Li Dong + Montreal + Model Minority

Got this sent out my way from Montreal filmmaker Li Dong about a new Web Series called "Model Minority" about the "process of confronting your own human imperfections" and wanted to post it on up.

AsiaNetwork: Asian, Canadian, Free

Who doesn't like something Asian and free? AsiaNetwork.ca, in addition to publishing their quarterly magazine in print, is also putting it online - and right now you can get a free issue of the magazine by clicking here. Chock full of Asian goodness with a slick layout, it's worth the download - and for all of you Battlestar Galactica-heads out there - the issue also has an interview with Grace Park, who dishes on sex, work, and the Korean Film Festival.

When racism ruled

There is a great article in the Vancouver Sun about the Anti-Asian riots that took place and the progress that has been made since then:

On a muggy September evening a century ago, nearly 9,000 people marched to Vancouver’s city hall under a banner calling “For a White Canada.”

The mob swarmed the building on Sept. 7, 1907, to listen to speeches decrying the moral and economic impact of a growing Asian population, and to demand an immediate end to immigration from China, Japan and India.

“Rev. Dr. Fraser said he was body and spirit with the movement, as he almost felt that unless some steps were taken to stop the influx his own pulpit would soon be in the hands of a Jap or a Chinaman,” the Daily News-Advertiser reported the next day.

Read the full article here.