Swatting the WASPY.gov

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We featured Don Nakanisi, director of the Asian American Studies Center last quarter in our feature story: Activism Through Education.  Nakanishi has a great interview in an AP story on Salon.com titled: Asian-American Political Profile Rising in the U.S. “Many people of Asian descent have stepped beyond their national identities to develop a pan-Asian perspective,…

Hate Crimes Awareness

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According to a report by The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, on a national level, 46.3 percent of 11,430 offenses that occurred within the single-bias incidents were motivated by racial bias in 2001.                                                     -NewAmericanMedia.org According to recent reports, hate crime has been decreasing, but hate crimes towards AAPIs have been on the rise.  That’s why…