Vincent Who? - OFFICIAL MOVIE SITE - A Film On Vincent Chin

and the more recent film about all that has happened since the case, from Curtis Chin:

Vincent Who? - OFFICIAL MOVIE SITE - A Film On Vincent Chin

Asian Pacific Americans for Progress presents Vincent Chin 30: Standing Up Then and Now A nationwide Google Hangout* with leading civil rights leaders from around the country

all the details about the APAP Google Hangout on June 23 for the 30th Anniversary of the murder of Vincent Chin:
apaforprogress.org

My VC Lesson Plan - 1 | apaforprogress.org

Check out Chris Wong's Vincent Chin Lesson Plan on APAforProgress.org. Neat!

My VC Lesson Plan - 1 | apaforprogress.org

New American Citizens for Justice Website!

American Citizens for Justice has a new Website! Check out AmericanCitizensforJustice.com for all the latest.

The American Citizens for Justice Blog formerly at americancitizensforjustice.blogspot.com has been moved to asianamericancenterforjustice.blogspot.com and will no longer be maintained.

Vincent Chin and Simon San: two murders, same indifference | Madam Miaow Says

from UK Blogger Madam Miaow or Anna Chen comparing the murders of Vincent Chin with UK case Simon San at http://madammiaow.blogspot.com:

Vincent Chin and Simon San were born and murdered decades apart on two different continents, but the common factor is the callousness and indifference with which their cases have been dealt with by the investigating police and prosecutors.

Justice is off the menu when it comes to these Chinese deaths. While the police finally admit that an acknowledgment of the racist dimension of Simon's murder by a white mob outside the family-run takeaway in Edinburgh in Scotland would have resulted in stiff sentences, the men have been given 24 months, 26 months and five years for the thug who landed the killer blow that smashed Simon's head against the pavement. As we all know by now, they will walk after serving only a third of that minus remand time. Only one year more than the sentence imposed on the laptop rioters who posted their encouragement of the unrest on Facebook. What is this telling us about values in Britain today?

This insulting sentence echoes the $3,000 fine and three years probation imposed on the white Detroit car-workers, Richard Ebens and Michael Nitz, who beat Vincent Chin to death with a baseball bat in front of witnesses one summer evening in 1982. Out on a bachelor party, Vincent was hunted down before finally being cornered in a McDonalds where he was held by Nitz while Ebens pulped his skull with the bat.

Both killings were preceded by racist epithets.

click on link for more: Vincent Chin and Simon San: two murders, same indifference | Madam Miaow Says

'Vincent Who?' goes to Amnesty International UK

Date: Mon 12 September 2011

Sponsored by Asian Pacific Americans for Progress and the Islington Chinese Association.

In 1982, at the height of anti-Japanese sentiments following massive layoffs in the U.S. car industry, a Chinese-American named Vincent Chin was murdered by two white car workers. The killers were given a $3000 fine and 3 years probation. Outraged by this injustice, Asian Americans united for the first time to form a pan-Asian civil rights movement. This film looks back at the historic case, but also asks how far Asian Americans have come since then, including the rise of anti-Asian sentiments directed at South Asians post 9/11.

A post-screening Q&A with writer/producer Curtis Chin aims to highlight the similarities and differences between Asians, both East and South, on both sides of the Atlantic. Co-presenter, Paul Hyu, actor/artistic director. Introduction by Col. Brian Kay OBE TD DL, Chairman of Islington Chinese Association.

Event Type Film
Event venue The Human Rights Action Centre
Time 7pm
Price Free of charge
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click here for more: AIUK : 'Vincent Who?':

'via Blog this'

AAJA : Programs : 22nd Annual National Convention:August 10-13, 2011 : Community Programming : Through the Lens: Vincent Chin

"Join New York-based Photojournalist Corky Lee and Filmmaker/Director Curtis Chin ("Vincent Who?") for an intimate talk about their documentation surrounding the 1982 Vincent Chin Case. Lee will be on hand to discuss his gallery of photographs that are housed at the Chinese American Community Center which documents the movement sparked by the case that brought Asian Americans together in protest. Concluding this event will be Chin's 2009 documentary film "Vincent Who?" which questions 80 young Asian Americans about a landmark case that has become unnoticed among today's generation."



