[Wamvan] Happy Too Asian: Celebrating Activism Against Racism workshop

[Joanna Chiu]

My friend Ray, a local writer and editor, is organizing this. Let me know
if you want to get in touch with him.

For Immediate Release: November 5th, 2012
HAPPY “TOO ASIAN”: CELEBRATING ACTIVISM AGAINST RACISM IN THE MEDIA
Saturday, November 10th, 2012

This November 10, 2012 is two years since Maclean’s Magazine published
their racist article entitled “Too
Asian”?. Across Canada, anti-racist activists, members of parliament,
coalitions of over 100 organizations,
writers, universities and youth decried the article, responded with public
education panels, letters,
petitions, flash mobs against Maclean’s and Rogers (the parent company). To
date, Maclean’s and Rogers
have declined to offer an apology for the article.

Now, it is two years later and HAPPY “TOO ASIAN”: CELEBRATING ACTIVISM
AGAINST RACISM
IN THE MEDIA is a one day cross-Canada conference celebrating activism and
resistance to all forms of
racism in the media.

This interactive one-day conference will be a live streamed event between
sites in Toronto and
Vancouver, featuring keynote addresses by Jan Wong, journalist and author;
Tetsuro Shigematsu,
cultural theorist, broadcaster, scholar and columnist for Huffington Post
Canada; media workshop with
Dr. Jennifer Chan, networking and activist planning, an intergenerational
dialogue featuring Winnie
Ng, CAW Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy; Jessica Danforth,
Native Youth Sexual
Health Network; film maker Sid Chow Tan of the Inheriting Resistance
Project, and moderated by Chris
Ramsaroop, community organizer with Justicia for Migrant Workers.
This event is presented by Solidarity Committee Against Anti-Asian Racism
(SCAAAR), the cross-Canada
network of scholars, students, writers, activists and community partners
who came together in protest to
petition against the Maclean’s Magazine article in 2010.

Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
BC
Saturday, November 10, 2012 @ 9:00-3:30 Registration @ 8:30 am.
Tickets: by donation, suggestion of $10
Space is limited, please pre-register online at
www.happytooasianvancouver.eventbrite.ca.

Follow on twitter @SCAAARCAN
Happy Too Asian Vancouver Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/440225292702158/

Media contacts: Dr. Ray Hsu drrayhsu at gmail.com, Jessa Alston-O’Connor
jessa.aoc at gmail.com
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