Thanks everybody! Here’s the profile they printed with some of my thoughts: If you could give your younger-self advice, what would it be? I would share this quote from Grace Lee Boggs, “You don’t choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you are to be.” Do you have any event/movie/music suggestions for our readers to check out in celebration of AAPI Heritage Month? Learn about unsung heroes and Asian American movement figures like Kiyoshi Kuromiya. The publication “Them” created a short video on his life, using his actual voice to narrate, that’s worth checking out. He was born in a Japanese concentration camp during WWII and was active in the civil rights and anti-war movement, and made significant contributions to HIV/AIDS activism. https://lnkd.in/gWW9CWe8 How has your heritage shaped the person you are today? My heritage has enabled me to better understand the world, and to connect my lived experiences to those of past generations. Heritage is not just about language or food, as wonderful as they are, but also about my political identity. Our collective histories of struggle and resistance give us strength to fight for collective liberation, and it means that we build on those who came before us and we never do this work alone. What can New York policymakers do to support the AAPI-community in the short-term? In the long-term? Our policymakers have to engage in principled struggle to combat inequality and stop the political cowardice of selling out the most vulnerable, because ultimately none of us are free until all of us are. Until we address the root causes of violence in our society, we are doomed to repeat these cycles of violence. We must redistribute resources away from systems, like prisons and war, that kill and destroy and towards those that affirm life.
Congratulations, Jason Wu, for being named to the PoliticsNY and amNY Metro Asian American and Pacific Islander Power Players List! In addition to his work with Legal Aid, Wu, Attorney-in-Charge of The Legal Aid Society’s Harlem Community Law Office, serves on Manhattan’s Community Board 11 in East Harlem and is currently a co-chair for GAPIMNY-Empowering Queer & Trans Asian Pacific Islanders, a queer and trans AAPI organization that focuses on community building, political education, and mutual aid. “Our policymakers have to engage in principled struggle to combat inequality and stop the political cowardice of selling out the most vulnerable, because ultimately none of us are free until all of us are,” Wu tells the publication. The inaugural Power Players List honors New York’s most influential AAPI elected officials, executives, creators, business leaders, and activists from across industries and organizations. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dmi5xDs2
Love this.
Congratulations, this is so cool!
You are incredible!! So well deserved!
So well deserved! Congratulations, Jason!
Congrats, Jason! So well-deserved!
congrats!
Congrats Jason! Beyond proud of you!
Congratulations!!
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3moYES Jason!!! So so well deserved! I hope you are doing well, it's been ages since our catch-up. My best to you, Power Player!!