AAJA : Programs : 22nd Annual National Convention: August 10-13, 2011 : Community Programming : Through the Lens: Vincent Chin



Update: From Saturday's Twitter Stream, including some photos from jozjozjoz.com:



jozjozjoz jozjozjoz

Met Roland Hwang after the VINCENT WHO? screening and he said, "Oh YOU'RE Joz! @fkwang told me abt you!" (Uh oh!)

21 minutes ago



emilamok Emil Guillermo

#aaja was appropriately in Detroit, a great city. Journalists have more in common w/the town and its autoworkers than we think.

1 hour ago



fkwang Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

@jozjozjoz #AAJA more on the Vincent Chin plaques …ericancitizensforjustice.blogspot.com/2010/12/plaque…

56 minutes ago



ACJ_AACJ AmericanCitizensJust

@jozjozjoz @curtischin across street "Post Bar" (formerly Golden Star) is where all Vincent Chin organizing took place. Did u go in? #AAJA

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fkwang Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

@jozjozjoz across the street "The Post Bar" (formerly Golden Star) is where all the Vincent Chin organizing took place. Did you go in? #AAJA

57 minutes ago



jozjozjoz jozjozjoz

Getting to see old Detroit Chinatown w/ Curtis Chin. #AAJA. (Thx @Buick for providing the driver & sweet ride!)

1 hour ago



jozjozjoz jozjozjoz

PIC: #AAJA folks take an impromptu trip to see the new Vincent Chin memorial marker twitpic.com/65iuqf

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GilAsakawa Gil Asakawa

RT @jozjozjoz: PIC: Legendary photog Corky Lee shows us his photo exhibit. #AAJA http://twitpic.com/65gg8n Wish I could be there!

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jozjozjoz jozjozjoz

PIC: #AAJA folk who aren't at The VINCENT WHO? event are missing the delicious dim sum! twitpic.com/65gj45

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PIC: #AAJA Conference attendees at Corky Lee's Rights & Sites photo exhibit at the Chinese American Community Cent twitpic.com/65ghwn

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PIC: Thx to #AAJA sponsor @Buick for the private drivers to take us to the VINCENT WHO? event! twitpic.com/65gcmw

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updated.

On the 29th anniversary of the murder of Vincent Chin

Interesting links on the 29th anniversary of the baseball beating death of Vincent Chin:

How the Vincent Chin case continues to resonate after 29 years, by Frances Kai-Hwa Wang for Chicago is the World, June 23, 2011
http://chicagoistheworld.org/2011/06/how-the-vincent-chin-case-continues-to-resonate-after-29-years/

Crime Without Punishment: Why the Death of Vincent Chin Resonates Today by Frances Kai-Hwa Wang in InCultureParent.com
http://www.incultureparent.com/2011/05/5009/

Vincent Chin? Remembering Ronald Ebens-the guy who got away with murder by Emil Guillermo at Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund:
http://aaldef.org/blog/vincent-chin-remembering-ronald-ebens-the-guy-who-got-away-with-murder.html

On Anniversary of Vincent Chin’s Murder, CAPAC Members Denounce Explosion of Anti-Chinese Rhetoric in Campaign Ads
http://capac.chu.house.gov/news/press-releases/2011/06/on-anniversary-of-vincent-chins-murder-capac-members-denounce-explosion-of-anti-chinese-rhetoric-in.shtml

Vincent Who? goes online; limited time offer to view for free by Curtis Chin at APAs for Progress:
http://www.apaforprogress.org/vincent-who-goes-online-limited-time-offer-view-free

