Racial Justice
Dear fellow Asian Americans,
Modern day Ku Klux Klan members marched through Charlottesville this past weekend, emboldened, in their own words, by our current President. They lacked hoods but if anyone doubted their intentions, they carried torches and Nazi and Confederate flags to ensure the world knew what they stood for: white supremacy, white power, and nativism. They came ostensibly to protect and promote Confederate history, but took clear aim at African Americans, immigrants, and the civil rights movements of the past and present.
SEATTLE, Wash. – Marcus Choi was walking his dogs in the Bitter Lake neighborhood in North Seattle when he heard a man shouting behind him. “I turn around and he’s right up in my space with his forehead on mine,” Choi said, recalling the incident. “And then he’s yelling at me, he’s like, ‘You’re going to prison just like all the rest of you and your passports are gonna be taken away.’”
The man’s verbal abuse continued. As Choi, who is Korean American, shouted back at him, the man’s demeanor became more alarming.
Advancing Justice Condemns the Acts of Terror and Hate Displayed By White Supremacists
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Washington, D.C. — August 13, 2017 — The world witnessed a domestic act of terror and an ugly display of hate as white supremacists marched in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend. Yesterday, white nationalists turned their violent message into action as a driver plowed into a crowd of anti-racism counter protesters, killing one person and injuring several others.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice (Advancing Justice), an affiliation of five civil rights organizations, issues the following statement:
Advancing Justice Condemns Minnesota Mosque Bombing As Hate Attack
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Washington, D.C. — On August 5, 2017, a bomb was detonated at the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, an incident that was declared “an act of terrorism” by Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton. No one was hurt in the blast, and the FBI is determining whether the attack was a hate crime. The bombing took place on the fifth anniversary of the Oak Creek Massacre, an attack on a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin in which a shooter killed six community members and wounded four others.
Advancing Justice Condemns Administration’s Use of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division to Further Its Anti-Civil Rights Goals
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Washington, D.C. — The White House is preparing to commit resources of the U.S. Department of Justice’s civil rights division to investigate and sue universities over their affirmative action policies. The Trump administration’s new project will threaten decades of progress in civil rights, which have provided tremendous benefits to Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and other minority groups.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice (Advancing Justice), an affiliation of five civil rights organizations, issues the following statement:
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Strongly Opposes Anti-Immigrant Bill to Slash Greencards and End Family Immigration
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, President Trump announced support for Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Senator David Perdue’s (R-GA) updated restrictionist anti-immigrant bill, the RAISE Act, that would upend the immigration system to further a white nationalist agenda and move the country in the wrong direction.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice issued the following statement in response to this harmful proposal:
America Should Have Pride in Transgender Service Members
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Washington, D.C. – July 27, 2017 – Today, the Asian Americans Advancing Justice (Advancing Justice) affiliation responded to the latest developments in the Trump Administration’s announcement that it will ban people who are transgender from the military.
Advancing Justice, an affiliation of five civil rights organizations, issued the following statement:
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Opposes the Nomination of Eric Dreiband to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division
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Washington, D.C. — Last week, President Trump nominated Eric Dreiband for the position of Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice.
In response to this latest nomination by the administration, Asian Americans Advancing Justice (Advancing Justice), a national affiliation of five civil rights organizations, releases the following statement:
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that The Slants, an Asian American rock band, has the right to use its name even if some consider it a slur.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Warns of Divisive Tactics in Recent Attacks on Muslims
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Washington, D.C. — Asian Americans Advancing Justice (Advancing Justice), an affiliation of five civil rights organizations, is deeply disturbed over the latest attacks on Muslims and attempts to use the incidents to divide communities of color and further contribute to the criminalization of immigrants.