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As part of the AAPI Heritage Month (May 1-31), UCA IL, CAC and CNPCPS are raising money to support Chicago metropolitan area K-12 schools with a wider selection of books that promote awareness of Asian American History and their contributions to our communities and country. Check out the One Book One World website, and please help out a great cause by donating if you can.

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Op-Ed Workshop “Silent No More” – Summary and Report

Recording now available here

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On May 1, 2021, UCA held a “Silent No More: We Rise-Up and Write-Up” webinar to kick-off the month-long celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage. This webinar was a part of a new initiative that aims to make our voices heard and presence felt through opinions and editorials (op-eds).

UCA President Haipei Shue and Board Member Hardy Li introduced UCA, the event, and the speakers. Speaker Mary C. Curtis, an award-winning journalist, provided information on how to write an op-ed and suggestions to two drafts in a live editing session. Speaker Melissa Green, deputy Director of Communications at Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, talked about how employees at nonprofits and individuals can write op-eds. UCA Advisor Monica He moderated a panel on the editorial and author sides of op-ed writing. The panel consisted of Atlanta Journal-Constitution Editorial Editor Andre Jackson, UCA member, nurse educator, and op-ed authors Lily Chen, and public relations professional Lucca Wang. UCA Communications Chair Changfu Chang provided concluding remarks.

 Over 140 people, mostly Asian Americans, attended the webinar. The event has generated considerable interest and enthusiasm; we have received very positive feedback and op-ed drafts from our members. The recording of the webinar is available at below:

Pre-survey data were collected from the 272 people who registered. The main things we noted were:

(1) There was broad geographic representation among the registrants (37+ states and 11 countries).

(2) The sample was self-selective, with very high education levels. The majority were women and adults.

(3) An overwhelming majority of the registrants agreed that is it important to write and publish articles in order to make our voices heard in the nationwide conversations about Asian American issues.

(4) While many of them felt comfortable writing, only a small percentage of them have written an op-ed article before.

(5) There were multiple reasons for the lack of publications. Some of them could be addressed through providing training and resources.

(6) WeChat is the main source of communication among the Chinese American community.

Here is a brief summary of the complete data: 
  1. Demographics

(1) A total of 272 people registered for the webinar.

(2) While the majority of registrants were in the United States, thanks to our online platform we also had international representation from Canada, Australia, China, and Taiwan, as well as seven other countries.

(3) Registrants from the United States were from over 37 states. Seven states had the most registrants (over 5% each): CA, IL, NC, MA, NJ, NY, and TX.

(4) The majority of them were women (73%).

(5) About 91% identified as Chinese.

(6) Most of the registrants were adults; about 3% were youth.

(7) Almost 74% of the registrants have a graduate degree.

(8) 78% of the registrants have Chinese as their first language while 18% have English as the first language.

  1. Survey Questions

(1) 88% agreed that it is important to make our voices heard in the nationwide conversations about Asian American issues.

(2) 89% agreed that writing and publications by Asian Americans can help advocate for our voices to broader communities on the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes.

(3) 90% agreed that our community members need to reach as many local newspapers as we can by telling our stories and sharing our thoughts.

(4) 75% felt comfortable with writing to local newspapers and other media outlets to express their views.

(5) 92% wanted to learn how to write and submit an article on Asian American issues.

(6) Only 16% have written a “Letter to the Editor” or “Op-Ed” article before.

(7) There were multiple reasons for not being able to write or publish, including not knowing where to submit an article (35%) and how to write (31%), having concerns about English writing skills (29%), (d) not having time to write (26%), etc.

(8) Most of the registrants found out about the webinar through WeChat. Other sources included community members, speakers and panelists from other webinars, and other social media outlets (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn).

A few pertinent results are highlighted in the charts below.
Mary C. Curtis

Mary C. Curtis, a columnist at Roll Call, is an award-winning journalist and educator based in Charlotte, N.C., and Washington, D.C. She is host of the CQ Roll Call podcast “Equal Time, with Mary C. Curtis.” She has contributed to NBC News, NPR, The Washington Post, The Root, ESPN’s The Undefeated and talks politics on WCCB-TV and NPR-affiliate WFAE in Charlotte. Curtis has worked at The New York Times, the Charlotte Observer, the Baltimore Sun, and the Associated Press, and was national correspondent for AOL’s Politics Daily. Her coverage specialty is the intersection of politics, culture and race, and she has covered the 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns.

