#WeKeepUsSafe: APALA’s Resource Guide on Anti-Asian Violence

*This is a community document and not meant to be comprehensive. For some readings on Anti-Asian racism and the history of Anti-Asian racism, please check out readings & media below.  

APALA envisions a society where economic and racial justice prevails, human rights and worker dignity are affirmed, and where a healthy, sustainable planet is able to offer a better life for Asian/Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Black, brown, and Indigenous folks, and all communities fighting oppression. Share this doc: bit.ly/asianresources 

Actions you can take for community safety

• Support community efforts in Atlanta, Georgia: AAPI Community Resources Offerings Form (mutual aid intake form), sign on to a community-centered response against anti-Asian violence, & donate to support families of the victims, Atlanta Action Card
• Call your elected officials to support community centered policies for addressing hate violence
• Sign the petition: Justice for Christian Hall 
• Amplify Angelo’s story: Justice for Angelo Quinto

• Track and report hate incidents: Stop AAPI Hate
• Donate to community members in need: Oakland Chinatown victims fund, IAPALA COVID19 Community Fund, Advancing Justice Atlanta Victim and Family Support Fund
• Share this guidance to protect AAPI workers at your workplace or union! (APALA)

• Organize your workplace during COVID19 & Know Your Rights (APALA)

• Donate to support long-term grassroots AAPI led organizing
• Localized resources
• Asian American Leaders Table - Join a vigil, read statements by Atlanta-based AAPI organizations & sign-on letters
• List of Asian American community vigils for Atlanta victims
• Protest Tips + Organizing As Abolitionists (APALA)

How do we talk to our community about Anti-Asian violence and community safety?

• Messaging guide on COVID and Racism (ChangeLab)
• Asian/Asian American Resource Hub on Abolition (18 Million Rising)
• Press release: Georgia’s Asian American Leaders Call for Community-Centered Response After Six Asian Women Are Murdered (Advancing Justice - Atlanta)
• Love Our People, Heal Our Communities Toolkit (Coalition for Community Safety and Justice)
• Guidance for Employers to Protect AAPI Workers (APALA)
• Stay Safe from Hate Guide (Asian American Federation)
• #ProtectAllPeople social media toolkit (NCAPA)
• “Amid wave of violence, Asian Americans, Black communities build coalitions” (NBC)
• Know History Know Self: A Different Asian American Timeline from ChangeLab
• Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit (Grassroots Asians Rising)
• A Resource Guide for AAPI Anti-HateActivists,Victims and Survivors of Hate (APANO)
• Stopping AAPI Hate: Resources (includes resources for sex workers) (WeChat Project)
• A Townhall on Anti-Asian Racism Recording & Live Tweets (People’s Collective for Justice & Liberation via AAPI FORCE)
• Community Safety Toolkit (Vision Change Win)

Call your elected officials to support these policies for addressing hate violence

“We call for interventions and responses that address the root causes of violence and systemic racism through a community-centered approach. This means providing culturally and linguistically sensitive services for survivors, victims, and their families including access to mental health, legal, financial, and healing support. Federal and state agencies must ensure robust enforcement of civil rights laws to protect people targeted by hate and discrimination. Government agencies, from the Community Relations Service at the Department of Justice to state and local level programs, must prioritize violence prevention, restorative justice, and victims’ assistance funds.

Beyond these immediate steps, members of Congress and federal agencies must invest in our communities with long-term solutions that uplift the lives of everyone. Congress must ensure access to a robust social safety net that includes equitable housing, jobs, health care and education while ending policies that lead to the deportation, criminalization, and surveillance of immigrants and communities of color.

Anti-Asian hate has been a part of the American experience in the past and the present. But, it does not have to be part of our future. What we do today matters. We call upon members of Congress and the White House to work closely with local and national Asian American leaders to identify and implement community-centered solutions that stop anti-Asian hate.” - Written statement by Asian American Leaders Table on COVID-19 Racism

• Asian American Leaders Table Policy Recommendations for Addressing Hate Violence (co-created by APALA)
• Push for resolutions like the Sacramento Council resolution (Councilmember Mai Vang)

Community Organizations and Resources 

“Movements are born of critical connections rather than critical mass.” –Grace Lee Boggs

Safety starts with on the ground, with grassroots multi-racial, working class led organizing. Plug into your local APALA chapter and build relationships with community organizations!

