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Katelyn Do

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Reporter covering Asian American communities.
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“It was a long way to the detention center on purpose. The distance is on purpose – to keep us away. But friends, are they going to keep us away?”

On Tuesday, hundreds of people gathered outside of the Metro Detention Center in DTLA, to conclude the more than week-long, 96-mile ‘Clear the Road to Freedom’ pilgrimage organized by @cluejustice and @la.sacredresistance . Starting at Adelanto Detention facility in the High Desert, faith leaders across LA made the journey, calling to close the detention centers and speaking out against federal immigration policies, despite record heatwaves and temperatures reaching over 100 degrees.

“Nobody is going to keep us away from the families to [let them] know that they are not alone,” said Rabbi Susan Goldberg of @nefesh . “If you told me we had to walk many more miles… my pilgrim siblings who have walked these miles would say, ‘Where are we walking next?’ We will not be kept away.”

According to @tanggolmigrantemovement , at least four Filipinos are currently being held in Adelanto Detention center, where conditions have been described as ‘inhumane’ and ‘unlivable’. This week it was announced ICE is beginning to ramp up operations across California for the next 45 days at least, according to reporting by several news sources.

Siklab Media spoke to Mika of @malayalosangeles who came to support the pilgrimage on its last day. “It’s very inspiring and touching to see so many people come together… to care for our neighbors,” said Mika.

Fernando of @migrante.8ones8 thinks more Filipinos should get involved with the growing movement against detention and deportation, saying “Who else is going to help each other but us?”

As attacks against immigrants rise, local organizations in Los Angeles across religious and cultural lines are working together to protect their communities.

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In late June, Siklab joined more than a thousand Filipinos from across the diaspora at the historic Kalayaan Summit—the largest political gathering of its kind in the US—to gather around issues affecting Filipinos in the US and in the Philippines, and to build solidarity with the Filipino peoples’ fight against state corruption and struggle for human rights.

The summit ended on June 29 with hundreds of Filipinos and supporters marching to the Philippine Consulate, bringing their calls for justice and accountability directly to Philippine government officials. Before the march, a small group of Filipino migrant workers attempted to present community concerns directly to officials. Instead of speaking with the delegation about their concerns, the consulate officials called the police.

Watch our report. Share your thoughts in the comments below. We’d love to hear from you!

#philippines #losangeles #kalayaan

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To anyone looking in, it seems like USC senior, Kelvin Nguyen, can do it all. He works three jobs: Director of Trojan Health Volunteers with the Joint Educational Project, finance director for EMSC (a volunteer EMT service at USC), and a research assistant at Price School of Social Work. Nguyen balances his job with being a Health and Human Sciences major on a pre-Health track.

It’s really no wonder his family is so proud of him. But the journey to get where he is now wasn’t always easy.

As a child of Vietnamese refugees, growing up in Oakland wasn’t so easy. Nguyen grew up around gang violence, drugs, and poverty. His parents were always working and Nguyen had to figure out how to make his own way in the world.

“Them working 50 to 60 hours a week wasn’t because they didn’t care. It was because it was more important for them to put food on the table,” said Nguyen.

Seeing his parents work so hard for a better life motivated Nguyen to hustle himself. However, Nguyen fell into a pattern of partaking in illegal activities in order to make money. In Nguyen’s junior year of high school, he decided to turn his life around and leave the chapter of crime in his past by focusing on school.

Fast forward to now, Nguyen uses his lived experience and the lessons he’s learned to guide other students who may not have the resources. In almost every one of his extracurriculars and jobs, Nguyen assumes a leadership position and acts as a mentor to other students.

Nguyen’s story echoes the story of so many children of Immigrants in America today. With everything he’s learned, Nguyen hopes to keep helping people with his knowledge.

Produced by @datelynko

#apisa #aapi #api

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On Thursday, Oct. 26, USC hosted its annual @uscapasa Night Market. elevASIAN was able to talk to a few students and organizations to ask them why this event was special to them.

🎥 Katelyn Do, Edward Huang, Rachel Han

#nightmarket #usc #aapi #apisa #asian

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The #Emmys were this past weekend, and @sympathizerhbo was one of the nominated shows... but despite submissions to 27 different categories, it received only one performance nomination for Robert Downey Jr.

The show is an adaptation of @viet_t_nguyen's book of the same name, recontextualizing the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese perspective.