 Curtis is a Senior Leader with The OpEd Project, facilitating “Write to Change the World” seminars, at Yale University, Cornell University, and the Ford Foundation and at the Aspen New Voices Fellowship in Johannesburg, South Africa. Curtis was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and a Kiplinger Fellow, in social media, at Ohio State.

Curtis was chosen to be included in The HistoryMakers, the single largest archival collection of its kind in the world designed to promote and celebrate the successes and to document movements, events and organizations that are important to the African American community and to American society; it is available digitally and permanently archived in the Library of Congress.

Her honors include Clarion Awards from the Association for Women in Communications, awards from the National Headliners and the Society of Professional Journalists, three first-place awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, two first-place SPJ DC Dateline awards, and the Thomas Wolfe Award for an examination of Confederate heritage groups. Curtis has contributed to several books, including an essay in “Now What: The Voters Have Spoken, Essays on Life After Trump” and “Covering Politics in the Age of Trump.” 

Twitter: @mcurtisnc3 
Melissa Green

Melissa Green is the Deputy Director for Communications for Clinical Scholars, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation program. Melissa began her career providing technical assistance to health departments and community-based organizations in North Carolina. Her public health practice and research focus is health equity and collaboration between communities and academic institutions. Her research interests include health disparities across the cancer continuum, peer support interventions, disease prevention, and factors that influence participation in health research. She earned her Masters of Public Health from the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Public Health in Health. She is a staff member of UNC’s Center for Health Equity Research, adjunct faculty in UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s Maternal and Child Health department and a doctoral candidate at A. T. Still University.  
Andre Jackson

Andre Jackson became Opinion Editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in April 2009. He oversees the newspaper’s thought leadership expressed via its Sunday editorial page and daily opinion pages.  

Previously, Jackson was Senior Editor for business, federal and state news at the AJC, which included overseeing the state capital and D.C. bureaus. He joined the AJC in 2008 as an editorial writer covering business and the economy. He began his newspapering career in 1984.
Jian (Lily) Chen

Jian (Lily) Chen: Lily is a First Generation Chinese American,  RWJF  Clinical Scholar Fellow, UCA WAVES Youth Mental Health Project Director and nurse Educator at North Carolina Central University. She recently wrote an OpEd “ Silenced Voices Speaking Out ” and a letter to the editor “Asian Americans.”

王曦 Lucca Wang

Lucca Wang 王曦 is a biracial and third-generation Chinese American woman native to the Midwest where she lives now. She has been a public relations and communications professional for 14 years, and and has two recently published op-eds in the Kansas City Star and Ms. Magazine on her own experience and perspective and the long history of anti-Asian racism in the U.S. and what is happening now. She is a journalism school graduate of Drake University and an alum of The Op-Ed Project.

Co-hosted by United Chinese Americans (UCA) and the Asian and Pacific Islander Caucus of the University of North Carolina (www.apicunc.org)

UCA讲座回顾｜“不再沉默：我们奋起书写”——如何让英文媒体发出我们的声音！

2021年5月1日，美国华人联合会（UCA）举行了“不再沉默：我们奋起书写”网络研讨会，开始了纪念为期一个月的亚裔美国人和太平洋岛民遗产月的活动。本次网络研讨会是UCA一项新倡议的一部分，该倡议旨在通过专栏文章来表达我们的声音和存在感。

UCA主席薛海培（Haipei Shue）和董事会成员黎观城（Hardy Li）做了致辞，介绍了UCA。 UCA顾问何凯元（Monica He）做主持人。此次活动的演讲嘉宾是屡获殊荣的新闻记者玛丽·C·柯蒂斯（Mary C. Curtis），她介绍如何撰写专栏文章，并在现场就两篇来稿做了编辑示范。罗伯特·W·约翰逊基金会（Robert Wood Johnson Foundation）传媒部副主任梅利莎·格林（Melissa Green）谈到了非盈利组织和个人如何撰写意见书的问题。

