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The following event is being organized by Pivot to Peace, an important initiative to stand
against a new Cold War with China.
TODAY (November
14th)
Join us on November 14 at 12 pm (Pacific Time) for a compelling
panel discussion by Chinese-Americans united to reject the new US cold
war against China. Racial scapegoating of Chinese-Americans and
Asian-Americans continue to rise and has become “normalized” as a
consequence of relentless and pervasive China-bashing by the current
administration and the main stream media.
This panel of highly respected members of the Chinese-American
community will provide a unique perspective of the long history and
legacy of anti-Chinese racism in the United States. It will examine
the organic link between the US-China cold war and the racism
experience by Chinese-Americans. The panel will propose ways for the
U.S. and China to cooperate under a multilateral formula for world
peace, and reject war under any circumstances. The panelists will also
discuss the impacts of the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential
elections on the ongoing US -China cold war.
This webinar is hosted by Pivot to Peace and co-sponsored by
Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association and Chinese For
Affirmative Action.
Panelists
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Professor L. Ling-Chi Wang is Professor Emeritus of
Asian American studies and ethnic studies at the University of
California, Berkeley in the last five decades. He is a co-founder of
Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), a community-based civil rights
organization that works with other minority groups in promoting racial
equality and economic justice for all Americans. He has been a strong
advocate of bilingual education and the rights of linguistic
minorities throughout the U.S. He co-founded the International Society
for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO) in 1992. |
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Judge Lillian Sing is the first Asian American female
judge in Northern California. She is a passionate advocate of justice
and civil rights and in 2015 she retired as a judge to install SF
“Comfort women” Memorial. Currently she serves as the Co-Chair of the
“Comfort Women” Justice Coalition |
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George Koo is a retired international business
advisor and was a one time member of the Chinese Services Group at
Deloitte. In 2014, he reached full-time retirement when he stepped
down as a board director of a NYSE listed multinational integrated
resort corporation. He is a regular contributor to online Asia Times
on US-China relations. |
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Henry Der was the Executive Director of the San
Francisco-based Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) for more than two
decades. He also served as the deputy superintendent of public
instruction at the California Department of Education. In addition, he
has served as the chairperson of the California Postsecondary
Education Commission and the State Bar Legal Services Trust Fund
Commission. Der was a commentator for the NPR affiliate KQED-FM during
the 1990s, and is a lifelong practitioner of Bikram yoga. Der recently
retired as a senior program officer at Four Freedoms Fund, a national
funders' collaborative in support of immigrant rights groups across
the country. He helped co-lead the successful campaign for the new SF
City College Chinatown/North campus facility which serves more than
6,500 adult immigrant students every semester. |
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Julie Tang is a retired judge of the San Francisco
Superior Court and previously, an Assistant District Attorney in San
Francisco . She helped create and presided over the first Domestic
Violence Court in San Francisco in 1997. Upon retirement in 2015,
Judge Tang works as a part-time mediator and a full-time peace
activist. In 2017, she helped co-found the ‘Comfort Women” Justice
Coalition that built a “Comfort Women” Memorial in San Francisco.
Previously, she had co-founded the “Rape of Nanjing” Redress Coalition
in 1998. In 2020, she and a group of peace activists co-founded the
“Pivot to Peace” organization dedicated to advocating for world peace,
in particular, peace between the US and China. |
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Sheila Xiao works as an institutional research
analyst at Rio Hondo Community College in Southern California. Born
and raised in San Francisco, California, Sheila's experience growing
up in a Chinese immigrant family is one of the main drivers of her
work as an activist and organizer. She is a co-founder and lead
organizer of the pro-peace coalition, Pivot to Peace. |
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