Documentary on South East Asian Health Organizing in the Bronx: June 18, 2009
The following letter is from Chhaya Chhoum one of the organizers of the Justice is Healing campaign, an outgrowth of work by Organizing Asian Communities (formerly the Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence):
I want to share some victories we recently had in our Southeast Asian Health Justice Campaign and invite you to a screening of a documentary our Southeast Asian youth made using the theme of justice is healing. Their documentary will be screened as part of the Global Action Project’s end of the year screening on June 18.
We launched the Southeast Asian Health Justice Campaign in 2007 for improved and quality health services at Montefiore Medical Center, a Bronx-based hospital frequented by local Cambodian and Vietnamese refugee communities who continue to suffer from traumas of war and genocide experienced two decades ago from their homelands. Despite the high population of Southeast Asian patients at Montefiore, lack of translation services and cultural competency and the failure of medical staff to link the community’s prevailing health conditions to traumas experienced two decades ago, have led to inadequate provision of health care. Our demands include quality translation services; holistic care that includes alternative treatments, like acupuncture; integration of social services into the health care delivery; cultural competency of medical staff; and increased community outreach and education. Our Southeast Asian youth have been leading this campaign by organizing the community, mobilizing a broad-based support from different sectors, including elected officials, and engaging Montefiore staff for improved health care delivery.
We recently has a victory in the health justice campaign with Montefiore Medical Center hiring a Vietnamese speaking doctor and providing acupuncture free of charge at one of the clinics! While this is a huge victory, we will continue to organize until other important services, such as translation, are implemented. Thank you for all the support that people have given to us that made this victory possible!!
As part of the campaign, three of our youth members participated in the Global Action Project’s documentary making project to document the Southeast Asian community’s health conditions. Please join us in the screening on *June 18, 2009 at 5pm.*
Featuring youth-produced media exploring the impact of racism on self image, the criminalization of immigrant communities, LGBTQ youth responding to hate violence, the work of youth organizers in the Bronx Southeast Asian community and much more!
This event is FREE and open to the community.
Please come support GAP’s youth producers!
5PM – 8PM
JUNE 18, 2009
66 W 12th Street
Tishman Auditorium
at The New School
The Tishman Auditorium is located at 66 W 12th Street, between 5th and 6th Aves
Directions: Take the 4, 5, 6, L, N, Q, R, W to 14th St Union Square, the F, L, V to 6th Ave – 14th St, or the 1,2,3 to 7th Ave – 14 St
RSVP to media@global-action.org <mailto:media@global-action.org>
Also look out for us on these media outlet in the next few months….
Free Speech Radio News, which is broadcast nationally on the Pacifica
network
Peace
Chhaya Chhoum
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Chhaya Chhoum
YLP, Program Director
CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities
2473 Valentine Ave. Bronx, NY 10458
Ph. 718.220.7391 ext. 15
cya@caaav.org
chhaya4178@gmail.com
www.caaav.org
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