【Sep. 2, 2017】As Hurricane Harvey brought a historical natural disaster to residents in Houston area, Chinese Americans around the country were eager to help those people in urgent need. United Chinese Americans (UCA) has been collaborating with Chinese organizations in Houston area to call for Chinese communities everywhere to send in their donations to the affected parties to join in the humanistic efforts.
UCA 哈维飓风联合救援基金通告 （1）
哈维飓风给休斯敦一带居民带来了百年未遇的严重灾难。各地华人忧心如焚，急人所急，纷纷想向灾区灾民伸出援手。美国华人联合会（United Chinese Americans, UCA, http://ucausa.org）在和休斯顿地区华人社团联系和协商后，决定动员各地华人社区，把最急需援助的款项和帮助在第一时间送到休斯顿灾区。
【8/31/2017, Chicago, IL】UCA president Haipei Shue is attending the 54th annual convention of CACA, the oldest Chinese American civil rights organization set up in 1895, after Chinese Exclusion Act made life of the Chinese in America unbearable.
Paula Madison, a quarter Chinese whose Chinese grand father was a laborer in Jamaica gave a talk at the dinner reception . She made a great documentary called “Finding Samuel Lowell”. She was senior Vice President of NBC before she retired and now devotes her life to overseas Chinese heritage. She is also one of the founders of UCA, who we invited last year to our convention for her documentary. Paula is the “ambassador” to African American community and more!
During the convention, Dr. J K Holton, who is the vice chairman of UCA IL chapter discussed with leaders of UCA about possible actions UCA can take to help Harvey’s victims in Houston, to join in the humanistic effort cross boarders.
The CACA annual convention will adjourn with a closing ceremony this Saturday, 9/2/2017.
【8/27/2017, Washington DC】 UCA is sponsoring the author and lecture of《Water Tossing Boulders》. This book is about how Chinese in Mississippi fought all the way to the US Supreme Court to try to get their kids into White schools in Mississippi. Although they lost, but our forefathers’ fightings for the educational rights of there kids all the way back the mid 19 century are encouraging. This significant case was in 1927. After the seminar, the author of the book, Adrienne Berard, happily accepted Haipei Shue’s invitation to UCA’s 2018 convention.
Statement of United Chinese Americans (UCA) Condemning the Racism and Violence of White Supremacist Rally in Charlottesville VA
United Chinese Americans (UCA), a nationwide federation fighting for civil rights and equality for Chinese Americans and all Americans, today condemns in the strongest terms possible the white supremacist rally held in Charlottesville, VA and the attendant violence the rally has caused.
No form of racism, bigotry or violence has any place in this country. As the targeted victim suffering from racism in our country’s long checkered history, Chinese Americans know well what racism is and what harm it causes. Because of this bitter experience and unjust history in our past, today our communities have zero tolerance for any forms of racism or discrimination in America.
We therefore call on our communities to join us in condemning and fighting against this blatant display of racist white supremacy and violence in the Charlottesville, VA and any forms of racism anywhere in this country. We must do our very best to help achieve the true equality and harmony among all Americans for a more perfect Union.
We shall overcome!
United Chinese Americans （ UCA）
910 17th ST NW, Washington DC 20006
Contact: info@ucausa.org
Or 202-642-5060
Haipei Shue, President of UCA has just spent one day for “Golden Spike Festival” at Promontory Point in Salt Lake City where the last spikes of the Transcontinental Railroad were put in. In two years, 2019, it will be 150 Anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad. UCA will do its part to celebrate this great anniversary for Chinese Americans. Among our ideas are pushing for federal government to set up a federal blue ribbon sesquicentennial commission to celebrate it and perhaps some congressional resolution to go with it.
Chinese Communities Across the Country Support South Asian Americans’ Call for Full Investigation of Possible Hate Crimes Committed in Olathe, KS and Kent, WA
UCA向国会议员递交128个华人社团抗击种族仇恨声援信
In the morning of Wednesday, 03/23/2017, Haipei Shue of United Chinese Americans (UCA) visited Capitol Hill as the representative of the 100+ Chinese organizations who endorsed the Solidarity Letter. He attended the Congressional Briefing: “Power, Pain, Potential” and presented the Solidarity Letter to the leadership of SAALT and several Congressional members.
