tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37172486403112721182024-03-05T18:29:44.559-08:00Asian American Movement 1968Welcome to the Asian American Movement 40th Anniversary collection from the archives of the Asian Community Center (once located on Kearny St. in San Francisco). We focus on 1968 because that year was the beginning point for the Asian American movement. 1968 witnessed world changing events and many Asian Americans responded to make the world a better place for humanity.
This project is sponsored by the Asian Community Center History Group. Email project at ewbbinfo@yahoo.comUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717248640311272118.post-75266099124699773782008-02-29T23:49:00.001-08:002008-03-10T08:08:02.020-07:00STAND UP! Bay Area Asian American Movement 1968-1974<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNGtGp-uw2oNuZ-L9PoJmUU3g6IeGRWc0YhaQGbZ7oHo_x2y8Jz4XGrEo5HffUkiomIOTDdUhOJbv_5JtyOvmitdWgwwEtizAukF73rgDnKNAf_qdIDJ33E0JI7ZZVL3yL8ZTxKbyg8Myu/s1600-h/stand+up+cover+hair.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNGtGp-uw2oNuZ-L9PoJmUU3g6IeGRWc0YhaQGbZ7oHo_x2y8Jz4XGrEo5HffUkiomIOTDdUhOJbv_5JtyOvmitdWgwwEtizAukF73rgDnKNAf_qdIDJ33E0JI7ZZVL3yL8ZTxKbyg8Myu/s320/stand+up+cover+hair.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176129865047102066" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br />AAPA at 1968 Greek Theater UCB Anti-War Rally<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717248640311272118.post-9541008884091490692008-01-20T19:33:00.000-08:002016-11-27T12:21:02.778-08:00Introduction to the Asian American Movement 1968<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You had to be there, sensing the world turning upside down.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It wasn't remote or academic at all. <o:p></o:p></div>
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On our TVs and in our newspapers we witnessed Asian faces rising up to finish off the latest colonial occupation. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>An entire quarter of humanity, <o:p></o:p></div>
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once dismissed as clinging to a colorful past <o:p></o:p></div>
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while waiting for some foreign missionary power to take it under its protection, <o:p></o:p></div>
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had now stood up, <o:p></o:p></div>
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an enormous Red banner of self-determination. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Every American guy graduating high school stared right into the gun barrel of the military draft <o:p></o:p></div>
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and had to decide for himself what the world was about <o:p></o:p></div>
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and where he stood in it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Political assassinations that shocked the nation and sparked frightening riots happened right here in our own cities. <o:p></o:p></div>
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There was no irony in a militant Black Power salute <o:p></o:p></div>
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Then, as now, oppression breeds resistance. In the spirit of those tumultuous times, we present this collection. From these stories, old photos and artifacts we see stepping stones being laid down for advancing the peoples' causes still being fought. Our corner of the world was the San Francisco Bay Area and we begin in 1968.<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: rgb(153 , 0 , 0); font-weight: bold;">Asian Community Center History Group Project</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span> The Asian Community Center History Group put together this collection of reprinted newspaper articles, mimeographed pamphlets and black and white photographs from the period. We hope to document this unique movement by letting the reader peruse the original writings and concerns of that time. Our collection was donated from the personal keepsakes of many individuals who saved the materials for forty years, preserving their collections for historical value. The contents of the reprinted materials have been duplicated for the reader. Where possible, the original pieces were digitized for viewing as well. Understandably, the majority of the content is about the development of the <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Asian</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Community Center</st1:placetype></st1:place> on <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Kearny Street</st1:address></st1:street>, as it reflects our personal interests in the history project. A large portion is from the AAPA newspapers and Wei Min Bao.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The project also reprinted a few articles from the Japanese American movement newspapers to bring attention to the important struggles in Japantown, though these organizations were not affiliated with ACC.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Other sources of reprints are from the Berkeley Barb, San Francisco Journal, Kalayaan, Red Guard Bulletin, Getting Together, New Dawn, Rodan newspapers. We've included these and other unaffiliated sources in order to give the reader a sampling of the wide range of voices during the period.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We hope that the material will be useful for those who were touched by this era and wish to examine more in depth its significance. And we hope that new generations can find value in examining the past to serve the present.<o:p></o:p><br />
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The Asian American movement began in the late 1960s and early 1970s during one of the most tumultuous eras in post-WW2 history. In the Bay Area, the Year 1968 marked a wave of Asian American activity. Three distinct Bay Area events earmarked the beginning of this local movement.<o:p></o:p><br />
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1. The 1968 formation of the Asian American Political Alliance in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Berkeley</st1:place></st1:city>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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2. The 1968 <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">San Francisco</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">State</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place> and 1969 UC Berkeley Third World Liberation Strikes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(153 , 0 , 0);">3. The International Hotel tenants’ first eviction notice in December 1968.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The Asian American movement began amidst national and worldwide turmoil. The Vietnam War, the Civil Rights and the Black Power movements were major factors in profoundly influencing large numbers of Asian Americans to question the nature of American democracy. Revolutions throughout the underdeveloped Third World, and <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s Cultural Revolution fueled a rebellious militancy among Asian American youth. Labor struggles like the United Farm Workers Union strike drew many into support for working people rights. Youth worldwide were rocking to new rebel music and lifestyles which broke with convention. The Free Speech Movement which began in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Berkeley</st1:place></st1:city> in 1964 rejuvenated the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech. And worldwide, women fought for equal rights.<o:p></o:p><br />
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In 1968, Asian American civil rights and anti-war activists turned their attention to the specific needs of the Asian American population in the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>. The Asian American Political Alliance (AAPA) in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Berkeley</st1:place></st1:city> became the first organization to use “Asian American”, a new concept in contrast to the conventional term “Oriental.” Before AAPA, Asian Americans had been mostly divided into separate ethnic organizations such as Chinese American Citizens Alliance (CACA), or Japanese American Citizens League (JACL). <o:p></o:p></div>
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The term “Asian American” became a unifying force among the different Asian ethnic groups. AAPA helped open an avenue of activism for many Asian Americans who later took part in the social transformations of the period, including the Third World Liberation Front Strikes at San Francisco State University (SFSU) and <st1:place st="on"><st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename st="on">California Berkeley</st1:placename></st1:place> campus (UCB). AAPA chapters quickly sprouted throughout the <st1:country-region st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> as well, including <st1:city st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city>, <st1:state st="on">New York</st1:state>, and <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Hawaii</st1:place></st1:state>.<o:p></o:p><br />
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The formation of the Third World Liberation Fronts in <st1:city st="on">San Francisco</st1:city> and <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Berkeley</st1:place></st1:city> were unprecedented coalitions of Black, Chicano, Asian, and Native American students. The TWLF demands for relevant ethnic-communities studies proposed innovative curriculum programs, minority admissions and staffing reforms. For the first time in history, racial minorities maintained their alliance for many months, enduring arrests, injuries, and tear gas until their demands were won. Many of the demands won have been maintained for forty years by the Ethnic Studies departments and divisions.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Shortly after the period of organizing students to struggle for the establishment of various Asian American Studies programs on the college campuses, student activism extended into the surrounding communities. This took the form of establishing community centers and organizations that focused on “Serve the people” programs. In the San Francisco Bay Area, Asian American activists opened a number of centers. In <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">San Francisco</st1:place></st1:city>, this included the Asian Community Center (ACC), Asian Legal Services (ALS), Chinese Progressive Association (CPA), International Hotel Tenants Association (IHTA), Japanese Community Youth Center (JCYC), and Kearny Street Workshop (KSW).<o:p></o:p><br />
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Much different from campus life, community activism addressed the local needs and conditions of the Asian American communities. As the movement became grounded in local conditions, grassroots leadership and participation grew.<o:p></o:p><br />
