Vandals hang noose in Southeast Asian youth center

"I don't think it's a joke, I think we were sent a CLEAR message."



So this keeps happening. Over the weekend, a youth support center serving the Southeast Asian community in Providence, Rhode Island was broken into and vandalized, with a noose hung from the ceiling.

Sometime between Sunday afternoon and Monday morning, someone broke into the offices of Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM). According to Executive Director Sarath Suong, chairs were found stacked on top of each other, scissors and rulers arranged weirdly, all the drawers opened, two knives stabbed into a table, and a rope fashioned into a noose hanging from the ceiling.

Suong shared photos of noose on Facebook:

Khmer Girls in Action Presents Not Home for the Holidays

A Community Forum on the Impact of Deportations in the Southeast Asian Community, December 16



Southern California! Khmer Girls in Action presents Not Home for the Holidays, a community forum on the impact of deportations in the Southeast Asian Community. This free event will feature representatives from the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, local elected officials, legal services, Khmer translation, and much more. It's happening Wednesday, December 16 at the Cal Rec Center in Long Beach.

Here are some more details:

New campaign calls to end deportation of Southeast Asians

Watch the launch video from from 1Love Movement and SEAFN.



On Saturday, 1Love Movement and the Southeast Asian Freedom Network (SEAFN) launched a new national campaign calling for unity, awareness and action to end the United States' deportation policies that have targeted and further displaced the Southeast Asian refugee community for nearly two decades.

Last month, 1Love Movement toured cities around the United States to chronicle the struggles and voices of the Southeast Asian community impacted by deportation. As part of the campaign, they'll be sharing the stories from their tour with a series of videos released every month. The hope is to build power and a deeper understanding of the past, present and future of their community's struggle.

Watch the campaign launch video and learn something:

Hey Minnesota! Are you Southeast Asian? Take this survey.

Research study on early childhood education in Southeast Asian communities.



This is for all my people in Minnesota... The state's Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans is looking for folks to participate in a research study on Early Childhood Education among Southeast Asian families in Minnesota, including the Cambodian/Khmer, Hmong, Karen, Lao, and Vietnamese communities. Take the online survey, and you'll help CAPM inform valuable research and funding for the Southeast Asian community.

Here are some more details on who's eligible to take the survey:

Volunteer for the UC Berkeley SASC Summer Institute

Mentorship program for Southeast Asian high school students, June 18-22


This summer, UC Berkeley's Southeast Asian Student Coalition will be hosting its 2014 Summer Institute, a five-day educational and mentorship program for Southeast Asian high school youth to engage in workshops, dialogues, and a variety of peer-bonding activities promoting higher education, cultural awareness, and other subjects. The all-expense paid program runs June 18-22 at Cal.

SASC is currently looking for volunteers to help run the program. Duties may include (but are not limited to) driving and picking up mentees, cooking, cleaning, setting up, etc. They need your help to get this thing running smoothly and make it a rewarding experience for all participants.

Here's some more information about volunteering for the SASC Summer Institute: