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'Faille' Winner Harlemm Lee JACL Continues Battle for Civil Liberties With New Bill Still Fighting for Recognition Advocacy groups rally senior policy associate at the By CAROLINE AOYAGI weeks. cloud nine. I felt I had finally behind a yet to be National Immigration Forum. Executive Editor Hung on the other hand did one made it," said Lee. "I proved that introduced bill seeking JACL Executive Director John unsuccessful, off-tune audition for . an Asian has just as much talent as to diminish the power Tateishi called the Patriot Act a Mention the name Harlernm the "American Idol" judges but has anybody else. I proved that it's of the Patriot Act. "drastic departure from basic Lee and you'll likely get some since become a media darling with our time as Asian American human rights for citizens" at the By LYNDA LIN blank stares. But artists." He May 22-23 national board meeting Assistant Editor no doubt most added, "But and declared support for the CLRA people will rec• the [entertain• and the Security and Freedom SAN FRANCISCO-JACL con• ognize William ment] indus• Ensured Act. He emphasized that in tinues to champion civil liberties as Hung, the try has a lot of these cases it is not about an individ• part of a coalition that supports a "American power. They ual's guilt or innocence, but more new legislative bill intended to chip Idol" castoff can make or about the infringement of funda• away at the powers of the U.S.A. who has some• break the per• mental civil liberties. Patriot Act. how managed to ception of any "In challenging the Patriot Act, The Civil Liberties Restoration win over the artist." we're not saying that the govern• Act (CLRA) will restore civilliber• hearts of mil• It's been ment should be completely hands ties taken away by the ~atriot Act, lions of about eight off. If there is a justifiable reason to an act which. most civil rights Americans. months since arrest an individual, that's law groups and legal experts denounce It's ironic that Lee proved enforcement. It's the process that's as containing draconian provisions Lee's name is his talents on questionable. When citizens or legal allowing the government to deny still largely "Fame," beat• residents are held and denied their detainees and enemy combatants unrecognized ing out much rights, that undermines the judicial . the right to seek legal counsel. considering he younger con• process. It's persecution at its The CLRA has yet to be intro• was the triple PHOTO: NBC/BJERKE testants, but worse," said Tateishi. duced in Congress, but civil liberties threat winner of Harlemm Lee performs live on last summer's NBC reality show he's still wait• The CLRA is co-sponsored by advocates are hoping to move the last summer's "Fame:' The tripple threat winner outshfned performers much ing for his Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-MA. If bill in early June. Right now, the NBC reality younger than him to take home the title. career to take enacted, the CLRA will restore [lISt National Immigration Forum is show "Fame," where the 36-year• non-stop press interviews, a record off and a chance to make his mark amendment . rights, ensure due working with local advocates, old, Chinese/Filipino American deal, and exposure that Lee to this in the entertainment industry. process, focus law enforcement on including JACL, to help build danced and sang his way into mil• day can only dream of. awareness, said Shoba Sivaprasad, lions of homes for ten straight ''When I won the show I was on See HARLEMM LEE! page 12 See BOARD MEETING! page 8 JACL National Board Passes 2005·2006 Biennial Budget Board debates use of and $4,200,276 in program costs. Revenue line items for both years PROGRAM Life Trust Endowment include membership dues with an REVENUES Fund for the Planned expected total of $1 ,868,0 12, invest• EXPENDITURES Giving program. ment income estimated at $218,000, Fees & grants at $537,400, fund raising Registration Other Endowments By LYNDA LIN with $818,700, and Pacific Citizen Assistant Editor at $384,205. Some of the larger programs the SAN FRANCISCO-In prepara• JACL will be focusing on are gener• tion for the August national conven• al operations at a total of tion, the JACL national board mem• $1,551,639, membership with• bers took up the 2005-2006 biennial $233,204 and the P.e. with budget at the May 22-23 quarterly $884,410. board meeting. General Support One sticking point at the meeting Fundraising Pacific Pacific Citizen The board unanimously passed involved whether monies from the Investment the 2005-2006 biennial budget with Citizen Income Leadership $4,205,717 in total revenue sources See JACL BUDGETI page 12 SPRING CAMPAIGN Police Arrest 1970 Killer of JA Cop, The Numbers Then Decide Not to File Charges Add Up By ASSOCIATED PRESS Berkeley police arrested Graphenreed, 55, of San Francisco, By GILASAKAWA BERKELEY, Calif. -Police May 24 on suspicion of murder and P.e. Editorial Board Chair who arrested a man in alleged con• conspiracy to commit murder in the nection with the 1970 slaying of a killing of rookie Officer Ronald There's a reason I make my living Japanese American Berkeley officer Tsukamoto, the first JA police offi• with words: I'm not much of a num• that was called a political assassina• cer hired in Berkeley and the first bers guy. In tion at the time abruptly reversed Berkeley officer killed in the line of fact, when talk course May 26 and said no charges duty. turns to budg• would be filed. The suspect was being held on an ets and Calling it a joint decision with unrelated charge in a Fresno jail, finances, my Alameda County prosecutors, where he will now be returned, head gets all police spokesman Joe Okies said according to Berkeley police. fuzzy and I Don Juan Warren Graphenreed Okies would· not explain what tune out. might be charged in the future, but had changed in the case. He said Except when the Pacific Citizen s ''based on the direction this investi• additional arrests are expected, but www.jaclhawaii.org budget is at stake. gation has taken," authorities were Registrations still being acceptea See JA COPI page 8 See SPRING CAMPAIGN! page 2 changing course. 2 LEITERS PACIFIC CITIZEN, JUNE 4-17, 2004 SPRING well, thanks for your support), PACIFIC CITIZEN through its ability to promote JACL J ACL Should Not Support CAMPAIGN · fundraising initiatives such as - 7 Cupania Circle, (Continued from page 1) national membership and donation Mi-Choong O'Brien Monterey Park, CA 91755 campaigns, and of course, through I was truly disgusted about why Real Asian people who are responsi• Tel: 3231725-0083,800/966- I recently attended a JACL the hallmark annual Holiday Issue. the Pacific Citizen is gamering sup• ble and do not have children that 6157, Fax: 3231725-0064 national board meeting where one E-mail: [email protected] So even though on paper the P. e. port and sympathy for this Mi• they cannot afford. Real Asian pe0- of the proposals for the biennium looks like it's taking up almost a· Choong O'Brien. It is not about ple who do not steal just because Executive Editor: budget was to adjust the P.C's budg• quarter of JACL's budget, please being an innocent victim because they are· poor. Real Asian people Caroline Y. Aoyagi et and make up for the shortfall by keep in mind that after all the money she is NOT. She embezzled money who are proud to be Americans. Assistant Editor: hiring a fulltime staffer to sell ads it brings in, the P.e. as a program from her employer and never both• It is really a shame that the P. e. Lynda Lin for the paper. I know you've heard it Office Manager: costs half of that. ered to apply for citizenship. wastes their paper and ink on some• Brian Tanaka before, but it's a tough time for the Beyond that, of all the great pro• How can a publication that is sup• one such as this Mi-Choong Circulation: Eva Lau-Ting JACL, and every program and grams the JACL funds, the P.e. is ported by the members of the JACL O'Brien. If this is the type of cause everyone in the national office has the one that's connected to and can feel sympathy towards this woman that our memberships are support• Publisher: Japanese tightened their collective belt until it American Citizens League help all of them. The P.e. is where and her husband? How dare a white ing then myself and my friends will hurts, and then some more. (founded 1929) 1765 Sutter you learn about