The one-year grant that the state of California, through the California State Library, awarded Positively Filipino requires us to be constantly alert to the serious issue of Anti-Asian hate. Thus we have published original articles on various aspects of the Stop the Hate campaign, and we continue to monitor various publications so we can compile links to those stories with our regular Hate Watch collection.

Disseminating information on anti-Asian hate also means learning more about this sorry, sometimes tragic, sign of our times. We have followed up on Fil-Am victims of violence and assaults, some of them gruesome enough to make mainstream news, others just spoken about in whispers. Since documentation is important in addressing the gravity of the problem, PF has opened itself to posting reports on incidents that are brought to our attention. Such as our story this week by San Francisco community leader Mauro Tumbocon who was a victim of a random, unprovoked physical assault on New Year's Day.

We also came across this short film by Glenn Philip Martinez Aquino on the anti-Filipino riot in Exeter, California on October 24, 1929. This film, our Video of the Week, is instructive and cautionary. Filipino American history is replete with stories of hate directed against our elders who came to the US in unfriendly times. And such negativity from certain quarters is not going away anytime soon.

However, we are not helpless victims here. Together with other Asian Americans, we can get the resistance going. Gathering information. Documenting incidents of assaults. Educating ourselves on the historical, social, psychological, mental and legal issues of anti-Asian hate. We are one in declaring in various ways, through a variety of voices and channels: ENOUGH!

Stories This Week

Fil-Ams Among The Remarkable And Famous, Part 54 by Mona Lisa Yuchengco

[Act Against Hate] What? San Francisco No Longer A Friendly City? by Mauro Feria Tumbocon, Jr.

[Act Against Hate] For Asian Americans, January Brings Memories Of Tragedy And Hope For Change by Helen Zia

Francis Greg -- A New Voice From Cebu by Gary Ferrington

Up, Up And Away Over Ancient Thebes by Odette Foronda

Pakbet: The Kumintang Of The Women In Santa Maria by Kaye Leah Cacho-Sitchon

[Video of the Week] Peacock: Exeter, The Anti-Filipino Riot

Anti-Asian Hate Watch

For Asian Americans, January Brings Memories of Tragedy and Hope for Change
https://asamnews.com/2024/01/16/asian-americans-january-reflection-hate-crimes-violence/

With hate crimes on the rise, the FBI wants to hear from Utahns
https://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2024/01/16/und-with-hate-crimes-on-the-rise-the-fbi-wants-to-hear-from-utahns/

Anti-Asian Hate in America: Exploring a Psychological Aspect of Human Thought, Behavior, and a Solution
https://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/topss/anti-asian-hate.pdf

Combat Hate Crimes toolkit in Tagalog
https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.napaba.org/resource/resmgr/hate_crimes/toolkits_languages/v2hate_crimes_tagalog.pdf

Combat Hate Crimes toolkit in English and Ilocano
https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.napaba.org/resource/resmgr/hate_crimes/toolkits_languages/v2hate_crimes_ilocano.pdf

Anti-Asian Hate
https://www.advancingjustice-aajc.org/anti-asian-hate

How Asian Americans Fought Back Against Hate – and Won
https://nysba.org/how-asian-americans-fought-back-against-hate-and-won/

Funding provided by the State of California.