Vincent Who? showing and "Race in the City" panel discussion at Netroots Nation

Vincent Who? will be shown at Netroots Nation at Cobo Hall on Friday, July 18 at 6:30 pm in room 142-C. A panel will follow to discuss race relations in Detroit, to include the film's producer Curtis Chin; American Citizens for Justice / Asian American Center for Justice's Roland Hwang; Horace Sheffield III from Detroit Association of Black Organizations; Heidi Budaj, executive director of the Anti-Defamation League, Michigan chapter; and Ismael Ahmed representing ACCESS. #nn14

More info on the case at http://RememberingVincentChin.com/

The film and panel discussion are free, but you have to preregister to get in.

Netroots Nation 2014 NN14 Screening of "Vincent Who?" - and Discussion of Race in Detroit- Eventbrite

from Curtis Chin: VINCENT WHO? screening and panel on race in Detroit (aka Race and the City) Friday, July 18, 2014, 6:30 - 8:00 pm, Cobo Hall, Room #142 C. Attendance is free, but if you're not attending the Netroots Nation 2014 conference, you must REGISTER HERE.
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/nn14-screening-of-vincent-who-and-discussion-of-race-in-detroit-tickets-12013820661

NN14 Screening of "Vincent Who?" - and Discussion of Race in Detroit- Eventbrite

2002 Rededication to Justice Vincent Chin T-shirt

From Emily Lawsin, image and note reprinted with permission:

Tshirt designed by Ha-Hoa Hamano for 2002 Rededication to Justice: Vincent Chin 20th Year Remembrance, a 3-day Teach-In and Pilgrimage to the Gravesite in Detroit. The face includes names of hate crime victims. Rest in Peace, Vincent Chin (5/18/1955-6/23/1982).

Frances Kai-Hwa Wang on Role of the Media in Vincent Chin Case State Bar of Michigan Legal Milestone - YouTube

Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, Executive Director American Citizens for Justice, "Role of the Media in the Vincent Chin Case and the Birth of the Asian American Civil Rights Movement" at The State Bar of Michigan's 34th Michigan Legal Milestone commemoration of the Vincent Chin Case "From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry," Friday, June 19, 2009.



Finally got this video cut and uploaded!

Frances Kai-Hwa Wang on Role of the Media in Vincent Chin Case State Bar of Michigan Legal Milestone - YouTube

Remembering Vincent Chin video from Ankur Dholakia then of Detroit News

Thanks to Ankur Dholakia, then at Detroit News, for this clip of the Vincent Chin memorial plaque installation in Ferndale, Michigan, in 2010, which includes a short summary of the case and its significance at the beginning by former American Citizens for Justice Executive Director Frances Kai-Hwa Wang (me).







Here's another video clip of the installation ceremony from WXYZ News that does not want to embed:
Video: Dec 2010 WXYZ News: Plaque honoring murdered Asian man, Vincent Chin, unveiled in Ferndale
wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/oakland_county/plaque-honoring-murdered-man-unveiled-in-ferndale

RIP Frances Kathryn Pearson Korematsu 1921-2013

Our thoughts are with Karen Korematsu and family.

http://korematsuinstitute.org/2013/11/in-memory-of-frances-kathryn-pearson-korematsu-1921-2013/

Helen Zia at American Citizens for Justice / Asian American Center for Justice 30th Anniversary Fundraising Dinner Photos

Helen Zia! Photos from American Citizens for Justice / Asian American Center for Justice 30th Anniversary Fundraising Dinner.






















Photos by Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, not to be reproduced without permission.

Helen Zia keynote for American Citizens for Justice Fundraiser November 15

Come meet Asian Pacific American hero Helen Zia at American Citizens for Justice / Asian American Center for Justice fundraising dinner November 15, 2013, 6pm! (♥ swoon ) Corporate and nonprofit sponsorships available, as well as discounted student tickets.

Sheraton Detroit Novi Hotel
21111 Haggerty Road, Novi, Michigan 48375

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Students! Come meet Helen Zia at ACJ Fundraiser!

NOW! Student Tickets available for $40! Come meet Asian Pacific American hero Helen Zia at American Citizens for Justice / Asian American Center for Justice fundraising dinner November 15, 2013, 6pm! (♥ swoon ) Corporate and nonprofit sponsorships available.

