September 2011
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REFLECTIONS ON WORKERS' RIGHTS
Here’s the situation: A group of Chinese restaurant workers in New York City are suing their former employer — Le Colonial, a Midtown restaurant that tries to recreate “the beauty, romance and spirit of French Colonial Southeast Asia” — for discrimination and retaliation. According to the complaint, the workers faced harsh working conditions that included being forced to...
family sues joe and amy senser in fatal... →
Sincere condolences to the family of Anousone Phanthavong who was killed by Amy Senser on August 23rd.
This shows how the legal system is bureaucratic and worthless. Mr. Phanthavong’s family is right when they say that Senser is getting away with murder because she is wealthy. And because she’s white.
Senser admitted that she drove the car that hit Mr. Phanthavong. She left him...
THE FUCKIN’ LOUDEST ASIANS is republishing this article from elsewhere (here and here) discussing the upcoming UN review meeting in NYC on September 22, ten years after the World Conference Against Racism in Durban. Adopted in 2001, the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (PDF) recognizes that “Asians and people of Asian descent” have been among the victims of slavery...