随后，报纸编辑和专栏作者进行讨论、互动。参加这次讨论的有：著名的由《亚特兰大宪法报纸》的专栏版编辑安德烈·杰克逊（Andre Jackson），UCA成员、护士教育家，专栏作者陈健（Lily Chen）和公共关系专业人士、专栏作者王曦（Lucca Wang）组成。 UCA媒体负责人常昌富教授作了总结发言。 

本次共超过156人（主要是亚裔美国人）参加了网络研讨会，引起了公众强烈的兴趣和热情，收到了来自成员的非常积极的反馈和意见草稿。

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在活动开始前，我们在注册过程中进行了问卷调查，并对数据进行了分析。

（1）该调查在注册人中有广泛的地域代表性（37个州和11个国家）。

（2）调查样本是自我选择性的，调查者受教育程度普遍很高。多数是女性和成年人。

（3）绝大多数注册人表示，在全国范围内用撰写和发表文章这个方式和行为来进行有关亚裔美国人问题的讨论和表达我们的声音是非常重要的。

（4）虽然只有一小部分人以前写过一篇专栏文章，但是他们中的很多人都能很流畅进行语言表达

（5）有关话题的出版物很少，原因表现在很多方面。其中一些原因是可以通过提供培训和提供资源来解决的。

（6）微信是华裔美国人社区之间交流的主要工具。

以下是完整数据的简短摘要：

1.人口统计

（1）本次共有272人注册了该网络研讨会。

（2）虽然大多数注册人都在美国，但由于我们的在线平台，我们还拥有加拿大，澳大利亚，中国（台湾地区）以及其他七个国家的调查数据。

（3）来自美国的注册人来自37个州。其中这七个州的注册人最多（每个州超过5％）：CA，IL，NC，MA，NJ，NY和TX。

（4）调查数据群体中大多数是女性（73％）。

（5）大约91％的群体是中国人。

（6）大多数注册人是成年人；大约3％是青年。

（7）几乎74％的注册人具有研究生学位。

（8）78％的注册人以中文为第一语言，18％的人以英语为第一语言。

2.调查问题

（1）88％的人同意关于亚裔美国人的问题，我们需要在全国范围内表达我们的声音。

（2）89％的人同意，亚裔美国人的文献和出版物可以帮助我们在反亚裔仇恨犯罪的兴起中向更广泛的社区倡导我们的声音。

（3）90％的人同意，我们的社区成员需要通过讲故事和分享思想来联系尽可能多的当地报纸来表达声音。

（4）75％的人愿意写信给当地报纸和其他媒体以表达意见。

（5）92％的人想学习如何撰写和提交有关亚裔美国人问题的文章的过程。

（6）只有16％的人以前给编辑写过投稿文章。

（7）无法写作和无法发表文章的原因有很多，比如不知道在哪里提交文章（35％）和如何写作（31％），对英语写作技巧的担忧（29％），没有时间写（26％）等。

（8）大多数注册人通过微信了解到有关网络研讨会的信息。其他来源包括社区成员，来自其他网络研讨会的发言人和小组成员，以及其他社交媒体（如，Facebook，Instagram，Twitter，LinkedIn）。下图突出显示了一些相关的结果。
Mary C. Curtis

Mary C. Curtis 是Roll Call的专栏作家，是一位获奖的记者和教育家，居住于北卡罗来纳州夏洛特和华盛顿特区。她是CQ Roll Call播客“Equal Time, with Mary C. Curtis.”的主持人。她曾为NBC News, NPR, The Washington Post, The Root, ESPN’s The Undefeated做出贡献，并在夏洛特的WCCB-TV and NPR-affiliate WFAE上谈论政治。

Curtis供职于《纽约时报》、《夏洛特观察家报》、《巴尔的摩太阳报》和美联社，并担任美国在线《政治日报》的全国记者。她的报道专长是政治、文化和种族的交集，她曾报道过2008年、2012年、2016年和2020年的总统竞选活动。

Curtis是“专栏文章”的资深编辑，协助在耶鲁大学、康奈尔大学、福特基金会和南非约翰内斯堡的阿斯彭新声奖学金举办了“写作改变世界”研讨会。Curtis曾获得哈佛大学尼曼奖学金和俄亥俄州立大学社交媒体吉卜林格奖学金。

Curtis被选入 The HistoryMakers，这是世界上最大的档案馆，旨在宣传并记录非裔美国人社区和美国社会重要的运动、事件和组织，它可以在国会图书馆以数字方式永久存档。