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A pivotal point for the Bay Area Asian American movement was the struggle against the eviction of the International Hotel tenants in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">San Francisco</st1:place></st1:city>. The International Hotel began as a local fight between a financial district developer and mostly Filipino and Chinese residents living within the Manilatown area adjacent to <st1:place st="on">Chinatown</st1:place>. But within this local background were multiple levels of power that represented globalization—in the form of Bay Area Regional master plans and <st1:place st="on">Pacific Rim</st1:place> development. These forces had already destroyed most of Manilatown and were eliminating many existing housing units in the adjoining <st1:place st="on">Chinatown</st1:place> (mostly bachelor hotel rooms), replacing them with office high-rise buildings, hotels, and retail spaces. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Similarly, redevelopment-related issues were focal points of protest in other Asian American communities. In S.F. Japantown, the Committee Against Nihonmachi Evictions (CANE), consisting of the J-Town Collective and community individuals, emerged to address the needs of residents and small businesses. CANE became involved in supporting low-income affordable housing issues and protests against destruction of residential and small business districts. It had a membership base of over 300 residents who were discontented over the direction of the redevelopment largely owned by Japanese multinational corporations.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717248640311272118.post-15720719661122475262008-01-17T14:33:00.000-08:002008-06-03T02:35:54.463-07:00Third World Student Strikes at SFSU & UCB 1968-1969<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">“On strike, shut it down!”<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> In 1968-69, African American, Asian American, Chicano and Native American students at San Francisco State College and <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename st="on">California</st1:placename>, <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Berkeley</st1:place></st1:city> organized campus coalitions known as the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF). </span><span style=";font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;">TWLF led student strikes demanded the establishment of Third World Colleges comprised of departments of Asian American, African American, Chicano and Native American Studies.</span><span style=";font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Significance of these strikes were twofold:</span><span style=";font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;">first, minority student were able to unite in solidarity against institutional racism and second, the strikes won the formation of Ethnic Studies programs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> The concept<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> "</span><st1:place style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" st="on">Third World</st1:place><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"</span> </span>provided a common basis of unity for the TWLF student activists. <span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>The term identified parallel colonial and racial experiences of minorities throughout <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> history.<span style=""> </span>Examples of common racial oppression included: genocide of the native Indians, enslavement of Africans, colonization of Chicanos in the Southwest, and the passage of Asian immigration exclusion. This past was linked with the history of Western colonization in the Third World countries of Asia, Africa and <st1:place st="on">Latin America</st1:place>.<span style=""> </span>The international movements for independence and self-determination in those locales were viewed as related to the demands of U.S. Third World minorities for political power.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> Strike tactics involved informational picketing, blocking of campus entrances, mass rallies and teach-ins.</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Popular support was often met with repression in the form of police arrests, teargas and campus disciplinary actions.</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Police mutual assistance pacts enabled the rapid formations of riot squads dispatched from throughout the SF Bay area.</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">During the Fall and Spring semesters of 1968-9, hundreds of students were arrested during the SF State strike, including more than 450 on one sweep alone. Similarly, over 155 students were arrested at the UC Berkeley strike which lasted the entire Winter Quarter of 1969. In the last two weeks of the dispute, the UC campus witnessed the stationing of National Guard troops to maintain martial law.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> Establishment of ethnic studies programs has been one of the chief legacies of the strike. These programs have expanded nationally in over 250 universities, colleges and high schools. Both UC Berkeley and SF State University provide undergraduate and graduate degree programs in Ethnic Studies.</span><span style=";font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Another important legacy of the strikes involved the establishment of closer working relationship between students and community.</span><span style=";font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The post-TWLF era witnessed large numbers of Asian American students becoming involved in community-based organizing efforts within the Asian American movement.</span><span style=";font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The International Hotel anti-eviction movement and the establishment of community centers in San Francisco Chinatown-Manilatown and Japantown were an outgrowth of this legacy.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717248640311272118.post-65137787418367130212008-01-16T16:54:00.000-08:002008-04-27T03:35:58.735-07:00Foreign Students Statement (Daily Cal April 18, 1967)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHgWKm9ZgPNHX_0THx6Bb4jo9NXfdtzleGjlkpYWvTd4V0ppe6WftO0zQW-JHHnCxCKmI9XAi6ZRoHUEutsi6iflOHR92sIwGPYFy24aC5hqcui7Zm61pCD56AW6cWDJXv-pyzkAwC9ZTb/s1600-h/Vietnam.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHgWKm9ZgPNHX_0THx6Bb4jo9NXfdtzleGjlkpYWvTd4V0ppe6WftO0zQW-JHHnCxCKmI9XAi6ZRoHUEutsi6iflOHR92sIwGPYFy24aC5hqcui7Zm61pCD56AW6cWDJXv-pyzkAwC9ZTb/s200/Vietnam.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149942690334247474" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">To the Ice Box:<br /></span><span><span>"We, the Foreign Student Association believe that every nation in the world has a strict and fundamental right to determine for itself its own political institutions. And consequently that no nation is justified in directly or indirectly imposing its will or political views on others. We therefore strongly condemn the military intervention by the United States in Vietnam. We demand the immediate and permanent cessation of the bombing of the North</span></span><span><span>, the recognition of the National Liberation Front, and the beginning of negotiations aimed at achieving the end of the war, the withdrawal of foreign troops, and the reunification and independence of Vietnam."<br /><br />Chinese Students Association; Foreign Students Association; Arab Students Association; Union of the Iberoamerican Students; African Students Association; Turkish Students Association; Moslem Students Association; Friends of the Tri-Continental; Pakistani Students Association; Iranian Students Association</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717248640311272118.post-59151822740746330222008-01-16T15:44:00.000-08:002008-09-02T10:40:19.664-07:00UCB Chinese Student Club Newsletter July 1968<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEXo1hJZZMsyUuxDTyIsOk0fM4kWAJ4Mcff4tHqBE95ZJuP1iaoHoFhU_pBLzwPp2gRYHS9S_g8atM42Pcc4VQ0-mhBDDzaBWioKi3exbFYNw9XNsi2PQpZ0y9vUpg5ybUvcRTXpVCFNsA/s1600-h/CSC+Monsoon+Mercury.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153999677787343634" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEXo1hJZZMsyUuxDTyIsOk0fM4kWAJ4Mcff4tHqBE95ZJuP1iaoHoFhU_pBLzwPp2gRYHS9S_g8atM42Pcc4VQ0-mhBDDzaBWioKi3exbFYNw9XNsi2PQpZ0y9vUpg5ybUvcRTXpVCFNsA/s320/CSC+Monsoon+Mercury.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><p class="p8" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); line-height: 11.9pt;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >CSC MONSOON </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >MERCURY</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p8" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); line-height: 11.9pt;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Chinese Students’ Club<o:p></o:p><br />510 Eshleman Hall<o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><st1:place st="on"><st1:placetype st="on"><span style="font-family:Arial;">University</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-family:Arial;"> of <st1:placename st="on">California</st1:placename></span></st1:place></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >, Berkeley<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p8" style="line-height: 11.9pt;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><o:p style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></o:p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">July, 1968 Volume 2 Issue</span><o:p><br /><br /></o:p><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-style: italic;">(Printed next to the CSC SCHEDULE OF EVENTS announcing plans for a Beach Party at Folsom Lake)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p14" style="line-height: normal;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><o:p></o:p>THE ASIAN—AMERICAN POLITICAL <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">ALLIANCE</st1:place></st1:city>:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p12" style="line-height: 11.9pt;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Rally Postponed</span></p><p class="p12" style="line-height: 11.9pt;"><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p12" style="line-height: 11.9pt;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >"The AAPA Rally, scheduled for Sunday, June 30, in 155 Dwinelle Hall was cancelled due to the Campus and City curfews enacted in reaction <i>to </i>the demonstrations and violence of Friday and Saturday. The Dean’s office has told us that they would do all they<sub> </sub>could to re—schedule the event.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>All the speakers were notified in advance, and to those who came and were “repelled”, the AAPA offers its apologies and thanks, and asks those people to continue following or joining the <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Alliance</st1:place></st1:city>. The next activities are protesting at the Berkeley City Council against the police actions<b> </b>on Friday, June 28, and rallying support for the political prisoner, Huey Newton, on July 8.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p12" style="line-height: 11.9pt;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >The Alliance is now selling “Yellow Peril” buttons to all, and “AAPA” buttons (with the Oriental character meaning ‘East’) to sympathizers and members. The AAPA plans to set up a table at noon in <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Sproul</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Hall</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype st="on">Plaza</st1:placetype></st1:place>. For more information, call... 510 Eshleman, the CSC office, has more information on the <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Alliance</st1:place></st1:city>. All those interested in fighting racism, “re-asserting their race”, and working for self-identity, are encouraged to join the <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Alliance</st1:city></st1:place>."</span></p><p class="p12" style="line-height: 11.9pt;">--Floyd Huen<br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>BLOG NOTE: On June 30, 1968: </i></b></span><i><span style="font-size:10;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >Berkeley mayor Wallace Johnson declares a state of emergency and a three day curfew in the city in response to violence in the wake of student demonstrations in support of French student and worker uprisings in France the previous month.</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="p12" style="text-indent: 0in; line-height: 11.9pt;"><i><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;" ><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.9pt;"><span style="font-size:0;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.9pt;"><span style="font-size:0;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.9pt;"><b><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;" ><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:10;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717248640311272118.post-74812491120066923492008-01-16T14:00:00.000-08:002008-05-02T11:31:58.759-07:00San Francisco State Strike 1968 TWLF Demands<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_V3FZBj0luPEXIMEDYkY2CneiYLXjKSAxE_ZRX0VbuSH0PQlMr2d5dZ44SURCH1eVRWEF2-cSl1Xx5D4Y5msJpD8hAsBKzDbiimvrNwxs-CiLDw6AxMKdNJ1zwg9WjMFZVJMu5Gvad4aU/s1600-h/sfsu+twlf+picket+aapa.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_V3FZBj0luPEXIMEDYkY2CneiYLXjKSAxE_ZRX0VbuSH0PQlMr2d5dZ44SURCH1eVRWEF2-cSl1Xx5D4Y5msJpD8hAsBKzDbiimvrNwxs-CiLDw6AxMKdNJ1zwg9WjMFZVJMu5Gvad4aU/s320/sfsu+twlf+picket+aapa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195849332978767474" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Photo: SFSU TWLF Strike Picketline (AAPA Newspaper 1969)</span><br /><p class="MsoNormal">TWLF SF <st1:place st="on">State College</st1:place> Student Demands:</p> <p class="MsoNormal">1.<span style=""> </span>That a School of Ethnic Studies for the ethnic groups involved in the Third World be set up with the students in each particular ethnic organizations having the authority and control of the hiring and retention of any faculty member, director, and administrator, as well as the curriculum in a specific area of study.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">2.