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Extended interview with Alvina Wong and Terisa Siagatonu about their communities in the Bay Area, from the Aloha Friday Conversation.
Alvina Wong, is Campaign Organizing Director for the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, or APEN. She works with Asian immigrants in Oakland, California, a hot spot for reported attacks. I think they are afraid to go out because of Covid, says Wong, And because it just feels like everyone s against us right now.
In January a Thai man was shoved and died from his injuries in San Francisco. Several elders have been attacked in Oakland. Sports figures, celebrities, and law enforcement continue to draw attention to more than 700 incidents in the Bay Area alone. Chinese have lived in California for 200 years.
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Over the past year, San Francisco Bay Area has become a hotspot for violence against Asians-Americans; of the 2,808 incidents of violence that the online tracker Stop AAPI Hate has recorded during the pandemic, over 700 hundred incidents occurred in the Bay Area. The Asian Pacific Environmental Network is looking at the diverse needs of the AAPI community, and Bay Area-based poet
Terisa Siagatonu lends her insight to the conversation.
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Anti-Asian hate crimes have spiked across the U.S. over the past year, fueled in part by Donald Trump s racist rhetoric about the coronavirus. One recent study found a 150% increase in hate crimes targeting Asian Americans in 2020, even though overall hate crimes fell last year. Ron Kim, member of the New York State Assembly representing the 40th District in Queens, New York, says anti-Asian sentiment tends to flare up during times of crisis. There s a long history of Asian Americans in this country feeling targeted and scapegoated whenever we experience economic downturns, says Kim. We also speak with Kim Tran, an antiracist writer and organizer based in the Bay Area, who says anti-Asian violence is diffuse, affecting people in different ethnic and cultural communities in various ways, but there is a common sense of racial scapegoating.