Asian Law Caucus

What was shocking was the range of left groups, which included many organizations included among the ADL's allies.

Groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Conference of Black Lawyers, the Black United Fund, the Center for Investigative Reporting, the Asian Law Caucus, and the San Francisco Anti-Apartheid Committee were on the l- were on the list Predictably, this produced a howl of protest from a sector of the American political spectrum that might have been expected to condone the ADL's harassment of the far right.

Why leftist groups, particularly human rights groups? For the simple reason that the ADL fears nothing more than the American civil rights establishment will adopt the Palestinian cause, which in certain respects resembles the plight of American blacks.

Do you understand everything that's happened since October 7th? It's right there.

And about maybe 15 years ago, there was a really big concerted push by civil rights groups, voting rights groups, good government groups.

For example, the ACLU itself, League of Women Voters, Common Cause, Asian Law Caucus.

It's quite a few groups banded together and put forward and passed a number of reforms.

Our US Senator Alex Padilla, when he was Secretary of State, also spearheaded a number of really positive initiatives.

And that is when I joined the movement.

And I really have to thank the leaders of Asian Prisoner Support Committee, the lawyers of Asian Law Caucus, the faith healers and interfaith healers of Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, and of course, the wives and mothers and children of the directly impacted folks that came to Siri.

And we all coalesced in this moment in February and March, and particularly on March 6th of 2019, when we all came to Siri, which was this old Victorian house in East Oakland by Clinton Park.

And we all met in the living room because it was a community center that was basically in a three bedroom apartment on the second floor of a Victorian house in East Oakland.