NYU Asian American Political Activism Coalition - NYU APAC

NYU Asian American Political Activism Coalition - NYU APAC NYU APAC is a student-led organization that aims to politically educate and mobilize a pan-ethnic As

NYU APAC is a student-led coalition with the mission to politically educate and mobilize Asian American and Asian diaspora students at NYU for our collective liberation. We use the term "Asian American" not to refer to US citizenship or papers, but to the political project and ongoing struggle of Asian America. We recognize "Asian American" as a pan-ethnic political coalition that emerged from the

Asian American Movement in the 1960s and 1970s. We place intersectionality at our core, aiming to build solidarity between the diverse Asian diasporas in the United States as well as the marginalized communities in and out of our coalition. This page was started in February 2017 from an interest group, from which a few members founded what we now know as NYU Asian American Political Activism Coalition, which became officially recognized as a university organization in January 2018, led by President Aree Worawongwasu. We formed as an overhaul of a previous interest group, Asian Pacific American Coalition, out of solidarity with survivors, and the need to root out abusers and enablers who were in our space. We are a coalition that believes and supports survivors, informed by feminist abolitionist thought. We believe that contending with the fraught histories of Asian America and Asian colonialisms is not divisive, but that grappling with intertwined histories of oppressions is foundational work for solidarity building. We believe in challenging the model minority myth and the hegemony of East Asian class privilege as a singular narrative of Asian America. We are a coalition of people from fraught histories, coming together to organize for collective liberation. The NYU Asian American Political Activism Coalition is queer Asian woman led, believes survivors, and practices transformative justice. We believe in being rooted in the anti-imperialist, coalitional, and liberatory politics from which the Asian American Movement was founded.

We, the NYU Asian American Political Activism Coalition, join NYUtoo and GSOC-UAW Local 2110 in strongly opposing the re...
10/24/2019

We, the NYU Asian American Political Activism Coalition, join NYUtoo and GSOC-UAW Local 2110 in strongly opposing the return of Avital Ronell, professor of Comparative Literature and German, who was found guilty in a Title IX investigation of verbal and physical sexual harassment of a graduate student. She is currently undergoing a one-year suspension and will return to her teaching and research duties in fall 2019. As an organization, we are committed to believing survivors and to practicing transformative justice. People who have never taken accountability for committing abuse, and who have gaslighted and accused survivors of lying, are never welcome here. Allowing Ronell to return to NYU demonstrates the university’s complicity in reproducing the structures that produce harassment and exclusion.

(full statement and list of demands here: https://tinyurl.com/NYUtooDemands) NYUtoo and the Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC-UAW Local 2110), the union for graduate workers at NYU, strongly opposes the return of Avital Ronell, professor of Comparative Literature and German, who was found....

Yesterday, we joined Chinatown Art Brigade 唐人街藝術隊／ 唐人街艺术队, No New Jails NYC, Wing On Wo & Co., and Decolonize This Place...
10/21/2019

Yesterday, we joined Chinatown Art Brigade 唐人街藝術隊／ 唐人街艺术队, No New Jails NYC, Wing On Wo & Co., and Decolonize This Place in demanding that the Museum of Chinese in America be accountable for colluding with Margaret Chin’s vote to expand jails. Chin made concessions for a MOCA community theatre in exchange for the expansion of the prison industrial complex. We demand the immediate closure of Rikers and . Photo credits: Diane Wong and Harry Burke.

ASIAN AMERICAN POLITICAL ACTIVISM COALITION IS A RADICAL Q***R ASIAN WOMEN LED GROUP OF STUDENTS AND ACTIVISTS COMMITTED TO RACIAL, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE! WE ARE FIGHTING FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE RACIST CARCERAL STATE BECAUSE JAILS HARM ALL COMMUNITIES IN NEW YORK, PARTICULARLY WORKING-CLASS AND IMMIGRANT BLACK, NATIVE, LATINE, AND ASIAN COMMUNITIES.

AS STUDENTS WE CONDEMN THE USE OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS COLLUDING WITH THE CARCERAL STATE FOR PROFIT. THE IDEA OF A MOCA SPACE IN A JAIL BEING A GOOD THING IS ABSURD AND INSULTING. REJECT THE MONEY THAT COMES DIRECTLY FROM THE COFFERS OF OUR OPPRESSORS.
WE WILL NOT EVER BE WEAPONS FOR ANTI-BLACKNESS. WE HAVE AGENCY IN DEMANDING PRISON ABOLITION FOR OUR SIBLINGS AND OUR ELDERS AND THE GENERATIONS TO COME.

WE COME FROM A GENEALOGY OF STRUGGLE, ELDERS WHO HAVE FOUGHT FOR US TO BE ALIVE TODAY HAVE FOUGHT AGAINST THE PRISON SYSTEM.

MARGARET CHIN MUST RESIGN FOR HER MORAL CRIMES FOR SELLING OUT THE CONSTITUENTS SHE HAS PLEDGED TO PROTECT AND SERVE. APAC WILL ACCEPT NOTHING SHORT OF A TOTAL REJECTION OF THE CORRUPT AND HARMFUL CARCERAL STATE. RIKERS MUST BE SHUT DOWN NO NEW JAILS CAN BE BUILT ON STOLEN LAND. THERE CAN BE NO CAPITULATION OR INTEGRATION INTO THE CARCERAL STATE.

WE STAND HERE TODAY IN THE MOVEMENT FORGED BY THE FIRES OF WORKING CLASS ASIAN AMERICAN STRUGGLE AND WE WILL IMAGINE AND WORK TOWARDS A WORLD BEYOND PRISONS.

10/19/2019
Our core leadership retreat is this weekend! Most people have registered and confirmed their places, but please DM us if...
10/19/2019

Our core leadership retreat is this weekend! Most people have registered and confirmed their places, but please DM us if you would still like to attend! We’ll be focusing on political education on Asian American prison abolition and strategizing for the year. Graphic by Aree Worawongwasu!

Join us to phone zap for Mark Treyger and Daneek Miller to vote to with
10/16/2019

Join us to phone zap for Mark Treyger and Daneek Miller to vote to with

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NYU APAC is a student-led coalition with the mission to politically educate and mobilize Asian American and Asian diaspora students at NYU for our collective liberation. We use the term "Asian American" not to refer to US citizenship or papers, but to the political project and ongoing struggle of Asian America. We recognize "Asian American" as a pan-ethnic political coalition that emerged from the Asian American Movement in the 1960s and 1970s. We place intersectionality at our core, aiming to build solidarity between the diverse Asian diasporas in the United States as well as the marginalized communities in and out of our coalition.

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