<span style=""> </span>That 50 faculty positions be appropriated to the <st1:place st="on"><st1:placetype st="on">School</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename st="on">Ethnic Studies</st1:placename></st1:place>, 20 would be for the Black Studies Program.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">3.<span style=""> </span>That in the Spring semester, the College fulfill its commitment to the non-white students by admitting those that apply.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">4.<span style=""> </span>That in the Fall of 1969, all applications of non-white students be accepted.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">5.<span style=""> </span>That George Murray and any other faculty person chosen by non-white people as their teacher be retained in their position.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">(</span>George Murray was an English Department lecturer who was dismissed for his participation in the Black Panther Party.<span style=""> </span>SF State Strike Committee. On Strike: Shut It Down. 1968. p. 3.)</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717248640311272118.post-36501979769167190492008-01-16T13:29:00.000-08:002008-05-02T11:35:57.854-07:00San Francisco State Strike 1968 Student Brochure<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3V6mTIRn1JBkKQ7m_2QK5dbyFK2Dzf6AZ2gGm7T1xm0l08Yr-N_rISHv7zP9i3eBbZzlU3t2n9ZMOn8k94rfxI4dJ3uOQvg79g47bCW11ROF7GcoFO8zxf5RgolTIqLWT5f3a5y-O_qIP/s1600-h/sfsu+twlf+picket+2+aapa.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3V6mTIRn1JBkKQ7m_2QK5dbyFK2Dzf6AZ2gGm7T1xm0l08Yr-N_rISHv7zP9i3eBbZzlU3t2n9ZMOn8k94rfxI4dJ3uOQvg79g47bCW11ROF7GcoFO8zxf5RgolTIqLWT5f3a5y-O_qIP/s320/sfsu+twlf+picket+2+aapa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195850638648825474" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Photo: SFSU TWLF Strike Picketline (AAPA Newspaper 1969)</span><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">INTERCOLLEGIATE CHINESE FOR SOCIAL ACTION</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">"S. F. State, a community college, exists in a moral vacuum, oblivious to the community it purports to serve. It does not reflect the pluralistic society that is <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">San Francisco</st1:city></st1:place>--it does not begin to serve the 300, 000 non-white people who live in this urban community in poverty, ignorance, despair. The Chinese ghetto, <st1:place st="on">Chinatown</st1:place>, is a case in point.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">1. S. F. State has a Chinese language department that isolates the “Chinese Experience” as a cultural phenomenon in language that 83% of the Chinese in the <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">U. S.</st1:country-region></st1:place> don’t speak. Realistically, we can expect that a Chinese woman living in the ghetto, who speaks Cantonese, cannot explain to the scholar that she is dying of tuberculosis because she speaks a “street language” while the scholar mutters a classical poetry in Mandarin. <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">S.</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">F.</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">State</st1:placetype></st1:place> does not teach Cantonese.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">2. Chinatown is a <u>ghetto</u> in <st1:city st="on">San Francisco</st1:city>, there are approximately 50,000 Chinese of whom the vast majority live in <st1:place st="on">Chinatown</st1:place>. It is an area of old buildings, narrow streets & alleys, and the effluvia of a great many people packed into a very small space. At present, more than 5, 000 new Chinese immigrants stream into this overpopulated ghetto each year, an area already blessed with a birthrate that is rising, and will rise more. Tuberculosis is endemic, rents are high and constantly rising, city services are inadequate to provide reasonable sanitation, and space is at such a premium as to resemble the Malthusian ratio at in most extreme. There are no adequate courses in any department of school at <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">S.</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">F.</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">State</st1:placetype></st1:place> that even begin to deal with the problems of the Chinese people in their exclusionary and racist environment."</span> </p><span style="font-size:11;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717248640311272118.post-4748518600017585002008-01-16T04:41:00.000-08:002008-01-16T04:50:38.019-08:00Philippine-American Collegiate Endeavor (PACE)<p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal">“Statement of the Philippine-American Collegiate Endeavor (PACE) Philosophy and Goals.” Mimeograph excerpt. PACE was founded in 1967 at SFSU.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">“We seek…simply to function as human beings, to control our own lives.<span style=""> </span>Initially, following the myth of the American Dream, we worked to attend predominantly white colleges, but we have learned through direct analysis that it is impossible for our people, so-called minorities, to function as human beings, in a racist society in which white always come first…So we have decided to fuse ourselves with the masses of Third World people, which are the majority of the world’s peoples, to create, through struggle, a new humanity, a new humanism, a New World Consciousness, and within that context collectively control our own destinies.”</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717248640311272118.post-34005691956756579642008-01-16T01:49:00.000-08:002008-03-10T08:24:15.268-07:00SFSU TWLF Strike Injuries from Police Brutality<p class="t8" style="line-height: normal;">Strike at frisco state! Pamphlet by Research Organizing Cooperative of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">San Francisco</st1:place></st1:city><o:p></o:p></p><p class="t8" style="line-height: normal;">Statistics gathered by doctors on injuries to arrested <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">San Francisco</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">State</st1:placetype></st1:place> strikers (and innocent bystanders) inflicted by police, between December 2, 1968 and January 30, 1969. pg.31<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t8" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="t8" style="line-height: normal;">NUMBER TYPE OF INJURY</p><p class="t8" style="line-height: normal;">1 Ruptured spleen (removed)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t1" style="line-height: 18.1pt;">2 Fractured skull<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t1" style="line-height: 18.1pt;">2 Concussion<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t1" style="line-height: 18.1pt;">15 Forehead, skull lacerations<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t1" style="line-height: 18.1pt;">3 Nose broken, bloodied<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t1" style="line-height: 18.1pt;">1 Fractured eye orbit<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t1" style="line-height: 18.1pt;">7 Eyes maced<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t1" style="line-height: 18.1pt;">2 Other eye damage (e. g., black)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t1" style="line-height: 18.1pt;">6 Facial lacerations, swelling<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t1" style="line-height: 18.1pt;">18 Other head damage (bump, swelling, contusion)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t1" style="line-height: 18.1pt;">8 Stomach badly clubbed, scratched or kicked<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t1" style="line-height: 18.1pt;">2 Broken, contused, fractured ribs<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t1" style="line-height: 18.1pt;">3 Broken fingers, thumb<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t1" style="line-height: 18.1pt;">1 Broken, fractured leg<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t1" style="line-height: 18.1pt;">1 Arm broken, fractured from surgery<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t1" style="line-height: 18.1pt;">1 Arm infected from surgery<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t1" style="line-height: 18.1pt;">1 Kidney infection<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t1" style="line-height: 18.1pt;">4 Other groin area damaged<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t1" style="line-height: 18.1pt;">2 Respiratory Infection<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t1" style="line-height: 18.1pt;">1 Contused lung<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t1" style="line-height: 18.1pt;">7 Other rib area damage (soreness)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t1" style="line-height: 18.1pt;">12 Back, neck (clubbing, choking, welts, burns)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t1" style="line-height: 18.1pt;">4 Blood vessel damage. mass1ve bruises only)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t1" style="line-height: 18.1pt;">15 Hand, arm, foot, leg laceration, swelling, lumps<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t1" style="line-height: 18.1pt;">5 Limb, finger, toe sprain, wrenched, contused<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t1" style="line-height: 18.1pt;">13 General bumps, bruises, soreness only<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t1" style="line-height: 18.1pt;">1 Nausea<o:p></o:p></p><p class="t1" style="line-height: 18.1pt;">80 Total number injured arrestees (many had more than one injury)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p6" style="line-height: 13.85pt;">These do not include: (1) injuries sustained between November 6 and December 1; (2) injuries not reported; and (3) injuries to people who were not arrested. There might well be more of the latter than there were injured arrestees; it is impossible to tell<span style="font-size:9;"> </span>how many.<span style="font-size:13;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717248640311272118.post-84437981672783267052008-01-15T19:47:00.000-08:002008-08-29T11:32:48.882-07:00Asian American Political Alliance 1968<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk_JYljAinhVTVMt4CQebrBrHbCcUteaCaP2LR_7US8tJbDQJoEWl0m4mi45Tfn8xmErCh5B5uHlZeDoAuNNpwktiHd8FyE1LKhiHCHiyyeA5U6C8g4UsLDSfTGizYPilIaPQ0jOIi-7R2/s1600-h/Fist.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk_JYljAinhVTVMt4CQebrBrHbCcUteaCaP2LR_7US8tJbDQJoEWl0m4mi45Tfn8xmErCh5B5uHlZeDoAuNNpwktiHd8FyE1LKhiHCHiyyeA5U6C8g4UsLDSfTGizYPilIaPQ0jOIi-7R2/s200/Fist.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164743686993960882" border="0" /></a> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.5in;"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">It was no accident that the Asian American movement began in <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Berkeley</st1:City>, <st1:state st="on">California</st1:State></st1:place>. – also the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement (FSM) at the <st1:place st="on"><st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:placename st="on">California</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> at Berkeley (UCB). Social activists worldwide were drawn to this center of the student and antiwar movement in the ‘60s. It was a couple—Yuji Ichioka, a UCB history grad student, and Emma Gee—both of whom were civil rights activists, who initiated a Peace and Freedom Party caucus by phoning every Asian-sounding name listed on Party petitions in the Berkeley/East Bay area.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">In May 1968 those half-dozen or so who responded met in the Berkeley’s Northside Ichioka/Gee apartment – from then on affectionately referred to as “AAPA home” by its members, because that is how they felt when being around others like them for the first time. Unanimously they agreed to form an historic independent organization - the Asian American Political Alliance (AAPA). They quickly enlisted others; hammered out a program*; designed a logo, button and colors; worked out alliances; and boldly introduced itself to the public in July 1968.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">AAPA was the first self-named group that called themselves “Asian American,” a term that Ichioka proposed. These AAPA founders, while young in age, were all political veterans from a wide range of experiences. And while most were UC Berkeley students, they never envisioned AAPA as a student organization but a much broader, all-inclusive, community grassroots alliance. Several had from their working class youths been involved with the United Farm Workers (UFW) and other labor organizing, while another was an Army veteran and Black Panther Party member, and all were involved in the ongoing civil rights/black power, anti-war and anti-poverty movement.