Remember Vincent Chin Vigil 6/23/11
http://remembervc.tumblr.com/

remember vincent chin vigil, june 23, on angryasianman.com
http://blog.angryasianman.com/2011/06/remember-vincent-chin-vigil-june-23.html

In Retrospect: Who Killed Vincent Chin? AAJA Conference Panel in Detroit, August 2011
http://www.aaja.org/programs/convention2011detroit/panels/

Advancing Justice Conference coming up in San Francisco, October 2011
http://www.advancingjustice.org/conference/2011/index.php

“Asian Pacifically New York,” a Photo Exhibit by Corky Lee
http://chapters.aaja.org/NewYork/?p=995

Vincent Chin by Model Minority on Channel APA Music
http://www.channelapa.com/2011/06/vincent-chin-by-model-minority.html

Edward Hong HanSarang Day 6: Remember Vincent Chin Poem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_dH-3-F5Lk

Plaque honoring murdered Asian man, Vincent Chin, unveiled in Ferndale
http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/oakland_county/plaque-honoring-murdered-man-unveiled-in-ferndale


"Groom-to-be clubbed to death" video by Richard Lui on CNN
http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/crime/2009/05/28/lui.vincent.chin.cnn.html

Remembering Vincent Chin, Detroit News Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68k0R3uJoRg



Adventures in Multicultural Living column: Resisting 'slacktivism,' remembering Vincent Chin, and singing with Joe Reilly by Frances Kai-Hwa Wang in annarbor.com and newamericamedia.org
http://annarbor.com/entertainment/parenting/resisting-slacktivism-remembering-vincent-chin-and-singing-with-joe-reillysocial-justice-and-environ/


Mark your calendars for the thirtieth anniversary next year with American Citizens for Justice, June 23, 2012, Chinese Community Center, Madison Heights, Michigan.

AML: Resisting "slacktivism," remembering Vincent Chin, and singing with Joe Reilly, social justice and environmental activism and the arts

from ACJ Advisory Board Member Frances Kai-Hwa Wang:

I recently interviewed for a job launching a new online literary magazine about literature and social justice activism. (The interview did not go so well, but...) What a great idea to link the glamour of novelists and poets with the purpose of social justice activism. This gives literature more weight and meaning, and gives activism more color and style.

Otherwise, social justice activism can be such a downer sometimes.

Don’t get me wrong. I am on the Advisory Board of American Citizens for Justice, the original Asian American civil rights nonprofit formed after the baseball beating death of Vincent Chin 29 years ago today.

I am involved with many other nonprofit organizations. I lecture about civil rights and activism. I know this stuff is important.

However, I also get hundreds of emails in my inbox every day, thousands of tweets on my Twitter feed and more posts than I can deal with on Facebook and Linkedin. Sometimes I simply do not want to click on that link, open that email, read that news clip that I know is going to be bad news.

click on link for more: Resisting "slacktivism," remembering Vincent Chin, and singing with Joe Reilly, social justice and environmental activism and the arts

Vincent Who? goes online; limited time offer to view for free | apaforprogress.org

from APAP and Curtis Chin:

To honor the 29th anniversary of the death of Vincent Chin (June 23, 2011), an online version of "Vincent Who?" can be viewed for free. This limited-time offer (until the end of July 2011) is brought to you by Asian Pacific Americans for Progress (APAP) and the producers of "Vincent Who?" via a new website: vincentwhomovie.com.

click on link for more: Vincent Who? goes online; limited time offer to view for free | apaforprogress.org

Blog: Vincent Chin? Remembering Ronald Ebens-the guy who got away with murder - AALDEF

Only Emil Guillermo would call up Ronald Ebens... from AALDEF:

I've got my call into Ronald Madis Ebens. I've found him, heard his voice, and left my message on his answering machine. And when he calls me back, maybe he'll say something to make us all feel better.

I'm not holding my breath.

