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News - Biracial and Multiracial Individuals
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Written by Ken Tanabe
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Friday, 06 April 2007 |
Hello - if you are in the New York City area, please join us for a
discussion at Columbia University:
Exploring the Hapa Identity
Monday, April 9th, 2007
8:00PM-9:30PM
Roone Arledge Cinema, Alfred Lerner Hall
Columbia University
115th and Broadway
New York, NY 10027
Summary:
ha•pa (hä'pä)
adj. 1. Slang. of mixed racial heritage with partial roots in Asian
and/or Pacific Islander ancestry.
n. 2. Slang. a person of such ancestry.
[der./Hawaiian: hapa haole. (half white)]
Is there a set "Hapa identity"?
How has the media dealt with the Hapa identity?
What are unique Hapa issues? Are they the same as Asian American issues?
How do we build a greater, cohesive community of Hapas?
Please join us for a discussion about the Hapa identity and the issues
that face Hapas.
Featuring Eric Byler (http://www.myspace.com/ericbyler), award-winning
director of "charlotte sometimes" and "Americanese", and Ken Tanabe of
Loving Day ( http://www.lovingday.org).
Ice cream reception to follow.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 17 April 2007 )
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News - Abolition of Racial Classifications
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Written by Aleta Payne
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Sunday, 18 March 2007 |
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/16/AR2007031602673.html
No, My Son Doesn't 'Act Black.' There's No Such Thing.
By Aleta Payne
Sunday, March 18, 2007; B03
Sam came home from the overnighter visibly crushed. He curled around his hurt as though he'd been punched in the gut, and he refused to say what had happened. My husband and I fought panic as all the horrible things that might happen to a 14-year-old away from home pounded through our brains. We cajoled and interrogated as he tried to disappear into the living room sofa, until finally, enough of the story emerged to reassure us that our oldest son hadn't been physically injured. But his suffering was still real. Be first to comment this article | Add as favourites (26) | Quote this article on your site | Views: 1124 |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 17 April 2007 )
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Current Issue
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Written by Adam Abraham
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Wednesday, 14 March 2007 |
Racial Divisiveness Convenient Ploy to Mask Larger Health IssueIt’s About Love DeficiencyApril/May 2007 - The Abolitionist Examinerby Adam Abraham An ABC News Health story trumpets, “Blacks Continue to Lose the Health Care Battle”. The study was conducted by researchers at Harvard and Brown Universities, and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Its ostensive intention was to show a need to continue collecting racial data for the purposes of policing equality of treatment. Sounds like a good idea, right?
Wrong. Its real effect is to maintain divisiveness, keeping both blacks and whites thinking that a “fight” is still needed (or will occur), with one group on the offensive, and the other on the defensive. It passively and insidiously portrays blacks as continued “losers” in the game of being American. None of these postulates are true. The only thing this really accomplishes is to maintain the status quo. Be first to comment this article | Add as favourites (71) | Quote this article on your site | Views: 2971 |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 17 April 2007 )
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Press Releases Sent By TMA and Coalition Partners
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Written by Coalition
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Monday, 12 March 2007 |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jesse R. Benton
March 12, 2007 202-246-6363
Stop National Security Letters, Says Transpartisan Coalition
In light of abuse, longtime critics of Patriot Act provision call for end to this highly intrusive practice
WASHINGTON, DC - The Liberty Coalition, a transpartisan public policy group dedicated to preserving the Bill of Rights, personal autonomy and individual privacy has called on Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Robert Mueller to end the use of National Security Letters (NSL's) after a newly released Department of Justice (DOJ) audit confirmed fears that the FBI has improperly and unlawfully misused the controversial provision of the USA Patriot Act.
Upon taking his post, FBI director Robert Mueller pledged to uphold the United States Constitution. Civil liberties advocates have long argued that these secret, coercive demands for privacy records violate people's fundamental privacy rights because they allow the FBI to require telephone companies, internet service providers, banks, credit bureaus, insurance companies and other businesses to produce highly personal records about their customers without any evidence the person whose records are demanded has done anything wrong and without any judicial or independent check to protect individual rights.
"National Security Letters are a clear and dangerous violation of Americans' expectation of privacy in their financial, communications and insurance records unless they have done something wrong," said Liberty Coalition national director Michael Ostrolenk. "If Director Mueller wants to uphold both his word and duty, he will not oppose reforms of this intrusive, unchecked power."
NSL's were created in 1978 to circumvent the Right to Financial Privacy Act, but were limited strictly to foreign agents. Compliance was voluntary, and states' consumer privacy laws often allowed institutions to decline these requests.
In 2001, section 505 of the USA Patriot Act greatly expanded the use of NSL's, allowing their use in scrutiny of US residents who are not suspected of any wrongdoing. It also granted the privilege to other federal agencies like the Department of Homeland Security. Patriot Act reauthorization in 2005 added specific penalties for companies that failed to comply, giving FBI agents powerful tools to further coerce business owners to turn over customer information. The customers whose records are turned over to FBI databases is never told their private records are now held and distributed across the federal government, even if they have not done anything wrong and are never charged with any crime or other violation.
The DOJ audit, conducted by Inspector General Glenn A. Fine, found that FBI agents demanded individual's personal data without proper authorization and improperly obtained telephone records under the guise of "emergency" in non-emergency circumstances. In addition, the FBI significantly underreported to Congress for three years how it forced businesses to turn over customer data. The Justice Department also misled the American people and Congress about the explosion in the use of these intrusive demands, at one point denying investigative reporting that over 30,000 requests had been made in a single year—this report documented that, in fact, over 50,000 had been made in a year for a total of almost 150,000 in a three year period. .
"The Inspector General's report, which was required by the Patriot Act reauthorization over the administration's objections, serves to underscore the danger when any government agent, regardless of intention, is given unchecked power to secretly gather the private records of people who have done nothing wrong," continued Ostrlolenk. "Congress must truly reform the National Security Letter power to focus these intrusive demands on those conspiring with al Qaeda and subject such demands to judicial checks to ensure that innocent people's privacy is not swept away by false claims of emergency or other inappropriate grounds."
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