Program

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

9:30AM – 7PM

JADE/APANO MULTICULTURAL SPACE

8114 SE DIVISION STREET

PORTLAND, OR 97206

9:30AM – 10AM

Registration & Continental Breakfast

10AM – 10:15AM

Welcome & Opening Remarks

      • Joseph Lyons Santos, APANO

      • Melany De La Cruz-Viesca, UCLA Asian American Studies Center & AAPI Policy Research Consortium

      • Scot Nakagawa, ChangeLab

10:15AM – 11:15AM

AAPI Activism in Portland

APANO and community partners briefing of activism in Portland and AAPI community issues and campaigns (e.g. Pacific Islander Health, Anti Displacement work, Civic engagement, racial justice organizing)

Moderator: Joseph Lyons Santos

Speakers:

    • David Anitok, CANN

    • Jenny Kim, KAC

    • Karn Saetang, APANO & NAKASEC

11:15AM – 12:30PM

Collaboration for Activism, Mobilization and Resistance

Bridging community and university - Panel presentation and discussion on community campus activism, participatory action research projects, democratizing Ethnic Studies in high schools, impacts of executive orders on Muslim, Arab and South Asian American (MASA) communities, dismantling of Affordable Care Act, roll back of consumer protections.

Moderator: Lisa Hasegawa

Speakers:

    • Robyn Rodriguez, UC Davis Asian American Studies Department

    • Paul Watanabe, University of Massachusetts Boston, Institute for Asian American Studies

  • TBA

12:30PM – 1:30PM

Networking Lunch

1:30PM – 3PM

Research to Resistance - Where do we go from here? (Breakout Strategy Groups)

Resisting Trumpism

    • Remarks by Soya Jung

Breakout Groups

  1. Organizing defense & resistance – Sanctuary Cities

    1. Soya Jung

  2. Role of Arts and cultural organizers/Role of Social Media

  3. Tad Nakamura Asian American Documentary Network & Candace Kita, APANO/Cultural Work & Development Coordinator

  4. Democratizing K-12 Education, Educational Justice

  5. Jeanice Chieng, APANO/Policy Manager

  6. The Lack of Asian American Leadership in Higher Education & Impact on Asian American Studies

  7. Joyce Moy, Asian American / Asian Research Institute - City University of New York

  8. Threats to Census 2020

  9. Dan Ichinose

  10. Connecting Asian American Studies to Advocacy and Policy

    1. Melany De La Cruz-Viesca, UCLA Asian American Studies Center & AAPI Policy Research Consortium & Paul Watanabe, University of Massachusetts Boston, Institute for Asian American Studies

2:30PM – 2:45PM

Break

2:45PM – 3:30PM

Reportbacks

4PM – 5PM

Walking tour of Jade District *OR* Screening of Mele Murals at Canton Grill Banquet Room

5:30PM

Community Reception & Book Reading (Canton Grill Banquet Room)

    • Welcome by Joseph Lyons Santos

    • “Serve the People” Book Reading by Karen Ishizuka

7PM

Conclusion