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Hate Crimes and Community Safety |
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When you see a hate crime or an abusive incident taking place,
do you know what you can or should do? You may only
have a split second to decide on your course of
action.
From the
San Jose Nikkei Resisters:
The
San Jose Nikkei Resisters invites you to
participate in a combined bystander intervention
training and community safety discussion on
June 6th at 3:30pm. This is part of our
efforts to create collective safety through
community-based initiatives and solidarity across
communities.
Many of us have been very
concerned about the safety of seniors and others in
the San Jose Japantown area. Some of us have
volunteered with the safety teams organized by
Japantown Prepared! and the
Japantown
Community Congress of SJ. Many of us are
long-time community members with personal, business,
religious, and cultural ties to the area.
The
CAIR Bystander Training program is one means of
responding to the issue of anti-Asian violence.
CAIR (Council on
American-Islamic Relations) developed their
training in 2017 in response to the rise in
Islamophobia and updated it in 2020 in response to
the resurgence of anti-Asian violence. This training
includes scenarios of anti-Blackness, anti-immigrant
language discrimination, transphobia, Islamophobia,
etc. in addition to COVID-related anti-Asian
attacks.
It's important to create or
encourage programs that provide overall safety for
our community members while also preventing
victimization or criminalization, for example, of
houseless folks and others. We hope to take a more
humane approach to community safety, and invite you
to join us!
Please sign up and invite other
members of your group to fill out the registration
form here:
https://bit.ly/SJNRJune6 |
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Additional Anti-AAPI Crime Information |
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Article by Sonya Herrera, San Jose Inside |
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Link to article |
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This
report by the Stop
AAPI Hate coalition covers the 6,603 incident reports
recorded by Stop AAPI Hate from March 19, 2020 to March 31,
2021.The number of hate incidents reported to their
organization increased significantly from 3,795 to 6,603
during March 2021. These reports include incidents that took
place in both 2020 and 2021. |
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The Rising Tide of
Violence and Discrimination
Against Asian American
and
Pacific Islander
Women and Girls |
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This
report was produced by
National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF)
and Stop AAPI Hate.
The
National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
(NAPAWF) is the only multi-issue, progressive, community organizing and policy
advocacy organization for Asian American and Pacific
Islander (AAPI) women and girls in the
U.S. NAPAWF’s mission is to build collective power so that
all AAPI women and girls can have full
agency over our lives, our families, and our communities.
Stop AAPI Hate is a national coalition addressing
anti-Asian racism across the U.S. The coalition wasfounded by the
Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council (A3PCON),
Chinese for Affirmative Action
(CAA),
and San Francisco State
University’s Asian American Studies Department.
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We The People image created by Shepard
Fairey.
Amplfier Foundation. |
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San Jose Nihonmachi
Outreach Committee (NOC)
P.O. Box 2293,
San Jose, CA 95109
E-Mail:
info@sjnoc.org
Website:
www.sjnoc.org
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our
enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
