00:41:08 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: Thanks to the co-sponsors for this webinar series: CODEPINK - Women for Peace Global Alliance for Preserving the History of WWII in Asia (GA) Hawai’i Peace and Justice International Action Center (IAC) International Peace Bureau (IPB) New Jersey Alliance for Learning and Preserving the History of WWII in Asia (NJ-ALPHA) Pivot to Peace Toronto ALPHA Education Veterans for Peace – Hawai’i – Chapter 113 Veterans for Peace – Northern New Jersey Chapter Veterans for Peace – San Francisco – Chapter 00:43:56 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: Check out these awesome co-sponsoring orgs:
 CODEPINK - Women for Peace: Follow the CODEPINK China Is Not Our Enemy campaign at http://codepink.org/china & on Twitter at https://twitter.com/chinanotenemy 
 Global Alliance for Preserving the History of WWII in Asia (GA) https://www.global-alliance.net/mission.html
 Hawai’i Peace and Justice http://www.wp.hawaiipeaceandjustice.org/ 
 International Action Center (IAC) https://iacenter.org/ 
 International Peace Bureau (IPB) https://www.ipb.org/ 
 New Jersey Alliance for Learning and Preserving the History of WWII in Asia (NJ-ALPHA) 
 Pivot to Peace https://peacepivot.org/ 
 Toronto ALPHA Education
 https://www.alphaeducation.org/ Veterans for Peace – Hawai’i – Chapter 113 Veterans for Peace – Northern New Jersey Chapter Veterans for Peace – San Francisco – Chapter https://www.veteransforpeace.org/ 00:47:15 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: We cannot do this work of opposing US imperialism alone, it’s true— we have to build together ! 00:48:13 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: Visit the Coalition Peace Initiative’s website here: https://www.coalitionpeaceinitiative.org/activities/ 00:50:19 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: If you registered for this webinar using the Zoom link, you will receive automatic reminders for Weeks 2 through 9 of this comprehensive educational series! 00:50:39 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: See the Coalition Peace Initiative’s site for the full program and speaker list 00:51:23 linda wan: beautiful overview and vision for peace, don. thank you! 00:52:55 Ann Wright: Aloha from Honolulu, Hawai’i. 00:53:55 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: Check out Stop AAPI Hate and their much-needed National Report of anti-Asian hate incidents —> https://stopaapihate.org/ 00:54:04 Michael Wong: Hello from San Francisco. 00:54:36 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: If you’d like to, please introduce yourself and where you are calling in from! 00:54:39 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: Hi Michael! 00:54:56 Ea-Jan Shee: Were there massacres of the early Chinese settlers? 00:55:13 Linda Wang: Linda C. Wang from New Jersey 00:56:01 Nancy Lim-Yee: Greetings from South San Francisco! So excited to be here! 😉 00:56:42 FAHIM SHIRAZEE: Fahim from Encinitas (just north of San Diego, CA). Thank you all for doing this. 00:56:47 Peter Mak: Hi, from San Francisco. 00:57:06 Jeffery Hull: Good evening from Wisconsin 00:57:15 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: Hello from the Mountain West (Moscow, ID), where the labor & contributions of Chinese immigrants are often erased and unacknowledged. I’m Madison, the coordinator of the CODEPINK China Is Not Our Enemy Campaign. Feel free to reach me at madison@codepink.org :) 00:57:21 Michael Hubbart: Hello from Olympia, WA. 00:58:48 Michael Wong: The massacres were throughout the West. in small towns where Chinese went during the gold rush and after, and completed with Whites for jobs. Entire Chinatowns were burned down, Chinese were killed, and many survivors fled to San Francisco. This led to the Chinese Exclusion Act to back up the massacres and get rid of Chinese. 00:59:00 Peter T Lam: Great to hear Ling Chi speak. Such a scholar! 00:59:25 Peter T Lam: That was Peter Lam in San Francisco 01:00:26 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: Such an honor to hear Professor Ling-Chi Wang speak, agree! 01:00:49 George Lau: Hi, this is George Lau from San Francisco 01:00:56 Michael Wong: Ling-chi is an inspiration to us all. 01:01:10 Tom Shih: Ling-Chi Wang 01:04:26 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: This is a small (incomplete) list I have of some pogroms/massacres on Chinese immigrants in the late 19th century that are rarely remembered or taught about:

in 1871, the LA Chinatown massacre; in 1880, the Denver Yellow Peril pogrom; in 1885 , the Wyoming Rock Springs massacre, the Issaquah Valley attack, the Arson of Seattle’s Chinatown; the Tacoma riot; in 1886, the Seattle Riot of 1886, the Oregon Hell’s Canyon massacre (34 miners killed) 01:05:25 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: So grateful to Don Tow of Coalition Peace Initiative for organizing this series so that we can properly understand, honor, and contextualize this histry 01:05:31 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: history* 01:06:46 Mei Lam: Madison: thank you for the history on past massacres of Chinese. 01:09:28 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: You are welcome! I know there are many other massacres and incidents as well and was not taught this growing up in California public schools 01:11:02 Peter Mak: Issaquah Valley used to called Squak Valley. 01:11:05 Russell Jeung: Feel free to post questions as we enjoy this talk. We will collect them and host a Q and A session afterwards 01:23:50 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: This phrase about the vulnerability of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century US really struck me when I first learned what its history was from Iris Chang’s work:

