The Conversation
- “But he hit me back first!” (13)
- Siegfried: If it was a Russian or any other white man who told blacks”to go back to Africa”, it would...
- Raguel: I saw that Spike Lee film “Do the Right Thing” years ago but still can’t understand it.
- bigWOWO: Stele: “Care to qualify that statement? Even if that were true, you have to look at this case on its...
- Two podcasts that address racism in the military, and Danny Chen the person (9)
- Raguel: The origins of racism in the American military as described by loudestfuckingazns is accurate. Very recently,...
- bigWOWO: Sorry, Larry, just noticed that the spam robot junked your comment. Approved!
- bigWOWO: Agreed. It just has more weight if you include your name. Not that the ideas are any less valid, but it just...
- Facebook IPO (5)
- King: Actually WOWO, I bump into plenty of Asians up at the Art Center College of Design http://www.artcenter.edu/a...
- bigWOWO: Agree with King. This might not be a bad thing for Asian Americans to hear about. We can jump off the STEM...
- Raguel: People are too accustomed to thinking about value only in terms of money. Even artists are guilty of it. Some...
- Stop SOPA and PIPA (7)
- Raguel: Found a great website, take a look at this: https://www.cdt.org/ Why should privacy be important, in an age...
- Raguel: Following the temporary shelving of SOPA and PIPA in the long line of net neutrality battles, the feds and...
- Chr..: “Asian American men have to get more involved, not less. It’s a civic responsibility, and you have to...
- Activism is as activism does (10)
- trolldetector: Brooks also goes onto say ‘You should attach yourself to a counter-tradition and school of...
- bigWOWO: By the way, speaking of activism, there was a great David Brooks column recently. He talks about how people...
- Raguel: I have no experience whatsoever with activism. I simply do not feel safe participating in it. There is always...
- How to Win a Streetfight (18)
- bigWOWO: No worries. I feel the same way. Nothing against her, but just doubtful.
- Raguel: Hi Byron! I’ve been occupied doing a lot of reading and thinking recently. I suppose its just another...
- bigWOWO: Hey Raguel, What about your comments on ASSK?
I agree with everything you said. About #1…I think...
- What Cultures Value (19)
- UFC 117 Sonnen vs. Silva Recap (1)
- bigWOWO: I think Michael Bisping solved the Chael Sonnen puzzle today, even though he lost a controversial decision....
- 6 on 1 Beatdown of Asian Man (36)
- King: “I mean I look around me and 99% of the time there are no women that look like or dress like Adriana Lima...
- SWR: Apparently the girl in the second video was not the girl who filmed the fight. It was probably unwise of her to...
- Raguel: I mean I look around me and 99% of the time there are no women that look like or dress like Adriana Lima in...
- Selfish Reasons To Have More Kids by Bryan Caplan (Review) (6)
- bigWOWO: Jeff, You called it! They were (if I recall correctly) 7 (twins) and 2. He’s still in the honeymoon...
- jeffat8asians: “Overpaying?” With the possible exception of college tuition (and even that is arguable),...
- Hitler: Kids suck lol.
- The Asian Rock Thread (16)
- ben: I’ve been getting into Asian rock music recently so thank you all very much for uploading all these videos.
- Simple Pickup on ABC News (132)
- Tommy: I think I’m coming here more for Moro’s comments than BigWoWO’s posts.
- Moroboshi: I didn’t say that. All I said was guys who believe in HBD are the same guys who probably also follow...
- Chr..: Moro, I don’t want to argue with you anymore! You seem to think that AMs are just as popular as other...
- “Lazy” Americans and the Decline of the American Middle Class (6)
- bigWOWO: But kobu, how can we have literature and art without money to support artists and writers? About...
- kobukson: I don’t know why everyone seems to think the notion of the decline of the middle class is such a bad...
- bigWOWO: There are a lot of veterans (supposedly) on that site. I can kind of understand it–military guys are...
- Aung Sung Suu Kyi Movie with Michelle Yeoh (45)
- bigWOWO: Eurasian, Lee Kuan Yew has always been upfront about Singapore’s hybrid system. To the best of my...
