Asian American Arts Centre

07/06/2023

Nancy Yao was to lead a Smithsonian museum about the influence of American women. Her withdrawal came amid a review of how she had handled sexual harassment complaints in an earlier post.

01/07/2022

Focus on Public Art in Chinatown, Kit Yin Snyder and Richard Haas , opposition to the Jail plan and justice missing for the art, the artists, and the community.

The north tower of the Manhattan Detention Complex, left, completed in 1990, and the south tower, which reopened in 1983 following a $42 million renovation. Both are slated for demolition, beginning in early spring. Photo: Carl Glassman/Tribeca Trib

09/13/2021

A remarkable story/short video Chinese woman first to vote in Calif. Early Chinese woman's history.

Official website: http://www.pbs.org/unladylike2020 | Leung Schulze resisted domestic servitude and an arranged child marriage to provi...

03/19/2021

honors the lives of Ashley Yaun, Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, and three other Asian women

The cover is the work of four APPI women at the magazine, reflecting on the rise of anti-Asian violence in the wake of this week's horrific hate crimes.

03/16/2021

In the past year, this small Canadian arts organization organized a COVID-19 mutual aid initiative for independent Indigenous curators, and is challenging its institutional partners to step up.

10/05/2020

Conversations on Culture: Race, Art, Myth = Justice. Please join this diverse group of thought and action influencers for a four-part series focusing on critical issues affecting the lives and well-being of our communities and institutions.
These conversations explore the ways in which we continue to secure a future with global and national allies. We must examine and determine how unjust laws can be changed, ensuring that we institute actual legal protections as we thrive, not just survive. We must establish the basis for just frameworks - new philanthropic models that shore up funding for our community based cultural organizations, as informed by our knowledge, our work, and shaped by our mission and voices.
Our objective is to affect positive change, eradicate the systemic injustices that continue to oppress and limit the possibilities of the majority of the Our objective is to affect positive change, eradicate the systemic injustices that continue to oppress and limit the possibilities of the majority of the nation’s Black, Afro Latin, Latinx, Native, Asian, LGBTTQ+/Two Spirit, People with Disabilities, and economically poor White communities.
The state of our organizations, the health and wellbeing of our communities, and the very fabric of our democracy is at stake.

Conversations on Culture: Race, Art, Myth = Justice

07/31/2020

Very enlightening how intent Moses was in his utterly racist goals

Highways are a racist legacy. It is time to tear them down. And for once, let communities decide what gets built in their place.

07/30/2020

The Cultural New Deal for Cultural and Racial Justice is a call for us to transform our personal, institutional, and global thinking. We believe that culture moves before policy. We believe that culture endures beyond politics. We wrote this Call because our work in culture and arts is inextricably....

06/24/2020

The 2,292 plants in attendance will be donated to health workers who’ve been battling the spread of COVID-19.

06/22/2020

facinating, must read.

The relationship between Black liberation and photography reveals many things about our notions of freedom and the limitations of image making as a form of common truth.

07/16/2018

Cheran has no politicians no elections ! 32 towns boycott recent election, In Michoacan Comments:
If you understand Spanish you'll get their way of living, they apply their ancestors laws, beleive it or not, no militia, they just follow civil laws practiced by the purepecha culture, maybe dosen't work for big cities but México is full of small towns like this, nobody is the boss, take decisions together! works, when you know your history.
It sounds like they're deeply invested in their indigenous practices, but it's also cool that their organizational structure reflects the anarchist political tradition.

The structure is simple: Each neighborhood elects a particular person to deal with a particular issue on a temporary basis, and the group can recall or switch them out when necessary.

Councils of people elected from each neighborhood make collective decisions. That's the highest level of authority -- no need for lobbyists, unreachable politicians, or vast military buildups.

Murray Bookchin is one of the thinkers most associated with circulating the tradition, often called libertarian municipalism. You can read more about it in this collection of his writing:https://libcom.org/files/Murray%20Bookchin-The%20Next%20Revolution.%20Popular%20Assemblies%20and%20the%20Promise%20of%20Direct%20Democracy-Verso%20(2015).pdf

I believe this is an example of participatory democracy. It is more than just voting. It is about people actually doing the work in establishing political processes for the betterment of their local communities or neighborhoods rather than electing someone to do it on the behalf of an entire nation. It requires people to collaborate, listen, have dialogue and come to consensus together. It means people must be active in the process and not be freagin lazy to get stuff done and hope someone else will do it for you. True power of the people.

Oh the Simple Life! it always takes women to make a movement lol...When we fed up that's it move or get moved lol Also going back to ones roots and ancestors shows how it help the problem with america a lot of groups have been stripped of ancestral thinking. the ancestors knew what was up

You don't need to understand Spanish to understand what is happing to communities in Mexico. Purepechas still speak their Native language. People are looking back into history and the old ways of Native people used to govern. The Purepecha weren't conquer by the invaders but they were forces to assimilate like most tribes in Anawak. Present form of government is used to divide and conquer technique. Native ways were about communities. It's great see the old Native ways coming back.

This is genius. America spends an insane amount of money on elections and as a result, people define their cultural identity, who they hang out with, what they buy by who is running for president or is president. Imagine just running a community based on the needs of a community and not politics.

Seems similar to the direct democracy found in Switzerland or Liechtenstein. Sometimes I feel like AJ+ is just a liberal propaganda thing to make Qatar look progressive, but then they post something awesome like this.