“A Chinaman’s chance” became a common term: to be Chinese was to be subject to sudden death at any time at the whim of white people. 01:25:54 s lo: info on Carlin dedication, https://elkodaily.com/news/local/carlin-13-monument-dedication-film-set-for-sept-6/article_ead6ba4e-03a2-5dc7-81f2-25b57f4c4d42.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share 01:27:31 Michael Wong: Madison Tang is probably referring to Iris Chang's book, "The Chinese in America." Ling-chi Wang is mentioned twice in the book. It's an excellent book, definitely recommended. 01:29:48 Jeffery Hull: Thank You Ling-chi Wang 01:30:03 Peter T Lam: Can always learn something new from Ling Chi! What a goldmine of History. Thank you Professor 01:30:04 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: Thank you so much Ling-chi! 01:30:10 linda wan: thank you, prof. wang! 01:30:11 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: Michael, yes that’s correct! 01:30:23 Stefan Langenborg: thank you professor, much appreciated! 01:31:20 Peter Mak: Great presentation. Thanks. 01:31:35 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: @Elizabeth Yes there are a lot of parallels between other immigrant laborers of color and the disposability and exploitation of them by the US ruling class 01:31:46 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: Which is why solidarity is so important! 01:31:52 Stefan Langenborg: that racialization/characterization as an outsider doesn't just go away either, a consistent throughline in this countrys sordid history 01:32:26 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: My family were in the US in 1939 and lived and worked among many indigenous Mexicans in rural Arizona 01:32:50 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: They actually created a chorizo recipe that sold well with Mexican farmers and laborers at their small grocery store apparently haha 01:33:11 FAHIM SHIRAZEE: Were the Chinese people from different regions in China ever stereotyped in a racist manner as so and so person might be passive, and so and so from another region might be fighters or physically strong. I ask this because in the Indian subcontinent, colonialism created stereotypes like the Pathans or the Punjabis are the warrior type and physically strong and the ones from Sindh (southern province in Pakistan) or in Southern India are passive and physically weak. 01:35:01 Nancy Lim-Yee: Thank you so much, Ling Chi, for your presentation! I am sure you can teach a semester course on this topic. So good to see you! 01:35:27 Michael Wong: In the past, most Chinese came from the same region, in Southern China around Canton. Only later starting in the mid to late 60's did Chinese start to come from elsewhere in large numbers. 01:35:27 Stefan Langenborg: that's a really interesting question fahim, would love to understand the ethnic dynamics if any at the time 01:35:38 Stefan Langenborg: that's a parallel you see in so many colonial situations 01:36:27 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: Please sign Coalition Peace Initiative’s petition: https://www.change.org/CoalitionPeaceInitiative 01:37:47 Stefan Langenborg: wow, that's wild 01:37:56 s lo: a book by Martin Gold, Forbidden Citizens: Chinese Exclusion and the U.S. Congress: A Legislative History 01:38:58 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: Tell Congress to vote No on $7.5 BILLION for US militarism in the Asia-Pacific + racist propaganda funding in the EAGLE Act HR 3524: Sign CODEPINK’s letter: 

https://www.codepink.org/eagleact 01:39:03 Stefan Langenborg: amen 01:39:29 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: Mutual respect for national sovereignty, hear hear 01:39:44 Andrew Machkasov: One of the most prominent court cases of the late 19th century was Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886), where the United States Supreme Court unanimously held that even if a law isn't explicitly written to discriminate based on race, enforcement in a racially discriminatory manner nevertheless violated the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. 01:41:47 Tom Shih: Thank you!!! 01:41:53 Alvin Ja: thanks 01:42:02 Stefan Langenborg: thank you professor Wang 🙏 01:42:06 Nancy Lim-Yee: THANKS! 01:42:27 Wynd Kaufmyn: Thank you for this important information. 01:42:43 Michael Wong: Thank you, LIng-chi Wang, Don Tow, and Russell Leung. 01:42:45 Alvin Ja: Hi Wynd, 01:42:59 Wynd Kaufmyn: Hi Alvyn! 01:43:09 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: NEXT WEEK SAME TIME:
Webinar 2 in this series – 9/29 8 PM ET 
Internment of Japanese Americans: 1942-1945 (Karen Korematsu) 01:43:11 FAHIM SHIRAZEE: Thank you all so very much. We are all very grateful. 01:43:49 Alvin Ja: This Sat at 1pm: Check out Chinese Historical Society program on Chinatown Red Scare. 01:44:05 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: See the full webinar series here: 01:44:06 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: https://www.coalitionpeaceinitiative.org/activities/ 01:44:25 Madison Tang, CODEPINK: If you registered for this webinar, you will receive automatic reminders for the next webinars! 01:44:44 Linda Wang: Thank you for all the information