Media Advisory: Releases Tools to Support Communities in Crisis
Helen Zia Helen Zia

Media Advisory: Releases Tools to Support Communities in Crisis

The Vincent Chin Institute (VCI) developed Crisis Communications, Dealing with the News Media FAQ and Crisis Funding & Emergency Donations FAQ to support survivors, families, and community members when they or their family or community face hate or violence.

These FAQs, available online and in print for free, give people tangible tools to seize control of their own narrative and drive their own strategies for recovery, fortification, and healing.

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FBI Released 602 Pages of its Vincent Chin Files! I Was There: Here’s the Good, Bad, and Ugly
Perspective Helen Zia Perspective Helen Zia

FBI Released 602 Pages of its Vincent Chin Files! I Was There: Here’s the Good, Bad, and Ugly

June 23rd marked another year since Vincent Chin was slain forty-two years during a terrible economic recession and an intense climate of anti-Japan, anti-Asian hate. Then, Vincent and other Asian Americans were blamed and scapegoated for the collapse of the American auto industry and the massive layoffs in Detroit.

Then, without explanation, the FBI also chose this 2024 week of remembrance to unload a batch of its 40-year old Vincent Chin case files.

I remember every bit...

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