The following national call to action was issued by the ANSWER Coalition
Join the Sat. March 27 National Day of Action!
Find local actions in your city:
San Francisco, CA
A National Day of Action; Asian Empowerment Day
11 AM – 12 PM – A Vigil/Memorial for the Atlanta victims and all victims of hate crimes at SF “Comfort Women” Memorial, St Mary’s Square on California Street, and grant. Co-sponsored by CWJC, Jin Duck and Kyung Sik Kim Foundation, Chinese Consoliated Benevolent Association, and Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
Speeches and Self-defense demonstration for the Seniors.
12:00pm – From St Mary’s Square, ANSWER Coalition and Pivot to Peace will lead the National Demonstration Day walk to Union Square. Speeches and Martial Arts demonstration at Union Square
Atlanta, GA
1 PM
City Farmers Market in Chamblee
5000 Buford Hwy NE, Chamblee, GA 30341
(Near intersection of Buford Highway & Chamblee Tucker Rd)
Los Angeles, CA
12 PM
City Hall | 200 N. Spring Street
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Seattle, WA
1 PM
Westlake, Downtown Seattle
Queens, NY
1 PM
Queens Public Library at Flushing | 41-17 Main St
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Washington, DC
2 PM
Friendship Archway | 7th & H St. NW
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Boston, MA
3 PM
2343 Washington St, Roxbury
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Chicago, IL
12 PM
W 23rd St & S Wentworth Ave
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Philadelphia, PA
12 PM
Franklin Square
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Honolulu, HI
10 AM
Hawai’i State Capitol | 415 S Beretania St
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Tuscon, AZ
5PM
Viente De Agosto Park Downtown
Birmingham, AL
2 PM
Kelly Ingram Park
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New Haven, CT
2 PM
Church St & Chapel St
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Sacramento, CA
11 AM
Southside Park | 2115 6th St
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Arcata, CA
10 AM
11th Street Highway 101 Overpass
Corona, CA
12 PM
McKinley & Promenade
Irvine, CA
2:30 PM
Irvine City Hall
Livermore, CA
1 PM
29 S Livermore
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Modesto, CA
10 AM
McHenry and Briggsmore
San Diego, CA
2 PM
Balboa Park, in front of the San Diego Museum of Art
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West Hollywood, CA
12 PM
Santa Monica Blvd. and La Cienega Blvd.
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Boston, MA
3 PM
2343 Washington St, Roxbury
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Lauderhill, FL
1 PM
4991 North University Drive
Pensacola, FL
1 PM
Guillemard and Gadsden Street Corner
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Jacksonville, FL
4 PM
James Weldon Johnson Park
St. Pete, FL
1 PM
Entrance of St. Pete Pier | 800 2nd Ave NE
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Urbana, IL
12 PM
1401 W Green St
Goshen, IN
3 PM
101 N Main Street
Indianapolis, IN
12 PM
1 Monument Circle
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Lexington, KY
2 PM
120 N Limestone #103
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Louisville, KY
3 PM
Iroquois Park
Springfield, MA
11 AM
Springfield City Hall | 36 Court Street
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Detroit, MI
12 PM
Campus Martius Park | 800 Woodward Ave
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Jackson, MS
12 PM
400 High St
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Asheville, NC
1 PM
Vance Monument
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Sylva, NC
6 PM
Fountain at Jackson County Chamber of Commerce | 773 W Main Street
Albuquerque, NM
5 PM
400 Lomas Blvd NW @ the Asian American Civil Rights Monument
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Reno, NV
1 PM
Reno Believe Sign
Greensburg, PA
12 PM
2 N Main Street
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Pittsburgh, PA
2 PM
Intersection of Forbes and Murray Ave
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Coatesville, PA
2 PM
Gateway Park – 22 Lincoln Ave
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Lancaster, PA
3 PM
Penn Square
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Yellow Springs, OH
12 PM
Corner of Xenia ave and Limestone st
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Portland, OR
3 PM
Salmon Street Springs
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Providence, RI
1 PM
Burnside Park
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Columbia, SC
12 PM
1100 Gervais St
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Greenville, SC
11 AM
Confederate Soldier Statue | North Main Street
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Austin, TX
2 PM
301 W 2nd St
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Dallas, TX
2 PM
1500 Marilla St
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Houston, TX
2 PM
Longpoint and Gessner
San Antonio, TX
12 PM
Veterans Memorial Plaza Auditorium Cir.
