United Peace Collaborative

Praying for World Peace🙏🙏🙏

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of this celebration in San Francisco, the APA Heritage Foundation has sponsored the production of a documentary which was screened during the APA Heritage Awards event on May 1.

Titled after this year’s theme “Moving Forward Together,” this short 6-minutes video tells the story of the community celebration that started 20 years ago, what we are celebrating and why.
The video ends with a positively joyful message to everyone, “Join Us, Let’s Celebrate Together!"

Here is the link to the video and we hope you would share it out in your upcoming newsletter and announcements.

AAPI Month 2024 – Moving Forward Together

And lastly, please continue to encourage your members and communities to check out the AAPI Heritage Month Celebration Guide in the website apasf.org.

Thank you.

Claudine, Grace, Thomas and Al
The APA Heritage Celebration Committee

The San Francisco Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in locating a missing 14-year-old girl. Audrey Nguyen was last seen on Monday, Dec. 4 in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood.

She is 14 years of age, five feet tall and weighs 115 pounds, according to SFPD. She is described as multi-racial (Asian, white) with dark brown eyes and hair.

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Do you have any information on who killed Kimberly Wong? If you have any information, please call SFPD at (415) 553-0123 or 911 to report it immediately. This beautiful young lady deserves justice. Please HELP!!!

Please share. Thank you 🙏🏼🙏🏼

Young SF woman found dead inside Presidio Heights home during welfare check, homicide suspected A young woman was found dead of a suspected homicide in San Francisco's Presidio Heights neighborhood on Thursday evening, according to police.Subscribe to K...

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Look who we ran into during our San Francisco Field Trip!!! 🙉 Mr Hella Hung himself from @netflix ‼️📺 We had just started our tour of ChinaTown when we were blessed to meet this high energy guy with a heart of gold ✨ This dude's dancing is WILD 🙉🙈🤩 You guys go check him AND THE WORK HE DOES out!👇🏿 @hellalegacy @dynastyhung @hungvanlam @mapoftheuniverse4 #hellahung #hungdynasty #breakdance #celebrity #wow #performance #sanfransisco #chinatown #streetperformer #travel #wow #mothersday #2023 #alley #fyp #dancing #asain #breakdancer #wow #fyp #share

Chinese History Comes To Life In Yosemite Mariposa County - Discover Yosemite National Park The history of Chinese in Yosemite Mariposa County spans road-building to Gold Rush-era Chinatowns and Tie Sing of Sing Peak fame.

https://sfstandard.com/arts-culture/without-chinese-labor-napa-never-would-have-become-a-world-class-wine-region/

Without Chinese Labor, Napa Never Would Have Become Napa Chinese immigrants built the infrastructure that powered Wine Country.

https://sf.gov/news/san-francisco-launches-pilot-program-provide-courtesy-graffiti-abatement-neighborhood

https://sf311.org/new-request-main/graffiti-issues

San Francisco Launches Pilot Program to Provide Courtesy Graffiti Abatement in Neighborhood Commercial Corridors | San Francisco News San Francisco Launches Pilot Program to Provide Courtesy Graffiti Abatement in Neighborhood Commercial Corridors Property owners in neighborhood commercial districts throughout the City whose buildings are tagged with graffiti will now have the option of requesting graffiti abatement at zero co...

While on patrol today, met Cher who loved what UPC does and wanted to be a part of us. Gave her UPC business card and website

Looking for volunteers, who would like to join UPC and help out the community?

Putting together some packets for Halloween to distribute while on patrol for our CT Community.

From tragedy can come remembrance, honor and even celebration. Please join us tomorrow in person or by livestream.

https://www.justice4vicha.org/

Supporting the community one day at a time❤️ with Board President Ebert Kan and Merwin!!

Never knew the impact Chinese had on Yosemite - - finally recognized for their contributions.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/chinese-labor-helped-fuel-yosemites-growth-s-finally-recognized-rcna2474?fbclid=IwAR3q5BFJ7PcMKJDlqokK5lzDbqroazsPMkobjFGl8sTOyuef6m7T8Iz9crs

Chinese labor helped fuel Yosemite’s growth — and it’s finally being recognized An old laundry building at Yosemite National Park will showcase the history of Chinese who built roads in the park and worked in Yosemite’s hotels as cooks and laundry workers.

https://vimeo.com/263167752/c555110813?fbclid=IwAR2ATHwnt0241v0-LvPeGrqZ1k_Qttg-sNxdLxU4yNnmYKH8paHDpvpmw0k

The Chinese Exclusion Act - Resistance (RT: 46mins) This is "The Chinese Exclusion Act - Resistance (RT: 46mins)" by Steeplechase Films on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Thank you and featuring UPC in your Sharkbites! As a completely volunteer safety patrol group, this means a lot to us!
If folks are interested in helping to keep elders and community safe, please email us at [email protected]

Many thanks to Global News for their coverage of how UPC is committed to helping keep SF Chinatown safe for elders and the community through our daily volunteer safety patrols.

