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i am for me ok on today's episode of the street look at the number of attacks on elderly asian americans the connection with the coronavirus pandemic and one so many of these stories are either a world or underreported we start with a passionate appeal for help with viral. plus there is a 84 year old timer who was murdered in san francisco he died this week on wednesday a 64 year old beating his grandmother was assaulted is insane now saying today that she will not marry slashing prices based on some way to abu mazen yet does not

follow our stories enough need there are in recent just telling us. we're joined by amanda we also we're joined by helen and also sinfield or as i guess we want to tell us more about the situation with the asian american community in communities across the united states amanda nice to have to tell everybody who's one. thank you so much for having me and ok and it's so wonderful to be here with incredible panelists an incredible host mining's mander when i wrote for more activist i'm the c.e.o. and founder of rise and i'm here to talk about the rise of anti engine hate crimes . good to have you are there helen nice to have you on this train tell of a huge you all want you to. tell me i am. just going to be here and thank you al-jazeera for taking on this topic i'm helen

zia. social justice and fighting a hate crimes and in particular violence since the 1st landmark case came up in the 1980 s. with the killing of institution and thank you for having me here thank you for joining us now this cynthia tell everybody here you are and what you do welcome to the screen thank you family really appreciate the opportunity to share more about what we're doing at chinese for affirmative action my name is cynthia chair and i'm the co executive director with ca and also one of the co-founders of stop a.p.i. hate which is a leading aggregator documenting and tasia racism and xenophobia since the start of the pandemic. miss compensation is streaming on you tube the cheapest you can join our conversation really easy just jump into the comments section and you could talk

to i guess what i get your opinions your thoughts too i guess the soonest possible a monday i'm just looking you're on your you on your twitter posts you were supposed to be on instagram 80000 people who liked 815000 people shared it you touched a nerve what made you take to social media to speak out about these attacks that you were saying. well social media is a pop form but has allowed a lot voices not unusually per trade in mainstream media to be heard and the reality is that american stories are not being covered by our careers are our clients our contributions and so that's why i took to social media on top of that i was now and i think joe and that we and our stories need to fight to be seen and i'm so so so grateful for the response that has come

since the i'm just thinking that it is. as most about human is he who has great respect for elderly will be shocked when they see some of the stories i have to show that woody and the story of the written not pack the. elderly gentleman here have a look at his picture and i'm just going to scoot up so you can see what happened to him which is truly shocking opposite to tat pushed 84 years old what kind of presence makes what kind of attacks are you seeing what are the stats that you have cynthia. yes so. one thing that i want to just share right out bat is that since we started tracking. and tasia racism and xenophobia in march we've seen over

2800 incidents of racism and discrimination directed at asian americans and what we're seeing is that at least from our data that a majority of these incidents are what we would consider verbal attacks and harassment while people are living their daily lives under the pen demick so as essential workers as frontline workers. delivery drivers school nurses etc are being subjected are being dehumanised and we are also seeing a category of discrimination in the workplace online bullying certainly in social media as an accelerator of hate. and then we do have some instances of what we would consider hate crimes so being here in the bay area.

where we have had this ability on these recent attacks it has been a very painful time for our community and it's one of the reasons why we held actions over this past weekend to really voice our concerns to condemn these attacks and to demand action and i have to bring you in here because a lot of people on you tube having trouble believing what they're seeing. they're not sure that what they seeing is real and a lot of these attacks in the oakland area where you live when you sort of i'm going to i'm going to play some more video this is room for the people who having trouble in you to believing this as i speak for it helen can you tell me what you think is happening at this particular time this video that you see here this is from january of this year this is shocking right helen what is going on here.

i find it unbelievable that people don't believe it i mean these are actual security video cameras and we know as we have a little media being mocked he's like being mugged 3 or 4 people. right and so these are being caught on a security camera and so we do actually have you know proof that scenes are happening but for asian americans this is not only just happy this is happy for the panda as 1st reported here in the united states there are been elderly people and videos of them being pushed shoved i mean these are like tackles right people are getting full body slants and and they have died as amanda said people have been killed and and i'm afraid that these current videos you're showing are reflective of almost turning this into a sport but i do want to say ration americans there's no disbelief we are living

through this and this. present attention because the. right is in the them for a bit dio's that are being shown. is something that's not new to us and there is a strong feeling that one of the ring attention now is because the videos are capturing black people attacking asian americans and i know that with. with the tracking that has been done by star a p i hate that since he is talking about that many of the other videos that we have seen for more than a year now for almost 14 months. have been. perpetrated by people from many different races and backgrounds and unfortunately. there's a feeling that this are being highlighted because they are black people attack an

american the things that i think all of us on this panel recognize is the attacks on asian americans is part of white supremacy it's part of trying to divide people of color against each other and in particular now asian and black people against each other but really that race is. and violence that we are experiencing is rooted in a surprise see the interests. of colorful of conscience to fight systemic racism they make racism against black people is really part of what we are experiencing as asian americans so we also are so you know our efforts are to stand with the fight against systemic oppression but what we're seeing now is part of the white supremacy to keep us divided and and that is part of the problem alan that i think this is not going on notice of a c.