initiatives that JACL man liken her cause to the Japanese seriously have to reconsider our Street, San Francisco, CA But I was concerned because the is undertaking, the many important Americans interned during World renewals for next year. 94115, tel: 415/921-5225 fax: P.e. proposal seemed unrealistic to fights it wages nationally, and where War IT! This is an INSULT to OUR 415/931-4671, www.jacl.org me - this person would have to sell you can find out the latest about r~latives that were patriotic, honest ~~ JACL President: Floyd Mori $80,000 a year in advertising for a important events such as the Hawaii people, not thieving and unpatriotic National Director: John Cas!m Valley, CA newspaper that only publishes twice like this woman! This is unbeliev• Tateishi Convention (what a great excuse to a month, averages only 12 pages in go to the islands!). The P.e. is your able that OUR money is being used o Pacific Citizen Board of size and reaches a shrinking sub• Directors: Gil Asakawa, pipeline that keeps you abreast of to try to help this man and his klep• chairperson; Roger Ozaki, scriber base of JACL members. what the JACL's doing. It shows tomaniac wife! Re: Engrish.com EDC; Ron Katsuyama, MDC; I didn't think it would be possible The article makes the O'Brien.s how your support of the organiza• I think that the issue of whether Grace Kimoto, CCDC; Valerie for this employee to beat such odds, look like completely irresponsible tion is helping to change the world. Engrish.com (Pacific Citizen, April Yasukochi, NCWNPDC; Ann and felt the proposal was setting up . and ignorant people who deserve And, the P. e. reaches outside the 16 - May 6 issue) is racist or not Fujii-Lindwall, PNWDC; Larry your membership newspaper for whatever they get handed down to Grant, IDC; Andrea Parker, organization to tell you about Asian comes down to whether you are financial failure. them. I am disgusted that the JACL MPDC; Alayne Yonemoto, Pacific American news in general, defined by what others say or by The fact is, the P. e. is a financial would support this case when there PSWDC; Maya Yamazaki, and issues of race and ethnicity in how you define yourself. success. are other much more deserving youth. general-the heart and soul of what If someone calls me a "Jap" I One reason some board members causes involving real Asian people. JACL focuses on, because the JACL think it defines the person who said r------, look at the P.e. as a target for cuts is isn't just for the protection of NEWS/AD DEADLINE: that the paper is one of the larger it but it does not define who I am. If FRIDAY BEFORE DATE Japanese Americans' civil rights. When I explained ' that, some line items in every budget. It costs a I take offence I am giving legitima• OF ISSUE. We're in this organization because other board members spoke out in cy to whoever called me a ~' Jap." Editorials, news and the lot of money to publish a national we care about everyone's civil support of the P. e., and after a opinions expressed by c0l• Unfortunately many of us allow newspaper. However, the P.e. staff weekend of intense discussion, the umnists other than the rights. ourselves to be defined by what oth• is at a bare-bones level (even with budget was maintained, and national JACL president or During the recent meeting, it P.e.'s ers think. national director do not the recent addition of assistant edi• became apparent that the board the regional director for the PSW How many times have I heard necessarily reflect JACL tor Lynda Lin, who's doing a terrif• members who proposed this idea for district was reinstated in the budget. I policy. Events and prod• ic job!) as it is, and believe it or not, Japanese who think a child of a I ucts advertised in the the P.e. chose the $80,000 figure I felt like it was a good weekend, mixed couple is "prettier"? As long the P. e. is one of the few programs ~ I Pacific Citizen do not carry somewhat arbitrarily, .without check and left proud of the JACL and its as we think that way, we are going I the implicit endorsement of of the JACL that doesn't just spend ing with the people who know - board. to be forever worrying about I the JACL or this publica• money, it earns it. the P. e. staff - about how the paper But I can't get too comfortable. I tioI'I. We reserve the right to The P.e. earns money through the whether Engrish.com is racist or is put together. To accommodate Those board members - and other oJ IL ______edit articles. ~ h~ not. advertising that it currently $80,000 a year in new ads, the paper JACL members, I'm sure - think PACIFIC CITIZEN (ISSN: 0030- (thanks to office manager Brian would have to bump up in size, and the P.e. should be·cut back, even Tanaka, who's an under-appreciated "~7~ 8579) is published semi-month• that would cost so much in printing though they admit it's of value to ly except once in January and Alta, Calif. hero in the organization), through you, the membership. They've sug• December by the Japanese and distribution that the new sales• annual fundraising ideas like the person might only bring in an extra gested the paper should just be a American Citizens League, 7 The Pacific Citizen is Cupania Circle, Monterey Park, Spring Campaign (which is doing $10,000 for the organization. monthly newsletter or a quarterly Holid~y CA 91755. 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PACIFIC CITIZEN, JUNE 4-17, 2004 NATIONAL NEWS 3 Government Declines to Reveal Hate Crime Prompts State Legislation; 'Kenny's Potential Patriot Act Authorizations Law' Passes Assembly, Now Moves 'to Senate By ASSOCIATED PRESS, In December, the agency argued By Pacific Citizen Staff "Kenny's that the lawsuit should be dis• Law" is named DETROIT-The federal gov• missed because Section 215 had A bill to strengthen protections for after Kenneth ernment has refused the American not been used during the time in hate crime victims has passed out of Chiu, a 17- Civil Liberties Union's request to question. But in a letter dated May the Califomia State Assembly floor y e a.r - old tell a federal judge whether it has 19, Justice Department lawyer and now moves on for debate in the Taiwanese used certain investigative powers Joseph W. LoBue told U.S. District Senate . . American granted under a section of the Judge Denise Hood that the agency AB 2428, or "Kenny's Law," stabbed to Patriot Act in the past eight months. does not plan to reveal whether any requires a protective order to be death by his The ACLU, Muslim groups and requests had been filed. issued when a hate crime perpetrator white suprema• others in Michigan, Tennessee and The Justice Department plans to is released on parole, probation, or cist neighbor, Oregon filed a lawsuit in July con• submit a classified report by June through a conditional release pro• Christopher testing Section 215 of the Patriot 30 to the U.S. House and Senate gram. The bill also gives courts and Hearn, on July Act. They argue that the powers it judiciary committees detailing the relevant agencies the option of 30, 2001 in gives investigators violate the con• applkations, if there were any, ordering anti-bias training, counsel• Laguna Hills, stitutional guarantees of due made under the act between July mg or other rehabilitative programs California. process and free speech and bans 31, 2003, and the end of 2003, for hate crime perpetrators to pre• Hearn previ• on unreasonable search and ' LoBue's letter stated. vent future acts of discrimination ously stalked seizure. The ACLU of Michigan released and violence. other members As part of the suit filed in U.S. a statement calling the refusal "Kenny's Law is necessary of the Chiu District Court in Detroit, they have "alarming," and'added: ''This isn't because research and experience has family and is asked the government for infoIDla• the first time that the government shown us that hate crime perpetra• believed to tion on when Section.215 was has tried to overstep its bounds ... tors may repeatedly victimize in the have scratched used. They should know by now that it is future if protections are not put in "CHINK" onto The Justice Department has said the court's right to call the shots place and the perpetrator is not reha• the Chiu farni- Kenneth Chiu celebrates his 16th birthday with the section was not used between about when information needs to bilitated," said Assembly Member ly's car. family and friends during happier times. the Patriot Act's enactment on Oct. be withheld from the public." ------,.