她的荣誉包括美国女性传媒协会颁发的号角奖、全国头条新闻和专业记者协会颁发的奖项、全国黑人记者协会颁发的三项一等奖、两项SPJ DC Dateline一等奖，以及托马斯沃尔夫奖。Curtis撰写了几本书，包括一篇文章《现在该做什么: 选民们的发言，特朗普之后的生活随笔》(Now What: The Voters Have Spoken, Essays on Life After Trump)和《特朗普时代的政治报道》(Covering Politics in The Age of Trump)。
Melissa Green

Melissa 是罗伯特·伍德·约翰逊基金会(Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)临床学者交流项目的副主任。

Melissa的职业生涯始于为北卡罗莱纳州的卫生部门和社区组织提供技术援助。她的公共卫生实践和研究重点是卫生公平和社区与学术机构之间的合作。

她的研究兴趣包括癌症连续体的健康差异、疾病预防和影响健康因素等。她获得了北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校公共卫生学院的公共卫生硕士学位。她是北卡罗来纳大学健康公平研究中心的工作人员，北卡罗来纳大学吉林斯全球公共卫生学院孕产妇和儿童健康系的兼职教员，以及a . T. Still大学的博士候选人。
  • 研讨小组成员：
Andre Jackson
陈健（Lily Chen）
王曦（Lucca Wang）
Andre Jackson

Andre是亚特兰大宪法杂志和AJC.com的言论版编辑。

2009年4月，他成为《亚特兰大宪法杂志》的言论版编辑，负责管理报纸的周日社论版和每日观点版。

此前，Andre是AJC商业、联邦和州新闻的高级编辑，负责管理亚特兰大和首都华盛顿特区的分社。他于2008年加入AJC，担任商业和经济方面的社论作家。他于1984年开始他的新闻事业。
陈健 Jian (Lily) Chen

Lily是第一代美籍华人，RWJF临床学者，UCA WAVES青年心理健康项目主任，北卡罗来纳中央大学护士教育家。她最近写了一篇专栏文章“沉默的声音在说话”在AJC.com上发表，还给北卡报纸New and Observers写了一封信“亚裔美国人”。
王曦 Lucca Wang

Lucca 是第三代美籍华人，她现在居住在美国中西部。她是一名专业的媒体工作者，过去五年一直从事媒体公关工作。

她最近在《堪萨斯城星报》《mmagazine》上发表了两篇专栏文章，内容包括她自己的经历和观点，以及美国反亚裔种族主义的悠久历史和现在正在发生的事情。

她毕业于德雷克大学(Drake University)新闻学院，是The Op-Ed Project的校友。
  • 闭幕致辞：
Changfu Chang, 美国华人联合会(UCA)媒体委员会主席
  • 主办方：
美国华人联合会(UCA)
  • 协办方：

Chinese Friendship Association of Portland

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar

The MGH Center for Cross-Cultural Students Emotional Wellness 

The Asian and Pacific Islander Caucus

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UCA Statement on George Floyd Murder Verdict

United Chinese Americans (UCA) applauds the guilty verdict against the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was found directly responsible for the killing of George Floyd.

Although Floyd can no longer live with us today, we commend the jury for the verdict, and we share this unique moment of relief, closure and justice with Floyd’s family members and loved ones.

The murder of George Floyd once again commands us that we must carry out police reform and start changing certain police culture in order to nurture true peace among our communities. It also highlights the grave fact that race relations in 21st century America will remain an enormous societal and political challenge with every citizen of this great country.

Representing an ethnic minority itself, UCA calls for all Americans to come together to carry out an honest, sustained and perhaps painful dialogue, without resorting to finger-pointing at each other but with each fellow American asking themselves: “What more can I do to make America a successful multi-ethnic democracy?” This is also the best way to honor the death of George Floyd.

Martin Luther King Jr. once famously said that the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. With this trial and conviction in Minneapolis, we have renewed our hope that our checkered moral history has and will continue to bend toward justice for all.

Event on 4/22, 7 p.m.– THURSDAYS with NAMI – Stop the hate: Violence against Asian Americans

Violence against Asian Americans has increased dramatically since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. Stop AAPI Hate, a coalition that tracks incidents of violence and harassment against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the U.S., reported nearly 3,800 instances of discrimination against Asians in the past year. Is mental wellness possible against a backdrop of persecution? 

