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3/26/2021 Anti-Asian Violence is a Labor Issue
OPEIU stands with the AAPI community against the violence and discrimination they've been subjected to for centuries on U.S. soil, which has skyrocketed more than 150 percent since the start of the pandemic. No one should fear racist violence in or out of the workplace. It's incumbent on the entire labor movement, including OPEIU, to educate, agitate and organize internally and externally against the myriad ways racism has seeped into our society and our workplaces.
For anyone lost and unsure of how to #StopAsianHate, be sure to join the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) community and become a member! APALA is an outspoken champion for AAPI workers everywhere. Their membership drive ends on April 8th. Join the movement today: https://apalanet.org/membership.html 3/26/2021 OPEIU Quarterly Newsletter: Spring 2021
These murders show how both racism and sexism shapes the specific ways that Asian women experience violence; Asian women are fetishized as sex objects and perceived as deserving of violence. Such dehumanization goes back to more than a century ago when the Page Act of 1875 defined all Asian women as sexually deviant and therefore limited their mobility and freedom. These murders were also driven by the demonization of China, where institutions from all sides are blaming a whole nation of people, and thus all people racialized in the same way, for everything from the COVID-19 pandemic to the resulting failing economy.
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AuthorOPEIU Local 2 is a labor union supporting over 8,000 professional workers in Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia. We represent staff members across a number of sectors, including healthcare, non-profit, and more. Archives
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