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LGBT/Pride Week

June is LGBT pride month. We have a variety of queer AAPI's, friends, families and allies posting about their experiences. Thanks to Be DeGuzman, one of APAP's 2009 Unsung Heroes, for coordinating this special week of posts.

To help with our upcoming hate crimes/Vincent Chin week (June 21) or Pacific Islander week (Aug), please let us know. If you have a topic you or your agency would like to coordinate, email us.

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FilAm Students Supporting UC Demonstration

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FilAm Students Supporting UC Demonstration

By Erin Pangilinan

Earlier this fall, students, staff, and faculty across the University of California demonstrated against the 32% tuition fee hikes. What was intended as peaceful protests for some in the recent weeks, ended not only in arrests--but also beating, tasering, and shooting of students by police and demonstrators at various campuses, including UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Davis.


Schwarzenegger Aims to Co-opt “Books, Not Bars!”

By Tam Ma and Oiyan Poon


Students of Color Fight Back at the U of California!

November 18 and 19, 2009


Pao! Faculty, Staff, and Students Protest UC Budget Cuts and Fee Hikes

Pictured above: Pao Xiong, undergrad at UCLA and Association of Hmong Students leader (photo credit: Sacramento Bee)


University of California Systemwide WALK OUT on 9-24-09

Last week I overheard two senior faculty members at UCLA discuss their plans for this Thursday's walkout.


UC awards honorary degrees to WWII Japanese American Internees

Last week I went to the UC Regents meeting at UC San Francisco, and was humbled to be there for the UC Board of Regents' vote to award honorary degrees to the over 700 Japanese Americans who were enrolled at the UC in 1941-42, but could not complete their degrees because they were unjustly incarcerated for being Japanese Americans and sent to concentration camps during WWII.  Sad sad chapter in U.S.