On July 29th, the State of Arizona is expected to implement the controversial immigration law, SB 1070. To stand in solidarity with those fighting the law, groups in New York have organized a march across the Brooklyn...
At least 26 luxury apartments, 25 hotels, and more than 120 high-end boutiques and cafes have been built in Chinatown in recent years. Will old Chinatown disappear? Poet Fay Chiang and historian and filmmaker Peter...
We continue coverage of Arizona as we turn to the cultural boycott of the state. Today, the Asian American Writers' Workshop launched a website called wordstrike.net where over...
Over the past few months, a wave of high-profile wildcat strikes has been attracting attention in Chinese and Western media. Worker unrest at companies including Foxconn, which makes parts for Apple iPods, and the...
Last week an estimated 15,000 people convened in Detroit for the US Social Forum, only the second such gathering to take place in this country. With over 1,000 workshops, fifty People's Movement Assemblies and...
Every year since the 2007 US Social Forum in Atlanta, organizers and members of community groups working in Chinatowns across the country have been meeting to discuss movement-building and sharing expertise and...
Nearly 200,000 farmers have committed suicide in India in the past ten years, but this fact is ignored by much of the mainstream Indian media. A new documentary follows veteran journalist P.Sainath as he puts faces and...
New laws in Arizona require immigrants to carry immigration documents with them at all times and give police broad powers to stop and detain those suspected of being in the country illegally. Advocates from around the...
The Chinese government’s current efforts to tighten control over nongovernmental organizations is threatening to roll back hard-earned advances made by civil society groups over the past decade. On March 25, China’s...
Join us as we explore a tumultuous period in modern Japanese history through manga, Japanese comics. A new exhibition at the Center for Book Arts features issues of the renowned manga journal Garo during a period of...
