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Announcing the online publication of Jalan: A journal of Asian
Liberation
http://jalanjournal.org/
Jalan Journal is an independent journal written by a multiracial
collective of activists who work toward the liberation of Asian
peoples from the forces of racism, empire and neo-colonialism.
Asians are Pakistani, Iraqi, Afghani, Korean, Cambodian, Chinese,
Palestinians and countless other faces. We are gender-bending men
and women, queer and straight. We are fierce and loving. We are what
the racists fear. Many of us are also here in the United States.
This journal seeks to promote discussion and provide linkages, to
remember the past so as to build for the future. We hope to discuss
the struggles of Asian-American peoples in the United States from an
anti-racist and democratic perspective in order to build solidarity
among our communities and with working folks in Asia. We combat the
historical and political roots of the model minority myth that has
functioned to divide Asians from other working class people of
color, both in the US and internationally. We also critically oppose
the statist and oppressive versions of pan-Asian liberation found in
Maoism, Bandungism and the Japanese empire of yesteryear.
Today, a new vision is our only option, nourished by everyday
struggles for freedom and democracy that Asian peoples wage in the
family, at work, in their neighborhoods, and schools. From the
relentless Intifadas of Palestinians pushing up against apartheid,
to the jam-packed streets of the 2005 Hong Kong WTO protests
exploding with fierce South Korean farmers, Filipino activists and
Japanese anarchists, we are in action. A new society all around us
is breaking out! (read more from our Mission statement)
Our contents in this first issue:
Editorials
Asians Against White Supremacy: On the origins of anti-Asian racism
and how we have fought back
Stop Dividing the Korean nation: A vision of unity from below
Articles
Rebel Desis of the Hip Hop generation
ˇYa Basta! Reflections on Asian and Latino workers in the immigrant
rights movement
Retrieving an Asian American Anarchist Tradition
Book Review
Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution
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