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Provo, UT
2 PM
S University Ave, W Center St
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Salt Lake City, UT
11 AM
International Peace Gardens | 1160 Dalton Ave S
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Burlington, VT
4 PM
1 Proctor pl
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Eastsound, WA
1 PM
Stage on the Green
Richland, WA
12 PM
John Dam Plaza, 815 George Washington Way
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Sequim, WA
3PM
Corner of Sequim Ave and Washington Street
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Reno, NV
Time TBD
Location TBD
Ithaca, NY
11 AM
Shawn Greenwood Park (DeWitt Park) | N Cayuga Street
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Syracuse, NY
11 AM
718 Ostrom Ave
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Yellow Springs, OH
12 PM
Corner of Xenia ave and Limestone st
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Milwaukee, WI
10 AM
Mitchell Park | S Layton Blvd & W Pierce St
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Friday, March 26 Actions
Springfield, MO
12 PM
Battlefield & Glenstone
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Grand Marais, MN
5 PM
220 West Hwy 61, near Java Moose
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Endorsing organizations and individuals
- ANSWER Coalition
- Pivot to Peace
- Comfort Women Justice Coalition
- Veterans For Peace, San Francisco chapter #69
- Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association
- CODEPINK
- Empire Files
- Qiao Collective
- Veterans for Peace
- United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS)
- Justice for Christian Hall
- Full Rights for Immigrants Coalition
- Jim Lafferty, Executive Director Emeritus, National Lawyers Guild, L.A.
- Alliance for Global Justice
- UCLA Academic Advancement Program (AAP)
- Labor Against Racism and War
- Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
- Prof. Eric Mar, Former San Francisco Board of Supervisors; Asian American Studies, San Francisco State University
- Prof. Kenneth Hammond, New Mexico State University
- Asian Mosaic Fund
- U.S. Support Committee for Korean Prisoners of Conscience
- Popular Resistance
- March and Rally LA
- Ground Game LA
- Eth-Noh-Tec
- Haiti Action Committee
- Global Women’s Strike LA
- Wnc4 Peace
- Green Party of Monmouth County NJ
- Harold Welton, Black August Los Angeles
- Carol Lang, PSC Adjunct Professor
- Ina Martinez, UPWARD (Uniting Peace With Actions Respect and Dignity)
- Prof. Huachen Chen, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Christian Alliance For Peace
- Global Women’s Strike LA
- Green Party of NJ
- Coop-Anti-War-Café Berlin
- Downingtown Community Focus Project
- Friends of Latin America
- Pomona Protests
- Sandra Drake, Professor Emerita, Stanford University
- Malcolm X Center for Human Rights – WMXP Community Radio
- Efia Nwangaza
- Miriam Oppenheimer, Professor, Temple University
- Poor People’s Army
- TLtC Justice & Peace Committee
- Joint PR
- John Reiger, Peace and Freedom Party, also Veterans For Peace
- Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs (APAPA)
- UFPJ (United for Peace and Justice)
- Meg Mathieson, Minister, SouthWest Unitarian Universalist Church
- Metro-Detroit Chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union Women
- San Francisco Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines
- NWPC Sacramento
- Change West Covina
- ADDICTED To WAR
- Lancaster County Green Party
- Feminist Uprising to Resist Inequality and Exploitation (FURIE)
- J CHEN PROJECT, Inc
- Danilo-Francois, Associate Professor, UT Austin
- Topanga Peace Alliance & MLK Coalition of Greater Los Angeles
- Verdant Square Radio
- OWS Special Projects Affinity Group
- Community Health for Asian Americans
- Asian American Political Alliance, Third World Liberation Front
- Latino and Latina Roundtable of the San Gabriel and Pomona Valley
- San Gabriel Valley Progressive Action
- Chicago ALBA Solidarity
- Judy Vaughan, Alexandria House
- Fannie Lou Hamer Institute
- Unite North Metro Denver
- Square Circle LLC
- Peace Builders of OC
- Oakland Jericho
- OutLoud Dallas
- UZCCA
- Justice for Filipino American Veterans (JFAV)
The ANSWER Coalition stands in solidarity with the Asian community in the midst of the horrific, racist and misogynist massacre that took place in Atlanta on March 16th. Six Asian women were among the eight shot to death at point blank range.
The alarming rise in hate crimes over the past year correlates to an increasingly hostile U.S. foreign policy towards China. The opportunistic scapegoating of China during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with the intensity by which China is deemed the enemy and adversary of the United States, has driven a widespread Sinophobic sentiment nationally. The Asian American community suffers the brunt of the hatred fomented as a weapon of war. To date, there have been 3,800 self-reported hate crimes against Asian Americans.
The mainstream media’s failure to label the Atlanta shooting as a hate crime demonstrates the gross disregard and injustice that our communities are facing. Racism is a sick symptom of a system that profits from war and violence. And to put insult to injury, the cop handling the case was found to be promoting anti-China paraphernalia.
Join us on March 27th for a national day of action demanding an end to anti-Asian racist violence, an end to violence against women and and end to white supremacy now!