in it amongst the asian american communities not community let me show you something here and it was this video here the protein it's to want to is to say hey that person you ever did that we need to help this is daniel dae kim and daniel who they were offering a $25000.00 reward to find the suspect who suited the elderly man in california this is why don would take him so it was so important have a listen to him. for us this is a daily almost daily occurrence and we see news like this and and so it was this is this war that we were offering for this single incident was really just the straw that broke the camel's back again both daniel and i thought we have to do something more than just speak about this we have to do something more than just a retreat or you know try and use our platform to say something we need to put quite frankly our money where our mouth is to raise awareness for it in the way

that that we're able to talk about it right now need to i'm just very healthy impacts a few from a community that is being targeted in this way doing a pandemic what is happening what are you hearing from your friends families friends of mine in terms of how are they trying to protect themselves. yeah i'll answer on a 2nd but i do want to address one of the comments that was made earlier which is that some people still don't believe that this is happening what else well seanie this is literally caught on camera so what do you think is going on like people are pretending like staged our grief has to be literally documented even when it on a video camera you've still don't believe this is happening now i want to draw attention to this 2 year old and 6 year old the worst job in texas and man

who's gabby that literally on the record that he stopped on because they were in asia and he thought that they were spreading cove it so if you don't actually believe what you are seeing and you don't actually believe from the perpetrators mouth that we are being attacked because of the rhetoric that has been scapegoated used to other eyes than what is going to make you actually see us as human and that is really just me and i want everyone to give me an answer. what what else what else will make you believe that we are being attacked. beyond that gaslighting and so i don't mean you know they take you for bringing that issue up to answer your question you know i it's a fog of fear it's a fog of terror for the asian american community at least for the in my friends who are out the door who have family members are thinking well you know how can we look

a certain way so we don't get stabbed in the grocery store or get pushed down on the street and killed or get slashed on the subway all of these are real things that have happened and so when you have this fear from random people who are coming out you know who might be a threat to you who might take your life it's time to stand up and say something and this is. a no there has been a rise. in america but i know this is an international audience and i want to stay in solidarity with all of the issue out there i know this is not only an american issue and so i recognize that and i want to also address what has been said earlier this and intersectional issue and that we are stronger together that i am tired black and white me need to work gather we cannot you know i'm black in the work that we do. cynthia i would not in. the know who raised adding to our conversation we spoke just

a little bit earlier and we wanted to see if we could pinpoint what is happening to the asian american community that they are being targeted in this fight at play jeanne because a pandemic christina just went ahead and sent this so what i'd love to see is for this current administration and for a lot of culture makers to stand up and take a stance against prompts use of the term china virus it's a racist term it's a misleading term it's what has i think fueled a lot of the anti asian hate further this thinking that all chinese people are a monolith whether they were born here or born somewhere else had the virus didn't have the virus and once we get beyond that basic acknowledgement that the way this virus has been talked about by the people who were previously in charge is racist i think beyond that we think about talking about the asian american heroes in america

who are working on the front lines who are also susceptible this virus who've also died from this virus and are putting their lives at risk so that people do not die from this virus sylvia go well the back is not thought there. well she was spot on one of the reasons why we started stop a.p.i. is because we needed to document this we wanted people to take this issue very seriously and i think it's really important for everyone to now that these incidents these firsthand accounts witness accounts of the hate and discrimination doesn't come out of a vacuum we have had the former president can insist on calling the chrono virus the china virus and many many years of anti immigrant policies we know that history has shown us and we don't have to look back that far

that in times of crisis whether it's public economic crisis or with u.s. foreign policy that our communities the asian community is scapegoated and blamed and that's exactly what happened. we believe that this needs to be addressed from interpersonal level but also from a policy level we really need to ensure that during this time of racial reckoning of recognizing the role that structural racism plays including pitting our communities together is something that we're going to reject and this is an important fight for all of us and we are connecting the dots and we are working towards addressing this issue as an entire community i was just looking at some of the things the president biden has done recently he signed an

executive action where he condemned the zenith of the languages believes relates to that pandemic. how does this how. well it's a market contrast between the prior president who used every opportunity to attack china to check on his you know hate mongers which saw that he so effectively did against the capital but that's what he did for you know most of his administration calling people to attack the chinese enemy and even when it was clear it would be of. incidents. of national security he would still say but it could be kyra and just as cynthia and amanda have been saying it's this. ration that has been goading blaming and blaming. people who look like the

