What people are saying at the Asian American Journalists Association Convention about the Vincent Chin case. Check out #AAJA and @ACJ_AACJ on Twitter.com.
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Selections from Thursday's Twitter feed:
jozjozjoz jozjozjoz
I've watched "Who Killed Vincent Chin?" at least a dozen times & I always cry when I see Lily Chin ask for justice for her son. #AAJA
6 hours ago
emilamok Emil Guillermo
"I wanted to make a film for 5th graders," Christine Choy on why she left out critical witness tampering facts in her Vincent Chin doc.#aaja
4 hours ago
ronlin Ron Lin, LA Times
Loved persistence of director Christine Choy in getting interview with Vincent Chin's killer. Choy congratulated him on his acquittal. #AAJA
4 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply
ronlin Ron Lin, LA Times
Choy told Chin's killer, You're going to be pissed if you don't talk to me for this documentary. A week later, he agreed to talk. #AAJA
5 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply
ronlin Ron Lin, LA Times
Then Choy accepted an offer to have drinks with him. She said yes, ordered a drink (vodka and gin, I think) and said ... #AAJA
5 hours ago
LoriMatsukawa Lori Matsukawa
Vincent Chin Case 29 Years Later: Director Christine Choy says journalists must tell Asian- American story "from beginning to end." #AAJA
5 hours ago
janetcho Janet Cho
.@AAJA attendees who skipped tonight's "Who Killed #VincentChin?" film missed an inspiring testimony on why media #diversity matters. #AAJA
5 hours ago
jozjozjoz jozjozjoz
Post-screening discussion w/ the Vincent Chin panel. Questions by @emilamok very enlightening.
6 hours ago
laarnid1 Laarni Rosca Dacanay
Just finished "Who Killed Vincent Chin?" screening & learned more about Asian-American civil rights -- impactful story #AAJA
6 hours ago
jozjozjoz jozjozjoz
"No civil rights trial happens w/o a massive amount of protest." --Helen Zia
6 hours ago
jozjozjoz jozjozjoz
Dunno if I can watch "Who Killed Vincent Chin?" again. Already wanna cry @ #AAJA Helen Zia, Christine Choy, Ti-Hua Chang, Roland Hwang panel
7 hours ago
DorisTruong Doris N. Truong
Just heard powerful words from childhood friend of Vincent Chin. Be courageous. Be yourself. #aaja
7 hours ago
Cr8tiveStream Creative Streamline
#aaja "Rembering Vincent Chin" "He swung the bat as if a baseball player would swing for a home run" witness said of how Chin was killed.
7 hours ago
laarnid1 Laarni Rosca Dacanay
At "Who Killed Vincent Chin?" doc screening and Q&A at #AAJA with Richard Lui from @msnbc yfrog.com/h8e8yfkkj
7 hours ago
jozjozjoz jozjozjoz
Ok. I am crying. Childhood friend of Vincent Chin remembers his memory and their friendship. #AAJA
8 hours ago
ronlin Ron Lin, LA Times
Director of "Who Killed Vincent Chin?", when pitching film idea, was asked, "How can you be objective if you are Asian American?" #AAJA
8 hours ago
ronlin Ron Lin, LA Times
In 1980s some members of Congress pulverized Japanese products over economic despair. Racial tension was high, Ti-Hua Chang says. #AAJA
8 hours ago
ronlin Ron Lin, LA Times
Vincent Chin struck in head with four blows by a baseball bat. Brain matter was found on sidewalk, Roland Hwang says. #AAJA
8 hours ago
emilamok Emil Guillermo
Attys for vincent chin family renew pursuit of civil suit award from Ronald Ebens who has surfaced in Nevada, 29 years after Chin murder.
8 hours ago
ronlin Ron Lin, LA Times
Helen Zia says part of reason why Detroit's Renaissance Center is so confusing is it was built during racial riots in the '60s. #AAJA
8 hours ago
ronlin Ron Lin, LA Times
Big story in 1980s: Asians do live in America, and, yes, they are American, says Helen Zia at #AAJA screening of "Who killed Vincent Chin?"
8 hours ago
aajanewyork AAJA New York
Robust attendance at the #aaja Vincent Chin panel!
9 hours ago
GilAsakawa Gil Asakawa
Detroit is a very nice city, what we're experiencing @ #AAJA convention. We've only known it via Michael Moore's & media perspective.
9 hours ago
emilamok Emil Guillermo
Grace Lee Boggs,96,has seen every movement come and go, says the next Am. revolution will be local, individualistic,spiritual.#aaja detroit
10 hours ago
bettymliu betty ming liu
vincent chin activist helen zia, revisits scene of the infamous detroit trial. #aaja http://twitpic.com/64h3il
13 hours ago
emilamok Emil Guillermo
#aaja Touring east side of Detroit after talking with Grace Lee Boggs. Vacant lots, yes. But also big houses, lots of hope still.
14 hours ago
emilamok Emil Guillermo
#aaja Grace Lee Boggs says it's time to end politics as we know it. Jobs are not the answer. Time for a humanistic revolution.
14 hours ago
fkwang Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
@ACJ_AACJ roland hwang and @emilamok called me so i could hear the #aaja panel on Vincent Chin remotely and i didn't hear my phone ring!
1 hour ago
ACJ_AACJ AmericanCitizensJust
Thanks all for coming to meet the American Citizens for Justice folks at #AAJA!! @fkwang sends her regrets.
1 hour ago
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