- Judy Chu, D-Monterey Park, chair In his confes- 26, 2001, in the wake of the Sept. Hood was expected to rule on the of the Assembly Select Committee sion, Ijearn demonstrated no "We need to know that Califomia 11 terrorist attacks, and Sept. 18, request to dismiss the case some• on Hate Crimes and the author of the remorse for the murder and will work ,to protect us and prevent 2003, the period covered by the time this month, The Detroit News bill. expressed hatred for Asians and those who hate from hurting us suit. reported .• other minorities. In September of again," said Christopher Chiu, 2003, an Orange County Superior Kenneth's father. "We have experi• Claremont Professor Pleads Not Guilty to Alleged Fake Vandalism Court judge found Hearn to have enced flrsthand the consequences of By ASSOCIATED PRFSS counts of insurance fraud. If con• crime forced officials to cancel committed. first-degree murder with hate, and this bill will provide my victed on all counts, she faces a sen• classes at the five undergraduate special enhancements for lying in family and all victims of hate crime POMONA, Calif.-A visiting tence ranging from probation to six Claremont campuses on March 10 wait and hate animus. However, the with more tools to protect our• Claremont McKenna College pro• years in prison. and thousands of students staged court ultimately found Hearn not selves." fessor who claimed someone van• Dunn, a psychology professor, sit-ins to protest what was believed guilty by reason of insanity. AB 2428 is co-sponsored by the dalized her car with racist and anti• claimed 'that she discovered the to be part of a series of racial inci• Chu introduced the legislation Asian Pacific American Legal Semitic slurs pleaded not guilty vandalism of her car on March 9 dents at the colleges. after the Chiu family testified at a Center (APALC), Asian Americans May 18 to charges of filing a false while she was on the Claremont Dunn, who remains on leave special hearing of the California for Civil Rights and Equality police report and insurance fraud. campus preparing a lecture for a from Claremont McKenna College, Assembly Select Committee on (AACRE) and Chinese for Kerri Dunn, 39, was scheduled to forum on racism. denies any wrongdoing. Hate Crimes on December 9, 2003. AffIrmative Action (CAA) . • appear May 19 but the hearing was The next day, she called her Claremont McKenna College is moved up a day at her request, the insurance company about the van• part of a consortium of seven inde• Los Angeles County district attor• dalism and theft of items from the pendent institutions. The others are Chicago Approves Ordinance That ney's office said. She remained free car, authorities said. Police and the Harvey Mudd College, Pitzer Removes AAs From Set-aside Program on her own recognizance and was FBI began investigating, but within College, Pomona College, Scripps scheduled to return to court June 1. days police reported there were wit• College, Claremont Graduate By MELANIE COFFEE oly by white construction flrms. Dunn was charged with one ness accounts of Dunn vandalizing University and the Keck Graduate Associated Press Writer Some aldermen wanted the city to count of filing a false police report, the car herself. Institute of Applied Life Sciences_ , appeal the order rather than make a misdemeanor, and two felony Her report of the alleged hate CHICAG9-A new Chicago the changes. • ordinance approved May 26 "If you do it today in the con• requires the city to continue to set struction industry, every other aside a portion of construction con• industry will do the same thing," tracts for minority- and women- said Alderman Bernard Stone. 9wned firms, but it drops Asian_ But Jennifer Hoyle, a spokes• Americans from the list of recog• woman for the city's law depart• nized minority groups. ment, said city officials worried that Based on statistical evidence, and if they failed to win in appellate under a judge's direction, the new court, the entire program could be ordinance says blacks, Hispanics scrapped. and women are considered mem• "To me; that was the goal," bers of socially disadvantaged Mayor Richard Daley said. "Doing groups. what was needed to assure our pro• The decision upset AA leaders as gram was maintained." JACL-sponsored Insurance Plans well as some aldermen who said the Under the new ordinance, for Nothing-is more important than protecting your family and their city was opening itself up to a return AAs to maintain the favored status dreams. The Japanese American Citizens League understands. to discriminatory practices. that gives them a leg up in getting That's why JACL sponsors affordable group insurance plans . "It's not just about the contrac• city contracts, they must apply indi• available to JACL members and their families ... so you'll have a tors, it's about how Asian vidually and document past dis• lifetime of protection for a lifetime ~f dreams. Americans are viewed as a commu• crimination. • Long-Term Care Plan nity" said Asian American Institute "For the city of Chicago, this is • Customized Major Medical Insurance Executive Director Tuyet Le_ the best program we can introduce (available to non-California members) The changes, approved 43-3, at this time," Alderman Freddrenna • Catastrophe Major Medical Insurance Plan*** Lyle said. "And if we don'tintro• • Short-Term Medical Plan stemmed from a judge's order in a • Term Life Insurance** 1996 lawsuit filed by the Builders duce this, come June 29, there will • Personal Accident Insurance*** Association of Greater Chicago, be nothing." • Medicare Supplement Insurance Plans* which argued the set-aside program .But Le said requiring that only • Cancer Care Plan* was unnecessary because past dis• AAs prove they'd been discriminat• crimination had been remedied. ed against was unfair. U.S. District Judge James Moran "It basically means that they don't in December determined that parts believe Asians face discrimination of the old ordinance failed to effec• unless you can prove it otherwise," tively target the companies most she said. deserving of help. The revised ordinance included He gave the city imtil June 29 to some other changes as well, includ• fmd a way to narrow the, require• ing lowering the maximum amount ments of the prograrn without of revenue allowed for companies to allowing a return to a near-monop- be eligible for the program .• 4 NATIONAL NEWS PACIFIC CITIZEN, JUNE 4-17, 2004 National Newsbytes Video Game Fans Dance ...... Off Extra Pounds By Staff and "narrowly tailored" use of race in P.e. Location By ANITA CHANG as challenging and vigorous as a Associated Press admissions. WAHIAWA, Hawaii-The Associated Press Writer high impact aerobics class. National Korean War Museum has Opponents contend the bill More than 1 million copies of University of Michigan would violate Proposition 209, the Minority Applications run out of space just three months COLUMBUS, Ohio-Forget DDR's home version have been after settling into its Central Oahu 1996 state constitutional amend• Plummet the image of paunchy video sold in the United States, said home, and is looking for space to ment that eliminated affirmative garners holed up in a dark room, Jason Enos, product manager at DETROIT-The number of open a mainland "sister" gallery. action programs designed to aid surrounded by sticky Twinkie Konami Digital Entertainment• applications to the University of The 1O,000-square-foot minorities and women. wrappers and empty soda cans. America, which distributes the Michigan from African Quonset hut that's home to the But proponents say the bill Dance Dance Revolution play• Japanese game in the United Americans, Hispanic Americans museum is too small for planes wouldn't violate the proposition's ers bum extra pounds along with States. About 6.5 million copies and American Indians are down 21 and tanks and a wall featurip.g the ban on granting preferences based their quarters. Weight loss is an have been sold worldwide. percent from the same time last names of more than 33,000 fallen on race, sex, color, ethnicity or unexpected benefit of a game The home version, which costs year, while overall applications American soldiers lost in the war, national origin. designed for dance music. about $40 for a game and $40 for decreased 18 percent. backers say. Natalie Henry, 14, was drawn a flat plastic dance pad, i~cludes a The figures represent the first City Forms Support It is more cost efficient to secure to the pulsing techno songs, and "workout mode" that can track freshman class to apply to the uni• System for space on the mainland according didn't realize she had slimmed how many calories the user bums versity since the U.S. Supreme to Kyle Kopitke, president of the Hmong Refugees down until she went clothes shop- " while playing. Court struck down the school's FRESNO, " Calif.