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">These AAPA founders also consciously and carefully chose “Political” and “Alliance” in the group’s name to distinguish itself from previous ethnic groups that had a more social and/or club-like connotation. They did this not to denigrate existing groups like the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), whom AAPA respected and worked with on progressive issues, but to forge an openly anti-imperialist political organization for all Asian nationalities, one that could stand on an equal basis with the other dominant Third World groups at the time, as part of the international Third World liberation movement for self-determination.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The term “Asian American” quickly became a unifying force among the different Asian ethnic groups. AAPA chapters and other similarly self-titled Asian organizations rapidly spread throughout the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>. AAPA opened an avenue of activism for many Asian Americans who later played vital roles in the social transformations of the period, including the Third World Liberation Front Strikes at San Francisco State College and UC Berkeley, the International Hotel tenants struggle, and the formation of Asian Studies and <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Third World</st1:PlaceName> <st1:placetype st="on">College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> curriculums nationwide. Just as their <st1:place st="on">Third World</st1:place> brothers and sisters had done, AAPA, as the Asian American expression of “Power to the People!”, enabled Asian Americans to rename, reclaim, redefine, and liberate themselves from oppression.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -0.5in;"><br /><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717248640311272118.post-49038503902009019502008-01-15T12:43:00.000-08:002008-02-29T23:58:43.552-08:00AAPA Rally July 28, 1968<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhypEuorW2hQP50lhJthRhZE3RTsHoS9_dRLgnLsTsa6JexWvh-YeQuk2WPFn6nTTMpU2_aTA2HozvoXq4KmFBQ3zM0mEXqX7cYXS4dfaXEIDxymH3MjoiY0nH5YMhaAKOwq_U1QiJfmDDv/s1600-h/AAPA+JULY28+1968+RALLY+FLYER.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153957801856207490" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhypEuorW2hQP50lhJthRhZE3RTsHoS9_dRLgnLsTsa6JexWvh-YeQuk2WPFn6nTTMpU2_aTA2HozvoXq4KmFBQ3zM0mEXqX7cYXS4dfaXEIDxymH3MjoiY0nH5YMhaAKOwq_U1QiJfmDDv/s320/AAPA+JULY28+1968+RALLY+FLYER.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Excerpts from a speech written by Richard Aoki for the AAPA rally July 28, 1968</span><br /></span><p class="p1" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); line-height: 12.15pt;">“We Asian-Americans believe that American society has been, and still is, fundamentally a racist society, and that historically we have accommodated ourselves to this society in order to survive...</p><p class="p1" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 12.15pt;">We’re sick and tired of being sick and tired of being sick and tired of relating to white standards of acceptability...We’re tired of hearing the racist chant about “if you’re white...” This has wreaked havoc upon our cultural identity...</p><p class="p1" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); line-height: 12.15pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:0;"><span style="font-size:100%;">At this point I would like to say a few words about the servant syndrome prevalent in this white racist society...As most of you know the typical Oriental is thought of as a servant (and dig--servants are not considered equals anywhere in time and place)...The Chinese are regarded as laundrymen (fit only for woman’s work), the Japanese are regarded as gardeners. the Filipinos are regarded as chauffeurs...</span><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); line-height: 12.15pt;"></p><p class="p9" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 12.15pt;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">We are sick of being used by the white racist power structure... Don’t rock the </span>boat...Used as an example...</span></p><p class="p10" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); line-height: 12.15pt;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p>We Asian-Americans support all non-white liberation movements and believe that all minorities in order to be truly liberated must have complete control over the political, economic and social institutions within their respective communities”.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We unconditionally, support the struggles of the Afro-American people, the Chicanos, and the American Indians in to attain freedom, justice and equality...</span></span></p><p class="p17" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); line-height: 12.15pt;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="font-size:0;"></span>We Asian-Americans oppose the imperialist policies being pursued by the American government...</span></p><p class="p20" style="margin-left: 7.65pt; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); text-indent: 0in; line-height: 12.15pt;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:0;"></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Professor Miyoshi has presented our views on the Vietnam war...We are unconditionally against the war in Vietnam...<br />some of us view the war as another one of white racist America’s trickbag….They are committing double genocide over there..Dig, if a black, brown or yellow brother is sent to Vietnam he is being sent to kill his yellow brother.. if the black, brown </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">or </i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">yellow brother kills the Vietnamese..Mr. Charley comes out ahead, and if the Vietnamese kills the black brown or yellow brother, Mr. Charley again comes out ahead...This is a classical case of heads I win, tails you lose... </span><span style="font-size:0;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p22" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); line-height: 12.15pt;"><span style="font-size:85%;">In conclusion, <span style="font-size:0;"></span>I would like to add that the Asian-American Political Alliance is not just another Sunday social club<sub>. </sub>We are an action-oriented group, and we will not just restrict our activities to merely ethic issues, but to all issues that are of fundamental importance pertaining to the building of a new and a better world."</span></p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" ></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717248640311272118.post-62898012034669976172008-01-15T11:38:00.000-08:002008-05-02T12:09:49.876-07:00UC Berkeley Asian American 1969<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0opYKSTyQ0aKC-Y4K-SdQqv4HZ517KhcoHtJpt6k8EmU5IAXJTOtNYk_A6rgIEVKs-YkiYCkdBO-anIbSNhWe9977rI7xWG6sSJozRI0uclJHWzKHch0GbWHw8qbzA8MwZD6sPfFpERO-/s1600-h/aas100x+yuji+aapa.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0opYKSTyQ0aKC-Y4K-SdQqv4HZ517KhcoHtJpt6k8EmU5IAXJTOtNYk_A6rgIEVKs-YkiYCkdBO-anIbSNhWe9977rI7xWG6sSJozRI0uclJHWzKHch0GbWHw8qbzA8MwZD6sPfFpERO-/s320/aas100x+yuji+aapa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195855363112851106" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU0zGBSP3iLjkJyezAdy-NPmL9pj7U56AqG6_Ye8niX3DmEu1K408pBMvEqXOrfYGGpnBHJfemWQPtC-E8y5hUrGxez-8SnWj6yTQPClCLE69aachuF0msYQ7KMhAZx0Aohy-dECfkc6SG/s1600-h/aas100x+classroom+aapa.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU0zGBSP3iLjkJyezAdy-NPmL9pj7U56AqG6_Ye8niX3DmEu1K408pBMvEqXOrfYGGpnBHJfemWQPtC-E8y5hUrGxez-8SnWj6yTQPClCLE69aachuF0msYQ7KMhAZx0Aohy-dECfkc6SG/s320/aas100x+classroom+aapa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195852880621754002" border="0" /></a><br />Photos from AAPA Newspaper 1969Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717248640311272118.post-90657248534614776392008-01-14T15:15:00.000-08:002008-06-03T02:53:29.513-07:00AAPA Retort to Agnew "fat jap" Comment 1968<p class="t1" style="line-height: 16.4pt; font-weight: bold;font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-size:6;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:6;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: arial;">Nixon~Agnew Retort</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-size:11;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: arial;font-size:100%;" >09-26-1968</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="p4" style="line-height: 19.25pt;font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-size:10;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: arial;"> "We must admit that vice—presidential candidate Spiro Agnew has kept his promise. His name is now a household word in the Japanese-American community.</span><o:p style="font-family: arial;"></o:p></p> <p class="p4" style="line-height: 19.25pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> The Asian—American Political </span><st1:city style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" st="on"><st1:place st="on">Alliance</st1:place></st1:city><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> vigorously protests the racist epithet, “fat Jap”, recently uttered by Agnew.</span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="p4" style="line-height: 19.25pt; font-family: arial;"> We must reluctantly concur with the Kerner Commission’s finding that “white racism” is the fundamental cause of civil disorders, and that “white racism” seems to have infected a person running for the second highest political office of this country.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="p4" style="line-height: 19.25pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> We, as members of a racial minority, do not at all feel amused by racist type humor at our expense, or at the expense of any of our racial and ethnic brothers and sisters. We also feel that the so-called apology rendered afterward was wholly inadequate.</span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="p4" style="line-height: 19.25pt; font-family: arial;"> It is indeed a very sad commentary on white American culture to use pejorative terms in their relations with minority groups. It is also a sad commentary that Agnew appears to have such a low level of sensitivity as far as race relations are concerned. If the Republican party is victorious in November, we would humbly suggest to Nixon that he would refrain from sending Agnew on goodwill missions to the rest of the world with the exception of either <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Rhodesia</st1:country-region></st1:place> or the Union of South Africa. <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">(ed. note: in 1968, two apartheid countries)</span></p><p class="p4" style="line-height: 19.25pt; font-family: arial;">Asian American Political Alliance<br /><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="p5" style="margin-left: 304.4pt; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"><o:p style="font-family: arial;"> </o:p><br /></span><st1:city style="font-family: courier new;" st="on"><st1:place st="on"></st1:place></st1:city><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="t6" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:6;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="p5" style="margin-left: 304.4pt; line-height: normal;"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="p5" style="margin-left: 304.4pt; line-height: normal;"><st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on"><span style=""></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="t6" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:6;"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="p5" style="margin-left: 304.4pt; line-height: normal;"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717248640311272118.post-82273010772250215382008-01-14T14:53:00.000-08:002008-06-03T02:55:50.955-07:00AAPA PERSPECTIVES October 1969<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_NVuI5VVLBc2PZX0SXCx8W7UxMIbnSxxB7eRx4DSXWOc1wL8pjVWSYK27AlRWlxM0t9gEJ7Kp7kQApBNcjBRW-At6avI7RMAoWyYhRRuyhUOU2qcCEYazVGqDVooXzT1zc3bjdZNHGx9y/s1600-h/AAPA+BUTTON2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_NVuI5VVLBc2PZX0SXCx8W7UxMIbnSxxB7eRx4DSXWOc1wL8pjVWSYK27AlRWlxM0t9gEJ7Kp7kQApBNcjBRW-At6avI7RMAoWyYhRRuyhUOU2qcCEYazVGqDVooXzT1zc3bjdZNHGx9y/s200/AAPA+BUTTON2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5163273085896843090" border="0" /></a><br /><div style=""> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="718"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding: 0.25pt;" align="left" valign="top"> <p class="p8" style="text-indent: -5.15pt; line-height: 10.45pt;"><b><span style=""> </span></b><i><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Reprinted from ASIAN AMERICAN POLITICAL </span><st1:city style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" st="on"><st1:place st="on">ALLIANCE</st1:place></st1:city><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">,<br /></span></i></p><p class="p8" style="text-indent: -5.15pt; line-height: 10.45pt;"><i><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Vol. 1, No. 6, October, 1969. </span><st1:city style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" st="on"><st1:place st="on">Berkeley</st1:place></st1:city><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">, page 3</span>.