Join us for a conversation about solutions and what type of self-care strategies are helpful. Guests include NCCU Nursing Instructor Lily Chen, who is the Program Director of United Chinese Americans WAVES (Wellness, Advocacy, Voices, Education, and Support) Youth Mental Health Collaborative; and UCA WAVES Coordinator Jennifer Tu, a second-generation Chinese American and student of theology and medicine at Duke.

Registration is required for this event, which is free and open to the public:

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ry-Ox5JVTKqITT8Unp_YiQ 


中文：https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/-KCw2B1zy5reAB_AsFf2Og

Event on 4/14:亚裔美国人社区历史平等教育法案-答谢,现状及展望 网络会议

芝加哥地区侨社发声，伊TEAACH法案获修正

By 美国华人联合会.   UCA IL伊州分会

4月12日下午，TEAACH 核心团队与参议员Ram Villivalam 开会，会后张秀贤女士刚刚向媒体发出的有关法案进展的新闻稿，以及伊州参议员 Ram Villivalam关于伊州众议院第SB648法案将着重亚裔历史，并将把某一个特定族裔从文字上删除的书面说明。我们衷心感谢华人社区及时和积极发声，谢谢伊州参议员 Ram Villivalam接受华人社区的反馈，并做出相应修改，将伊州整个亚裔社区团结在一起！

根据伊州众议院第SB648法案（还未通过）将在目前的School Code 基础上修改增加第27-20.8条例：增加的条例要求在从2022-2023学年起， 伊州所有公立小学和中学在其课程中都包括一个关于亚裔美国人历史以及贡献的教学单元。

谢谢大家！

TEAACH 核心团队： 

CW Chan, Nancy Chen, Jan Zheng, Lily Chen,  Grace Chan, David Wu, Anne Shaw and  Darryl Tom

由伊利诺伊州参议员江珍妮和伊利诺伊州参议员Ram Villivalam共同发起的《亚美社区历史平等教学法》（TEAACH ACT）取得重要的进展。12日PAVE联盟和社区代表进行对话后，决定从立法中刪除提及任何特定族裔群体的内容，以确保将重点放在伊州所有亚裔美国人社区。在参议院通过法案并分配给参议院教育委員会后，HB376中的此一语言将被刪除。

随着《教学法》的通过，伊利诺伊将成为伊州第一个要求将亚裔美国人的观点和历史纳入小学和高中课程的州。这将改变亚裔美国人如何看待自己和其他族裔如何看待我们。

对于美籍亚裔和所有伊州人民來说，学习美籍亚裔得历史从未有如现在这样的紧迫。让我们一起创造历史、支持TEAACH法案！

法案简介如下：

“修改【学校守则】里的课程学习条款。要求每所公立小学和中学在其课程中都包括一个研究亚裔美国人历史事件的教学单元；包括适用于本法令的规定条款。规定美国的历史教学应包括对第二次世界大战期日裔美国人的非法关押的研究，以及第二次世界大战期间美国第100步兵营和第442 团作战战斗队的英勇服务。”

然而法案第二部分只要求所有伊卅公立学校教日裔美国人历史及其贡献，只字不提排华法案及华工建设跨美国铁路辛酸历史. 然而华裔在美国有170 多年的历史为美国社会做出了杰出的贡献。并且华裔美国人是通常人们提到亚裔美国人最先想到的代表和形象。因此我们认为此法案没有提倡种族共容的精神。尤其目前美国亚裔少数群体受到更多攻击的今天这个法案并不有助于提倡种族包容和合作。这个法案的直接后果在学校实施层面就会存在着在教亚裔美国人历史的时候仅仅只教授关于日裔美国人的以上内容而华裔内容皆为可选的可能性。这不是我们希望看见的。

如果您反对这个法案，请您填写“Witness Slip”,表达您的反对意见。我们必须在本周一之前行动！因此只有24小时！请尽早告知您的朋友和反对该法案的人士。我们的目的是通过反对给立法者压力去修改法案to be more inclusive of other Asian History including Chinese American history .

