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Community Leader + Founder of the non-profit the Bookcase Operation + Citizen Journalist
Jun 29, 2019 18 tweets 12 min read
(1) In early 2018, Anime News Network published a article about Japanese animator who was a Holocaust denialist. The irony unfortunately was someone who has a connection to ANN, as well as past ties and affiliation to the various anime/manga companies is a denialist of one of the (2) biggest human rights crisis in the 21st century. As someone who is involved in educating young people about the prosecution of Uighurs and other Turkic groups as a nonprofit executive director, this led me to research denialism. Genocide denial is a problem throughout the
Jun 26, 2019 15 tweets 14 min read
(1) Six months ago, students during MLK Day start developing a project to tackle the Uighur concentration camps. After months of development, we officially announcing Woolworth 21, a project with three points to address this crisis: 1: Engage youth in leadership, human rights, (2) and activism education with emphasis placed on utilizing the knowledge to tackle the Uighur crisis, 2: Teach young people to incorporate this knowledge into creating media to tackle social injustice like the Uighur Crisis and also analyze how media can catalyze social