Our editor @datelynko sat down with actors @thatduynguyen and @yungpykle to discuss their time on the series.

Read the full story in the link in bio.

📝 Katelyn Do
📸 Photo courtesy of Hopper Stone for HBO

#thesympathizer #sympathizer #emmys2024 #hbo

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“Little Tokyo’s history as a place to gather is worth protecting,” says Sean Muira, lead curator and organizer of Tuesday Night Cafe by @tnproject ✨

Episode 4 of LA Untold

🏡 Angelenos have flocked to Little Tokyo as a cultural and social hub for decades. Tuesday Night Cafe has honored the neighborhood’s legacy as a space for community for almost three decades, in spite of increasing gentrification. As multi-billion dollar commercial developments threaten to change the landscape of the historic neighborhood in the years to come, TNC’s organizers are committed to keeping their space accessible and rooted in bringing people together through art. 🎭🎨🎤

🌟 To learn more about Little Tokyo and grassroots preservation efforts, check out these organizations:
@ltsc.cdc
@jtownaction
@golittletokyo
@la_littletokyo
@jamuseum

#aapi #losangeles #la #littletokyo #journalism #localnews #usc #thirdspace #art #performance

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🚨 ICE raids across California are hitting South Asian communities hard, but this isn’t the first time their community has dealt with being targeted by the government. South Asian activists say their past experiences are helping them lead the fight against violence from law enforcement. 🗣️

Episode 3 of LA Untold

➡️ After 9/11, South Asian communities were disproportionately impacted by police surveillance, harassment, detainment and deportations in the name of public safety. Shakeel Syed of @SouthAsianNetwork and Hamid Khan of @StopLAPDSpying opened up to ElevAsian about their experiences being monitored by law enforcement and how it informs their fight today.

🌟To learn more about supporting South Asian communities and immigration response in SoCal, check out these organizations:
@saahasforcause
@cairgla
@communityselfdefensecoalition
@ocrrn

#surveillance #immigration #southasian #activism #localnews #losangeles #la #usc #journalism #aapi

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Wage theft is the most common form of theft in the country. Filipino caretakers are leading the fight against it in SoCal! ✊☀️

Episode 2 of LA Untold

In February, former caretakers and local Filipino grassroots orgs scored a major victory in their End Amity Wage Theft campaign when the CA Labor Commissioners' Office cited Amity In-Home Care Services and its CEO, Nancy Reyes, for $2.3 million in lost wages and other labor violations.

Local organizations say that Filipino migrant workers are often the target of labor trafficking. Organizations like @filipinomigrantcenter and @migrantelosangeles work with them, teach them their rights and organize with them.

“We come here looking for opportunities, to better the future of our families, but then we face other labor issues here as well. The issue of labor rights has always been consistent in our history, here in our new home in the States, and also back home in our home countries, like the Philippines,” said Kim Brucal, an organizer with @gabrielasouthbay

The caretakers and organizers are continuing the fight, demanding that the Philippines Consulate do more to provide support and protection to overseas migrant workers.

To learn more about this campaign and labor rights, check out their website:
endamitywagetheft.com

Thank you to @siklabmedia for providing us with additional footage!

#labor #wagetheft #la #losangeles #filipino #ofw #philippines #organize #activism #local #journalism #aapi #aapihm #aapiheritagemonth

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Incarceration is an AAPI issue too.

Episode 1 of LA Untold

ElevAsian sat down with @apiriselosangeles the only re-entry organization serving AAPI populations in SoCal, to learn more about how they built a community for formerly incarcerated AAPIs in LA and the obstacles they face after coming home.

💡Did you know the CDCR does not publish data regarding AAPI populations in its prisons, leaving local organizations to collect it. “That absence of data intensifies the obscurity surrounding the criminal justice system… Nobody really understands what those facilities are like, except people directly impacted by them. That's all intensified when you don't even have the most basic, cursory data about who is going to prison,” said Wanda Bertram from @prisonpolicy

🌟 To learn more about AAPIs impacted by the prison system, check out these organizations: @asianprisonsc
@newbreathfoundation
@aypalpower
@foumovement
@c_c_w_p

#aapi #aanhpimonth #aapihm #incarceration #formerlyincarcerated #la #losangeles #asian #pacificislander #usc #localnews

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