<o:p></o:p></i></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> <p class="c3" style="line-height: normal;"><i>AAPA PERSPECTIVES<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="c3" style="text-align: left; line-height: normal;" align="left"><i style=""><span style=""> </span>“The Asian American Political <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Alliance</st1:place></st1:city> is people. It is a people’s alliance to effect social and political changes. We believe that the American society is historically racist and one which has systematically employed social discrimination and economic imperialism, both domestically and internationally, exploiting all non-white people in the process of building up their affluent society.<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="c3" style="text-align: left; line-height: normal;" align="left"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p> <p class="p5" style="text-indent: 28.05pt; line-height: 10.75pt;"><i>"They did so at the expense of all of us. Uncontrolled capitalism has pushed all of the non-white people into a social position so that only manual jobs with subhuman pay are open to them. Consequently, we have been psychologically so conditioned by the blue-eye—blond—hair standard that many of us have lost our perspective, We can only survive if “we know our place”—-shut up and accept what we are given, We resent this kind of domination and we are determined to change<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.75pt;"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p> <p class="p5" style="text-indent: 28.05pt; line-height: 10.75pt;"><i style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">"The goal of AAPA is political education and advancement of the movement among Asian people, so that they may make all decisions that affect their own lives, in a society that never asks people to do so. AAPA is not an isolated group, and should never profess to be such. Its only legitimacy and value is in the effects it has on many people, not just a small group </i><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">of </span><i><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">people. In the same vein, AAPA is not meant to isolate Asians from other people; it is unhealthy as well as unwise to do such a thing. AAPA must constantly expand and grow, and reach out to other people and groups. At the same time, AAPA must meet the needs of its own members and deal with its own problems.</span><o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.75pt;"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p> <p class="p6" style="line-height: 10.75pt;"><i> "In the past political organizations have tended to subject themselves to rigid, traditional levels of structure in which a few make the decisions, present them to the body, and the body can vote either ‘yes” or “no.”<o:p></o:p> This hierarchic organization, however, is only a manifestation of the elite control, primeval structure mentality in which you are not capable of making your own decisions, an idea drilled into you. from the foundations of this society.<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="p6" style="line-height: 10.75pt;"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p> <p class="p5" style="text-indent: 28.05pt; line-height: 10.75pt;"><i style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">"AAPA is only what the people make it. We have adopted a structure which better fits the needs and goals of our alliance, not a structure to which we have to adjust ourselves. Furthermore, there is no membership in AAPA in the strict sense of </i><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">the </span><i><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">word. There are workers who for common interests join together with one or more people to intensify the effectiveness of an action.</span><o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.75pt;"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p> <p class="p7" style="text-indent: 29.45pt; line-height: 10.75pt;"><i>"Since May, 1968, AAPA has grown from a small group of students and community workers to a powerhouse for Asian thought and action. AAPA is now a member of the Third World Liberation Front, Asian Association, and Asian Coalition. Some past activities of Berkeley AAPA include: Free Huey Rallies at the Oakland Courthouse, Chinatown Forums, McCarran Act lobbies, MASC Boycott, Third World Liberation Front Strike, development of Asian Studies, and liaison with and development of other AAPA’s throughout the state.<o:p></o:p></i></p> <span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span> <p class="p5" style="text-indent: 28.05pt; line-height: 10.75pt;"><i><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">"AAPA is only a transition for developing our own social identity, a multiplication of efforts. In fact, AAPA itself is not the important link but the ideas generated into action from it——that we Asian Americans are no longer going to kowtow to white America in order to gain an ounce of respect; that we must begin to build our own society alongside our black, brown and red brothers as well as those whites willing to effect fundamental social, economic, political changes; that we have the right for determining our own lives and asserting our yellow identity as a positive force in a new life based on human relationships and cooperation.”</span><o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="p5" style="text-indent: 28.05pt; line-height: 10.75pt;"><span style=""> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717248640311272118.post-79273305954818173612008-01-13T19:23:00.000-08:002008-06-03T02:43:46.375-07:00Asians Unite! Antiwar Brochure 1969<span style="font-weight: bold;">Asians Unite! U.S. War in Southeast Asia.</span><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="">Asians unite! Number 2</p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">U.S. Leaders March to War: Memorable Quotes </span></span><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: italic;">“When I speak of the Pacific Rim, I am putting the broadest possible construction on the term—the western coasts of South America, Central America, and our own continent, and extending beyond </span><st1:country-region style="font-style: italic;" st="on">Australia</st1:country-region><span style="font-style: italic;"> and the Far East to </span><st1:country-region style="font-style: italic;" st="on"><st1:place st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-style: italic;">. There is no more vast or rich area for resource development or trade growth in the world today than this immense region, and it is virtually our own front yard…I emphasize that this is a largely underdeveloped area, yet an area rich in an immense variety of resources and potential capabilities. Were we </span><st1:state style="font-style: italic;" st="on">California</st1:state> businessmen to play a more dynamic role in helping trade development in the <st1:place style="font-style: italic;" st="on">Pacific Rim</st1:place><span style="font-style: italic;">, we would have giant, hungry new markets for our products and vast new profit potentials for our firms.”</span> </p> <p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal">Rudolf Peterson, President, Bank of <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>,</p> <p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal">in <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state> Business Magazine</p> <p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal">September, October 1968</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">“Now the Pacific has become an Anglo-Saxon lake and our line of defense runs through the chain of islands fringing the coast of <st1:place st="on">Asia</st1:place>.<span style=""> </span>It starts from the <st1:country-region st="on">Philippines</st1:country-region> and continues through the Ryuku archipelago which includes its broad main bastion, <st1:place st="on">Okinawa</st1:place>.<span style=""> </span>Then it bends back through <st1:country-region st="on">Japan</st1:country-region> and the Aleutian Chain to <st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on">Alaska</st1:state></st1:place>.”</p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of Pacific in 1949</p><p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal">“Examined dramatically, but more often quietly, the rest of Asia has been undergoing a profound, an exciting and on balance an extra-ordinarily promising transformation…In looking toward the future, however, we should not ignore the vital role Vietnam has played in making these developments possible.<span style=""> </span>Whatever one may think of the ‘domino theory’, it is beyond question that without the American commitment in Vietnam Asia would be a far different place today…</p> <p style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal">This was vital factor in the turn around in <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Indonesia</st1:country-region></st1:place> where a tendency toward fatalism is a national characteristic…And with its 100 million people and<span style=""> </span>it’s 3,000 mile arc of islands containing the region’s richest resources.<span style=""> </span><st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Indonesia</st1:place></st1:country-region> constitutes by far the greatest prize in the South East Asian area…</p> <p style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal">The <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> is a Pacific power.<span style=""> </span>Europe has been withdrawing the remnants of empire, by the <st1:country-region st="on">United States</st1:country-region>, with its coast reaching in an arc from <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Mexico</st1:place></st1:country-region> to the Bering Straits, is one anchor of a vast westward across the Pacific…linked by the sea not only with those oriental nations on Asia’s Pacific litteral but at the same time with Occidental Australia and New Zealand, and with the island nations in between.”</p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Richard Nixon, 1967 writing in </span><u style="font-weight: bold;">Foreign Affairs</u><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">“The empire in <st1:place st="on">Southeast Asia</st1:place> is the last major resource area outside the control of any one of the major powers on the globe…I believe that the conditions of the Vietnamese people, and the direction in which their future may be going, are at this stage secondary, not primary.”</p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">Senator McGee (<st1:state st="on">Wyoming</st1:state>) <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> Senate, 2-17-1965</p><p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal">“I am sure that the great American people, if only they knew the true facts and the background to the developments in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">South Vietnam</st1:place></st1:country-region>, would agree with me that further bloodshed is unnecessary.<span style=""> </span>However, in times of war and of hostilities the first casualty is truth.”</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">U Thant, Secretary General of the UN</p> <p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal">February 25, 1965</p><p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">“Now let us assume that we lost Indochina…the tin and tungsten that we so greatly value from that area would cease coming…So when the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> votes 400 million dollars to help that war, we are not voting a give-away program.<span style=""> </span>We are voting for the cheapest way to prevent the occurrence of something that would be of a most terrible significance to the United States of America, our security our power and the ability to get certain things we need from the riches of the Indochinese territory and from Southeast Asia.”