-Fresno museum's board of trustees. ping. One pediatrician is so con• undergraduate formula of award• "I went to go buy pants and the Kopitke said he is looking at 70 County officials are forming task vincedof the health benefits that ing admission points based on 14s were too big. The more I closed military bases to find a forces to help the wave of Hmong he's planning a six-month study race. played, I gradually had to get of DDR and weight loss among 15,OOO-square-footspace. refugees feel more comfortable in The university adopted a new smaller size pants," said Natalie, 12- to 14-year-olds, in an effort to The museum has only attracted \their new homes. application that still considers Up to 3,000 Hmong refugees who now buys size 8 baggy car• give the game credibility among just a few hundred visitors since it race, but does not award points, goes. physicians. opened Feb. "20 because of its are expected in the next few and includes new short-answer months. The premise of DDR is simple: Dr. Richard Adler, of the remote. location. questions and an optional essay. The refugees have spent Players stand on a 3-foot square University of Tennessee Health University officials stressed Universities May decades in a camp with little platform with an arrow on each Science Center in Memphis, said admissions figures were compiled Consider Race, Gender health care or education and will side of the square - pointing up, he likes the game because it "gets as of May 16 and will not be final in Admissions Under need help. The first group will down, left and right. The player the kids off their butts and they until official enrollment is report• arrive in a few weeks, and supervi• faces a video "screen that has lose weight." Bill arrows scrolling upward to the ed in October. sors said they wanted to move But one possible down side, SACRAMENTO-California's beat of a song chosen by the play• The high court in June upheld a quickly to make sure area resi• Adler said, is that DDR might cause public universities could consider er. As an arrow reaches the top of discomfort in the joints of players general affirmative action policy dents are ready to receive them. race, gender and income in admit• the screen, the player steps on the who are heavy and have arthritis. at the University of Michigan law Fresno will not be the only area ting students as long as they didn't corresponding arrow on the plat• DDR has been so effective in school but struck down the univer- receiving the refugees. About grant preferences based on those form. getting teens off the couch that "sity's undergraduate formula as 5,000-6,000 will arrive between factors, under legislation approved Sound easy? Throw in combi• some schools have incorporated it too rigid because it awarded June and September, and 10,000 in late May by the state assembly. nations of multiple arrows and into their physical education pro• admission points based on race. more between October and The bill by Assemblyman speed up the pace, and the game is grams .• Marco Firebaugh, D-South Gate, December, but only about one• Korean War Museum third of the refugees will settle in Looking for Mainland is a response to a U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the California.• APAs in the News
the fellowship is named. Takasugi critical needs of AAs in the New was appointed to the Municipal York metropolitan area. Court bench in 1973 and in 1976 The achievements of nearly 200 . he was appointed to the U.S. of California's remarkable District Court for the Central ' women have come to life in a District of California. He has also major exhibition at the California served as legal counsel for the State History Museum. Featured JACL. are several Asian Americans including: March Fong Eu, The Asian American Federation California's first Asian to hold A total of 18 Asian Americans of New York honored three indi• statewide office and the first were recognized for their contri• viduals for their achievements on female Secretary of State; Amy butions in various fields at the behalf of the Asian American Chow, member of the first Asian American Heritage community at their "Spirit of women's gymnastics gold medal Council of New Jersey's 12th Asian America" gala May 24. Olympic team in 1996; Kristi annual celebration dinner recent• The honorees included: Lolita B. Yamaguchi, 1992 Olympic Gold ly. Honored at the event was for• medallist and four time World Pro mer JACL president Lillian figure skating champion; Ruth Kimura of Bloomfield, NJ, the Asawa, nationally recognized first female president of the artist and sculptor; Maxine Hong JACL. She was the only Japanese Kingston, writer of "The Fifth American recognized for her Book of Peace" and "To be The community service in various Poet"; Mine Okubo, author, leadership positions in various illustrator, and writer; and Dineh professional and ethnic organiza• Mobajer, CEO and founder of tions. Hard Candy cosmetic company. Compas, president of the New The exhibit is sponsored by Alberta Lee, a student at UC York Nurses Association and the California First Lady Maria Davis School of Law, " Shaffy first Filipino American to be Shriver and presented by the Moeel, UCLA School of Law elected to the position; Andrea California State Parks .• student, and Debra Sudo, a stu• Jung, chairman and CEO of dent at the American University Avon Products, Inc., and the first in Washington, D.C., are the win• AA to lead a Fortune 500 compa• ners of the fifth annual Judge ny; and Dr. Navin C. Mehta, sur• Robert M. Takasugi Fellowship geon director of the Department for public interest law. These fel• of Otolaryngology at the ' New lowship grants are awarded annu• York Eye and Ear Infmnary. The ally to support surnrner positions Asian American Federation of in public interest law and are New York is a non-profit leader• given to law students who best ship organization that provides exemplify the spirit and ideals of public policy and community U.S. District Judge Robert M. service to identify and meet the Takasugi, the person for whom PACIFIC CITIZEN, JUNE 4-17, 2004 COMMUNITI NEWS
Pictured (I-r) are: Ko Ijichi, Doug Suda, Kimberly Nakamura, Sydnie Kohara, Thomas Leong, Michael Leong, T. Robert Yamada, and Gordon Kono. • Berkeley Chapter Holds Annual Scholarship Banquet The JACL Berkeley chapter Scholarship thanks to a generous recently held its annual scholarship donation from the Kono family in awards luncheon where scholar• memory of Bea Kono, a past ships totaling $3,500 were awarded Berkeley JACL ''Pioneer Award" to four graduating high school sen• recipient and longtime JACL sup• iors. porter. This year's winners are: Thomas The chapter also honored Leong of College Preparatory "Pioneer Award" recipients Ko School in Oakland who plans to Ijichi and T. Robert Yamada. This attend Cornell University in the fall award recognizes the contributions and study biology and society; of individuals for their dedicated Douglas Suda of Campolindo High and distinguished service to the School will attend UC Berkeley or Berkeley JACL and/or the commu• UCLA and pursue a biology nities it serves. degree; Michael Leong will study The keynote speaker was Sydnie electrical engineering/computer Kohara, CBS 5 Eyewitness News science at UC Berkeley; and Early Edition anchor. This year's Kimberly Nakamura of Skyline Berkeley JACL scholarship com• High School will attend UC mittee members were: Ron Tanaka Berkeley and major in international (chairman), Neal Ouye, AI Satake, relations. Kelly Shintani, Sharron Sue, Nakamura was awarded the first DeAnn Tabuchi, and Roger annual Bea Kono Memorial a.
