Announcing New Participating Cities & Endorsers!
National Day of Action March 27: Stop Anti-Asian Violence, Stop
China-Bashing!
Find local actions in
your city:
San Francisco, CA 1 PM "Comfort Women"
Column Of Strength Statue |St. Mary’s Square 651 California St
Atlanta, GA 1 PM City Farmers Market in
Chamblee 5000 Buford Hwy NE, Chamblee, GA 30341 (Near
intersection of Buford Highway & Chamblee Tucker Rd)
Los Angeles, CA 12 PM City Hall | 200 N.
Spring Street Spread the word on Facebook
Sacramento, CA 11 AM Southside Park | 2115
6th St Spread the word on Facebook
Seattle, WA Time & Location TBD
New York City, NY 1 PM Queens Public Library
at Flushing | 41-17 Main St *speak outs will be organized in
Manhattan, the Bronx, and New Jersey; details TBD
Washington DC 2 PM Chinatown gate | 7th
& H St. NW
Denver, CO 2 PM 200 E. Colfax Ave
Chicago, IL Time & Location TBD
Philadelphia, PA Time & Location TBD
Greensburg, PA 12 PM 2 N Main Street
Columbia, SC 12 PM Location TBD
Indianapolis, IN 12 PM 1 Monument
Circle
Springfield, MO Friday, March
26: 12 PM Battlefield & Glenstone
Initial endorsing
organizations and individuals
- ANSWER Coalition
- Pivot to Peace
- Comfort Women Justice Coalition
- Veterans For Peace, San Francisco chapter #69
- CODEPINK
- Empire Files
- Qiao Collective
- Jim Lafferty, National Lawyers Guild
- Alliance for Global Justice
- Labor Against Racism and War
- Prof. Eric Mar, Asian American Studies, San Francisco State
University
- Prof. Kenneth Hammond, New Mexico State University
- U.S. Support Committee for Korean Prisoners of Conscience
- March and Rally LA
- Ground Game LA
- Eth-Noh-Tec
- Wnc4 Peace
- Green Party of Monmouth County NJ
- Harold Welton, Black August Los Angeles
- Carol Lang, PSC Adjunct Professor
- Ina Martinez, UPWARD (Uniting Peace With Actions Respect and
Dignity)
The ANSWER Coalition stands in solidarity with the Asian community
in the midst of the horrific, racist and misogynist massacre that took
place in Atlanta on March 16th. Six Asian women were among the eight
shot to death at point blank range.
The alarming rise in hate crimes over the past year correlates to
an increasingly hostile U.S. foreign policy towards China. The
opportunistic scapegoating of China during the onset of the COVID-19
pandemic, coupled with the intensity by which China is deemed the
enemy and adversary of the United States, has driven a widespread
Sinophobic sentiment nationally. The Asian American community suffers
the brunt of the hatred fomented as a weapon of war. To date, there
have been 3,800 self-reported hate crimes against Asian Americans.
The mainstream media’s failure to label the Atlanta shooting as a
hate crime demonstrates the gross disregard and injustice that our
communities are facing. Racism is a sick symptom of a system that
profits from war and violence. And to put insult to injury, the cop
handling the case was found to be promoting anti-China
paraphernalia.
Join us on March 27th for a national day of action demanding an end
to anti-Asian racist violence, an end to violence against women and
and end to white supremacy now!
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