</p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">8-4-1953, President Eisenhower, governors’ conference</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717248640311272118.post-85927617106873909452008-01-13T17:38:00.000-08:002008-06-03T03:01:03.344-07:00AAPA Position on VIETNAM 1969<p class="MsoNormal">AAPA <span style=""> </span>OCTOBER 1969 VOLUME NO.1, ISSUE NO. 6</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">“The history of mankind is one of continuous development from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.” MAO TSE-TUNG </span><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Asian American Political Alliance supports all oppressed peoples and their struggles for liberation. A simple glance at the Viet Nam situation clearly defines our stand. The Vietnamese people have been oppressed for thousands of years—first by the Chinese, then the French, the Japanese, and finally by the United States. This oppression has progressed from merely paying tribute to being bombed daily. The entire Vietnamese people are determined to mobilize all their physical and mental strength, to sacrifice their lives and property in order to safeguard their independence and liberty.</p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" class="MsoNormal">In 1945, the Vietminh forces, many who had given their lives working with the Allies through the Office of Special Services, made the mistake of believing U.S. rhetoric. As in 1919, when the U.S. promised China territorial integrity and preached self-determination for all peoples, so it was in Viet Nam in 1945. Viet Nam was officially split in the Geneva Agreement of 1954 to be unified before July 20, 1956. <span style=""> </span>Ngo Dinh Diem, U.S. puppet and head of the South Vietnamese government, at that time refused to hold the 1956 referendum on reunification. The Vietnamese and Chinese people have now learned to watch the man’s hands and not his mouth.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Vietnamese people not only watch but feel the “peace moves” of the U.S. Even though U.S. troops are slowly being withdrawn from Viet Nam proper, the tempo of the war is increasing. The Paris Peace talks are just a maneuver by the U.S. government to give the proper facade for its senseless war. <span style=""> </span>Monthly U.S. bombings in Viet Nam have increased since Nixon took office. Nixon wants to “win” his war, even if through annihilation of the Vietnamese. Without people there can be no liberation struggle. One third of the rural population of. South Viet Nam has been driven to the cities and six percent of the land has been defoliated. The killing, bombing, starvation and disease exceed that caused by the Germans in World War II. The war is a struggle of survival for the Vietnamese. It is a necessity.</p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" class="MsoNormal">America is conducting a war of technological genocide in Viet Nam. Any human being, who agrees to participate in this senseless, inhuman war to defend the “free world” (domino theory), deserves to bear the suffering of the Vietnamese people. America must prove her superiority over Viet Nam; prove that a nuclear power can mobilize the kind of force required to contain guerilla warfare; prove her position as the protector of “certain inalienable rights”, such as life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Vietnamese people, struggling for independence; democracy, peace, and neutrality, are resolved to drive out any imperialist forces from Viet Nam. Theirs is a war of human bonds and enduring spirit. <span style=""> </span>They see their comrades, men, women, and children of all ages, die; they see a senseless destruction of the land. In their struggle for survival, ideoogy and organization has become almost meaningless; human relationships deepen and become the source of strength for the people.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Asian American Political Alliance supports the ten demands of the National Liberation Front and recognizes the Vietnamese as people.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717248640311272118.post-6636661004390684722008-01-11T19:55:00.000-08:002008-01-23T16:02:08.177-08:00Yellow Symposium 1969<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-size:10;"><span style="font-size:+0;"></span><span style="font-size:85%;">Student conferences and symposiums played an important role in creating direction for the Asian American Movement. On January 11, 1969, AAPA, the Chinese Students Club and Nisei Student’s Club sponsored a symposium on the UC Berkeley campus with the title The Asian Experience in America/Yellow Identity. Widely attended by college students from throughout California, the symposium helped chart the direction for coming period of Asian American activism. Identity consciousness, Asian American studies, community organizing,</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">student organizing, and support for the Third World Liberation Strike at San Francisco State College were focal points of the conference. Professors from Stanford, UC Berkeley and UC Davis were invited to speak on emerging topics in Asian American studies. A History of the Chinese and Japanese in America was presented by Stanford Lyman (Stanford University), the Asian policy of the US was presented by Paul Takagi (UC Berkeley) and Asians in the Melting Pot was presented by Isao Fujimoto (UC Davis).<?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-size:85%;">At this symposium, George Woo, a member of the SF State College-based Intercollegiate Chinese For Social Action (ICSA), criticized the notion of developing an Asian American identity devoid of community meaning. ICSA was active in organizing Chinatown youth and took a more urgent militant approach to social issues. Arguing that identity without action was only a form of “mental masturbation,” Woo challenged the students to become concerned with the real conditions that people in the communities faced. He called for a reversal of the traditional brain drain of educated youth from the community. Lurleen Chew, another SF State College striker addressed the need for students to express their commitment to activism through the passage of a SF State College TWLF strike support resolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:+0;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-size:85%;">The Yellow Identity Symposium concluded with a resolution that fully supported the SF State College TWLF strike and the spread of the movement for Asian American Studies and Third World Colleges to other campuses.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>An important significance of this resolution was the identification of Asian Americans with other racialized minorities who were involved in their own civil rights and movements for self-determination. By then the press had already introduced the notion that Asian Americans were a model minority that through hard work and perseverance had overcome hardship and discrimination. The Yellow Identity Symposium repudiated the model minority thesis and asserted that Asian Americans were in support and agreement with the demands of blacks, Chicanos and Native Americans.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span> </p><span style="font-size:+0;">The next day, Sunday January 12, a statewide AAPA forum was held to map-out activities for the coming period. The intended statewide meeting evolved into an organizational meeting for the establishment of AAPA chapters on a national level. With representatives from thirteen campuses nationwide including, San Francisco, San Mateo, Los Angeles, Berkeley, San Jose, Sacramento, New York and Hawaii, a loose-knit network of AAPA chapters were established within the coming months. The discussions focused on common projects such as defining the content of Asian American Studies and facilitating community work in communities such as Japantown, Chinatown and Manilatown. Berkeley AAPA took on the responsibility of disseminating information to the various chapters. Its AAPA members supported the SF State College TWLF strike, the impending TWLF strike at UC Berkeley, and expansion of the TWLF movement to other campuses.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717248640311272118.post-16284328141584513472008-01-11T14:22:00.000-08:002008-01-20T20:25:07.597-08:00Yellow Symposium 1969<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4hQ6v_CGY10dsOFstAcnupMGYFaor4GENXsO0m5gTa_7PRDTq2xCe7BMzJf6XRy2c4rM17MgEgKJu1xgAbxBDZdvaJtklizdvUZAcALGGeo2zEsN-xz1dTfMp5OQnK10FuirJmpVrBdfi/s1600-h/Yellow+Symposium+0169.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4hQ6v_CGY10dsOFstAcnupMGYFaor4GENXsO0m5gTa_7PRDTq2xCe7BMzJf6XRy2c4rM17MgEgKJu1xgAbxBDZdvaJtklizdvUZAcALGGeo2zEsN-xz1dTfMp5OQnK10FuirJmpVrBdfi/s400/Yellow+Symposium+0169.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149895218060724754" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717248640311272118.post-82144062649861256082008-01-11T12:13:00.000-08:002008-02-04T14:52:47.736-08:00Yellow Symposium 1969 Flyer<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP-JRN1EGyMcPpi2DSduLa6jGRHgtMhp7RHm1sFBLVXydDYb2C75EkaerPZBvpAf1V7LQWEjflUXxYZqL7u_oI0EpTihZi7bXgXQkN5WjlsCgrDg6EjLPA1HHckED97oBVe5CsX_CHboJW/s1600-h/Yellow+Symp+Flier.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP-JRN1EGyMcPpi2DSduLa6jGRHgtMhp7RHm1sFBLVXydDYb2C75EkaerPZBvpAf1V7LQWEjflUXxYZqL7u_oI0EpTihZi7bXgXQkN5WjlsCgrDg6EjLPA1HHckED97oBVe5CsX_CHboJW/s320/Yellow+Symp+Flier.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153944663551249010" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span> <p class="p2" style="line-height: 11.3pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="">asian experience </span></b><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="">/yellow </span></b><b><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">identity</span><o:p></o:p></span></b><br /></span><span style="">From: Asian Students of Chinese Students Club and Nisei Students Club<o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="">509-600 </span><span style="">Eshleman Hall, <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename st="on">California</st1:placename>, <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Berkeley</st1:place></st1:city></span><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="p2" style="line-height: 11.3pt;"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="">Bring this, your invitation, to the 1st Asian Experience in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>, <o:p></o:p>Sat. Jan. 11, 1969, 9:00am-4:30pm Pauley </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Ballroom, <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">ASUC</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Building</st1:placetype></st1:place> UC Berkeley.</span></p><p class="p2" style="line-height: 11.3pt;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">"If the Asian American is to live in a very complex American society and an even more complex world, and if he is to be able to assert his own humanity in these life spheres, he must know his own cultural history as an Asian American." 