When you see a hate
crime or incident taking place, do you know
what you can or should do? You may only have a
split second to decide on your course of
action.
The San
Jose Nikkei Resisters invites you to
participate in a combined bystander
intervention training and community safety
discussion on June 6th at 3:30pm. This is part
of our efforts to create collective safety
through community-based initiatives and
solidarity across communities.
Many of us have
been very concerned about the safety of
seniors and others in the San Jose Japantown
area. Some of us have volunteered with the
safety teams organized by
Japantown Prepared! and the
Japantown
Community Congress of SJ. Many of us are
long-time community members with personal,
business, religious, and cultural ties to the
area.
The CAIR Bystander
Training program is one means of responding to
the issue of anti-Asian violence.
CAIR
(Council on American-Islamic Relations)
developed their training in 2017 in response
to the rise in Islamophobia and updated it in
2020 in response to the resurgence of
anti-Asian violence. This training includes
scenarios of anti-Blackness, anti-immigrant
language discrimination, transphobia,
Islamophobia, etc. in addition to
COVID-related anti-Asian attacks.
It's important to
create or encourage programs that provide
overall safety for our community members while
also preventing victimization or
criminalization, for example, of houseless
folks and others. We hope to take a more
humane approach to community safety, and
invite you to join us!
Please sign up and
invite other members of your group to fill out
the registration form here:
https://bit.ly/SJNRJune6
This
report by the
Stop AAPI
Hate coalition covers the 6,603 incident
reports recorded by Stop AAPI Hate from March
19, 2020 to March 31, 2021.The number of hate
incidents reported to their organization
increased significantly from 3,795 to 6,603
during March 2021. These reports include
incidents that took place in both 2020 and
2021.
The Rising Tide of Violence and
Discrimination Against Asian American and
Pacific Islander Women and Girls
The
National
Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF)
is the only multi-issue, progressive,
community organizing and policy advocacy
organization for Asian American and Pacific
Islander (AAPI) women and girls in the U.S.
NAPAWF’s mission is to build collective power
so that all AAPI women and girls can have
full agency over our lives, our families, and
our communities.
You can watch
the 2021 San Jose Day
of Remembrance that
was held on February
14, 2021 on J-Town
Community TV :
The theme for 2021's virtual program
is Confronting Race in
America: Unifying Our Communities.
Although many of our communities have
been suffering from the effects of
racism for generations, people outside
of these communities are finally
realizing that there are enormous
disparities throughout our society due
to race. Many people have taken action
to try to confront these issues in the
struggle for racial and social
justice. Since one of the driving
forces behind the WWII Japanese
American incarceration was attributed
to racial prejudice, many Japanese
Americans are compelled to join with
other communities in their fight for
social justice.
Related to this theme, NOC is honored to
have featured speaker Reverend
Jethroe Moore II, President of the
San Jose NAACP.
NOC sat down for an hour-long
interview with Reverend Moore
in January. In this segment --
which will not be a part of
our Day of Remembrance program
-- Reverend Moore talks about
police accountability and the
rise of hate groups.
The
41st San Jose Day
of Remembrance event commemorates the
anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066.
The order, signed on February 19, 1942, led to the
forced removal and incarceration of 120,000 people
of Japanese descent during World War II. Hundreds of
people will gather together online not
only to remember that great civil liberties tragedy
but also to reflect on the rising tensions that are
building within our communities today.
2021 Day of
Remembrance Film Trailers
This trailer for the 2021
San Jose Day of Remembrance
spotlights student activism at
San Francisco Bay Area
colleges in the 1960's and
1970's. The Tommie Smith and
John Carlos monument at San
Jose State University serves
as a backdrop. Decades before
Colin Kaepernick, these two
Olympic medalists from SJSU
took a stand for civil rights.
This short film is a short
love letter to the many people
who built San Jose Japantown
("Nihonmachi") with the Issei
Voices Monument as a backdrop.
The magic of the Issei Pioneer
Stone and the Nikkei Lantern,
located on the corner of 5th
and Jackson Streets in San
Jose Japantown, are featured
in this 2021 San Jose Day of
Remembrance trailer.
