation:
-MTP
Slate.com recently published a map of the most-spoken languages in the U.S. after English and Spanish, and political science professor Karthick Ramakrishnan generated his own at AAPIvoices.com, including maps showing the most-commonly-spoken languages of U.S. residents who don’t speak English fluently. Readers wanted to know more about the datasets, and the uses, of maps like these. Join 18MillionRising and AAPIVoices for a discussion about Census data, data journalism, and how policy and public opinion is formed by by the maps we share.
Tune in at http://bit.ly/aapimaps, and share your questions and feedback on Twitter with #AAPIvoices!
Panelists:
Ben Blatt, Staff Writer, Slate.com (@benblatt)
Terry Ao Minnis, Director of Census & Voting Programs, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-AAJC (@AAAJ_AAJC)
Karthick Ramakrishnan, Professor of Political Science, UC Riverside (@karthickr)
Moderated by Cayden Mak (@cayden)
Tune in at http://bit.ly/aapimaps, and share your questions and feedback on Twitter with #AAPIvoices!
Panelists:
Ben Blatt, Staff Writer, Slate.com (@benblatt)
Terry Ao Minnis, Director of Census & Voting Programs, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-AAJC (@AAAJ_AAJC)
Karthick Ramakrishnan, Professor of Political Science, UC Riverside (@karthickr)
Moderated by Cayden Mak (@cayden)
A Victory For Chinatown Workers’ Rights
Yes, garment sweatshops still exist in the US. But in NYC, @AALDEF is working to bring them down.
A recent decision awarded 13 Manhattan Chinatown garment workers over $1.2 million in damages for unpaid wages.
Read more: http://bit.ly/1hapQ09
-MTP
The story of cup ramen is actually a story about Cold War geopolitics. Tasty, tasty geopolitics. - CM
I always assumed that Memorial Day was a holiday invented by the government to drum up patriotic feelings (and give us a nice day off as it’s getting to be summer). Turns out, the first Memorial Day was a grassroots effort. (via the Zinn Education Project)
“We have taken our eyes off the ball, so to speak, and we have yet to realize my grandmother’s dream of equitable educational opportunities for all children regardless of race or income or economic circumstances.” - Lucinda Noches Talbert, granddaughter of Linda Brown
Youngist’s Muna Mire went to Topeka last weekend for the 60th anniversary of Brown v Board of Education. - CM