Category: Groundbreakers We Have Lost: Memorials
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Daystar Chou (1961 – 2020) Native American social justice activist
In memory of Daystar Chou, who passed away on October 26, 2020, after suffering a stroke. Daystar was a lifelong community activist involved in many social justice issues. Daystar was a Renaissance woman. She was well-versed in local and international politics and spoke eloquently on issues that she was passionate about, especially on the rights…
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Jeffry Yuichi Tsuji (1951 – 2021) AA movement veteran, artist, music appreciator
In Memory of Jeffry Y. Tsuji Steve Yip and Janet Hedani Yip, New York City, September 10, 2021 We write this bittersweet memorial to our friend and comrade, Jeff Tsuji. He struggled mightily despite health challenges that eventually took him away from his beloved Mari and his extended family. And from us. Steve: I’d love…
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In Memory of, and a Tribute to, Steve Wong
July 20, 1948 – August 23, 2021 I’m writing in disbelief for losing our beloved Steve Wong, as well as sharing my condolences with his family for their loss. It was my privilege to have been associated with Steve or “Wonga.” He was one of the older activists that I looked up to. Back in…
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Wayne ‘Shi Wing’ Lum (1954 – 2013) AAPI Political Prisoner Campaigner
Wayne was an Asian American radical political activist inspired by the Black liberation struggle, who, in the 1990s, focused on essential political prisoner and politicized prisoner cases that impacted the Asian American community. He was a driving force in the David Wong Support Committee, Asians for Mumia, and the Justice for Chaplain James Yeecase, as…
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Fay Chiang (1952-2017) Poet, Artist, Social Justice Warrior
Fay Chiang was an artist and published poet. She was the former director of the Basement Workshop – a seminal Asian American multi-disciplinary arts initiative in the early Seventies — which left a lasting imprint on Asian American arts and culture in the East Coast and beyond. A long-term cancer survivor, Fay peacefully passed in her sleep…