About 30 volunteers showed up on a recent Saturday afternoon to accompany pedestrians to their destinations in Oakland’s Chinatown after a spate of attacks on elderly Asian Americans.
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Even before a gunman killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent, at spas in the Atlanta area on Tuesday, Chinatown was on edge, its cafes and stores decimated by the pandemic, its residents in constant fear. latimes.com/california/sto…
The vulnerability of the victims, combined with a national rise in anti-Asian hate crimes fueled in part by the coronavirus’ Chinese origins, had many people asking: What can I do to help? latimes.com/california/sto…
Horrific videos of Asian American senior citizens being shoved to the ground have inspired even those with no personal connection to Chinatown to work a shift or two with one of about 10 groups that have sprung up in recent months. 
As people waited in line for sesame balls at Tao Yuen Pastry on a recent Sunday, four men from Asians With Attitudes scanned the crowd.
Imposing in their AWA shirts and masks, they were on the lookout for people who need help walking to the car, the bus stop or getting home.
Imposing in their AWA shirts and masks, they were on the lookout for people who need help walking to the car, the bus stop or getting home.
The group was multiethnic — Jimmy Sing Hay is of Chinese descent, Sakhone Lasaphangthong is Laotian, John Le is Vietnamese and Seng Saephan is Mien, an ethnic group from Southeast Asia.
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