How San Francisco’s Chinatown fought back against anti-Asian hate - BC | Globalnews.ca San Francisco’s Chinatown appears safe on the surface but like Vancouver, the northern California city saw an explosion of anti-Asian hate during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Patrolling in Chinatown this week after Board President, Ebert Kan and fellow patrollers Merwin, Frances Tai Freeman Leong met with Canadian media who asked about best practices for community patrolling that they can bring back to their community.

Please join Monthanus Ratanapakdee this Sunday, August 28 at 11am on the South West corner of California Street and Grant Avenue to commemorate the 1 year anniversary of her father’s mural unveiling. 

Projected Schedule:

Community Gathering 

11am-12pm 
We'd like to use this opportunity to celebrate Vicha's life. We'll clean his mural, discuss a street renaming project, and have an open forum discussion on anti Asian hate. 

We also want to discuss the accomplishments, positive moments, and friendships that have developed during a time of anti Asian hate.

Vicha Lunch

12pm-1pm

To honor Vicha’s memory, we encourage all attendees to not eat beef and to eat as much plant based food as possible.

This is an opportunity for the community and new members to engage each other in meaningful conversation, and to support each other.

Join us at the 1st Chinatown Lion Dance Festival this weekend!!

Awesome time helping to support Asians Are Strong’ 5k run honoring our historic AAPI cultural destinations!

For Asian Heritage month, here's a film that provides how and why the Asian American movement started in the 60s-80s in SF Chinatown.

How regular people felt compelled to step up to protect their community as well as a retrospective of how these activists viewed those times 45 years later. This is a story that resonates with members of UPC to diligently take care of our community.

Watch this free film screening from Tue, May 3- Sun, May 8th
tinyurl.com/chinatownrisingfilm

Ask your questions of the filmmaker, Josh Chuck, during a conversation on Friday, May 6th, at 5pm at tinyurl.com/chinatownrisingprogram

Hosted by Contemporary Asian Theater Scene & Silicon Valley Asian Pacific FilmFest.

Chinatown Rising | CHINATOWN RISING presented by CATS/Silicon Valley Asian Pacific Film Festival | Chinatown Rising Against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-1960s, a young San Francisco Chinatown resident armed with a 16mm camera and leftover film scraps from a local TV station, turned his lens onto his community. Totaling more than 20,000 feet of film (10 hours), Harry Chuck's exquisite unrel...

Happening now..."History of AAPI Activism"
with Paul Fong, La Donna Yumori-Kaku and Mike Honda.

History of AAPI Activism in Santa Clara County Join us for an amazing panel of local activists who are here to share their perspectives on the history of what they have been through and the way that Santa...

UPC watching out for our community - whether it means providing the homeless with a bag filled with a banana, donated food, water, energy bar & a mask or helping store owners moving their displays back in their store when they're closing❤️

Just doing the right thing, right?

It's a beautiful thing when our youth declares how important it is to protect our community! We're so proud that we got to train new UPC safety patrollers in San Mateo to add to the growing team who truly care about seniors and keeping folks safe❤️

Thanks much to Cindy and Marlene (and sweet Ava) for training our future!

Take a listen to Min Jin Lee's wise words! Thanks Ravi Chandra East Wind ezine for sharing this!

Min Jin Lee’s remarks at the Break the Silence Rally, March 16, 2022 Min Jin Lee’s remarks at the anti-Asian hate rally in NYC, March 16, 2022. “I’m a novelist and it is my job to have empathy for everyone. And I imagine that things must be pretty …

Come out this weekend to the Bok Kai Parade and Festival in Marysville near Sacramento!

Join us and celebrate the 142nd Bok Kai Parade!
Parade starts at 11am on D street!
Vendors start at 10am on 2nd Street!
Check out Potato Patato Food Truck A Ke Taco Rosie's Sno Biz K&P Kickin Kettle Korn Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sacramento YES Charter Academy Yuba County Office of Education Sutter County Superintendent of Schools Coffeeologist