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Advancing Justice | AAJC Marks Inaugural AAPI Day Against Bullying and Hate
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Washington, D.C. – Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC marks the inaugural AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) Day Against Bullying and Hate. May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, and May 18 is the birthday of Vincent Chin, who was brutally murdered in a hate crime in 1982. His murder fueled a national Asian American activist movement. As the movement continues, we are seeing a staggering rise in bullying, discrimination, and hate crimes in an increasingly anti-immigrant and xenophobic climate.
In the context of our census work, data disaggregation refers to the collection and reporting of data by detailed Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander subgroups. By producing disaggregated data for detailed groups, you can always combine the data to produce summarized data on the entire group. However, the reverse is not true. You cannot get detailed data from aggregated data. And without accurate data by detailed race group, some of the most disadvantaged in our communities are rendered invisible to policy makers, leaving their critical needs unmet.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Condemns Terrorist Attack on Muslim Worshippers in New Zealand
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Washington, DC — March 15, 2019 — Today in Christchurch, New Zealand, at least 49 of our Muslim brothers and sisters were killed while worshipping by a white supremacist in a terrorist attack and many more were injured.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice, an affiliation of five civil rights organizations, issues the following statement:
Hillary Clinton said that she kept hot sauce in her bag when she was interviewed on black talk radio in April 2016.
WASHINGTON — Ed Case was feeling loose last week when the words slipped out.
The newly elected congressman from Hawaii was giving a speech at the Renaissance Hotel in downtown Washington, D.C., as part of a celebration of the November victories of his Asian American and Pacific Islander colleagues.
Case is white, but he represents a majority-minority congressional district.
It felt like he was speaking to a comfortable crowd, one that looked a lot like those he might address back home. That’s when he said it.
“I’m an Asian trapped in a white body.”
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Denounces White House Fiscal Year 2020 Budget
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WASHINGTON, D.C. ― The White House budget released yesterday includes a drastic increase in immigration detention and deportation funding while significantly cutting funding across the board for domestic programs vital to community health and stability.
An annual FBI report released last month showed there were seven hate crime offenses last year motivated by religious bias against Sikhs. But critics of the report say the data can be unreliable because it depends on law enforcement voluntarily reporting hate crime figures to the FBI.
Flyers with xenophobic messages have been making the rounds in Edison, New Jersey, angering residents.
People in the township received the anonymous mailers this week. They feature the photos of two Asian-American school board candidates, Jerry Shi and Falguni Patel, with the word “deport” stamped atop both pictures. The ads also claim that “The Chinese and Indians are taking over our town!”