Lumad schools in the Philippines
What is happening in Lumad
Indigenous Filipinos have been constantly attacked by the Filipino government. They have been forcing them to give up their traditions as the government sees them as threats to them
President Duterte
President Duterte has constantly neglected the human rights of all citizens. He had murdered people that disagree with him and has caused Filipinos to turn on each other.
Atlanta Shooting
TW: Sexualization , Sex
On March 16, 2021 Robert Aaron Long murdered 8 people, most of who were Asian women. He had gone into their salons and shot them. He murdered them and continued his shooting spree. He did it because he had an Asian Fetish and wanted to get rid of the temptation. He had an addiction to Asians and wanted to get rid of it. This crime was racially motivated despite him denying it. He was headed towards Florida and it is believed he would have killed more in Florida.
Xiaojie Tan
She has a daughter and moved from China to the US. She was a small business owner and she helped house her staff who also came from China. She also helped take care of her family back in China. She was a kind and loving person and was the type of person to have a cake ready for a customer's birthday. For her 50th birthday, she wanted to celebrate with her daughter with a strawberry fresh cream cake.
Hyun Jung Grant
Hyun Jung Grant was a mother and she loved her son deeply. She and her son had a close bond and he felt as if he could go to her for when he had girl problems. He said that she loved to go to clubs and she was like a teenager.
"'She spent her whole life just existing for my brother and I. She never had time to travel,' the son said in a Friday morning interview with NBC News. 'She would only be home a certain amount of days every few weeks.'”- NBC News
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Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Bill
(what it really means)
What is the TEAACH Act?
The TEAACH Act makes it so that all public schools within the state of Illinois must teach Asian-American History within their classes. This is a very big and good change as it allows people to learn about our history and it helps us be seen.
Via - Asian-Americans Advancing Justice"Introduced by Sen. Villivalam and Rep. Gong-Gershowitz, the Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History (TEAACH) Act (HB 376) will paint a more complete picture of our shared history by adding Asian American history to the Illinois School Code.Asian Americans are one of the fastest growing populations across Illinois, nearly 800,000 people as of 2017, yet our stories in history textbooks are nowhere to be found. This erases the legacies and contributions of Asian Americans throughout history, leading to a less complete understanding of US history as a whole."
News Articles
Organizations Within the Chicago Area
Comfort Women
"“Comfort women” was a euphemism for the hundreds of thousands of women across Asia who were forced into Japanese military sexual slavery in the years leading up to and during World War II. The survivors’ ongoing fight for justice is a fight against sexual violence everywhere." - Kan-Win
Japan has yet to apologize and have tried to get rid of the evidence of their war crimes. They have claimed that this whole thing was consensual, that the women did this out of their own will and were paid.They have killed over 200,000 women across Asia.