1968 An Asian American Student"</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"theasianexperienceinamerica/identifiedyellowqueriesqueuesfriends"</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="p7" style="line-height: 11.3pt;"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" >"the asian flu in america, blackheads all; gardeners, cooks, </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" >laundrymen </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" >and toshiro mifune; the golden race, america the beautiful, glittering ghettoes, second class citizens with visiting rights; chinatown, </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" >manilatown, </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" >little tokyo relocated concentrated, beautification, hallelujah chris</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" >tian colonies; submissive females, passive males, mellow yellows, that strong silent type; </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" >run run shaw, made in japan, </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" >p.r. </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><i style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><span style="">95 %; </span></i></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" >japanophiles, sinophiles, you likee chop suey, chop chop, </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" >me no savee; white </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" >paper, brown paper, yellow paper, black paper, red paper, if I were god I’d make everybody white; third world liberation front, all men are brothers, love is a many splendored thing, black eyed blondes; we all live in a yellow submarine, anti-queue law, call me yellow, no vietnamese ever called me a </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" >nigger, </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" >let’s call a spade a spade, a jap a jap; buddhaheads transcendental meditation, Jesus is a’comin so get yourself ready for a hard day’s night; reparations for the opium wars, </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" >christianity the whole world over, the </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" >asians </span><span style=""><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" >get what they deserve, they breed like rabbits anyways; that fat jap, that skinny chink, chinatown my chinatown, my little houseboy, sayonnara suzie wong; Free University for Chinatown Kids, Unincorporated"</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 11.3pt;"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717248640311272118.post-7731310647929144812008-01-10T23:14:00.000-08:002008-09-17T23:10:36.867-07:00Richard Aoki , Berkeley Barb Feb. 14, 1969 pg.4<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxGWtHoyTZ6LxZcdJsFbGzkkR0QTPkG26lxani1ul37lqZmrMdNPYV6t9mHKAn5-UPRcyvKmbDKrUi-hY5uhHD6eFOoo18fOMrNawNWzBw5jrtaOdNQkri-6bOsR_8LugzJJ6SRDwGJwQS/s1600-h/ra+sather+sf+exam+012969.jpg"><br /></a> <p class="MsoNormal">Berkeley Barb Feb.14-21 1969 pg. 4 article reprint</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">TWLF LEADER TELLS WHY HE’S WHERE IT’S AT</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">By Phineas Israeli</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">“ ‘As a child I was interned for four years in concentration camps in <st1:city st="on">San Mateo</st1:city> and <st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on">Utah</st1:state></st1:place>.’</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Richard Aoki takes another drag on his cigarette and continues to carefully and unemotionally describe his life under the gun of American racism.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Richard Aoki is a spokesman for the Third World Liberation Front at U.C.Berkeley.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">After WW II, the Japanese-Americans were liberated from the ‘relocation centers’ and Richard began his education in black ghetto schools in the Bay Area.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">‘Of my junior high graduating class, more than 5O% have been in jail or are in jail now. I see this as a reflection of their being unable to achieve a standard of living through traditional means.’</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Richard attributes his schoolmates’ alienation from traditional means to the <st1:place st="on">West Oakland</st1:place> ghetto’s ‘high rate of unemployment, substandard housing, inadequate educational institutions, inferior medical services, and constant police harassment.’</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">One high school teacher advised Richard that ‘I’d end up in San Quentin five years after I got out of school.’</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">‘I took it on a very personal level when they vamped on me, but in retrospect,’ he says now, ‘I see they couldn’t have acted in any other way because of the racist nature of the institution.’</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">When he was 17 Richard signed up for the Army hoping to attain a measure of ‘vertical mobility.’ He was offered a commission ‘but I told them I wanted to do some other things.’</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">After the Army Richard spent two years at a junior college in a pre-med program. But, ‘I gave that up upon being convinced of the racist nature of the medical profession. There is no institution in this country that doesn’t have it.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">‘I started asking around about medical schools and found that there was quota system for Asian-American.’</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Having failed to Find a racism-free :one in either the service or school Richard went on the road. He spent six years ‘wandering about the country, just seeing what it’s all about.’</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Along the way he worked as a truck driver, hospital orderly, clerk and factory hand. He learned two things: that there aren’t any areas in this country really free of racism, and that his thing was to work for the Asian-American community.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">‘I became convinced that this is my country, and if it’s going to become a more positive society then I have to stay here and help.’</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Leaving the road, he returned to school, graduated with honors in sociology, and is now a grad student at UC. The Third World Strike is his way of creating a racism-free zone for this country’s Third Worlders.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">‘I think the strike’s going on quiet well. Morale’s quite high, we still think we’re going to win.”</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Richard believes the <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Third World</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">College</st1:placetype></st1:place> will help the minority communities by creating ‘a circular thing where the youth leaves the community, comes on campus and then goes back to the community.’</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The TWLF has put a great deal of energy into building strike support in the <st1:place st="on">Third World</st1:place> community. ‘If we convince them that we’re fighting in their best interests, then there will be another dimension to the struggle.’</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Front expects this support to materialize Thursday (BARB press time) on campus, and the future direction of their strike depends on Thursday’s turn-out.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">‘The <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Third World</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">College</st1:placetype></st1:place> will be instituted at U.C.’ Richard says flatly, ‘it’s just a matter of time. The strike is a manifestation of the question of who’s going to control it.’</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Though the TWLF has received a favorable response from some faculty and administrators, ‘the main sources of power at the university have indicated an intransigent attitude of non-cooperation with the Third World Liberation Front.’</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Front is aware that many white strikers are dissatisfied with the strike’s tactical pace, but ‘they haven’t seen anything yet, we’ve just started.’</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">‘Multi-faceted systems of pressure will be exerted on the University.’</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">‘Nothing much has really happened here -- a few beatings, a few fights on the line, petty acts of vandalism which we disavow, I personally disavow petty acts of vandalism because they’re petty.’</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Richard allows that the TWLF at <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Cal</st1:place></st1:state> is not in the same place as the Front at State. He says that the <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Cal</st1:place></st1:state> branch of TWLF still considers itself to be ‘responsible’, and has been trying ‘to keep a lid on things.’</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">But he warns that the powers in the University had better move quickly to meet the demands before the lid flies off and ‘everyone does his own thing.’ “</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheoEtnL6VF8SemRBcxINFWViFoCvbdlfR2yY0iIWnRO1xJ0k618CVHACi_m4qzRu8Hp1GWDOSI7NrtG4li8LUT1VYy0CUE52Z8rjQcK11tD0rPd9-QTxeBT8u97Woo1xz2pn24UnW75DMk/s1600-h/Richard+TWS+Arrest+1969+edit.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheoEtnL6VF8SemRBcxINFWViFoCvbdlfR2yY0iIWnRO1xJ0k618CVHACi_m4qzRu8Hp1GWDOSI7NrtG4li8LUT1VYy0CUE52Z8rjQcK11tD0rPd9-QTxeBT8u97Woo1xz2pn24UnW75DMk/s320/Richard+TWS+Arrest+1969+edit.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5172581698877352354" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiule9EB31Zr-C1kwavtHDvPf9tOnocnBioQ9Js4sdCKkSncncvq098zvVhWaNRWFAAdaG1vDYU8cTMbyAA8a6KfLejwJJZ0VGIR5UNlxzBtZFxplfaHR1vpI_4zBABL8pY1Lu_4IvjlnNs/s1600-h/Huey+Richard+crop.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; 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That funds be allocated for the implementations of the <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Third World</st1:PlaceName> <st1:placetype st="on">College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">a. Department of Asian Studies—that positions and staff be set up to develop the Asian Studies Department controlled by Asian people.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">b. Department of Black Studies as proposed by the AASU.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">c. Department of Chicano Studies</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">d. Any other ethnic studies programs as they are developed and presented.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">2. <st1:place st="on">Third World</st1:place> People in Positions and Power</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Recruitment of more Third World faculty in every department and discipline and proportionate employment of <st1:place st="on">Third World</st1:place> people at all levels from Regents,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Chancellors, Vice-Chancellors, faculty, administrative personnel, clerical, custodial,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Security, service personnel, and all other auxiliary positions and contractual vending services throughout the University system.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Specific demands for immediate implementation;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">a. hiring of Third World Financial Counselors (Special Service</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">b. <st1:place st="on">Third World</st1:place> Chancellors in the University System</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">c. <st1:place st="on">Third World</st1:place> people put in the Placement Career as Counselors</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">d. <st1:place st="on">Third World</st1:place> Deans in the L and S Department</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">e. <st1:place st="on">Third World</st1:place> people in the Admissions Office</p> <p class="MsoNormal">3. Specific demands for immediate implementation:</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">a. Admission, financial aid, and academic assistance to any <st1:place st="on">Third World</st1:place> student</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">with potential to learn and contribute as assessed by <st1:place st="on">Third World</st1:place> people.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">b. 30 Work study positions for the <st1:place st="on">Chinatown</st1:place> and Manilatown projects, and 10</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">EOP counselors, including full-time Asian Coordinator.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">c. Expansion of Work study program Jobs to the AASU East campus</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">High School Project, to include at least 30 positions.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">d. That the Center for Chicano Studies be given permanent status with funds to</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">implement its programs.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">4. Third World Control over <st1:place st="on">Third World</st1:place> Programs</p> <p class="MsoNormal">That every University program financed federally or otherwise that involves the Third World communities(Chicano, Black, Asian) must have Third World people in control at the decision making level from funding to program implementation.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">5. That no disciplinary action will be administered in any way to any student, workers, teachers, or administrators during and after the strike as a consequence of their participation in the strike.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">6. These demands supercede any previous demands heretofore put forth by members of the Third World Liberation Front."