当得知该不包容法律之后，在Nancy Chen 和CW 领导下，核心团队周五4/9 号晚上邀请芝加哥中文媒体召开记者会，倡议芝加哥华人社区通过法律手段用填witness slips 方式表达我们的心声”。此倡议得到华人社区的广泛支持。以下是教大家怎样填满witness slip . 绝大多数人，包括核心团队成员以前都没填过，很多人填多次都提交不上去。但大家仍然执着的坚持，并得到许多热心人士的技术协助。

“简单一句话说就是我们不是反对把日本亚裔历史写进教科书，但是我们希望把华裔美国人历史同样加入教科书，因为立法的困难性，目前可以说是唯一的机会。反对只是不同意此法案根据目前文字通过，需要修改的部分周五已经提交部分Senator 建议修改。只有反对目前文字，才有可能在Senator 层面做出修改，所以是一个战略上的策略。法案事情也清楚的说明，我们需要不停的发声才有可能被听到！”

华埠更好团结联盟CBCAC、华联会CAAGC及美国华人联合会伊州分会UCA IL 将在4/14 周三晚上八点钟和Coalition的全体成员一起召开zoom会议，并感谢在SB 648 teaach Act中提供帮助的所有人。我们希望借着这个机会让大家了解这个议案的过程， 也让大家知道下一个步骤是什么。请大家把这个邀请函转载给他人，与大家分享成功的甜美。

ZOOM网络会议（美国中部时间）

2021年4月14日 周三晚上8点

会议号：84307015827 (无需密码)

最后，再次感谢大家的鼎力支持，在过去三天内有超过600人签名反对SB 648教育方案。4月12日华人核心团的八位人士和 Senator Villivalam, 法案的提出人一起开会。 最后参议员同意修改SB648教育法案，让所有亚裔（而不是只有日裔）包括在伊州公校的教育課程。再次感谢大家的热烈表态。这也是我们参加政治活动很好的经验。

The Safety of the Asian American Community: A dialog between law enforcement agencies and the Chinese American Community

On April 10, Saturday, Chinese American Friendship Association of North Carolina CAFA and United Chinese Americans UCA organized a webinar “ The Safety of the Asian American Community: A dialog between law enforcement agencies and the Chinese American Community”.

Guest speakers included Mr. Robert (Bobby) Wells, FBI Charlotte Special Agent in Charge and his team; Mr. Allan Cain ( Cary Safety Director); Mr. Chris Blue (Chapel Hill Police Chief); Ya Liu (Town of Cary Council women) and Xilong Zhao (CAFA President). The webinar was moderated by Lily Chen (CAFA outreach director and UCA senior advisor). More than 150 local community members participated in this important, educational, and well received webinar . 

For the webinar document, please click here.

One Book One World亚裔文化书籍进校园活动！

BY   美国华人联合会    UCA IL伊州分会

请支持参加One Book One World亚裔文化书籍进校园活动！

为了响应5月的亚太裔传统月(Asian Pacific American Heritage Month)，让更多关于正面的亚裔文化及杰出亚裔的书籍进入校园，在孩子们建立社会认知的时候就接触到这些文化多元的内容，从而影响下一代美国孩子们对社会人权的公正评判。因为我们相信没有人天生有偏见；多元的书籍是理解世界的窗口。我们的孩子值得拥有被理解，被尊重，充满友爱和包容的成长环境。

由 CAC(Chinese Academy in Chicago) 发起，CNPCPS(Chinese Neighborhood Parents in CPS)，以及 UCA IL(United Chinese American – Illinois) 鼎力支持的筹款捐书活动默默的启动了。

筹到的款项将全部用来购买书单里的书籍，并按照需求分批捐赠给所有希望收到赠书的学校。具体书单、学校列表、捐款事项及登记您的学校为受赠学校等，皆可上活动官网查看：http://www.onebookoneworld.org

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无论你身边是否有孩子在芝加哥公立学校就读，都请帮忙扩散支持。因为这不仅仅为了某几个学校的亚裔学生，同时可以让主流社会从教育工作者开始，听见亚裔群体的声音并看见我们的努力，because WE CARE!

