Rob Yanagida

For USSF 2010 I'm working on:

I DREAM A GARDEN song/community dance at GenesisHOPE Community Garden & Genesis Choir, Great Leap (L.A.), Boggs Center (Detroit), Friday, June 25, 7 pm, 7200 Mack Ave, Detroit
"What Can a Song Do?", Hart Plaza Stage- Nobuko Miyamoto, 40 years of song and social activism promo trailer
"“What’s the Future of APIAs…?” Dialog on the movement and PMA,with Grace Lee Boggs , Friday June 25,4-6pm at Genesis Lutheran, 7200 Mack Ave., Detroit
Asian Pacific Islander American outreach ,
People's Media Center, web streaming and recording
Leftist Lounge, Friday, June 25, 9pm- 3am, Eastern Market District @ Russell St + Division St
and legal observing in Detroit for the march.

I'm Rob Yanagida, an activist based in Santa Cruz, CA, involved in legal and social justice work.

TUPOCC (The United People of Color Caucus) of the National Lawyers Guild - A nat'l network of "Legal Activists of Color", radical and progessive lawyers, legal workers and students. (Blog) (Twitter)
Homeless Garden Project (Santa Cruz) - urban farm that trains homeless and low income people in organic farming.
Boggs Center To Nurture Community Leadership (Detroit) To help grassroots activists; strategies for rebuilding and respiriting our communities from the ground up, demonstrate the power of ideas to transform ourselves, our reality and demystify leadership. - supporter. (Blog) (Facebook)
Asian Law Caucus Advocacy of the rights of Asian and Pacific Islander communities, S.F. - affiliated attorney (Blog)

Past Activities

Asian Americans for Equality (NYC)- civil rights, immigrant services, housing - founder, campaign for minority construction workers at Confucius Plaza, 1974 (Confucius Plaza Struggle Video)
Basement Workshop Inc. - first Coordinator; a pioneering API culture, education and arts space in the '70s and '80s in Chinatown, NYC; "Yellow Pearl Collection" - co-editor/publisher, included Yellow Pearl song

Media

Ballad of Vincent Chin Charlie Chin performs a ballad he wrote in response to the beating death in Detroit in 1982 of Vincent Chin, and which preceded nat'l campaigns against anti-Asian violence and hate crimes in the '80s-'90s. Live - NYC, 2009

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