Last week, San Diego airport bartender Anita Burbage got the call she’d been waiting months to hear – that it was time to go back to work.
Burbage, 56, who came to the United States in 1991 from her native Philippines, didn’t mind that she’d be instead working as a server, and for just two days a week. After spending most of the past year unemployed, the Chula Vista, California, resident was grateful to be working again.
She and her hospitality worker colleagues have survived the year in part because of regular Zoom chats organized by their union in which they share their fears: That they won’t be able to make rent. That they’ll get COVID. Or for her fellow Filipino colleagues, that they’ll be assaulted – simply because they’re Asian.
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NEW YORK, April 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ On April 21, 2021, Public Wise and Onward Together will host a virtual fundraiser (bit.ly/aapiwomenstrong) in support of the National Asian Pacific Women s Forum (NAPAWF), a leading national organization for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women and girls in the U.S.
#AAPI Women Strong: Organizing Beyond a Hashtag. Flyer image with Margaret Cho, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Michelle Kwan, Padma Lakshmi, Lucy Liu, Olivia Munn, Lea Salonga, Christina Baal-Owens, Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Nina Reddy, Kristina Rodulfo
#AAPI Women Strong: Organizing Beyond a Hashtag, brings together influential AAPI women, organizers and allies for an evening of solidarity. For the community to #StopAAPIHate, the individuals facing these challenges need to be supported and strong from the inside out. Topics of the evening will include self-care for the long run, how to be a good ally, and building a strong AAPI voting bloc
Share: People attend a candlelight vigil in Queens, NYC, for the eight victims of the mass shooting in Atlanta. (Sipa via AP Images)
The Atlanta shooter comes from a culture that connects Asian women to sex and violence. It has its origins in U.S. wars particularly the Korean War and is fueled by our continued military presence in Asia.
After he killed eight people in the Atlanta suburbs on March 16, the perpetrator told police that he “wanted to eliminate” the “temptation” of the massage parlors and spas he had targeted. While it is unclear if he actually said that he wanted to “Kill all Asians” as Korea’s
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Sung Yeon Choimorrow 1 POSTS 0 COMMENTS Sung Yeon Choimorrow is a first-generation immigrant working mom and serves as Executive Director of NAPAWF, the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum. She came to NAPAWF as their National Field Director to build a base of community leaders most affected by NAPAWF’s policy areas: immigrant rights, economic justice, and reproductive health, and she now oversees the organizing team.