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Overdraft protection subject to $15,00 transaction fee for each advance. 6 COMMUNITY NEWS PACIFIC CITIZEN, JUNE 4-17, 2004 NATIONAL CONVENTION Civil Rights: Still Relevant Today By DAVID M. FORMAN S~udies Department, and public safety officers), and EEOC Chancellor's Distinguished Fellow v. Herrick Corporation ($1.11 mil• Angela E. Oh emerged as a voice at UC Irvine's School of Social lion harassment award for four of reconciliation in 1992, and hav• Sciences. Pakistani Muslims). ing served on the seven-member In 2002, Oh published a collec• Before joining the EEOC, he advisory board to President tion of essays about the people she served as a staff attorney and man• Clinton's Initiative on Race, Oh has met and the experiences she has aging attorney for the Asian Law brings a com• had in a book Caucus, a San Francisco-based bination of entitled, public-interest law office for 16 organization• "Open: One years. Among other things, Tamayo al, communi• Woman's emphasized the practice of civil An artist's rendering of Tule·Lake. ty, and politi• . Journey." She rights litigation and advocacy cal insight to currently involving employment discrimina• the opportuni• serves as a tion, affinnative action, immigrant Judge Yakasugi to Open ties and chal• member of the rights, and voting rights. Yule Lake Pilgrimage lenges of OH TAMAYO board of direc- As many readers of the Pacific diversity and tors for Citizen already know, Tateishi has The Hon. Robert M. Takasugi, ryteller Megurni; and poet Hiroshi • change. Accordingly, she Lawyers Mutuai been involved in civil rights work senior Federal Judge in the Central Kashiwagi. is a natural fit for the Insurance Company, with AA communities for over 30 District of California, will make the A special preview screening of JACL's 75th Anniversary Women's Policy, Inc. and years. He gained national promi• opening ''From a Silk Cocoon," a 'new film National Convention the board of directors for nence in 1978 by launching a remarks at the produced by Satsuki Ina about her theme of "Our Legacy, the Korean American Bar national campaign to seek redress 2004 Tule parents' story of forsaken loyalties Our Future: Ensuring Association of Southern for Japanese Americans interned in L a k e and hope for a better life in Japan Diversity in America." California. U.S. detention camps during World Pilgrimage, after being incarcerated, scheduled The JACL Convention Tamayo is the first War II. July 2-5 at the to air later this year on PBS, will also TATEISHI Committee is proud to Asian American appoint• Tateishi crafted the legislative Oregon be featured as part of the weekend announce that Oh will be joined by. ed regional attorney. He is the and public affairs strategies of the Institute of program. William Tamayo, regional attorney EEOC's chief legal.officer in San ten-year campaign, culminating Technology in The four-day event will also for the San Francisco District of the Francisco, overseeing the litigation with an apology from the President Klamath Falls, TAKASUGI include a tour of the Thle Lake U.S. Equal Employment and legal program of the and Congress along with monetary Oregon. camp, as well as a series of optional Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Commission in Northern and redress for victims of the intern• Addressing the theme of "Citizens activities, including discussion and JACL Executive Director John Central California, Hawaii, ment. He has been executive direc• Betrayed" and focusing on the groups, film presentations, taiko Tateishi, at a workshop entitled American Samoa, Wake Island, tor of the JACL since September betrayal of the Issei, Kibei and Nisei workshops, and a Castle Rock hike. "Civil Rights: Still Relevant Guam and the Commonwealth of 1999. at Tule Lake, Takasugi will share his The registration fee of $300 cov• Today." the Northern Marianas Islands. To hear from these accomplished experiences during his incarceration ers all transportation, housing, and Although designated as a youth During his tenure Tamayo's speakers, and many other inspiring with his family at Thle Lake. meals. A special fee of $250 is avail• event, all convention attendees are office has fIled several cases qn individuals, be sure to register for In addition to a special panel of able to students and those on fixed welcome to attend this workshop behalf of Asian Pacific Americans the 75th Anniversary JACL renunciants speaking out about their incomes. Full and partial scholar• on Aug. 10 from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. (including Bangladeshis, National Convention. Vi~it the con- . experiences at Tule Lake, the 2004 ships are also available upon request. at the Waikiki Beach Marriott in Pakistanis, Sri Lankans, Filipinos, vention website www.jaclbawaii. pilgrimage will also feature a cultur• The deadline for registration has Honolulu, Hawaii. . Japanese), Latinos and farm work• org or click on the link at al program emceed by actor and been extended to June 12 for the Oh is a partner at Oh & Barrera, ers. Key settlements include EEOC www.jacl.org for registration forms community leader George Takei. remaining slots. LLP and has been teaching, writing v. Tanimura & Antle ($1.855 mil• and to find-out more about this his• Participants in the cultural pro• Further information can be and lecturing on the subject of race lion sexual harassment award for toric convention.• gram include: poet Lawson Inada obtained at www.tu1elake.org or by and human relations since 1992. farm worker women), Amett & accompanied by Russel Baba and calling 310/578-0090 in Los She has served as lawyer in resi• EEOC v. California Public David M. Forman is one of the Jeanne Aiko Mercer, founders of Angeles, 415/566-2279 in San dence at UCLA's School of biw, Retirement System ($250 million; co-chairs for the JACL 75th Shasta Taiko; Lee Takasugi and Francisco, 916/392-5416 in lecturer at UCLA's Asian American age discrimination settlement for anniversary convention s market• Glenn Suravech of Visiting Violette; Sacramento, or 4081269-9458 in San ing and public relations committee. koto master Barbara Muramoto; sto- Jose.•
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Registrations and cancellations received after July 15, Sayonara Banquet. Print Cardholder Name ______~-- 2004, are non-refundable. Registration may not be rein- PACIFIC CITIZEN, JUNE 4·17, 2004 ;,x Michelle Wie's· Master Plan Starting Line By DOUG FERGUSON TlIll Clark of South Africa - AP Golf Writer are about as likely as a ninth• grade girl making the cut on BASEBALL ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga.• the PGA Tour. She still hasn't graduated from the Some question why Wie Suzuki Gets Career Hit No. 2000 ninth grade, and Michelle Wie got an exemption to the SEATTLE-Mariners right fielder Ichiro Suzuki already is working on the Masters. Women's Open in the first singled off Detroit starter Nate Robertson in the fifth Then again, that was the plan all place. Those typically are inning May 21 for hit No. 2,000 of his career in Japan along. reserved for women who and the major leagues. The fIrst golf tournament she have been playing the Suzuki lined a shot past second baseman Omar watched on TV was Tiger Woods Women's Open since before Infante, and the crowd cheered as the accomplishment winning the 1997 Masters, about the Wiewasbom. was anno!lnced and ''2,000'' flashed on the video board time she was learning to play. Five And the timing coUld not at Safeco Field. The Mariners trailed 4-0 at the time. years later, with braces on her teeth have been worse. Suzuki had 1,278 hits in nine seasons with the Orix Blue Wave of Japan's and baby fat in her 12-year-old She is in Sea Island with Pacific League. Along with a single in the third, Suzuki boosted his major cheeks, Wie stood behind the 18th seven other amateur stars, league total to 722. It was his 14th mUltihit game over a 19-9ame stretch. green at Waialae County Club in and this is the first year the He won the ALbatting title and MVP award as a rookie in 2001. • HonolUlu and shared her dream. USGA revoked Women's This brought nervous laughter to Open exemptions for Curtis GOLF her father, not wanting his little girl Cup team members. to sound irreverent. But she had Plus, Wie has won only Players Credit Se Ri Pak for done her homework, and Wie pro• one title of distinction - the Breaking LPGA Glass Ceiling ceeded to count the ways she could U.S. Women's Amateur get invited to Augusta National - Public Links, an event hardly NEW ROCHELLE, N.y'-Hee- Pak did so well she has qualified win the U.S. Amateur or the U.S. anyone knew about until she Won Han had a quick explanation for the LPGA Hall of Fame. She Amateur Public Links, both men's