i think anyone who would say that there is an anxiety around the price of something like big corn or any of the only other old coins would be kidding themselves or just just lying the this is an instrument out the potential to make massive news to the upside and equally must have moved to the downside so i think it's always going to be a sense of anxiety around the price of something because ultimately housing a fair value. time for a quick check of the headlines on al-jazeera in the u.s. is called an yemen's who the rebels to hold their advance on the city of merit the government's last northern stronghold washington special envoy for yemen says they're very aggressively using back channels to get the who things to return to international negotiations mike hanna has more from washington one of the 1st actions abided and ministration did was insist it would no longer assist the saudi led coalition in attacks in yemen that was one of the 1st steps now you have these

other subsequent steps following but above all the biden ministration wants to reduce it that ongoing conflict in yemen within the terms of a un negotiation process and this is what it is beginning to do but at the same time it wants to achieve a form of balance and not seeking to weigh in on the side of any party involved it's a very very careful balancing act providing administration says it's recalibrating its relationship with saudi arabia it marks another break with the policies of former president donald trump joe biden will speak to king solomon directly rather than the crown prince and biden is in the state of wisconsin for his 1st official trip as u.s. president he's been making the case for congress to pass his proposed $1.00 trillion dollar coronavirus relief package. donald trump has launched a blistering attack on top senate republican mitch mcconnell just days after he

blamed the former president last month's attack on the capitol building in a statement trunk call mcconnell unsmiling political hack warning republican senators they wouldn't win if they stayed on his side the un's envoy on me in ma says he fears an escalation of violence during protests against the military coup crowds are gathering in the biggest city young gone they're angry over a 2nd criminal charges been laid against opposed leader un sanctions. on japan has launched its coronavirus vaccination campaign starting with $20000.00 health care workers campaign is getting underway less than 6 months before tokyo is due to host the olympic games so those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the stream stage and thanks for watching 5. we've been doing it with the money that it's boring we bring you the stories of developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in argentina as congress is debating a bill seeking to raise billions of dollars for the super rich poor families hit by

them and counting on al-jazeera. and for me ok on today's episode of the increasing number of attacks on elderly asian americans the connection with the coronavirus pandemic and one so many of these stories are. under reporting it we start with a passionate appeal for help that went viral. last thursday a 4 year old timer who was murdered in san francisco he died this week on wednesday a 64 year old grandmother. now seeing. some waiting to happen these are new york does not supply our stories enough nina are in recent just killing us. we're joined by amanda rain also we're joined by helen

and also cynthia out 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 want to. thank you so much for having me and ok and it's so wonderful to be here with incredible panelists and incur will host mining for me under when i reform or an activist i'm to c.e.o. and founder of thrive and i'm here to talk about the rise of anti-aging hate crimes . good to have you of the helen nice to have you on this train tell of when hugh 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 on top justice and fighting a hate crimes and in particular anti asian 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 there cynthia tell everybody here you are and what you doing welcome to the screen thank you family and 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 conversation 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. see 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 still am 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 vacuuming as he who has great respect for elderly will be shocked when they see some of the stories i have to

show that wins 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 pins make 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 just like being mugged of 3 or 4 people. right and so these are being caught on. 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 pandas 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

and 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 has been 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 come 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 that 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 and 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 needed 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 now and i'm just wondering how the 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 you know i want to draw attention to this 2 year old and 6 year old the worst job in texas and man who's japanese literally on the record that he stopped them 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 rages 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 the gaslighting and so i don't mean you know they think 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 walk 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 or it's 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 i know that 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 egypt out there i know this is not only an american issue and so i recognize that he and i want to also address what has been said earlier this and intersectional issue and that we are stronger together and i do now anti-black and that we need me to work gather we cannot you know i'm black in the work that we do. cynthia i would not. be no one here is my 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. hate 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 hate and discrimination doesn't come out of a vacuum we have had the former president can insist on calling the crown of 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. how does this now.

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 capitol 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 a hated incident. of national security he would still say but it could be tighter and just as cynthia and i 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 it 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 china 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 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 that but there it is to suppose that little information about people asian or asian people and how they are affected by the coronavirus so repeatedly we see reports coming

out saying have you know like. 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 we're being plain and we're being attacked and we're being ignored and while we welcome the fighting 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 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 as 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 for many of our respondents it's become clear that the asian are identified as asian is a not 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 since he 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 is in the 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 were their family members experienced and one of the main reasons why they came on terror 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 have 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 a funky so much for being on the stream today and helen and amanda 25 minutes is not long enough we only just got started i want people to be a fully works have a look here on my lawn laptop still a p i hate they also have a website. helen zia helen z a real also journalist activists i highly recommend she visit her on twitter and of course amanda is not just all new twitter she's also on instagram to follow her you will be really taken along with what she feels in court and what we need to know not just in america but around the world guess thank you so much really appreciate each of this interesting conversation and push back to follow those terms and those that give you some more perspective that's watching

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