Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Studies, Volume 4, no. 2 (Fall 2017)<\/strong><\/a> and is republished here with permission.<\/p>\n
\nS<\/b><\/span>oya: <\/b>Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us. My name is Soya Jung, and I\u2019m a senior partner at ChangeLab, which is a racial justice experimental think tank that studies how demographic change, neoliberalism, and the rise of right-wing movements are affecting racial politics, with a special focus on Asian American identity. It\u2019s my great pleasure to moderate this panel of my brilliant friends, teachers, and comrades.<\/p>\nWe chose to frame this conversation in terms of crisis: not only the state of permanent crisis created by racial capitalism and settler colonialism but also specific flashpoints like Sa-I-Gu.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Furthest to my left, appropriately, is Alex Tom<\/strong>, executive director of the Chinese Progressive Association [CPA] in San Francisco. Alex also serves on the coordinating committee of Grassroots Asians Rising, a new national initiative for grassroots Asian American organizations. He will draw on his vast experience organizing multiracial resistance against ballot measures and other policy attacks during the years that followed Sa-I-Gu and reflect on changes within the Asian American movement since then.