WHAT'S NEW - in the month of November 2001!

As we enter November, we have entered historic times. Our country and the Asian Pacific American communities are entering a season to directly address issues of race, hate crime, evil, good, war, goals of peace, conflicts and a great number of other issues. Our wish is that these unfortunate and historic days will lead us down a path of greater understanding and togetherness that will be greatly needed in our future. We invite you to discover some of the prominent APA leaders listed below.

FEATURED ARTISTS & LEADERS

KIP FULBECK

Since 1991, videomaker, novelist, slam poet, and spoken word performer Kip Fulbeck has been recognized as one of the world's premier artists exploring Hapa* identity. Fulbeck combines improvisation, stand-up comedy, political activism, and inspiring personal stories to explore his Cantonese, English, Irish, and Welsh background, media imagery of Asian men, interracial dating patterns, and icons of race and sex in popular culture.

His videos and performance work have shown in over 20 countries, aired on PBS, and received numerous awards, while his first novel, Paper Bullets, has just been published by the University of Washington Press. Paper Bullets is a fictional autobiography exploring the hapa identity of a young man, who like the author is shaped by the conflicting desires, stigmas, and codes of male conduct in this country. Part coming-of-age, part racial/sexual adventure, and part love letter...Paper Bullets chronicles a contemporary man's search for love and meaning.

Fulbeck is also an ocean lifeguard, Lakers fanatic,guitar junkie, dubbed kung fu grandmaster, professional dreamer, and Associate Professor of Art and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

ROSE OCHI

Announced on July 10, 2001, Rose Ochi was appointed by Mayor Jim Hahn of Los Angeles to the LA Board of Police Commissioners. As of August 21, 2001, she was elected to be Vice President of the Commission. In light of the LAPD's current troubles, Rose has been brought in to solve their current problems.

Rose was the Director of the Community Relations Service, a branch of the Department of Justice which provides a Federal conciliation service to help resolve and prevent racial and ethnic conflict, violence and civil disorders at the local and State levels.

Rose's deep commitment to equal justice and civil rights stems from her own family's experience with racial discrimination. As one of the 120,000 Japanese Americans unjustly interned in prison camps during World War II, Rose has personally faced direct prejudice due to her racial and ethnic heritage.

In 1997, Rose was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become the first Asian American woman to serve at the Assistant Attorney General level. Her extensive experience in building collaborative partnerships between multi-racial civil rights leadership, law enforcement groups and elected officials makes her ideal to head the federal agency whose mission is to help communities resolve racial and ethnic conflicts.

Attorney General Reno had called upon Rose to coordinate race relations matters for the Department and asked her to serve on President Clinton's Initiative on Race Task Force. Rose has worked to develop anti-hate crime educational materials and programs and contributed her wisdom on issues such as police misconduct and racial profiling.

Prior to her appointment, she was Associate Director at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. She worked with state and local governments and private associations to implement the President's National Drug Control Strategy where she spearheaded the development of the innovative Breaking the Cycle Program drug treatment model.

Rose Ochi has served in a range of civic, community and professional associations, including the DOJ Attorney General's National Minority Advisory Council, the NOBLE Hate Violence Advisory Committee, the President's Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy, and the Japanese American Citizens League among others.

GRACE PARK

The 20 year LPGA Tour rookie old out of Arizona State spent the last few years building a remarkable launching pad -- winning 55 national tournaments. Some of her victories include the 1998 U.S. Women's Amateur Championship and the 1999 NCAA individual title. Last summer she won five of the 10 she entered on the LPGA's Futures Tour.

Grace Park, who was brought up in Arizona since she was 12, has been actively courted by equipment and clothing manufacturers because of her dazzling smile. Currently she is being managed by Michael Ovitz's management team.

Grace has joined the roster of Golf Digest Playing Editors where she will provide instructional articles to help players improve their golf games.

STATISTICS: This 5'6" beauty was born March 6, 1979, in Seoul, South Korea. Her residence is in Phoenix, Arizona where she attended Arizona State. She was tied for eighth at this year's U.S. Women's Open at Old Waverly Golf Club in Mississippi, shattering the previous scoring record for an amateur with a 5-under-par 283. As an amateur, led the field in driving distance at both 2001's Nabisco Dinah Shore and U.S. Women's Open. Her father (Soo-Nam) owns a steak restaurant in Korea and mother Jinae sports a single-digit handicap.

EVENTS IN HISTORY

IN 1830's
- Chinese workers arrives in Hawaii

IN 1869
- Memphis TN conference of plantation owners proposed substituting Chinese labor for black slaves.

IN 1871
- Nineteen Chinese were massacred in Los Angeles. October 24 marked the worst incident of Anti-Chinese violence in America up to that time.

IN 1879
- the Arizona Weekly Star ran an editorial in 1879 portraying Chinese Americans as "an ignorant, filthy, leprous horde" and "the most pernicious and degraded race on the globe." Chinese workers were attacked in railroad camps and mining towns and driven out of Arizona's mines and railroads.

IN 1908
- Filipinos were greatly recruited by the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association as cheap contract labor when the Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907 cut off the Japanese supply.

IN 1909
- Japanese plantation workers in Hawaii go on strike

IN 1912
- Duke Kahanamoku won his first Olympic gold medal and set a world record in the 100-meter free-style and won a silver medal as a participant in the 200-meter relay in Stockholm. He represented the United States in the Olympics for the next 20 years.

IN 1923
- Justice Sutherland, speaking for the Supreme Court in 1923, said that Bhagat Singh Thind and other Asian Indians were aliens ineligible to citizenship because they were not white, as only whites and blacks could become citizens.

IN 1924
- In the Hanapepe Massacre, police attack union headquarters in Hanapepe, HI where 16 sugar plantation workers and 4 policemen are killed.

IN 1947
- Truman grants full pardon to the Japanese Americans who had been convicted for resisting the draft while they and their families were held in concentration camps.

IN 1944
- These 85 interned Japanese Americans were prosecuted and incarcerated because they refused to be drafted into the U.S. military unless their rights as citizens were restored.


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