enemy which is you know the largest population in people in the world and as amanda said it's not just an american phenomenon these attacks have been going on every continent except for antarctica and it's so the attacks and community is that are kind of towns that little saigon's little tokyo's. that pain has been experienced ever since this pandemic. and i'd like to go back to your question about impact on our communities is beyond that that any actual assaulted whether verbally or physically people from the very beginning started going underground and what i mean by that is these very seniors who dare to go out and take a walk have been hiding out there afraid to go to their doctors they're afraid to go get food and so what we're also seeing in terms of the pandemic is to the that

there is to suppose that little information about people asian or asian people and how they are affected by the corona virus so repeatedly we see reports coming out saying have you know aleck. let necks. have mortality rates or morbidity rates from the from the virus but nothing about asians because many are not even getting tested when they're sick they're not going to the to the doctor but they're not getting medications and so the actual harm is is extensive been are being counted basically we're being plain and we're being attacked and we are being ignored and while we welcome the biden administration coming out and making a statement it's got a way more than that and this thing about being vulnerable communities against what hast is is assistance needs to come. and lift up these communities that are being

so devastated by this pandemic and for asian americans that devastation includes these racist attacks. one of the one of the aspects often happens where communities are attacked and it's because of priest racism often the only seize on what are you going to do about it but actually isn't your problem it's not your racism it's racism coming to you say what are they going to do about the issue you know what are you going to do about the issue but i want to bring in here christina on he's talking about movement building have a listen to what she has to say. our research has shown how fears in a phobia the racialization of a.p.i. and the rise in hate crimes are compounding to create more fear than the virus itself to many of our respondents it's become clear that be asian are identified as asian is enough to be harassed and blame for kovan 1000 racialization especially in

the us demonstrates that if someone perceives a racialized as you in a certain way it doesn't matter how that individual might self identify at the same time apec communities are finding and building resistance to hate crimes to volunteer ng advocacy and consciousness raising we find that social movements like matter open up dialogue for exploring the meaning of asian american identity and experiences of racism in the context of the pandemic and beyond. just looking at this website he's still a a.p. i hate cynthia i know you thought was really important in this conversation to talk about the work that he's being done right now to try and counter. this race isn't that is happening to asian americans right now to the. yeah i'd love to just share that we have been in communication with our respondents so 'd people who came onto our site and told us traumatic stories that they or their family members

experienced and one of the main reasons why they came on terra reporting center is to be a part of the collective voice to say yes this happened to me this happened to my mother my grandmother my children and so it's really important for us to collectively lift up these stories and i also want to share that locally how we've been responding is by ensuring that we work with our elected officials to. make sure that we address the needs of survivors and their families we're also working very closely to expand intervention and prevention based programs that meet the specific needs of the community and then finally we do believe that as many of us had been working on for many years decades

to build cross racial cross solidarity and community building work. the communities that are directly impacted low income communities people who are living in public housing. are elderly who have been isolated for a very long time not just under the pen demick but in terms of overall issues when you look at disparities economic housing those who are facing food insecurity these have been issues so we have been addressing for a very long time in the pen demick has really just exacerbated and really expose how long and full our communities are and i do want to emphasize the crime and violence are not new to our community this time of racial reckoning has been an opportunity for asian americans to say that we have solutions we need to be resourced and community based organizations who are on the ground really have

the best understanding of what our community needs and we're looking forward to working with our elected officials and we're also part of a national movement of a.p.i. meaning organizations who are fighting for racial equity and economic justice suvi i thank you so much for being on the stream today and helen and amanda 25 minutes is not long enough we only just got started i will be able to be out a full year works have a look here on my lawn laptop still a a.p. i hate they also have a website. helen helen see a real also journalists activists i highly recommend this it turned on twitter and of course amanda is not just on twitter she's also on instagram do you follow her you will be really taking along with what she feels important what we need to know

not just in america but around the world yes thank you so much we appreciate you to this interesting conversation and push back to follow those turns and goes there give me some more perspective sense of watching the federal case sunny. you challenge because of the. corrupt corruption is so good now this is a horrible way to get. across of a minister of keenest. a european judge tasked with imposing nor an order

and a trial testing the nose of a new from the nation. witness. highway on out there are getting close to the people most affected by those in power is often dangerous but it's absolutely vital that the stories to be told books are still sought in this area we push this fall forward as we can to the frontline the smell the object is overpowering a lot of the stories that we cover all high the conflicts so it's very important that we make them as understandable as we can do as many people as possible no matter how much they know about a given crisis or issue as al-jazeera correspondents that's what we strive to. water an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognize water as a human right and put its management back into public hands is increasing i think that the european commission would be very very. water privatization on anybody if

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