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Letters and Articles
THE Leadership team responds to Lowell sun editorial, "NEW Arrivals, your job is to learn English" December 19, 2020
You try to shame us with stats and data from an unnamed report
It sounds like you have never fled from bullets
To escape from a genocide
It sounds like you have never seen stats and data
on how many people had to escape and learn to survive in another country
Knowing that they will never see their family members again
And that they will only reunite in nightmares
Letter from our Deputy Director in response to the increased hate crimes against Asians March 5, 2021
The Cambodian American Literary Arts Association comdemns racism and anti-Asian hate crimes.
Antirassistischer Wandel braucht Solidarität (German) Anti-racist change needs solidarity (English) südostasien November 16, 2020
Das Alarmsignal für mehr Solidarität untereinander war in diesem Jahr laut und deutlich zu vernehmen. Während die Welt gegen eine globale Pandemie kämpft, haben viele von uns nach wie vor mit dem Kampf gegen rassistische Benachteiligung zu tun. Mit aufgesetzten Masken und handgeschriebenen Plakaten oder Schildern, die hoch in die Luft geschwenkt werden, entscheiden sich Gemeinschaften aus der ganzen Welt, einschließlich derer aus der kambodschanischen Diaspora, solidarisch zusammenzustehen. Das Adrenalin, das dabei freigesetzt wird und durch die Straßen schwappt, ist förmlich greifbar.
The alarm signal for more solidarity among each other was heard loud and clear this year. While the world is fighting a global pandemic, many of us are still involved in the fight against racial discrimination. With masks put on and handwritten posters or signs panned high in the air, communities from around the world, including those from the Cambodian diaspora, are choosing to stand together in solidarity. The adrenaline that is released and sloshes through the streets is literally tangible.
Khmer community – It is time for us to say Black Lives Matter- Southeast Asia Globe June 15, 2020
As Black Lives Matter protests gathers momentum globally, Deputy Director of the Cambodian American Literary Arts Association Joan Chun says the Khmer community must examine its own attitude to blackness and throw its support behind the movement
Perspectives from Khmer diaspora in the US on the Black Lives Matter movement- Southeast Asia Globe June 15, 2020
As protests erupt across the United States demanding racial equality and an end to police brutality, members of the Cambodian American Literary Arts Association living across the country offer their reflections on race and the Black Lives Matter movement