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3/16/21--6 Asian women were gunned down in Atlanta. We were devastated. We grieved. Then we fought back fast & furious...That fight was grounded in 50 years of Asian American movement building.
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3/17/21 @AdvancingJusticeATL organized a massive community call & directed donations to victim’s families. All #AsianAmericanAdvancingJustice offices around the US have been mobilizing for justice since the formation of the @AsianLawCaucus 1972 and @AALDEF 1974. 2/14
The Georgia Asian Am community was on the ground and provided invaluable leadership to the national response. Advocacy orgs, churches, business orgs, student orgs, community groups. In the 2020 election year Asian Americans had already helped flip the state. 3/14
(THREAD) In the same email, Dean Gay outlines the establishment of the “Harvard College Visiting Professorship in Ethnicity, Indigeneity, and Migration” - which is supposed to bring visiting professors to teach for a year. Here is why we call BS:
1. These visiting professorships are precarious positions and are insulting to our demands for long-term, tenured faculty of color that will help us establish a concrete Ethnic Studies department starting NOW.
2. The program ensures that no matter how badly they want to help our struggle, Ethnic Studies faculty teaching this fall will have absolutely no power in comparison to tenured and tenure-track professors.