专为初步掌握3D建模或有其他相似软件使用经验的中高级学员设计的课程。未来式的世界，属于敢于创新、挑战人工智能的下一代。

课程安排（美国中部时间）：

2021年5月11日-6月17日 ，每周二 4:00PM-5:00PM

*课程包括赠送给每个同学一台家用3D打印机

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Upcoming Free Online Bystander Training to Stop Anti-Asian/American and Xenophobic Harassment

Almost all the registrants (96%) of our self-defense training indicated that they want to learn how to deal with anti-Asian hate crimes and incidents.

Thankfully, Hollaback is hosting several upcoming free online bystander training: “The one-hour, interactive training will teach you Hollaback!’s 5D’s of bystander intervention methodology. We’ll start by talking about the types of disrespect that Asian and Asian American folks are facing right now — from microaggressions to violence — using a tool we call the “spectrum of disrespect.” You’ll learn what to look for and the positive impact that bystander intervention has on individuals and communities. We’ll talk through five strategies for intervention: distract, delegate, document, delay, and direct; and how to prioritize your own safety while intervening. We’ll have time at the end for practice, and you’ll leave feeling more confident intervening the next time you see Anti-Asian/American harassment online or in-person.”

Please register at their website: https://www.ihollaback.org/bystanderintervention/

Self-Defense and Empowerment Training – Recording Now Online

On the afternoon of Saturday, April 3, UCA and CAFA co-hosted a virtual Self-Defense and Empowerment Training featuring instructor Mary Amato. Mary is a second-degree black belt in karate and a seasoned self-defense instructor, having taught people of all ages. She demonstrated important self-defense techniques, including breaking out of chokeholds, using one’s own strong areas such as the palms, elbows, knees, and feet to defend oneself, and targeting weaker areas on the attacker’s body (eyes, diaphragm, and groin, as well as temples, kidneys, knees). She also answered all of the audience’s concerns graciously and comprehensively throughout the session, moderated by UCA WAVES Youth Ambassador Jennifer Tu. Afterwards, Mary and UCA WAVES consulting psychiatrist Dr. Sen Xu stayed for a Q&A, during which participants got to learn more about coping with anti-racism and applying self-defense techniques in real life. 

After the webinar, Mary said, “Thank you all so much for giving me this opportunity. I am honored to be able to be a part of something so great.” As a UCA community, we are also honored and grateful for her humility, empathy, and generosity, as well as that of the team who organized the event.

For more ways to combat anti-Asian racism, please visit our compilation of online resources.

Please see our report of aggregate data collected from the event pre-survey here.

Some striking notes:

  • A total of 322 people from 29 states registered for the session, of whom a total of 193 (60% of total registered) attended. Majority of them are females (83%) and most are parents (79%).
  • At least 16% of them have experienced race-targeted harassment and/or assault in the past year, including verbal assault, physical attacks, etc.
  • However, only less than 10% of them reported the incidents. Multiple factors contributed to the low level of reports. About 42% of them didn’t think that police would help them. Others didn’t know how to report, were afraid of retaliations by the perpetrators, or had English language barriers.

Conclusive remarks:
The registration survey results indicate that the recent surge in anti-Asian hate crimes and racially targeted assaults and attacks have negatively impacted our community’s well being. Although a convenient sample was used in the survey analysis and the results reported herein need to be interpreted with caution, the general findings are consistent with other reports on similar issues. There is an urgency to unite and mobilize our community members to stand up and speak out against any forms of racism, bigotry, and xenophobia. As a community grassroot organization, UCA can play an important role in supporting local Chinese and Asian American organizations’ effort in fighting racism and discrimination and promoting diversity, inclusion, and equity.
Self-Defense and Empowerment Training slides
(not for instruction, but recognition of team members)

UCA’s Work Featured in Atlanta Journal-Constitution After Atlanta Shooting

 UCA 北美新视界
Click here to read, on page 11

Today, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a highly esteemed American newspaper, published an article by our UCA member Lily Chen (陈健). In the article, Lily introduces her life and work as a U.S. citizen and community member, and denounces the current acts of hate and violence towards Asians. Thank you and congratulations to Chen Jian and other members for speaking out for our Asian community!

Many other members of our UCA community are also actively writing their testimonials and contributing articles to local newspapers. In case you are interested: the “Letters to the Editor” (“Letters to the Editor”) and “Op Ed” ​​(“Reader Comments”) of American newspapers are reserved pages. These two columns are places for readers to comment on current affairs and express their opinions, and they are a good platform for discourse. 

