Rice Amidst the Cloud

Date: August 23, 2012 Time: 8PM to 8:20PM Place: 25 West 43rd Street, Room 1000 between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan Artist Chee Wang Ng discusses his photos and installations being exhibited at the Art and Food Symposium hosted by the Dunedin School of Art and the programme in the Culinary Arts at the Otago … Read more

We Are One: 1982 Chinatown Garment Strike, 30 Years Later

Museum of Chinese in America We Are One: 1982 Chinatown Garment Strike, 30 Years Later Date: Thursday, June 28, 2012 Time: 3PM to 8PM Place: Museum of Chinese in America 215 Centre Street, Manhattan In 1982, tens of thousands of workers, mostly immigrant women, worked in union garment factories in and around Canal Street in … Read more

Asian American and Pacific Islander Policy Research Consortium Response to Pew Center Report

LETTER TO PEW RESEARCH CENTER:  June 22, 2012 Dear Paul Taylor and Dr. Mark Lopez, We are writing on behalf of the Asian American Pacific Islander Policy and Research Consortium (AAPIPRC), a national organization of four university-based Asian American research centers. [i]  We respectfully submit this response to the Pew Research Center’s recent report, The … Read more

Vincent Chin 30: Standing Up Then and Now

Asian Pacific Americans for Progress Vincent Chin 30: Standing Up Then and Now Date: Saturday, June 23, 2012 Time: 1:30PM to 4PM Place: 25 West 43rd Street, 18th Floor (Rooms C & D) between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan   Two-part commemoration of the 30th anniversary of Vincent Chin’s murder, a foundational moment in Asian … Read more