Sheraton Detroit Novi Hotel
21111 Haggerty Road, Novi, Michigan 48375
View Map · Get Directions

Helen Zia coming to Detroit for American Citizens for Justice fundraising dinner November 15

Helen Zia coming to Detroit for American Citizens for Justice / Asian American Center for Justice fundraising dinner November 15, 2013! (♥ swoon )

Fendale City Council anniversary proclamation for Vincent Chin

just in from Oakland County Commissioner Craig Covey (and former Mayor of Ferndale): Ferndale City Council will pass the anniversary proclamation tonight for Vincent Chin. Neat!

Also, heads up about Ferndale's "Light the Night against Hate" on Friday June 15. I'll be stationed at the Vincent Chin Memorial at Nine and Woodward for the event and talk about Vincent Chin and the APA community's response. More info at www.ferndalepride.com

Site redesign and relaunch

AsianAmericanCenterForJustice.blogspot.com is relaunching as www.rememberingvincentchin.com to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the baseball bat beating death of Vincent Chin and to ask the question: What does the Vincent Chin case mean to you?



















This site is no longer being maintained by American Citizens for Justice. You can find them at www.americancitizensforjustice.com.

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.

Chicago is the World » We gain so much wading in the water of each other’s cultural experiences–Adventures in Multicultural Living

Written by American Citizens for Justice Advisory Board member Frances Kai-Hwa Wang:

Two years ago, my father’s choir at the University of Hawaii was invited to sing at a big international diversity concert at Lincoln Center in New York for MLK Day. Choirs from around the world had been invited to sing together, and a Hawaiian choir adds instant diversity with its multicultural population of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Portuguese, Caucasians and native Hawaiians. That summer, over a breakfast of Chinese pancakes and Portuguese sausage, my father told us about the difficulties he had had the night before at choir practice pronouncing the words in the spirituals that they were learning, “You have to say the words like a Negro,” he said.

Twelve-year-old Hao Hao gently corrected him: “African American. These days you should say African American.” (I bet Senator Reid wishes his grandchildren had told him this, too.)

click on link for more: Chicago is the World » We gain so much wading in the water of each other’s cultural experiences–Adventures in Multicultural Living

APALC and American Citizens for Justice to Hold Free Citizenship Workshop in Detroit for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders

DETROIT – American Citizens for Justice (ACJ), in partnership with the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) and other organizations, is providing a free citizenship workshop from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, January 21, 2012. The workshop will be held at the Philippine American Community Center of Michigan (PACCM), 17356 Northland Park Court, Southfield, MI 48075.

click on link for more: APALC and American Citizens for Justice to Hold Free Citizenship Workshop in Detroit for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders

Remembering Vincent Chin Conference: The Legacy and Future, A 30th Year Remembrance

Where are you going to be June 23, 2012? Keynote Speaker Frank Wu.

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?':

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AML: From Band Camp to Ramadan - finding strength, skinniness and similarities | annarbor.com

from ACJ Advisory Board member Frances Kai-Hwa Wang at AnnArbor.com:



At the annual Band Camp concert at Interlochen a few years ago, my friend Shih-yi joked, “This would be a good day to rob Ann Arbor. Half the town is here.”



After a summer of family time, it is quite the plunge back into the cold refreshing waters of school life up at Interlochen where (some configuration of) the Huron, Pioneer and Skyline bands, orchestras, and choirs perform every year after a week of band/orchestra/choir camp — not only for the children who are summoned by the bugle call at 6:30 every morning, but also for the parents and siblings who have not seen all the other parents and siblings all summer.



The Huron Music Association has a bus for folks to ride up to Interlochen so that we do not all have to drive, but I sort of like the drive. I load up Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra songs in my CD player or iPod and I sing at the top of my lungs for four hours up and four hours back.



Driving long distances alone makes me nervous (I am always — justifiably — worried that my car is not going to make it), but once I manage to make it there and back successfully, I find that I am recharged, revitalized, renewed.



There is something about going someplace new to see things from a new perspective.



click on link for more: From Band Camp to Ramadan - finding strength, skinniness and similarities

What people are saing at AAJA – Detroit, Michigan

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.



AAJA Voices 2011 – Detroit, Michigan



AAJA, Detroit remember Vincent Chin « AAJA Voices 2011 – Detroit, Michigan



Vincent Chin's beating death recalled at AAJA conference | Detroit Free Press | freep.com



Activist Boggs tells Asian-American journalists to 'grow our souls' | Detroit Free Press | freep.com



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.

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