Hey guys!!
We'll be updating this blog later with pictures from the event once they start coming in! But for now, we'd just like to thank you guys for making this conference a success. We'd especially love to thank our volunteers: without them, this conference could've very well fallen apart.
In order to continue making this conference a success, we'd appreciate it if everyone who came (even for a little bit!) Could FILL OUT THIS FORM for us! It's an evaluation of the entire conference. We thrive on feedback. So please please please fill this out: it takes less than 2 minutes.
Again, thank you for attending our conference, and we hope to see you next year at the 20th Annual API Issues Conference!!
March 18, 2009
March 14, 2009
March 02, 2009
COUNTDOWN: 12 More days!
The date is coming soon!! If you haven't registered yet, please do so on the RIGHT column! :)
Here is a sneak peek at some workshops:
A Look at the Formation of Asian American Studies
A Panel of twLF Activists from the 1960s
Activism 101
Affirmative Action: Proposition 209
Ethnic Press
Our workshops will help you REALIZE prominent API Issues in order to VOCALIZE your thoughts and MOBILIZE to take action! Be sure to come!!
Here is a sneak peek at some workshops:
A Look at the Formation of Asian American Studies
A Panel of twLF Activists from the 1960s
Activism 101
Affirmative Action: Proposition 209
Ethnic Press
Our workshops will help you REALIZE prominent API Issues in order to VOCALIZE your thoughts and MOBILIZE to take action! Be sure to come!!
February 22, 2009
SPEAKERS UPDATE
GET EXCITED.
Confirmed speakers: ACTIVISTS YURI KOCHIYAMA AND HELEN ZIA
If you've been living under big deep hole that is completely devoid of sunlight, here is the dl on these two awesome women.
Yuri Kochiyama!
Yuri Kochiyama (1921- ) is a grassroots civil rights activist who has involved herself in a wide range of issues from international political prisoner rights, nuclear disarmament, and Japanese redress for World War II internment. In the 1940s Yuri Kochiyama and her family were one of the many Japanese Americans to be sent to internment camps following the bombing at Pearl Harbor. Several years later she saw many similarities between how the Japanese had been treated in the camps and how many minority groups, especially blacks, were treated in the U.S. at the time. For more than sixty years afterwards Yuri Kochiyama has been an enthusiastic activist and a key supporter of many civil rights groups: in the 1960s she was a member of the Harlem Parents Committee organizing protests for more street lights in her neighborhood, and in 1977 she and 29 others from the Puerto Rican group the Young Lords stormed the Statue of Liberty to bring attention to the issue of Puerto Rican independence. Perhaps most famously, Yuri Kochiyama was a close friend and associate of Malcolm X, and was by his side at his assassination in 1965.
Bio copied and pasted from here.
Helen Zia!
Zia has been outspoken on issues ranging from civil rights and peace to women's rights and countering hate violence and homophobia. In 1997, she testified before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on the racial impact of the news media. She traveled to Beijing in 1995 to the United Nations Fourth World Congress on Women as part of a journalists of color delegation. She has appeared in numerous news programs and films; her work on the 1980s Asian American landmark civil rights case of anti-Asian violence is documented in the Academy Award nominated film, “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” and she was profiled in Bill Moyers' PBS documentary, “Becoming American: The Chinese Experience.”
Bio copied and pasted from here.
If you hadn't registered already, do so now or regret it forever. :D
Confirmed speakers: ACTIVISTS YURI KOCHIYAMA AND HELEN ZIA
If you've been living under big deep hole that is completely devoid of sunlight, here is the dl on these two awesome women.
Yuri Kochiyama!
Yuri Kochiyama (1921- ) is a grassroots civil rights activist who has involved herself in a wide range of issues from international political prisoner rights, nuclear disarmament, and Japanese redress for World War II internment. In the 1940s Yuri Kochiyama and her family were one of the many Japanese Americans to be sent to internment camps following the bombing at Pearl Harbor. Several years later she saw many similarities between how the Japanese had been treated in the camps and how many minority groups, especially blacks, were treated in the U.S. at the time. For more than sixty years afterwards Yuri Kochiyama has been an enthusiastic activist and a key supporter of many civil rights groups: in the 1960s she was a member of the Harlem Parents Committee organizing protests for more street lights in her neighborhood, and in 1977 she and 29 others from the Puerto Rican group the Young Lords stormed the Statue of Liberty to bring attention to the issue of Puerto Rican independence. Perhaps most famously, Yuri Kochiyama was a close friend and associate of Malcolm X, and was by his side at his assassination in 1965.Bio copied and pasted from here.
Helen Zia!
Zia has been outspoken on issues ranging from civil rights and peace to women's rights and countering hate violence and homophobia. In 1997, she testified before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on the racial impact of the news media. She traveled to Beijing in 1995 to the United Nations Fourth World Congress on Women as part of a journalists of color delegation. She has appeared in numerous news programs and films; her work on the 1980s Asian American landmark civil rights case of anti-Asian violence is documented in the Academy Award nominated film, “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” and she was profiled in Bill Moyers' PBS documentary, “Becoming American: The Chinese Experience.”Bio copied and pasted from here.
If you hadn't registered already, do so now or regret it forever. :D
February 09, 2009
OUR THEME
Introducing our lovely theme for this year's 19th anniversary of UCB's API Issues Conference!
FOCALIZE. Realize. Vocalize. Mobilize.
It has been 40 years from the initial movement and the status report of Asian and Pacific Islander community here on campus. Strides, changes and efforts have been made. Thus, it is our duty now after 40 years to
What is the status of the contemporary Asian Pacific Islander community? Where do we fit into the ever-changing multicultural landscape that we call America? What progress have we made, and where do we still need to go? And how do we get there? No singular issue can summarize the experience of being a person from the Asian Pacific Islander community. We hope to bring the most pressing, pertinent issues into the light for education, discussion, and action among our collective, unique communities.
Stay tuned for a list of workshops, speakers, and entertainers!
FOCALIZE. Realize. Vocalize. Mobilize.
It has been 40 years from the initial movement and the status report of Asian and Pacific Islander community here on campus. Strides, changes and efforts have been made. Thus, it is our duty now after 40 years to
- FOCALIZE…on the progress we made
- Realize. the current and contemporary issues facing our communities
- Vocalize. the issues
- Mobilize. the community to where we still need to go
What is the status of the contemporary Asian Pacific Islander community? Where do we fit into the ever-changing multicultural landscape that we call America? What progress have we made, and where do we still need to go? And how do we get there? No singular issue can summarize the experience of being a person from the Asian Pacific Islander community. We hope to bring the most pressing, pertinent issues into the light for education, discussion, and action among our collective, unique communities.
Stay tuned for a list of workshops, speakers, and entertainers!
January 16, 2009
Attention! Volunteers Needed for APIICON09!
APIICON's looking for some awesome enthused volunteers to help out with the event! If you are interested in signing up to help out, please sign up by February 15. If you have any questions, please comment on this post!
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January 04, 2009
Registration!
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