won last year at Ocean for the strong South Korean pres• won the Michelob Ultra Open two tournaments. Hammock in Florida to ence in the Sybase Classic. weeks ago for her 22nd career victo• When the USGA decided to give become the youngest winner "In the New York area there are ry and it gave her enough points to the 14-year-old from Hawaii an of a USGA championship for many Koreans," said the get in, although she exemption to the U.S, Women's adults. defending champion. needs 10 years on Open - the only amateur to get a The youngest player to Seventeen of the 21 South tour to meet the final free pass to the biggest tournament compete on the PGA Tour, Koreans eligible to compete requirement and that in women's golf - it allowed Wie she missed the cut at the on the women's tour this comes in 2007. her first crack at the Masters. Sony Open despite a 68 in. year were set to begin play Pak and Park Without the exemption, she woUld the second round, the lowest May 20 at Wykagyl Country played in an event in have had to qualify for the Women's score ever by a woman com• Club. South Korea recent- Wie will become the first woman to Open. Now, she can go to Manada peting in a men's tourna• It hasn't always been that play the Masters if she wins the U.S. 1y. Golf Club in Hershey, Pa., and try to ment. That left her at even• way on tour. The last two win• Amateur Public Links Tournament. qualify for the U.S. Amateur Public par 140, one shot from play• In 1997, there were five ners of the Sybase' Here, accepting the Laureus World Links. ing on the weekend. Koreans. If you include the Futures Sports Award, she proves she's got tournament were Koreans: Gloria "I really wanted to play in the . Wie has played 10 times Tour, there are 40 competing this Park in 2002 in a one-hole playoff more to offer than just her golf swing. Public Links this year, because I on the LPGA Tour the last year on the U.S.-based tours. with Han, and Han last year. (AP Photo/Armando Franca) really want to play in the Masters," two years and missed the cut "I give a lot of credit to Se Ri Pak, Grace Park is second on the Wie said. '''That's my dream, And only once. In three LPGA Tour Webb. And because the top 35 are because when she first joined she money list and three other Koreans I'm the kind of person where if I events this year, she finished fourth exempt to the Women's Open, was really the first player that came are in the top 10. Pak is fourth, Mi• really want something, I just have to in the Kraft Nabisco Championship USGA executive director David Fay from Korea to this sport and she had Hyurn Kim sixth and Jung Yean Lee do it. If I accomplish that dream, golf - a major - and her worst finish is saw it as a no-brainer. a huge impact in women's golf not eighth. is going to change. Because that will a tie for 19th in Atlanta. Had she Wie offered no apologies for get• only in the States, but also in Korea, Park has won $538,725, second be the first woman to play in the been cashing checks, Wie woUld ting aD. exemption. more in Korea," Grace Park said. by $8,000 to Annika Sorenstam. Masters. have earned enough money - "I feel I did kind of deserve it," "People wanted to come to the big Her one win was a major - the "Even though it's hard, and I'm $131,130 - to be 28th on the she said. "It's not like I missed eVf(ry tour where the big players are and Kraft Nabisco - and she also has going to have to practice really hard, money list. cut on the LPGA and then I got this try to compete." two seconds and a third. • I really want to achieve it." That's better than Laura Davies, exe~ption because I'm 14 years old. The odds of a 14-year-old girl Rachel Teske and Kelli Kuehne. 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No experience necessary (916) 922-6300 Call Toll Free 1-866-537-2906 PACIFIC CITIZEN, JUNE 4-17, 2004 BOARD MEETING the many ways that JACL has been When Little Tokyo Lost a Quarter of Its Roots involved in denouncipg post Sept. (Continued from page 1) 11, 2001, policies. ill April, JACL OCAL NEWS this past year Goods, Moon Belt Gakki-tai Mfg. terrorists not on immigrants, and announced that it had signed on to an L has related how dilapidated (237), Nichibei Sign (239), Imada protect pnvacy. ". amicus brief in the Jose Padilla Parker Center (aka Los . Photo Studio (241) and Kyosai Drug Provisions of the CLRA include "dirty bomber case" along with: Angeles Police Headquarters) is and (243). Urologist Dr. Murakami and providing minimum due process Fred Korematsu, the Bar how a new police building and jail dentist Dr. Enomoto had offices safe guards to detainees held on sus• Association of San Francisco, Asian needed to be built next to Nishi upstairs. picion of immigration violations by Law Caucus, Asian American Bar Hongwanji. Little Tokyo cried The next building, Silver Star giving them timely notice of Association and the Asian Pacific "foul." A jail next to a church was Hotel was above Kino & Somers charges, ending the government's Islander Legal Outreach. "intolerable." Furthermore, to Drug Store (245) and Toyo-do ability to issue blanket orders closing Padilla was arrested after the 9111 accommodate the city, Nishi had Confectionery (247). S.P. Hat/Toyo all deportation hearings to the public terrorist attacks and held without any already relocated three blocks east Shirts Mfg., Gifu Kenjinkai, Geijitsu and family members, and requiring contact with his counselor family public reports to be submitted to in 1968 from its prewar site at East Sashin Kyokai and legal counselor members. Congress regarding privacy and due JACL's involvement in supporting First and Central. Danzo Kiyowara were on the second process rights. . the CLRA is a continuing effort to ill 1963, City Hall was contem• West First Street between Hill and floor. The SAFE Act, a bipartisan bill make sure that individual civilliber• plating widening East First Street Broadway were tom down for a At First and San Pedro was the introduced in the U.S. Senate by ties don't get crushed in the name of between San Pedro Street and State building, now condemned and two-story building, Asia Co. (249- Sen. Larry Craig, R-ID, and Sen. national security, said Kristine empty, occupying the whole block. 251). Upstairs were Rafu Zakkasho · Alameda by carving out 20 feet Dick Durbin, D-IL, in October 2003, Minami, JACL Washington, D.C. Kurniai (association of dry goods along the northside. The city asked Starting from the Rafu Shimpo at seeks to ban "sneak and peek" representative. store owners), the Asia dressmakers Nishi Hongwanji for remodeling 104 N. Los Angeles and Iwaki Drug searches by limiting-the federal gov• As support and advocacy for plans if part of the temple, built in Co. #1 at the comer, the second and with entrance at 103 N. San ernment's use of surveillance equip• CLRA begins to gather momentunl, 1925, could be sliced off to accom• floor above the drug store were Pedro St. was Ichifuji Restaurant. ment and search warrants including Tateishi envisions mobilizing all modate the proposed plan. About offices for Nanka Yamanashi On the westside of North San wiretaps, investigation into library JACL chapters to encourage mem• the same time, the city organized an Kenjinkai and Yamanashi Kaigai Pedro were Showa Drug (107), records, citizen surveillance and bers of Congress to support the bill. agency to work out an overall rede• Kyokai. Yanagawa Restaurant (111), Kingyo . multi-jurisdictional warrants. "I think in terms of JACL taking a velopment plan of Little Tokyo. On the northside of E. 1st were gold fish (113), Akiyama Grocery Because the Patriot Act is so diffi- . strong position [on these issues] it is What followed was the rescue of Asahi Shoes (209), Wakayama and Nishi Hongwanji Seinenkai cult to repeal, the CLRA bill and the to make sure we keep in mind our northside as a historic district. The Kenjinkai, legal counselor (115), Olympic Hotel (entrance at SAFE Act are integral in trying to civil liberties ... it's been what city abandoned plans to widen East Mitsumori, Nanka Tennis Club, 117), with dentist Dr. K. Niiya, undermine its power, said Tateishi. we've been about since the very First Street. men's clofuing store Tokyo Co. physician Dr. I. Sekiyarna, attorney Support for the CLRA is one of beginning," said Minami.