</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place st="on">Third World</st1:place> Liberation Front</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717248640311272118.post-29317352889369244332008-01-10T13:41:00.000-08:002008-05-02T12:01:24.623-07:00Solidarity AAPA Demands UC Berkeley 1969<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizMNTZW4Wrqo6vK8x0QISV6aBGiO0vxeS4WlBrGeviDezdUIZfAe1GGnflG8HhLhZQaWvun_iLM3r_utfBVslyxCA5AO65auK85wgKgu6i4V6igyPKuBPEdjJHYdhBRx65S-TLOLGrquSd/s1600-h/ucb+twlf+PICKET+stan+flyod+AAPA.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizMNTZW4Wrqo6vK8x0QISV6aBGiO0vxeS4WlBrGeviDezdUIZfAe1GGnflG8HhLhZQaWvun_iLM3r_utfBVslyxCA5AO65auK85wgKgu6i4V6igyPKuBPEdjJHYdhBRx65S-TLOLGrquSd/s320/ucb+twlf+PICKET+stan+flyod+AAPA.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195857171294082738" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">photo: UCB TWLF Strike picketline (AAPA Newspaper 1969)</span><br /><p class="MsoNormal">Solidarity Newsprint<br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">Asian Studies Proposal</p> <p class="MsoNormal">(Submitted by the Asian American Political <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Alliance</st1:place></st1:city>)</p> <p class="MsoNormal">GENERAL PURPOSE AND PRINCIPLES</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Asian experience in <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place> is unique. The lives of the Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Korean, and other Asian people have similarities and differences, but generally fall under the category of the Yellow Experience. The phenomena of a colorful people living in a white society deserves study, understanding, and sensitive analysis. It deserves this study because these colorful people need it, in order to understand themselves and the society in which they live.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The effects of American and Western civilization on the non-Western world have been profound.<span style=""> </span>From the earliest contacts of European explorers with the Chinese and</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Southeast Asians to the present-day Western military, economic, and political activities and spheres in <st1:place st="on">Asia</st1:place>, the 'white' man has been involved with the ‘yellow’ man.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">From the study of these two related experiences- Asians in America and Westerners in Asia—we can perhaps arrive at some understanding about the ‘yellow-white' relationship at its social and psychological roots and manifestations:</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Specific Course Proposals</p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal">the Asian in <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place></p> <p class="MsoNormal">A) Social Psychology: Dynamics of Racism</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The natural alliance of peoples of color results from the exploitation according to and exclusively because of sheer visibility. In this sense, it is simplest put that we know when we are being lied to. <span style=""> </span>Such a perspective as we are attempting to develop could not necessarily emerge from a view of American culture only. We take heart and example from the continued existence of our culture abroad, which proves to us the viability of our heritages the world over.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">To explore the social psychological dynamics of being yellow in a white society.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Method: experiential, accounts, testing, group discussions, reference groups, interpersonal relations. Specifics for Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, ghetto, middle class, wealthy.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">B) The Asian and His Community</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place st="on">Chinatowns</st1:place>: Development, problems, characteristics</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Filipinos: Uniqueness, characteristics, etc.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Identification with community; alienation from the same.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Living in White society: Implications on community identity</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Japanese Community: Where? Characteristics, etc.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">C) Relationships Among Asian Communities</p> <p class="MsoNormal">A study of the inter-community tensions and harmony: distances, effects of national origins, the rural-urban and middle class ghetto relations, and the historical effects</p> <p class="MsoNormal">American society . . . - e . g . relocations, politics, economics.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">D) <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>, An Asian Perspective</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Political Economy of <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Anti-Asian laws: History and Meaning </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">The ‘White Man’: What it means????</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Our Piece of the Pie: Its value… acculturation, accommodation, and affluence.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">E) Community Workshop: Relevant Education</p> <p class="MsoNormal">A major problem of the ghetto is the failure of its youth who are fortunate enough to learn a skill, to return the benefits of that skill to the community. This problem is neglected by the existing educational system, which prepares the individual for the assumption of an economically productive position within society. The skilled individual who can and does return to aid the community is the exception, not the rule.<span style=""> </span>The Third World individual who does return is an even greater rarity because the University which already produces too few of these individuals has few <st1:place st="on">Third World</st1:place> people initially and lacks the relevant courses catering to the specific needs of the community.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">F) Language: Contemporary Linguistic Skills</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The problem of language: dual life and language as presented by immigrant life and handicaps presents the need for Cantonese as well as the desirability of other Asian languages as spoken in the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">G) Creative Workshops -</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Using traditional and non-traditional media, drama, literature, mass communications, art, music, photography, etc.; in workshops that would develop an Asian American perspective through unique and various art-forms.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Asian Experience:</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The roots of the Asian-American lies in <st1:place st="on">Asia</st1:place>. A knowledge of history is essential;<br />most pertinent is history involving Western man. <span style=""> </span>Our course offerings in this part of the department would thus center around the nature of the Asian person, and his relationship with Western man. We include the study of ‘Overseas Asians' in this focus, because most Overseas Asians remain in <st1:place st="on">Asia</st1:place> outside of their national origins.<span style=""> </span>Also, Overseas Asian (except Asian-Americans) are distant from <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>. Community work there is difficult: histoty and current literature are the best we can do.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">A) The Roots of Asian Man: Social Conditions for Emigration</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Social Structure--Family, Occupations, Politics, and Religion</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Economic Condition-labor opportunities, poverty, mobility, class conflict</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Western Effects--War, trade, etc.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">B. Westernization of <st1:place st="on">Asia</st1:place>: Imperialism, Colonization, Modernization and Effects</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place st="on">Europe</st1:place>: 15th thru 20<sup>th</sup> Century</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>: 19th thru 20th Century</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The study of cities—Hong Kong, Shanghai, <st1:city st="on">Tokyo</st1:city>, and <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Singapore</st1:country-region></st1:place>—as case studies in westernization . . . a study of customs, values and social perceptions.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">C. Overseas Asian Communities</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Asians in various contexts: Europe, Africa, Middle East, and <st1:place st="on">Asia</st1:place> in comparison<br />with Asians in <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">D. Asian Revolutionary Ideology: Communism</p> <p class="MsoNormal">A core course on ideology, organization of communism in the Asian countries</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Eg: <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> and the thought of Mao.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">E. Revolutions and Social Movements</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Student Movements in <st1:place st="on">Asia</st1:place></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Conditions for Revolution in <st1:place st="on">Asia</st1:place></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Effects of the West in Revolution and Unrest in <st1:place st="on">Asia</st1:place>.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717248640311272118.post-86092131003907661802008-01-10T13:00:00.000-08:002008-05-02T13:13:45.568-07:00Solidarity TWLF UC Berkeley 1969 Sather Gate Rallies<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTPQeH2_lsJ5TdkR3YwzyowyR3CWqvlI-FcFCt-vbMB3j52pHejFXYQagaDVyTbi8CO1KX_B9lk2nltj-_JRVgq8I2waHXaTcPkePgvSCa8A-lPGgEo2akOzzcfOC9_nGffiJZ7zEL7fuV/s1600-h/UCB+TWLF+sather+3++photos.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTPQeH2_lsJ5TdkR3YwzyowyR3CWqvlI-FcFCt-vbMB3j52pHejFXYQagaDVyTbi8CO1KX_B9lk2nltj-_JRVgq8I2waHXaTcPkePgvSCa8A-lPGgEo2akOzzcfOC9_nGffiJZ7zEL7fuV/s400/UCB+TWLF+sather+3++photos.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195876124984760082" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-G5GUkqERNuip-Zmp8_j6xYw_Kjqna7jMvjRziaY_OREsWsy3Mg_HdQFtnFkGVp2JJlVLRR25pM2SGt2w8GkVbXkk2ssw9wqMmxfc-xxLPwUn6L3VZIELupqEzoeK9J7zWw29LTvDo7nW/s1600-h/UCB+TWLF+sather+2++photos.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-G5GUkqERNuip-Zmp8_j6xYw_Kjqna7jMvjRziaY_OREsWsy3Mg_HdQFtnFkGVp2JJlVLRR25pM2SGt2w8GkVbXkk2ssw9wqMmxfc-xxLPwUn6L3VZIELupqEzoeK9J7zWw29LTvDo7nW/s320/UCB+TWLF+sather+2++photos.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195875510804436706" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM-sRNUer7H70jRv0sG9CvpHKqoUZqCiCP0tg_rdBqV-D7zkSZE63JtSmIOb2TClBqCSjBAhbTnc-RRClZhypVGpfXESkF7l2s3mBpuRgVS_AUQRrjISAaINXtWCiBiYqjdZLAzvBvPUoX/s1600-h/UCB+TWLF+sather+4+photos.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM-sRNUer7H70jRv0sG9CvpHKqoUZqCiCP0tg_rdBqV-D7zkSZE63JtSmIOb2TClBqCSjBAhbTnc-RRClZhypVGpfXESkF7l2s3mBpuRgVS_AUQRrjISAaINXtWCiBiYqjdZLAzvBvPUoX/s320/UCB+TWLF+sather+4+photos.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195875519394371330" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0eZSi82ixKRvIVD2Fv5bRWo_z7lb7po7HbUYFiBLu3IleyPebFtoUJJuzdFaoy3r1DlQq_bIqfhzrEunK1muv5o6TA6sYWoWmmNLfQttZWrbMlpK4zHMgno0g0MgJFeugfdD0uRo3Jz_E/s1600-h/UCB+TWLF+sater+5+photos.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0eZSi82ixKRvIVD2Fv5bRWo_z7lb7po7HbUYFiBLu3IleyPebFtoUJJuzdFaoy3r1DlQq_bIqfhzrEunK1muv5o6TA6sYWoWmmNLfQttZWrbMlpK4zHMgno0g0MgJFeugfdD0uRo3Jz_E/s320/UCB+TWLF+sater+5+photos.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195874338278364882" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGpUUc8bCXVFs2VvWcWsa7aT-l2sXI1XG9k-1uA2gJjP3FnGEbpONP8LAmJp1ab0f7gqMEkxlw2NGMMT6yMXu57j9NzZ8jBqej3IyvrAPhODiqjR5UdGZNPFOHTvNoqWtAIxCyGoGPiceN/s1600-h/UCB+TWLF+sather+1+photos.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGpUUc8bCXVFs2VvWcWsa7aT-l2sXI1XG9k-1uA2gJjP3FnGEbpONP8LAmJp1ab0f7gqMEkxlw2NGMMT6yMXu57j9NzZ8jBqej3IyvrAPhODiqjR5UdGZNPFOHTvNoqWtAIxCyGoGPiceN/s320/UCB+TWLF+sather+1+photos.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195873964616210114" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Photos from Solidarity Newsprint 1969</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0