Asian American groups push for Bothell murder to be investigated as hate crime
John Huynh was stabbed to death outside an apartment building in Bothell. The suspect has been charged with second-degree murder. Author: Brit Moorer (KING5) Updated: 3:59 PM PDT May 7, 2021
BOTHELL, Wash. Almost two weeks after a man was stabbed to death outside a Bothell apartment building, Asian American social groups are demanding justice. Justice for me, at least my definition, is making sure that we have accountability in place, said Renton City Councilmember Kim-Khanh Van.
Van said she had mixed emotions after hearing about the unprovoked attack on a 29-year old Asian American man last month. She s calling on elected officials to speak out against anti-Asian violence.
Workers Unite for May Day March
International workers day was celebrated this year in San Francisco with a march calling for Congressional action on the PRO Act.
May Day is celebrated around the globe as International Workers Day. Begun in Chicago in 1886 in the struggle for an eight-hour workday, the event is commemorated each year with marches and rallies. In San Francisco this year, more than one thousand working peopleâdockworkers, members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, and many other unions and workers groupsârallied on May 1 and marched up Market Street, to protest racism and call for passage of the
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This week’s Food Podcast focuses on the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank’s “food justice is social justice” initiative.
The initiative is intended to create awareness about social inequality while educating organizations focused on ending racism and creating equality.
One such organization, featured on the Food Podcast, is, The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance Pittsburgh. APALA Pittsburgh is a national organization of AAPI union members and allies advancing worker, immigrant and civil rights.
APALA member Judy Suh said the Pittsburgh chapter was created in 2019 to help immigrants with ICE activity in Pennsylvania.
Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/37189
Support the strikers in Myanmar! Submitted by AWL on 20 April, 2021 - 5:58
Solidarity asks all our readers to back the statement signed by John McDonnell MP, TSSA general secretary Manuel Cortes, ACDU president Yaseen Aslam, and others; to put motions of solidarity through their union branches (same link, above); and to promote the fundraiser organised by the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance and supported by Myanmar’s unions here.
“I have pepper spray and I hold it every time I’m alone right now in case I see someone that is really frightening,” said New York City teacher Annie Tan, who is Chinese American. By February 2020, friends of hers had already been verbally harassed on the subway. One had been deliberately coughed on. Another was too scared to take the train anymore. Many Asian Americans and