Radicalism and Community Building

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Radicalism and Community Building

• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Escalation of the Vietnam War
• Immigration Reform Act of 1965
• - increasing social and political challenges,
  the Civil Rights and Peace Movements
• - peaceful civil disobedience to confrontational
  militancy
• Johnson Administration Policies
• Great Society, War on Poverty, Win Vietnam War
• Nixon Administration Policies Law and Order,
  Détente- USSR, Détente-PRC, less Fed Govt.

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Radicalism and Community Building

• Student Radicalism
• SF State, UCB, UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, Fresno
  State
• University of Tokyo
• Paris
• Carter Administration Policies Human Rights,
  Refugee Program
• Honest, self-critical comments
• Bad economy, good repair policy
• Reagan/Bush Policies reactionary conservatism
• - denial, ambiguities and extreme spin
• - legislative and police suppression and
  judicial persecution

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Radicalism and Community Building

• Advocacy Politics Malcolm Collier
• underrepresentation of Asian Americans in elected
  and appointed political office
• student radicals of the late 1960s and early 70s
• Asian American Womens Movement
• Asian American community-based, social service
  agencies and organizations
• political representation before governmental
  bodies and private foundations
• advocacy for Asian ethnic community issues and
  programs

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Radicalism and Community Building

• advocacy politics
• local educational, business and housing issues
• Immigration, federal issues
• global politics, international trade
• gains in political sophistication
• community-wide political involvement
• increased Asian American political representation
• appointments
• city, county and state commissions