DONATE TO SUPPORT GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING*

*not comprehensive - please research local AAPI-led organizations or formations in your community by the WeChat project and compiled by @sasponella.

• Red Canary Song, an Asian and Asian American sex worker collective
• VietRISE
• VietLead
• Khmer Girls In Action
• Hmong Innovating Politics
• Filipino Advocates for Justice
• EPIC Empowering Pacific Islander Communities 
• Pilipino Workers Center
• Asian Pacific Environmental Network
• Desis Rising Up and Moving
• Asian Americans United
• Jakara Movement
• AYPAL for youth
• API Equality - LA
• Korean Resource Center
• CCED LA
• Support the AAPI Community Fund, which will regrant to local grassroots organizations and impacted communities
• Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta (donating to the local organizations is more impactful and more needed than national hubs)
• Chinese Progressive Association San Francisco, historic organization dedicated to protecting immigrant communities
• Chinese Progressive Association Boston, worker center and direct services for Chinatown-based immigrants, especially elders
• Asian American Advocacy Fund, an Atlanta-based political organizing group
• Asian Pacific Islander-Political Alliance, a Philadelphia-based political organizing group
• Asian American Midwest Progressives, a Chicago-based political organizing group
• NAPAWF Georgia, local chapter of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
• National Queer Asian Pacific Islander American Federation Members   
• Offer resources for the AAPI Community in GA (AAAJ-ATL mutual aid)

READINGS & MEDIA

• Have You Eaten Yet? We All Eat. APALA’s Principles for Collective Liberation + Organizing Stronger Communities 
• Testimony for the Judiciary Hearing on Discrimination and Violence Against Asian Americans (APALA)
• “A Different Asian American Timeline” (ChangeLab)
• ‘It’s race, class and gender together’: Why the Atlanta killings aren’t just about one thing (Washington Post)
• Statement: Our Response to the Murders of Asian American Women in Georgia (NAKASEC)
• Asian American Feminist Antibodies {care in the time of coronavirus}
• The Importance of Asian Americans? It’s Not What You Think. (ChangeLab)
• Follow Red Canary Song on Twitter, a grassroots collective of Asian sex workers fighting for justice
• Treating Yellow Peril: Resources to Address Coronavirus Racism
• Resources on Dismantling Anti-Blackness in the Asian Community (Asian Americans United)
• Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit (Grassroots Asians Rising)
• “America’s long history of scapegoating its Asian citizens” (National Geographic)
• “More Policing Is Not the Solution to Anti-Asian Violence” (Truthout)
• “Hate Crimes Against Asian Americans Are on the Rise. Many Say More Policing Isn't the Answer” (TIME)
• Documentary on the murder of Vincent Chin: Vincent, Who? 
• Statement on community care and mutual aid (AAPI Women Lead)

LOCALIZED RESOURCES (MULTIPLE STATES)

• AAPI Anti-Hate Community Resources - compiled by Advancing Justice - AAJC
• Anti-Racism Resources for South Asians and AAPI Community - compiled by Sujata Strategies
• Anti-Hate Safety Resources in Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Tagalog, Vietnamese (Asian American Federation)
• Anti-Racism, Racial Justice, and Abolition Resources - compiled by Sujata Strategies
• Anti-Asian Racism Resource Guide - APIs CAN (Massachusetts)
• Stopping AAPI Hate: Resources (includes resources for sex workers) (WeChat Project)
• List of grassroots and national Asian and Asian American organizations (crowdsourced)
• Combat Hate Crime Toolkits (translated into 24 Asian languages) (APIA Health Forum and National Asian Pacific American Bar Association)
• Free/reduced mental health care for Filipino/a/x and Asian community (Asian Mental Health Collective)
• Mental Health Resources when Fighting Racial Injustice
• 50 Ways to Donate in Support of Asian Communities (NYMag)
• Support community efforts in Atlanta, Georgia: AAPI Community Resources Offerings Form (mutual aid intake form), sign on to a community-centered response against anti-Asian violence, & donate to support families of the victims

• Protect Chinatown - volunteer signup
• Asians4Abolition

• Statement: Asian Organizations Across the Bay Area Join Forces to Demand Action Against Violence
• Love Our People, Heal Our Communities: A Call to Action
• Volunteer in Oakland Chinatown - option 1: Oakland Chinatown Coalition
• Volunteer in Oakland Chinatown - option 2: Compassion in Oakland
• Support the Vietnamese Community Center

• Statement from Chinatown Community for Equitable Development