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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to stuff

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Speaker 2: And we are at the end of the twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: five AAPI History Month in the US, so we thought

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Speaker 2: we would talk about a few AAPI organizations that are

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Speaker 2: working to advocate for their community in the US. And

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Speaker 2: of course, as we usually say, these are just a

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Speaker 2: few of the many, many, many many different organizations around

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Speaker 2: the country. However, this is a shorter segment, y'all know this,

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Speaker 2: so we have to make a short list. So we

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Speaker 2: picked three of the organizations that we wanted to talk about,

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Speaker 2: not because they're any better or worse or whatever whatnot.

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Speaker 2: It's just because we found these and we're like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: we'll talk about these. So there's that caveat. So let's

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Speaker 2: talk about the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center or I'm

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Speaker 2: going to call it Sea rec SEARC. So they begin

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Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy nine and it's currently based in California,

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Speaker 2: and they've been working and advocating for the refugees in

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Speaker 2: this area and the nation. Honestly a bit more about

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Speaker 2: them from their site. Sea REX start began in nineteen

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Speaker 2: seventy nine as the Indo China Refugee Action Center in

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Speaker 2: response to the war and US militarization in Southeast Asia.

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Speaker 2: By nineteen seventy five, hundreds of thousands of people have

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Speaker 2: been forced to flee their homes in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.

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Speaker 2: Families sought to escape unimaginable violence and persecution, finding safety

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Speaker 2: across borders and oceans. Seawright's founders wanted to ensure that

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Speaker 2: the United States welcome these refugees with dignity, and since

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Speaker 2: then they have expanded to working for civil rights and

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Speaker 2: protections for the Southeast Asian community. So here's our mission

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Speaker 2: statement from that site. Sea rec is a national civil

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Speaker 2: rights organization that builds power with diverse communities from Cambodia, Loos,

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Speaker 2: in Vietnam to create a socially just and equitable society.

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Speaker 2: As representatives of the largest refugee community ever resettled in

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Speaker 2: the United States, SAX stands together with other refugee communities,

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Speaker 2: communities of color, and social justice movements in pursuit of

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Speaker 2: social equity, and with their work, they've been able to

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Speaker 2: bring attention to the needs and lives of the refugees

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Speaker 2: in their communities and as a part of the advocacy.

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Speaker 2: They have collaborated with different organizations to bring the most

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Speaker 2: accurate information and educational services for them and their allies.

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Speaker 2: Within their work, they provide services for change within educational policies,

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Speaker 2: data equity, immigration policies, healthcare policies, and so much more so.

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Speaker 2: They actually recently collaborated with a Center for Asian American

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Speaker 2: Media or CAM to premiere a docu series titled Southeast

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Speaker 2: Asian American Journeys. So this is again from their site.

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Speaker 2: This landmark series, part of the Our Roots, Our Power campaign,

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Speaker 2: commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of Southeast Asian American or SEAA refugees,

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Speaker 2: resettlement and uplifts unique stories of communities, strength, survival and

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Speaker 2: self determination. So there's a lot that they're doing. You

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Speaker 2: should definitely check them out. They do talk about things

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Speaker 2: like how the Census really do a bad job in

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Speaker 2: counting just Asian people as one big group of people

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Speaker 2: when the needs are so different in vast I agree

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Speaker 2: with that. And then next we have the Asian Americans

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Speaker 2: Advancing Justice or AAAJ. Their organization has been around since

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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety one in Washington, DC, and this is from

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Speaker 2: their site Advancing Justice that AAJC dot org rooted in

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Speaker 2: the dreams of immigrants and inspired by the promise of

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Speaker 2: opportunity Asian Americans. Advancing Justice AAJC advocates for an America

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Speaker 2: in which all Americans can benefit equally from and contribute

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Speaker 2: to the American dream. Our mission is to advance the

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Speaker 2: civil and human rights of Asian Americans and to build

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Speaker 2: and promote a fair and equitable society for all, and

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Speaker 2: it goes on. Advancing Justice is the voice for the

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Speaker 2: Asian American community, the fastest growing population in the US,

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Speaker 2: fighting for our civil rights through education, litigation, and public

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Speaker 2: policy advocacy. We serve to empower our communities by bringing

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Speaker 2: local and national constituencies together and ensuring Asian Americans are

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Speaker 2: able to participate fully in our democracy. So this organization

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Speaker 2: is made up of four sex including Advancing Justice Atlanta,

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Speaker 2: Advancing Justice Chicago, the aj SOCOU which is located in

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Speaker 2: southern California, and then the original AJ and so about

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Speaker 2: the different organizations as says. To achieve our mission, we

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Speaker 2: work together as equal and independent partners under one name,

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Speaker 2: speaking with one unified and powerful voice, to promote justice,

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Speaker 2: empower our communities, bring local and national constituents together and

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Speaker 2: the first administration of Trump, the AAAJ Atlanta worked tirelessly

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Speaker 2: policy changes. Actually helped build what is now called sanctuary cities,

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Speaker 2: which is under attack. If you don't know about that,

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Speaker 2: that's another conversation. And they've been working hard again to

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Speaker 2: Each organization have been working to ensure that they are

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Speaker 2: protect and empower refugees and of course people of color,

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Speaker 2: and working to fight within policy advocacy. So again, a

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Speaker 2: talking about these organizations for today, because we're gonna keep

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Speaker 2: talking about them. AAPI Women Lead. This organization is another

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Speaker 2: you should go check them out. So who are they?

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Speaker 2: According to their site aapiwl dot org, AAPI Women Lead

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Speaker 2: is a queer, feminist, survivor led and former sex worker led,

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Speaker 2: community based intergenerational organization that works to end and violence

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Speaker 2: against Asian, Native, Hawaiian and Pacific islender an HPI women, girls,

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Speaker 2: and non binary communities. Our organization is led by inn

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Speaker 2: HPI women, girls and non binary communities in solidarity with Black,

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Speaker 2: Indigenous and other communities of color. So they use like

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Speaker 2: also creates solidarity community within their organizations and again for

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Speaker 2: the people that they advocate for, they really push to

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Speaker 2: be unified. It's led by co founders doctor Cunny One

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Speaker 2: and Jenny. It doesn't have our last name, so Jenny,

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Speaker 2: thank you Jenny. And they've been working to uplift Asian

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Speaker 2: their approach from their site quote. Our approach is a feminist, matriarchal, queer,

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Speaker 2: rooted in relationships, transformative justice, and solidarity. We are informed

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Speaker 2: by our communities collective needs, expensive knowledge and progressive, radical

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Speaker 2: bit more about their work. They say, through community driven

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Speaker 2: research and education, healing, wellness and power building programs, as

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Speaker 2: well as our community events, our organization amplifies and creates

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Speaker 2: platforms to build upon the histories of resistance of Asian, Native,

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Speaker 2: Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women girls in our gender expansive communities,

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Speaker 2: and to mobilize towards progressive social change. Our work encourages

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Speaker 2: our community to tell their stories, to heal, and to

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Speaker 2: organize towards the end of violence against and within our communities,

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Speaker 2: and to create a new world. If you don't remember

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Speaker 2: the violence that happened against the Asian women in Atlanta

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Speaker 2: reactionary responses in coming together and understanding that this bigger

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Speaker 2: picture of intersectionality when it comes to fighting together for

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Speaker 2: the rights of everyone, is to start at the most prosecuted,

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Speaker 2: as we talk about when we talk about solidating with

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Speaker 2: their kind of initiative, so really amazing work. If you

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