SFIC Online Briefing for Faith Leaders to Address
COVID-19 Hate Speech Targeted at Asian People
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Thursday, May 21, 2020
8:30 am - 9:30 am
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As the world struggles to cope with the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of xenophobia threatens many vulnerable communities around the world, with the United Nations warning of "a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scaremongering." Since the start of the pandemic, people of East Asian and Southeast Asian descent and apperance around the world have been subjected to Sinophobia, or anti-Chinese, with racist attacks against people from Asian countries and related hate crimes escalating. This week's SFIC Online Briefing for Faith Leaders, hosted by the
San Francisco Interfaith Council in collaboration with the
Department of Emergency Management's Community Branch will address the issue of COVID-19 hate speech targeted at Asian people both globally and here in our region.
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS BY ONLINE BRIEFING MODERATOR
Michael G. Pappas, M.Div., Executive Director
WELCOME & READING OF SFIC STATEMENT
Kaushik Roy, Chair
MEDITATION
Rev. Elaine Donlin,
Minister Assistant
(Introduction of Guest Presenter and Presentation by
SFIC Executive Director Michael Pappas)
Cynthia Choi,
Co-Executive Director
Cynthia Choi is the Co-Executive Director of
Chinese for Affirmative Action
, a community based civil rights organization based in San Francisco. She has led local, state and national community based organizations working on a range of issues from reproductive justice, gender based violence, immigrant/refugee rights and environmental justice issues in both the nonprofit sector and in philanthropy.
Chinese for Affirmative Action
(CAA) was founded in 1969 to protect the civil and political rights of Chinese Americans and to advance multiracial democracy in the United States. Today, CAA is a progressive voice in and on behalf of the broader Asian American and Pacific Islander community. We advocte for systemic change that protects immigrant rights, promotes language diversity, and remedies racial and social injustice.
PANEL QUESTIONS TO GUEST PRESENTER
Rev. Deborah Lee, Executive Director
CLOSING REMARKS/NEXT STEPS
SFIC Executive Director Michael Pappas
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