- Eurasian Sensation: @ BigWowo: New governments following independence or a major power struggle often have the sort...
- N: @bww And ironically, one of the rare democratic successes in the region that is Singapore behaves much closer to a...
- Paper Pushers by the Stunt People (4)
- Andre M. Smith: I divide my year annually between New York and Shanghai. One of my common visitations in the latter...
- Raguel: Smiley tests 8 )
8( - Raguel: ROFL! Thank you for thoroughly destroying Amy Chua, Andre. WELL SAID ^_^ You know the destruction is so...
- Amy Chua: Chinese Conceit, Chinese Ignorance, and the $24,000 question (245)
- Andre M. Smith: I believe some useful purpose will be served by offering here, what the lawyers might like to call,...
- N: What’s your opinion on Yundi Li and Yoyo Ma.
- Andre M. Smith: Amy Chua has never lived in China. Her understanding of its culture, that is, the culture as it’s...
- How to Finish Life With No Regrets (9)
- trolldetector: ^ i’d agree with that. but i wouldnt call them ‘idiots’, just misguided. crazy media...
- N: Agree with Jeff that not one regret is unlikely, the key is learn from it. Another way to look at it is that...
- American Jobs and India (14)
- lingyai: I am not sure what happen there with my name, that is not my email, so just ignore.
- lingyai@hotmail.com: @bigwowo Just because the average income in India is $2 a day doesn’t make a person...
- AM/AF couple: Nottyboy, Yes, just like every place of employment, upper management needs to do a better job in terms...
- Literary Fiction vs. Realistic Fiction and the Literary Hierarchy (6)
- Sana Rose: Well, now I am confused. I still can’t classify the novel I am writing.
I wouldn’t say...
- Sana Rose: Well, now I am confused. I still can’t classify the novel I am writing.
- National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 2012 (32)
- Raguel: http://www.occupydream.org/ ^ I heard about this from Russell Simmons. I hope that things develop well to...
- Raguel: So is that the reasoning for why you don’t need the right to due process? Are you some kind of fucking...
- N: @King The constitution gave power to the states to benefit white america or the constitution gave benefitial power...
- When Your Fan Base is Full of Crazy People (24)
- N: @American girl Too be honest, I don’t really see why this video that ‘disgusting’ –...
- Mitt Romney and the Problem of Wealth (6)
- Raguel: Where do people get their information and knowledge from, though? Media, and education, word of mouth only...
- “But he hit me back first!” (13)
Tag Archives: Activism
Activism is as activism does
Camila Vallejo Dowling
This is (was?) an activist blog, and I saw these two interesting activism articles in the Times this week:
1. Just Don’t Call Her Che: an article about Camila Vallejo Dowling, who is leading hundreds of people for education reform in Chile. According to the article, she beats senators in debates on prime time TV and leads protests with hundreds of thousands of demonstrators. According to the article, she’s the world’s most famous student leader and has the governmment going crazy over how to deal with the issues. Chile, according to the article, is economically successful, and she has still managed to pull people away from their daily lives and get an audience.
The Asian Guy in Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Check out Jeff Yang’s latest column here. Some of you Asian American blogosphere experts probably heard about the protest against the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservatory’s screening of Breakfast at Tiffany’s. As you Bruce Lee fans know, Breakfast has a scene with Mickey Rooney portraying Mr. Yunioshi and acting like a stereotype (there was that scene in Dragon where Bruce and Linda go to see the movie together). With the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservatory’s screening, some Asian Americans have opted to protest.
Dissuading Chinese Women from Marrying For Money
Thanks, MLC, for sending this one: Girls to learn sour side of relying on ‘sugar daddies’. The article begins:
Girls in South China’s Guangdong province will get a crash course on how to resist the sweet talk of “sugar daddies” when schools start teaching them about self-respect.
The pilot project is aimed at telling girls at middle and elementary schools how to avoid falling into the clutches of older, richer men and stand on their own two feet.
“The education will focus on self-esteem, self-confidence, self-reliance and self-improvement,” said Lei Yulan, vice-governor of Guangdong and director of the Working Committee on Children and Women of Guangdong province.