It will be 29 years on June 19th. On that day in 1982, Ebens, a then 42-year-old white Chrysler autoworker, along side with his stepson accomplice Michael Nitz, then 23, took a baseball bat and bludgeoned Vincent Chin, a 27-year-old Chinese American, to death on Woodward Avenue in Highland Park, a suburb of Detroit.

While people always seem to ask about Vincent Chin, I prefer to dwell on the perps, Ebens and Nitz.

click on link for more: Blog: Vincent Chin? Remembering Ronald Ebens-the guy who got away with murder - AALDEF

Crime Without Punishment: Why the Death of Vincent Chin Resonates Today | InCultureParent

from ACJ Advisory Board Member Frances Kai-Hwa Wang:

Before I came to Michigan for graduate school, the only thing I knew about Michigan was that it was where Vincent Chin was killed. My parents’ Japanese-American neighbors warned me to sell my father’s Toyota 4Runner and buy a Ford Bronco. I asked about safety as much as I did about academics before I decided to come.

This year marks the 29th anniversary of the baseball bat beating that caused the death of Vincent Chin. Unfortunately, with the recession and rise in anti-immigrant sentiment, the case is even more relevant than ever.

click on link for more: Crime Without Punishment: Why the Death of Vincent Chin Resonates Today | InCultureParent

Installation of Vincent Chin case 34th Legal Milestone Plaque today

Vincent Chin Case State Bar of Michigan Legal Milestone installation is today, Wednesday, December 22, at Noon at the Post Bar (formerly Golden Star Restaurant where Vincent Chin once worked) in Ferndale, Michigan. The first meeting about the case was held at that location in March 1983.

Today's program is hosted by the City of Ferndale. Everyone is invited to attend. Ferndale Mayor Covey indicates that the place can hold 140 people. The Post Bar is located at 22828 Woodward, east side of Woodward, just north of 9 Mile Road in Ferndale.

The event is covered on page 1 of the Detroit Free Press today.

link to the Free Press article: http://www.freep.com/article/20101222/NEWS05/12220383/1001/NLETTER09/82-beating-death-spurred-changes-in-Michigan-law?source=nletter-news

link to Ferndale Mayor Craig Covey's press release:
http://coveys-corner.blogspot.com/2010/12/why-we-are-proud-to-host-vincent-chin.html

wording on the plaques here:
http://www.multiculturaltoolbox.com/American_Citizens_for_Justice/MilestonePlaque.html

link to Frances Kai-Hwa Wang's speech coming soon:

link to content of Roland Hwang's speech:
http://www.michbar.org/journal/pdf/pdf4article1505.pdf

Vincent Who at MAPABA conference

Showing the movie Vincent Who today at Michigan Asian Pacific American Bar Association (MAPABA) conference in Detroit with Curtis Chin and Roland Hwang and Frances Kai-Hwa Wang.

Vincent Who? at USSF Today

Join us today for

Vincent Who?
Wed, Jun 23, 2010
10:00 am | AFSCME Building, Detroit

A Documentary film directed by Tony Lam and Karin Wang, Asian Pacific American Legal Center, Producer Curtis Chin

Introduction by Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, American Citizens for Justice former Executive Director and current Advisory Board Member

for more info http://organize.ussf2010.org/film-festival

Adventures in Multicultural Living: Remembering Vincent Chin 28 years later - AnnArbor.com

Posted: Jun 20, 2010 at 12:51 PM AnnArbor.com
by Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

Before I came to Michigan for graduate school, the only thing I knew about Michigan was that it was where Vincent Chin was killed. My parents’ Japanese-American neighbors warned me to sell my father’s Toyota 4-Runner and buy a Ford Bronco. I asked about safety as much as I did about academics before I decided to come.

Saturday was the 28th anniversary of the baseball bat beating that caused the death of Vincent Chin. Unfortunately, with the recession and rise in anti-immigrant sentiment, the case is even more relevant than ever. (click on link for more)

Remembering Vincent Chin 28 years later - AnnArbor.com

New Website for Vincent Who?