Using it to introduce ourselves in local newspapers and participate in discussions is a very effective way to make waves in mainstream society.

In order to cooperate with this work, UCA is organizing an upcoming webinar, where we will invite experts and community representatives in this area to guide us on how to write such manuscripts and deliver them to local media.

This is an article published by Lily in AJC (please visit page 11): here

【祝贺和倡议】

今天美国有影响的报纸The Atlanta Journal-Constitution （《亚特兰大宪章报》）发表了我们UCA成员Lily Chen (陈健)的文章。文章中，Lily讲“自己的故事”，介绍作为美国公民和社区成员的生活、工作，并声讨当前对亚裔的仇视。我们UCA的不少会员也在积极地写出自己的感言，给各地报章投稿。谢谢并祝贺陈健和其他会员为我们亚裔社区发声！

美国报纸的“Letters to the Editor” (“读者来信”)和 “Op Ed”（“读者评论”）是预留的版面。这两个栏目是供读者评论时事、表达心声的地方，是很好的话语平台。希望大家重视和利用这个平台。我们在各地的报纸上介绍自己，参与讨论，也是介入主流社会、改变我们生活环境的一个非常有效的方式。

为了配合这项工作，UCA正在筹备一个webinar，我们将邀请这方面的专家和社区的代表来介绍如何撰写这类文稿，如何投送当地的媒体。

这是Lily 在《亚特兰大宪章报》上发表的文章 （请浏览第11页）：点击这里

其他相关活动，请查看下面海报：

Event on 4/3: UCA讲座｜空手道世界冠军Mary Amato教自我防卫术

 UCA麻州分会

一则亚裔男子在地铁上遭非洲裔连续暴打、锁喉至昏迷的视频，3月28日晚至29日在社交媒体被疯传。

这段长达一分钟的视频中，亚裔男子起先还企图想回击，但没过多久就被非洲裔男子打倒在座位上。即使亚裔男子已经用手臂护住头部，但非洲裔男子也没有就此停手，而是连续握拳挥打近30下，而后又用手臂锁住了受害者的喉咙十余秒，结束时又推撞了其头部，而后泰然走下地铁，至视频结束，亚裔男子已经满脸是血的倒地昏迷。

还有近期的亚特兰大6名亚裔女性被暴徒枪杀，奥克兰唐人街91岁的老人在路上行走而无故遭袭，旧金山反击暴徒的老奶奶等等，这些针对亚裔族群的犯罪事件仅仅是冰山一角，目前全美国的针对亚裔族群仇恨值已经达到了一个历史高峰。

追踪针对亚裔种族歧视组织Stop AAPI Hate近日报告说，自去年以来，该组织收到了来自美国50个州和华盛顿特区的3795起歧视亚裔的事件投诉，在过去两个月里，就有超过500起投诉。

仅看NYPD去年的报告，纽约地区针对亚裔的犯罪率就增加了833%。从2020年3月至今，美国一共收集到近3000多起仇视亚裔的报告，而且预测这个数字可能只是真实数据的零头而已。

最近全美掀起的反对“对亚裔仇恨”的活动显示出亚裔团结的力量，我们的行动正在被看见，越来越多的不同族裔的人也加入了我们，支持我们，共同维护美好家园和社区。

在抵抗的同时我们也需要学会保护好自己。UCA在此非常时期，特别举办人身防护讲座，无疑是雪中送炭，专门请来空手道世界冠军，教授简单易学的防身术，不论男女老少都适合参加，一学就会。
UCA与CAFA联合主办
自我防卫课程
时间：4月3日，12pm PST/2pm CST/3pm EST
Jennifer Tu

主持人：Jennifer Tu

UCA青少年心理健康合作大使及协调员

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教官：Mary Amato

作为AKA团队联合队长的Mary，从四岁开始学习武术，是一级黑带获得者，在空手道学校表现活跃，负责教授课程，以及活动的协调和举办。

她参加了NASKA，AKA和ISKA巡回赛，并在众多比赛中赢得了总冠军。2018年，在Compete Nationals，Capitol Classics，Dicieland Nationals和AKA勇士杯中获胜。

她获得了坦帕大学荣誉计划奖学金，目前在攻读海洋生物学学位。

保卫我们的利益，保护我们的身体，从现在行动起来。

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