Social Media and Activism
Thanks, JS, for facebooking this (ironic it came from fb!). A recent article in the New Yorker by Malcolm Gladwell stated that contrary to popular opinion, social revolutions cannot be started by social media. Ari Melber from the Nation somewhat argues against Gladwell in his piece Gladwell Gets It Wrong on Social Media. I say “somewhat” because they are working with different non-mutually exclusive premises–Gladwell’s thesis is that the importance of social media is overstated when it comes to activism, while Melber’s thesis is that “the web and networked communications open up new and effective ways for citizens to converse and organize each other in repressive societies.” Gladwell believes that “strong bonds” are important for real social activism, and that platforms like Facebook and Twitter build “weak bonds.” Melber argues that these platforms provide communication that helps activism.
Ashley Judd Graduates from Harvard with MPA to Help her Activism
The audience on this blog tends to be older and more experienced than that of the typical AA website, but occasionally we get comments from a younger set of people just starting to make major early life decisions. Here’s something I found that my be useful to some of you: Actress/Activist. Ashley Judd, the actress and daughter of Naomi, just graduated from Harvard with a Masters in Public Administration. She did it to become a more effective activist. (Although she did it at 42, so maybe it’s a good path for older people too.)
Active Web Activism: Militant and Alpha-Asian
Hey All,
My fundraising has been dormant since Sam Yoon’s campaign, so I told my web posse that I’d post stuff up about their endeavors.
1. Project X: Militant’s work focused on the arts. You can contribute money to help him out. He’s going to give money to support Asian American artists in film. In his own words:
Pageant Podcast
Last night, we recorded a podcast on pageants with Michelle Vlach-Ing, co-founder of Miss Asian Oregon, and Christina Fa, activist from California. Download it here, or hear it below:
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
It is 22.8 mB, 49:55 long. I was able to do a direct transfer to mp3 from GarageBand, so this time I won the battle of Mac Powerbook vs. Byron. The pageant is just two days away, and we wanted to get this up fast, so I didn’t get a chance to edit much. It’s almost raw footage. As always, thanks to Instant Conference for use of their recording platform.
Posted in Activism, Asian American, Podcasts
Tagged Activism, Asian American, beauty pageants
10 Comments
Miss Asian Oregon
Okay, time for an exciting announcement. I am the co-owner of the Miss Asian Oregon Pageant, and we will be having our inaugural event on October 10th, 2009 down in Salem. My partner Michelle is a former contestant/finalist and law firm owner, and we are totally psyched about doing this. Our emcee/organizer Liani is a prominent public official and lawyer activist. We now have all of our contestants, and we’re ready to rock the state of Oregon.
Posted in Activism, Asian American, Portland
Tagged Activism, Asian American, Asian women, beauty, image, media, Miss Asian Oregon, pageants
13 Comments
Eco-Freaks
Okay, I know I’ve been blogging negative like I’ve got a stick up my rear–I’ll explain later this week. In the meantime, let me continue the trend…
I’ve been getting hit a lot by the new eco-movement. I don’t know if this is the proper term for the movement, but you know what I’m talking about: the granola eating, “intentional living,” simplifying types who are always talking about living green and simple. It’s not just environmentalism–I consider myself an environmentalist–it’s environmentalism on steroids. The common trait proponents share is that this new agey philosophy runs their lives–they use terms like “simplify,” they focus on “kindness,” and they emphasize “compassionate living.” They’ve meshed the whole environmental thing with Buddhist and yogic philosophies, and it’s become a huge movement, especially with upper class folk.
We hit our Sam Yoon goal!
Thanks to Asianguy, TMM, and uRB4N who helped bigWOWO achieve its goal of raising $250 for Sam Yoon. This was the first goal that we as a website have set, and we did it! Special thanks to uRB4N who contributed over 85% of the funds! Thanks to everyone here who publicized for Sam, to everyone who discussed Sam, and to everyone who has kept this website going strong. The vast majority of us are from out of state, and I’m so happy that we were able to help Sam in his campaign.
Posted in Activism, Asian American, Politics
Tagged Activism, interracial relationships, Politics, Sam Yoon, web activism
8 Comments