• Elmer Yamamoto, legal counselor The mayor has offered ilie (215-17), First St. Garage for 150 phone interview that he had never Gongoro Nakamura, Godo JACOP Transamerica Building, a good mile cars (the prewar Kazahayas repaired heard of Graphenreed and doubted Insurance Agency of Ernest (Continued from page 1) south of city hall, as a possible cars here), Kogetsu-do Restaurant he was a party member. police headquarters site. Another and Fountain (221), Rafu Ryoriya Fujimoto, Saburo Nakashima and would not comment on that timing. Tsukamoto, 28, was on the force proposal before the city council is Kurniai (an association of Japanese Frank Kagiwada; offices of M. Calls to ilie district attorney's less ilian a year when he was that the new jail be located near the restaurant owners), eye doctor Yahiro, K. Sonoda in the four-story office were not retunled. gunned down in August 1970. Just federal detention center on Alameda Matsumoto (223), T. NakamUra building. The San Francisco Chronicle before he was killed, he had stopped Street. Barber Shop (225), Greater Los Two buildings, housing 100 resi• quoted unidentified sources in its . a motorcyclist for a traffic violation. Almost forgotten in the present• Angeles Hotel or Iwaki Hotel pre• dents, had Hosozawa Soda (121), May 26 editions as saying the As the officer talked with the motor• day turmoil is that Little Tokyo sus• war (227), Hori Bros. Dry Goods Wakamizu Restaurant (123), Sakura August 1970 shooting was intended cyclist, another man approached, tained a big loss of its face 50 years (231). Billiard Parlor (125) and Wakamizu to raise the suspect's stature in a exchanged a few words, then fired ago. This shikatagalUli fate of Little Above these two businesses, Restaurant (127). Then came our· black organization that advocated two shots from a pistol -.one hit• Tokyo is history, not to be forgotten. Aratani's Pacific Printing (233) and favorite spot for Japanese noodles, violence against police. The Los ting Tsukamoto in the eye. A recently discovered chart shows Lion Cafe (235), was Toyo Hotel, Hosoi's Mansei-An (129), an entry Angeles Times described At the time, the killing was the 62 I ,house numbe and i nti• h r an F rnando Valley JACLer way for lodging on the second floor Graphenreed as a former low-level third targeting an officer in the San fies the occupants. Once evacuated Tak Yamamoto and his family lived (131), Tokyo Pool Hall (133) and associate of the Black Panthers. Francisco Bay area wifuin a two• in 1942, resettling after World War after leaving Poston. With ten in his Shogatsu-tei (135), at the Jackson St. Okies said he did not have specif• monili span. Bruce Baker, ilien IT at the same stand, they were family, they felt fortunate to have comer. ic information linking Graphenreed Berkeley's police chief, called it an forced to move again - a "second" two rooms, so he writes in On Jackson Street were Yasuhara to the Panthers - or to any other "assassination. " evacuation - for the police head• JAHSSC's "Nanka Nikkei Voice Shoyu Mfg. (219), apartments and group. '''There is no doubt that this shoot• quarters. ill," (p.O. Box 3164, Torrance CA dwellings (231-235). Stretching David Hilliard, who was chief of ing was political," Baker said in The northwest quadrant of two 90450, $20 postpaid) iliat we cov• northward on San Pedro St. were staff of the Panthers, said in a tele- 1970.• blocks in Little Tokyo was razed by ered in this space last month. import-export firm Nichi Bei Kogyo "eminent domain" in 1951-52. The The ground floor of Naniwa and the Japanese archery range old city jail and police station on Hotel accommodated Ohrni Dry (201), California Candy Mfg. and KOKUSAI-PACIFICA physician Dr. P.M. Suski (205), Fremont Chapter Hosts Taiyo Hotel with Kotobuki Baths 2004 TOURS and Kochi Kenjinkai (207) and C. 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Hayashi, for• Frank and Mary Kasama Cairo-Abu Symbel-Aswan-4 Day Nile Cruise-Luxor-Cairo. mer JACL Scholarship, the Masutaro Kitani This litany is of people who ALMOST SOLD OUT. executive Scholarship, the Joseph endured a "second" evacuation to Sep 24 American Heritage Tour - 10 Days - 18 Meals - $2150 - New director, a KatolFremont JACL Scholarship, make way for Parker Center. This York, Philadelphia, Amish Country, Gettysburg, Charlottes• member of the and ilie Tom Kitayama, Jr., time, however, there's no sign of a ville, Williamsburg & Washington, D.C. administrations of President Clinton Scholarship. Iso will be attending ''third'' evacuation wherever the city Sep 15 Dlx Canada & New England Cruise - All Suites "Navigator" and California Gov. Gray Davis, Pepperdine University this Fall.• decides to locate the new jail.• Montreal, Quebec, Nova Scotia, Bar Harbor, Boston & NYC. NEW LOW COSTS ~ From $2785 & 2 Nights in NY included. ALMOST SOLD OUT AH_ JUNE .... 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For Hong, it's push this channel as a free product not enough just to get Asian faces The Air Up Tl:1ere-lmaginAsian TV will air the U.S. premiere of the ri<;>tous black comedy feature for the growing Asian Pacific and personalities onscreen to appeal film 'Last Supper' starring Bo-Sung Jun, Jong-won Lee and Yoon-Hee Cho as part of their line-up. American population and also at the . to just AAs; programs need to basic tier level for cable television appeal to a general audience to lure where APAs have had to pay up to important advertisers. mentary during prime-time pro• Equity Broadcasting Corp. vice lmaginAsian staff of four into the 37 $80 to watch in-language programs. In the wake of recent U.S. grams in hopes of attracting a larger president of television. "We've seen at their present-day New York head• Hong says this is a long time Census Bureau reports · projecting mix of viewers. advertisers flocking to the Univision quarters. coming since almost all Asian chan• APAs to be the fastest-growing eth• "Eighty five-percent of the Asian segment and we think lmaginAsian The question is, will viewers, nels are relegated to premium cable nic population over the next haIf• American population still prefer will parallel that success for the whether AA or not, tune in? services. African Americans have century, media companies have programs in their native lan• Asian market." Philip Ignacio, 25, said he would Black Entertainment Television been scrambling to reap the fruits of guages," said Hong. "We have fan• But some AAs find the idea of in• watch iaTV if the shows are inter• (BET) on basic cable and Hispanic this untapped, lucrative market. tastic drama [programs], we just language programs hard to swallow esting, but would prefer the pro• Americans have Univision and Up until this point, APAs have need to make it accessible to the for a network that calls itself AA. grams to be in English. Telemundo. relied on KSCI (Channel 18) for general audience." Michael Tsang believes iaTV is "I have to see what else they "No other minority group has to their free Asian media fix and some Subtitling Asian films and pro• not a direct competitor with his come up with," said Eddie Wong, pay," said Hong, CEO of the New one-hour programs here and there, grams in English, iaTV executives WorldAsia TV that is set to launch executive director of the National York-based lmaginAsian but what distinguishes iaTV fr~m effuse, bridges the gap between this fall because prograins on WA• Asian American Telecom• Entertainment, Inc. its predecessor is a simple formula native language speaking first gen• TV will be in English and therefore munications Association. ''They do With less than two months until - subtitling. All in-language pro• eration viewers with English-speak• more relevant to APAs. [subtitling] to bridge the gap, but its launch, iaTV's schedule will grams will be subtitled by iaTV's ing second generation viewers, and But Hong says marketing APAs Asian American is a term with include films, sitcoms, variety and in-house translators and English• with the crucial general public so narrowly for an ethnic group is many different meanings. The jury's game shows, animation, music speaking hosts will provide com- which can determine the success or the reason why AA media ventures out. Let's see how it does over failure of ethnic media outlets. like A Magazine or Yolk Magazine time." Ani! Srivatsa, lmaginAsian senior live and die after a short amount of In addition to the TV network, Kosakura Escorted Tours & Cruises vice president, said that iaTV will be time. 