An email from Tony Lam, Director of the Vincent Who? documentary film, about their new website at:
Vincent Who? - A Documentary Film About Vincent Chin

This week marks the 28th anniversary of the hate crime murder of Vincent Chin, a case that ignited the first Asian American civil rights movement and gave rise to a new "Asian American" identity and community.

In commemoration, we are launching a new website dedicated to Vincent Chin and his legacy to serve as an educational resource and information portal.

We are also releasing a Special Edition DVD of VINCENT WHO?, the 2009 documentary about Vincent Chin and the Asian American experience in political activism. See our new widescreen trailer and the remarkable cast of participants in the film.

We hope to contribute toward the day when the momentous, but mostly unknown story of Vincent Chin becomes a familiar one, not only among Asian Americans, but all Americans. Please join us in this effort by spreading the news. Thank you for your support! And join us on Facebook.

Sincerely yours,

Tony Lam
Director, VINCENT WHO?

More A/PIA Events at USSF

Also,

Vincent Who?
Wed, Jun 23, 2010
10:00 am | AFSCME Building, Detroit

A Documentary film directed by Tony Lam and Karin Wang, Asian Pacific American Legal Center, Producer Curtis Chin

Introduction by Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, American Citizens for Justice former Executive Director and current Advisory Board Member

for more info http://organize.ussf2010.org/film-festival

Vincent Who?, Jing Xiang, Manfred Elfstrom, ACJ at CCC on April 26

American Citizens for Justice and Association of Chinese Americans present

VINCENT WHO? A documentary movie and a discussion of Asian Pacific American race and labor issues with Labor Notes’ guest Jing Xiang, of China’s Pearl River Workers Service Center (PRWSC).

Monday, April 26, 2010, 6:30 pm
following the Labor Notes Conference www.LaborNotes.org
Chinese Community Center, 32585 Concord Drive, Madison Heights, MI 48071(1 block E of I-75/14 Mile Rd. interchange, ½ block S of 14 Mile Rd.)

Jing Xiang will be speaking about the Pearl River Workers Service Center (PRWSC), a worker center supporting the rights and interests of workers in China's Pearl River Delta, along with International Labor Rights Forum staffer Manfred Elfstrom. A panel discussion on the impact of the Vincent Chin case, the economy, labor issues and the Asian American Community will follow the movie. Panelists include Roland Hwang, Jim Shimoura, and Prasanna Vengadam, American Citizens for Justice board members; Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, ACJ Advisory Board; and Stephanie Chang, APIA Vote-Michigan.

In 1982, Vincent Chin was murdered in Highland Park by two autoworkers at the height of anti-Japanese sentiments. For the first time, Asian Americans around the country galvanized to form a real community and movement. This documentary, "Vincent Who?," is inspired by a series of town halls organized by Asian Pacific Americans for Progress on the 25th anniversary of the case, features interviews with the key players at the time, as well as a whole new generation of activists. "Vincent Who?" asks how far Asian Americans have come since then and how far we have yet to go. Featured interviews include: Helen Zia (lead activist during the Chin trial), Renee Tajima Pena (director, "Who Killed Vincent Chin?"), Stewart Kwoh (Executive Director, Asian Pacific American Legal Center), Lisa Ling (journalist), Sumi Pendakur (Univ. of Southern California), Dale Minami (civic rights attorney), Roland Hwang and Jim Shimoura (American Citizens for Justice), Doua Thor (Executive Director, Southeast Asian Resource Action Center), and a diverse group of young APA activists whose lives were impacted by Chin.

For information: Call Roland Hwang, 248-347-1663 or Shirley Yee at Chinese Community Center, 248-585-9343

CNN segment on Vincent Chin case today

Check out this Richard Lui piece on the Vincent Chin case today on CNN, with our Roland Hwang, former mayor Dennis Archer, APACC's Denise Yee, and APAP's Vincent Who?