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| Video Discription | A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists. Join the Powerleegirls Miko Lee (https://www.mikolee.me/) & Jalena Keane-Lee (http://www.jalenakeanelee.com/) , a mother daughter team, as we continue with “We are the leaders” series. Episode three focuses on “Movement Builders”, people who have shaped or led the way for AAPI justice. We talk with Helen Zia about Vincent Chin and the start of the Asian American movement, we hear from Yuri Kochiyama about AAPI Black solidarity and we talk with Julia Putnam about the legacy of Grace Lee Boggs. We are the leaders is inspired by ancestor activist Grace Lee Boggs quote, “We are the leaders we’ve been looking for.” The series is intended to be amplify our history of AAPI activism and inspire social change and action. More information about what was discussed on the show. Helen Zia’s site, (https://helenzia.com/) check out all of her brilliant and thoughtful books, support an independent book store like East Wind Books of Berkeley (https://www.asiabookcenter.com/) Who Killed Vincent Chin? (http://www.pbs.org/pov/watch/whokilledvincentchin/) Christin Choy, Renee Tajima, 1988 documentary which Helen Zia is featured in and covers the hate crime in exceptional detail Yuri Kochiyama (https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/yuri-kochiyama-was-born/) – more info and short bio film about Yuri from Zinn Education Project The James & Grace Lee Boggs School, (https://www.boggsschool.org/) led by guest Julia Putnam The Boggs Center, (http://boggscenter.org/) which Grace and Jimmy founded, and lead Detroit Summer 7.16.20 WE ARE THE LEADERS Transcript (transcript provided through funding from NADC Arts and Accessibility Program) Opening: Asian Pacific expression. Unity and cultural coverage, music and calendar revisions influences Asian Pacific Islander. It’s time to get on board the Apex Express. Jalena Keane-Lee: [00:00:32] Good evening. You’re tuned in to Apex Express. We’re bringing you an Asian American Pacific Islander view from the Bay and around the world. We are your hosts, Miko Lee and Jalena Keane-lee the powerlee girls, a mother daughter team, and tonight join us for our series, We are the Leaders, which will highlight our AAPI history of resistance and change from our ancestors to the leaders on the ground today, we will use the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and systemic racism as a way to politically activate our community and amplify ways we can support each other. “We are the Leaders” is inspired by one of our ancestor activists. Grace Lee-Boggs quote. “We are the leaders we’ve been looking for.” So keep it locked on apex express. Miko Lee: [00:01:13] Welcome to Apex Express, Helen Zia as a journalist scholar, activist, powerhouse woman, we are so thrilled to have you join us. Right now in this time of COVID-19 and racism. I’m wondering if you can just take a moment and talk with us about the similarities of our time right now, and when Vincent Chin was murdered on the streets of Detroit. Helen Zia: [00:02:20] Unfortunately, It’s a historical commonality when there is a time of great crisis and misery and people are suffering that all too often, they are a susceptible to blaming other people and targeting them. So we’ve seen that at various times in history. The killing of Vincent chin was one of those times in 1982. And I just want to say for listeners that more recently, nine 11 was certainly a time that unleashed a great deal of hatred toward anybody thought to be Muslim. And the Islamophobia, but the similarity between today and the 1980s is, is really striking. So at that time there was a, a great economic shock and crisis to the country that began as an oil crisis in 1979 and, the manufacturing sector of the United States collapsed. So it began in the auto industry, where I worked, I was a, large press operator at a Chrysler stamping plant. And so I was one of the people laid off during that period, but, pretty much. The auto industry came to a halt and every industry that was part of the, supply chain, you know, whether it was tires and rubber or plastics and anything you can think of also collapsed. So we’re talking about millions of workers in pretty high paying jobs that, suddenly lost everything. Lost homes lost. Second homes lost two or three cars lost recreational vehicles lost their future. Lost their children’s education. Lost everything that they had worked hard, all their lives for. And it looked like there was no, no safety net insight. I remember standing in unemployment lines that snaked around several city blocks and the dead of a Michigan winter and that you would be waiting there all day. In the hope that you would make it to the unemployment window in time to get a very small check. And it was debated in Congress eve... |
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