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M~mbership Equal e6glbillty (;)ppQrttm/ty Required We Can Make A Difference In Your tender 12 PACIFIC CITIZEN, JUNE 4-17, 2004 HARLEMM LEE at the Debbie Allen Dance Academy, And in an industry where so few JACL BUDGET biennial budget but the monies will hls stay at the W Hotel ends in Asian Pacific Americans are repre• not come from the Life Trust (Continued from page 1) (Continued from page 1) August. Having quit his job as an sented in the mainstream, Lee won• Endowment Fund. Thus, a balanced As the show's winner, Lee was office assistant at a hospital to pursue ders what more he can do to con• Life Trust Endowment Fund be taken 2005-2006 budget will now go awarded a number of lucrative "Fame," the UCLA graduate is man• vince 'entertainment executives that as a loan -or a grant to fund the before the JACL national council to be voted on in August. Board mem• prizes, including a recording con• aging to survive on unemployment America is ready to embrace a tal• Planned Giving program in the 2005- bers voting against the motion were: tract with WIRE Records to release a checks since many of the promised ented APA artist. 2006 biennial budget and the current 2004 budget. In each of the years the Art Koga, secretary/treasurer; Ryan single, a $100,000 spokesperson endorsements and projects have not 'The media and entertainment Planned Giving program is budgeted Chin, vice president of membership; contract with Wilhelmina Artist materialized. industry refuses to represent us accu• -at $25,000. Inouye; and Mark Kobayashi, "I'm penniless and homeless," rately," he said. "In the real world, Management, and a principal role in Ken Inouye, vice president of pub-• NCWNP district governor. the hit musical "Fame." Lee also he said. Asian Americans are everyWhere. lic affairs, said that overall JACL's Koga explained that his "No" vote received one year of training at the Lee has often questioned why he And we're not all nerdy, some of us budget is moving along positively was based on the budget's lack of Debbie Allen Dance Academy, rep• is not receiving the promotion and _ have soul and spunk to us." and is more revenue based, which programs, initiatives, resource allo• resentation from one of Hollywood's exposure he believes he earned by He added, "I busted my chops, I helps create a more realistic budget cations and inflated revenue budget. top agencies, and one year of fJ:ee winning "Fame." He is often told by worked my ass off. How many hur• and ensures that the organization "Our current financial condition accommodation at the W Hotel in record executives that his story is not dles do I need to jump over? It's very does not spend money without meet• presents an opportunity for JACL to reinvent itself. The budget, as passed, Los Angeles. marketable. frustrating. " ing certain revenue goals. misses that opportunity," said Koga. But even after being declared the "I've been told, 'Sorry. We can't A couple of years ago, Lee was Some board members expressed But in the 2004 budget the nation• ''Fame'' winner by millions of fans, play your record or promote you ready to give up his dreams after reservation about taking money out of the Life Trust Endowment Fund al board voted unanimously to use Lee is still waiting for many of his because your story isn't compelling having spent almost 20 years in and also debated whether the monies $50,000 from the Life Trust promised prizes to come through. enough," said Lee. "I'm a short, Hollywood with little success. But should be considered a grant or a Endowment Fund to fund the bald, Asian, 36-year-old guy who when 'the chance at "Fame" came Lee's album, "Introducing loan. The Life Trust Endowment Planned Giving program. The Harlemm Lee," was released last won against 16 and 17 year olds. along he decided to give it one last Fund consists of monies paid for by -monies withdrawn from the life trust November but has received very lit• Now if that's not a story I don't shot, even going so far as to lie about Thousand Gub members. fund will be considered a loan to be tle promotion and marketing, and know what is. Millions of people his age, telling producers he was 27. After a thorough assessment of the paid back with iriterest and thus, the selling a dismal 500 copies during its voted for me but suddenly my Lee's recent "Fame" triumph is JACL by-laws and- various docu• JACL will be looking at a deficit first week of release. Even in his story's not compelling enough." actually the second time around for ments, JACL Legal Counsel budget for this year. hometown of Michigan, Lee's fami• Lee sees a lot of similarities him. In the late 80s, Lee was known Michelle M. Yoshida determined that Although the 2004 budget is already in progress, the national ly and friends haven't been able to between his story and that of Hung. by his real name Gerry Woo, and it was lawful to take money out of the board reexanrined the current operat• buy his record in local stores. But he notes though that unlike him, released an album with Polygram. life trust fund as a grant to support a ing budget and made additional Ironically, -Lee's label WIRE Hung fits into many of the Asian Although album sales were not JACL program. According to a memo prepared by changes accordingly. In the end. the Records is the same company pro• stereotypes that still exist in impressive, Lee still feels proud of Yoshida to national board members, board approved the adjusted 2004 moting Hung's album, ''Inspiration,'' -Hollywood today. his past success, noting that he had the JACL Thousand Club Permanent budget with a total of $2,044,222 in "On 'Fame' I was able to be two top 20 R&B hits. which sold more than 30,000 during Fund was established by Tom Arima program costs. its first week. myself, warts and all," said Lee. "I Lee may still be waiting to be and Frank Sakamoto in January 1981 Clyde Izumi, JACL business man• In fact Lee's album is mostly cov• did not have an accent, I can't do accepted by the music industry but to allow the one-time lifetime mem• ager, reported that the organization's ers, having been recorded on a limit• karate. But Hung represents all the he refuses to give up, plowing ahead ber fee to be placed in a trust fund. sum of investments is moving ahead. ed budget, but nevertheless Lee's stereotypes of what the record exec• into an unknown future, hoping to Under provisions of the club, the Izumi reported that as of March 31, soulful voice comes through in utives think Americans will like." convince those involved with accumulated interest should be avail• JACL's total investments were val• songs like "Blessed My Soul And Hung has benefited from a "Fame" that he can be a success. able to the general operating budget. ued at $7,561,140 and as of May 12 Again," "Careless Whisper" and media love fest, largely encouraged "I have faith. I'll find a way to The national board is hoping that the Legacy Fund sits at $5,359,000 and there is $417,000 in the Life "Jasmine Rain," which he co-wrote. by media executives who are more continue to be fearless and fight this the up-front cost of the Planned Trust Endowment Fund. "TIns is a machine. You plug A, than willing to promote him. Still, industry snubbing," he said. "I just Giving Program will, generate more revenue for the organization in the "I believe that this budget, coupled add B and you get C, which equals Lee does not hold any ill feelings want a chance. I'm somehow going future by encouraging donors to with strong leadership, can help to record sales. But these basic thillgs towards the "American Idol" castoff; to make a career out of this." place JACL in their wills. The funds provide the resources to strengthen calling him an "inspiration." He added, "It's a difficult business were denied me," he said. "I wasn't from the trust will assist staff mem• our infrastructure and our image dur• able to capitalize on my success. You "I don't want to take away from ... but it's also a blessing and has bers in counseling donors. ing the next biennium for the 2007- can't get anywhere without the Hung. I wish William Hung all the suc• given me immense joy. Performing In the end the national board 2008 biennium and beyond." said machine, even if you have talent." cess," he said "'Ihere's room for every• is what I am and no one can take that approved a motion to raise a total of David Hayashi, vice president of Although Lee is currently training one. 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