Day of Remembrance Gathering | La MaMa
Day of Remembrance Gathering | La MaMa
February 19
Open Hours: Sunday at 6PM to 9PM
Downstairs | 66 East 4th Street
Admission is Free
An exploration and commemoration through photography, art, video, text, music and conversation. Speakers to include Sharmin Sadequee (No Separate Justice), Aliya Hana Hussain (Center for Constitutional Rights), Suki Setsuko Terada Ports (activist), Kaoru Ikeda (choreographer), Perry Yung (musician), Rick Ebihara (musician), Bill Ruyle (musician), Grant Ujifusa (Redress activist), and Corky Lee (photographer). All are welcome and encouraged to come participate!
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AAAYA New York’s 9th Annual Lunar New Year Banquet 2017
AAAYA New York’s 9th Annual Lunar New Year Banquet 2017
FROM AAAYA-NYC:
The Association of Asian American Yale Alumni – NY Chapter (AAAYA-NYC) cordially invites you to our Ninth Annual Lunar New Year Banquet to benefit our Community Service Summer Fellowship program.
This year our Guests of Honor are the Honorable Peggy Kuo ‘85, United States Magistrate Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and Ken Inadomi ’76, founding chair of the Yale Alumni Nonprofit Alliance (YANA) and current co-chair of the Yale Alumni Task Force on Diversity & Inclusion.
WHERE: Golden Unicorn, 18 East Broadway, New York, NY 10002
WHEN: Friday, March 3, 2017 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
AABANY congratulates our member Hon. Peggy Kuo on this recognition and honor. We encourage AABANY members to attend this dinner in support of her achievements. Follow the link in the title for more information.
Press Release: Asian American Bar Association of New York Applauds Promotion of Kin Ng to Bureau Chief of Trial Bureau in Kings County District Attorney’s Office
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 10, 2017
Contact: Yang Chen, Executive Director
(212) 332-2478
NEW YORK – February 10, 2017 – The Asian American Bar Association of New York (“AABANY”) congratulates Kin W. Ng on his recent promotion from Chief of the Immigrant Fraud Unit to Chief of the Red Zone Trial Bureau in the Kings County District Attorney’s Office. We believe Kin is the first Asian Pacific American to serve as Bureau Chief at a major trial bureau in a prosecutors’ office in New York City.
In his former role as Chief of the Immigrant Fraud Unit, Kin was a tireless defender of Brooklyn’s immigrant population, bringing to justice countless offenders who preyed on vulnerable immigrants through scams and theft. Prior to that, Kin served as Felony Deputy Chief of the Orange Zone Trial Bureau, and, from 2007-13, as Director of Training for the Office’s Assistant District Attorneys. As Director, he was responsible for pioneering the “Felony Boot Camp” program for Assistant District Attorneys, organizing his office’s internship programs and training police officers in public integrity and ethics. Kin has also previously undertaken other prominent positions at the District Attorney’s Office, such as Deputy Bureau Chief in the Early Case Assessment Bureau, Deputy Bureau Chief in Criminal Court, and Bureau Chief of the Domestic Violence Bureau. In his 25+ years of service at the King’s County District Attorney’s Office, during which he has tried countless serious felonies, Kin has provided an excellent example of an individual committed to justice and public service.
Outside of prosecution, Kin has also been an active educator, lecturing on and raising awareness of topics related to the criminal justice system, public service, diversity, immigrant community issues, and leadership in government. From 2013-14, Kin served as Adjunct Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where he lectured on the American Judiciary and Criminal Law in New York.
Kin is a co-founder of AABANY’s Prosecutors’ Committee which has grown to be among one of AABANY’s most active and vibrant committees. The Committee was honored in 2016 with an Event of the Year Award for their 7th Annual Reception in which they honored Deputy United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Joon Kim and the family of fallen detective Wenjian Liu.
Kin also serves as the President of the New York Chapter of the National Asian Pacific Islander Prosecutors Association (NAPIPA), a national organization dedicated to representing and advancing the interests of prosecutors of Asian Pacific Islander heritage.
“AABANY is proud of Kin’s historic elevation to be a Bureau Chief of a major trial bureau in New York City,” states Susan Shin, President of AABANY. “He has proven himself to be a leader in the profession and the community, and we commend Acting District Attorney Eric Gonzalez for this appointment, which not only promotes a veteran member of the Kings County District Attorney’s Office to an important role but recognizes the value of diversity in one of the leading prosecutors’ offices in the country. We applaud this promotion and congratulate Kin on his achievement.”
For more information, please contact Yang Chen, AABANY Executive Director, at (212) 332-2478, or direct any inquiries to [email protected].
The Asian American Bar Association of New York is a professional membership organization of attorneys concerned with issues affecting the Asian Pacific American community. Incorporated in 1989, AABANY seeks not only to encourage the professional growth of its members but also to advocate for the Asian Pacific American community as a whole. AABANY is the New York regional affiliate of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA).
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New York County Lawyers Association Statement on Recent Remarks by President Donald J. Trump about Federal Judiciary
On January 27, 2017, President Donald J. Trump issued an Executive Order, which among other things, bars individuals from seven named countries with significant Muslim populations from entering the United States. Over the past week, President Trump has made statements to the effect that the courts, in exercise of their duties and obligations under Article III of the U.S. Constitution, are interfering with national security while a challenge to his Executive Order is sub judice. The President has further stated that the judges hearing his challenges to his Executive Order are influenced by ‘politics’ or ‘political views’ and that recent proceedings on the issue and that recent proceedings on the issue before the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals were ‘disgraceful.’ In addition, the President referred to one judge, the Honorable James Robart, a United States District Court Judge in the Western District of Washington, as a ‘so-called’ judge. These statements are ill-considered, are without any evidentiary support, and are destructive of our society and system of law.
For the full text of the statement, click on the link in the title.
It Can Happen Here! The Fred Korematsu Story – Los Angeles Review of Books
It Can Happen Here! The Fred Korematsu Story – Los Angeles Review of Books
Thanks to Rocky Chin, AABANY Trailblazer Award recipient (2015) and AABANY co-founder, for sharing this timely and important book review of Fred Korematsu Speaks Up. Here is an excerpt:
WHAT PROTECTIONS DO WE HAVE as American citizens when our country is under attack? Do we sacrifice constitutional protections for the perceived need for security? Fred Korematsu Speaks Up — an illustrated book written for young readers — raises these issues in the story of a young Japanese-American citizen who is incarcerated when the country of his parents’ origin, Japan, and the country of his birth, the United States, go to war.
To read the full book review, follow the link in the title.