"The Poet and the Silk Girl" by Satsuki Ina (2024) is a powerful memoir of her parents' lives during their incarceration and imprisonment during World War II, and an insightful record of intergenerational trauma and healing through protest and allyship with the vulnerable. Dr. Ina's work with Tsuru for Solidarity continues in support of migrants and against detention and deportation. Review by Ravi Chandra.| East Wind ezine
Opinion polls are turning against Mr. Trump's cruel immigration policies. This is the "Human Intelligence Quantum Machine" at work, faced with at least four significant ethical problems. Thinking about these ethical problems can help us understand ourselves and the situation at hand.| East Wind ezine
Many Republican voters dismiss the concerns of Blacks and migrants; this compounds the cruel and unusual punishment of racism, abusive power, and bias. Moving through our national impasse requires changing the very way we relate to each other - from distance to proximity, dismissal to compassion.| East Wind ezine
Evidence has steadily accumulated about Mr. Trump's dangerousness, and his threat to democracy and even the survival of humanity. We cannot understand what's happening without looking at his antagonistic and delusional psychology.| East Wind ezine
For five decades, Professor Bill Ong Hing has been a towering figure in the field of immigration law. Here are a few of his thoughts on the current crisis.| East Wind ezine
President Trump, a convicted felon, has ordered up 7000 National Guard and 700 Marines to cruelly punish those exercising their free speech and standing up for the rights of migrants in LA. If we don't declare this an outrage, we are in danger of further escalation, martial law, cancellation of elections, and martial law.| East Wind ezine
By Linda Wing. Posted May 22, 2025 My grandmother Mary was born in San Francisco in 1902. Both of her parents were American-born as well —her father in San Francisco and her mother in Monterey. In 1854, her grandfather had immigrated from China to San Francisco at the tender age of 12; her grandmother came in 1874. Our family’s long…| East Wind ezine
“Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” are threatened because this man values himself over the good of the nation, because his party marches in lockstep behind his incompetence, malice, and rapacious exercise of abusive power, and because the body politic and systems that could restrain his abuse have been uninformed about and dismissive of his dangerousness – and have even lined up in support of it.| East Wind ezine
I was recently reminded that DEI doesn’t just stand for “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” but is also the Latin word for God. I have decided to form the Universal Church of DEI, or rather join the Church that already exists, in our divine human quest to transcend HEI – Hatred, Exploitation, and Ignorance. The divine can only come to us as call to conscience, consciousness, and uplift. The divine has always come to us as a call to love. (By Ravi Chandra.)| East Wind ezine
By Grant Din. Posted February 15, 2025 William Gee Wong’s Sons of Chinatown tells two improbable stories: his parents’ journeys as a “paper son” and a “paper daughter” from Toishan, China to the United States, and Wong’s journey from Oakland Chinatown to become a pioneer journalist as one of the first Asian American correspondents in mainstream publications like the San…| East Wind ezine