While the Kansas shooting on February 22nd is still under investigation as a possible hate crime against two immigrants from India, we are shocked to learn another Indian was shot at his own driveway after being told “Go back to your own country” by a gunman in Kent, WA on March 3rd.
Chinese communities across the country express our deepest condolences to Srinivas Kuchibhotla and his family, and our sympathy to Alok Madasani and the victim in Kent for the violent crimes committed against them. We also praise Ian Grillotan, a true American hero, who was wounded when risking his life to apprehend the gunman in the Kansas shooting.
These shootings remind Chinese Americans of the bitter memories of the 1982 killing of Vincent Jen Chin in the suburb of Detroit. Chin was mistaken for Japanese and was beaten to death by a Chrysler plant superintendent and his stepson. The killers were convicted of manslaughter through plea bargain, and served no jail time, with 3 year probation and $3,000 fine and were cleared of all federal civil rights charges.
Facing the increasing racial tension, hostility, and senseless killings of Asian Americans and other minorities, we support the call by the South Asian Americans for full investigation of possible hate crimes committed in these shootings. We also urge the federal and local authorities to condemn all hate crimes committed across the country.
We, Chinese Americans, shall stand in solidarity as always with all Asian Americans. Together, we shall work with all people who look for a safe and peaceful life in the United States and with the government to confront the rising hatred and divisiveness across the country.
3月23日，由南亚美国人领导联盟（South Asian Americans Leading Together，简称SAALT）主办的国会通报会在国会山召开。会议特邀3名国会参议员作为会议共同主席、8名国会众议员出席，共同严厉声讨当前针对南亚、穆斯林、锡克教、印度教、阿拉伯和中东美国人的仇恨暴力激增的事件。会议提交了一份名为“Power，Pain，Potential”主题报告，报告显示，近年伴随总统大选各地频发的200多起仇视暴力事件和言论，比3年前增长了34%。会议号召，各族裔组织立即联合起来，化悲痛为力量，严厉打击种族仇视和犯罪行为，呼吁政府切实担负责任、保护所有美国公民的平等权利。
美国华人联合会（United Chinese Americans，简称UCA）负责人薛海培先生应邀出席此次会议，发出了来自华裔社区的支持呼声，并向大会呈送来自128个华人社团签名的联合声援信。
2月22日，堪萨斯州一名印度工程师被枪杀，另有一名印度人和一名试图解救的美国人也当场受伤。3月3日，又一名印度裔锡克教美国人在西雅图郊区遭一蒙面男子开枪射伤。而这两起案件中的开枪男子都在枪击前高喊：“Get out of my country!”(滚出我的国家）。
Statement by United Chinese Americans (UCA) On the United Airlines Incident of Forcefully Removing a Senior Citizen From the Seated Airplane
Like most people who have watched the incident video today, United Chinese Americans (UCA) is immensely disturbed by the violent and wrong action taken yesterday to remove a 69-year old Chinese American doctor from the plane by police from Chicago Department of Aviation and United Airlines at O’Hare International Airport.
We demand an immediate and thorough investigation by the United Airlines as well as by FAA regarding this horrible incident as well as about the booking and other industry practices adopted by the airlines in general.
Furthermore, we demand that Chicago Department of Aviation start an immediate and thorough investigation as to how the police involved has violated its own operation procedures, let alone common sense. The deep rooted culture and ongoing practice of resorting to violence prematurely and unnecessarily, sometimes even fatally, by police must be examined, stopped and changed.
As a nationwide Chinese American coalition to protect, among other things, the constitutional rights of equal treatment to all Americans, we at UCA take this incident seriously. We demand an immediate and thorough investigation. We call for a formal apology by United Airlines and Chicago Department of Aviation to the gentleman and other passengers involved. We may take further public measures, upon the completion of the investigations and pending the course of action taken by United Airlines and the airport police authorities.
