Over 100 Organizations Sign On to Joint Statement for AAPI Solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter and the Movement for Black Lives

​In the wake of increased violence against Black folks, 128 Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) organizations and allied organizations – from national advocacy NGOs to university student groups – are rising to support #BlackLivesMatter and the Movement for Black Lives.
 
Below please find the statement and the undersigned supporters. This statement is also available in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Filipino, and Vietnamese. 

Joint Statement for AAPI Solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter and the Movement for Black Lives
 
Our hearts are hurting. While words cannot bring back Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Sandra Bland, Freddie Gray, Rekia Boyd, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Renisha McBride, Akai Gurley and many more whose stories go unrecognized, we join together with Black organizers in a movement ignited to fight for Black liberation, human dignity and transformative justice. We, as Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, stand firmly with #BlackLivesMatter and the movement for Black lives.
 
We reject the mass criminalization and widely disproportionate over-policing, brutality and murder of our Black kinfolk. We refuse to stand silent on the lack of accountability, transparency and responsibility of police and law enforcement. We renounce the deep-rooted racism that makes the deaths of Black folks all too common. We demand an end to this ongoing state-sanctioned violence and the racist institutions that continue to devalue Black lives. We demand justice now. 
 
We commit to doing the work within our communities and mobilizing our bases. We will march shoulder to shoulder. We will keep fighting and we will carry their names. For without Black liberation none of us can be free.

Signed by:
 
18MillionRising.org
Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus
Alaskeros Kasamahan
Alliance of South Asian American Labor (ASAAL)
Alliance of South Asians Taking Action (ASATA)
Anakbayan USA
API Equality - Northern California (APIENC)
API Queer Women and Trans Community (APIQWTC)
API Solidarity DC
Asian American Alliance at Duke
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)
Asian American Millennials Unite
Asian American Organizing Project
Asian American Pacific Islander Progressive Alliance
Asian American Psychological Association
Asian American Resource Workshop
Asian American Student Union (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Asian American Studies Task Force
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | Chicago
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Los Angeles
Asian Americans United
Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy - Philadelphia
Asian Pacific American Heritage Week - University of Pennsylvania
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO - Washington, DC
Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon
Asian Pacific American Student Development, UC Berkeley
Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence
Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (APIA) at UC Santa Barbara
Asian Students in America at Carleton College
Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment, Advocacy and Leadership (APPEAL)
Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum
Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association
Asian/Pacific Islander Queers United for Action (AQUA)
AZAPIAVote Table
Baltimore Asian Resistance in Solidarity
Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour
CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities
Center for APA Women
ChangeLab
Chinatown Community for Equitable Development (CCED)
Chinese Progressive Association - San Francisco
Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement
Council on American-Islamic Relations, SFBA
Dari Project
Densho
DRUM - Desis Rising Up and Moving
East Coast Asian American Student union
Empowering Pacific Islander Communities
Filipino Advocates for Justice
Filipino American Democratic Club of New York
Freedom Inc
GABRIELA USA
Gay Asian Pacific Islander Men of New York (GAPIMNY)
Girls Make Better Ninjas: AAPI Feminism Workshop
Hai Ba Trung School for Organizing, SoCal
Hmong Innovating Politics
Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Student Association
Jahajee Sisters: Empowering Indo-Caribbean Women
Japanese American Citizens League Philadelphia Chapter
Lantern Media Network
LELO (Legacy of Equality, Leadership and Organizing)
KAN-WIN
Kimchi Mamas
Korean American Resource and Cultural Center
Migrante Washington D.C.
Muslim Community Network
Muslim Women's Professional Network - St. Louis
National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association, NAAPIMHA
National Asian Pacific American Families Against Substance Abuse
National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum
National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum - Bay Area
National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum - New York
National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development
National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA)
National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC)
National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance
OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates
OneAmerica
Pan Asian American Student Alliance of the University of San Francisco
Penn Taiwanese Society
Philadelphia South Asian Collective
Pilipino American Unity for Progress, Inc. (UniPro)
PrYSM
Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project - QWOCMAP
Rad Asians - Twin Cities
Reappropriate
상록수 (Sahngnoksoo) Seattle
Satrang
Services, Immigrant Rights, and Education Network (SIREN)
South Asian American Policy & Research Institute (SAAPRI)
South Asian Americans Leading Together
South Asian Fund For Education, Scholarship & Training (SAFEST)
Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC)
Southeast Asian Community Alliance
Southeast Asian Coalition (SEAC)
​Southwest Asian & North Afrikan - Los Angeles (SWANA-LA) 
Stanford Asian American Activism Committee
Trikone Northwest
VAYLA New Orleans
Viet-Unity Los Angeles
Wakefield Asian Club
Yale School of Drama's Asian American and Asian Theater Coalition


Allied Organizations
After Bruce PR & Marketing
Agenda Project Action Fund
Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice
Ceanothus Consulting
Chutney Pride Inc.- A Nonprofit LGBT Caribbean Organization
Community Health Partnership
Elemental Partners
Families Of Color Seattle
Freedom at Emory University
Freedom Trainers
The Gathering for Justice/Justice League NYC
Lionswrite Communications
Military Religious Freedom Foundation
mothermade
Oregon State University
PKVisuals
Pride at Work
Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project
Stop the Checkpoints
UFCW Minority Coalition
United Steelworkers
Voto Latino
Workers Defense Project

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