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@josie_huang
Oct 23, 2019 • 9 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Are you curious whether NBA fans will stand up for Hong Kong at tonight’s season opener between the Lakers & the Clips? Me too! That’s why I’ll be outside @STAPLESCenter. laist.com/2019/10/22/hon…
My interest was piqued when I talked to the NBA fan from the Bay Area raised $43,000 in under two days to make pro-HK democracy T-shirts for other fans to wear at tonight’s season opener. This is him: Image
So he’s still going by the pseudonym Sun Lared. All he’ll tell me is he works in tech, is Taiwanese American, in his 30’s and hates that China has gotten US businesses to self-censor.

He’s had 13,000 shirts made to give away. Dozens are here to help him. ImageImage
.@STAPLESCenter holds 19,000+ people. If fans wear the 13,000 shirts, it’ll create quite the visual.
How are fans reacting to the Hong Kong T-shirt giveaway? Well, you got folks like Ramon Diosdado of Fontana who took a shirt but says he’s been waiting too long for this game to cover up his Lakers jersey. Image
Then you have Clips fan Ernesto Becerra of Upland who says he’ll put on the shirt inside Staples to show support for Hong Kong protesters and also to challenge LeBron for critiquing Rockets GM Daryl Morey. Image
Yo, @KingJames. #hongkongprotestors outside Staples.
This is not just about Hong Kong, but standing up to China. Uyghurs and Taiwan also getting repped outside Staples.
My view now that Clips/Lakers game has started.

Didn’t ask @KPCC to spring for ticket, especially not during pledge drive week.

Oh, please donate at kpcc.org! Image

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Sep 23, 2022
There's never been a complete list of the people of Japanese descent incarcerated during WWII.

So a team of scholars & volunteers scoured 10's of 1000's of historical documents to come up with all the names — a way to give them back their identities.
laist.com/news/wwii-monu…
In news stories, we use the estimate "more than 120,000" when describing the number of Japanese Am's and nationals incarcerated during WWII.

The team has now confirmed 125,284 people by name. The list is printed in a 1,000-page book that will be @jamuseum for the next year. A woman with glasses atop her head opens a large book while
The team thinks they've got the list 99.5% right but to get it to 100% they're asking survivors and descendants to offer any corrections/omissions.

Aside from the "Book of Names," there's a searchable database going live this weekend: ireizo.com. A talisman made of string, ribbon and wood sits on a page w
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May 16, 2022
Dr. John Cheng, the 52-yr-old man killed in the Laguna Woods shooting yesterday, had tried to disarm the gunman. Other parishioners were able to then hogtie the suspect. "W/o the actions of Dr. Chang, it is no doubt that there have been numerous additional victims in this crime." Image
OC Sheriff say it's believed the suspect David Chou "was upset about political tensions between China and Taiwan" when he attacked the Taiwanese American Presbyterian congregation in Laguna Woods on Sunday, killing 1 and wounding 5. Image
FBI has opened a federal hate crimes investigation into Laguna Woods shooting to determine what type of fed'l charges can be brought against David Chou b/c "we have discovered evidence that the individual was motivated by some type of hate."
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Oct 21, 2021
Up until several years ago I didn't know one of the worst massacres of Chinese people happened in downtown LA.

So many times without knowing it, I've walked past spots where people were strung up and shot. Apparently, I wasn't alone.
laist.com/news/la-histor…
LA's 1st Asian Am councilmember Mike Woo is part of a group trying to get a memorial built for victims of the 1871 massacre.

Hard to say where. The attacks played out across LA. But they started on Los Angeles Street, near El Pueblo. Only marker now is a sidewalk plaque.
On Oct. 24, 1871, there was a gunfight btw 2 Chinese men. A white rancher who entered the fray was shot dead. That led a mob to form around a building (no longer there) where many Chinese men were seeking refuge. They were shot at and dragged outside to be hung.
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Jul 15, 2021
CA has $5.2 BILLION to give out in rent relief. You can get 100% of back rent paid from April 2020 thru this Sept if you've struggled financially bc of covid & are income-eligible.

Applying can be hard if you don't know English well. Here’s ways to make it easier:
If you text “rent” to 211211, you can get help figuring out if you qualify in one of 11 languages.

Aid is available to those who earn no more than 80 percent of the median income for their area. For a family of 4 in the LA area, that’s just under $95,000.
You can also call for interpreter help: 1-833-430-2122. It’s available for Vietnamese, Mandarin, Spanish, Korean, Tagalog and Cantonese.
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Apr 9, 2021
In Koreatown tonight, 50+ people walked the wide boulevards with the aim of deterring anti-Asian attacks.

Community patrols sprouted up in NY & the Bay Area months ago.

Efforts in LA have been slow to gain steam but that's changed after the Atlanta shootings.
I was walking in Alhambra when this “Stop Asian Hate” flier fluttered to the ground in front of me from the group Compassion in SGV.

They’ve been canvassing the streets, letting people know they’ll chaperone you to your car or wait with you while you close shop.
There’s concerns that neighborhood patrols will lead to racial profiling and vigilantism.

Linda Dao, a labor organizer who lives in Ktown, says patrols are about community-building not trying to “police people.”
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Mar 21, 2021
San Gabriel Valley is coming out big tonight for the victims of the Atlanta shootings. I’d estimate 1000+ btw 2 vigils.

People feeling the loss hard in this swath of LA Cty, which has 1 of the country’s largest concentrations of Asian residents. 10 cities have Asian majorities.
Leaders from these Asian-majority cities - Arcadia, Rosemead -- kick off a vigil in downtown San Gabriel.

Emotions run strong.

San Gabriel’s mayor Chin Ho Liao shouts “We have to stop the hate! We are Americans!”
Crowd in San Gabriel is older, more immigrant (I hear Mandarin and Cantonese being spoken) than those attending another vigil happening next door in Alhambra.

That one is being put on a 22 yo first-time organizer Betty Hang. Will come back to hers.
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