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Bystander intervention: Matsuyama becomes first How to combat harassment Japanese in Masters green jacket By Kai Curry NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY

With the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes, a lot of people have been wondering what they can do to help. Many are afraid to speak up when something happens, or just unsure how to go about it. “Bystander Intervention,” a training aimed at stopping “anti-Asian American and xenophobic harassment” offers advice, positing that there is always “at least one thing” we all can do. The training is currently offered online until May 17. Sponsored by Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Chicago, CAIR-Chicago, and Hollaback!, the sessions last approximately one hour and provide five possible responses to harassment,

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By DOUG FERGUSON

A culturally competent trainer conducts each session

which the presenters call the “5 D’s”: Distract, Delegate, Document, Delay, and Direct. This mindful, culturally competent training is facilitated by any of several

individuals, including Tamer Y. Abouzeid, staff attorney for CAIRChicago, a Muslim civil rights see BYSTANDER on 7

Andrew Yang: The New York City mayoral candidate to beat

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan celebrates after putting on the champion’s green jacket after winning the Masters golf tournament on April 11 in Augusta, Ga.

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — The pressure was even more than Hideki Matsuyama could have imagined when he stood on the first tee on April 11 at Augusta National. So was the emotion when he walked off the 18th green as the first Masters champion from golf-mad Japan.

First book on Vincent Chin murder By Samantha Pak NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY

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When Paula Yoo accepted a job at the Detroit News in 1993, her friends asked her if she was scared. It had been 11 years since the murder of Vincent Chin, but his name was still spoken among her fellow Paula Yoo Asian American journalists. In 1982, two white men killed Chin while he was out for his bachelor party. This was during a time when anti-Asian sentiments were particularly high. The influx of Japanese cars at the time hit the American auto industry hard and the men who beat Chin to death, Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz, were

see YOO on 9

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see MATSUYAMA on 11

Yang supporters at a rally

Andrew Yang speaking with New York citizens

About 10 weeks before the June 22 Democratic primary that is likely to determine the next mayor of New York city, four candidates currently make up the top tier of contenders, according to available polling and interviews with elected officials and party strategists— Andrew Yang, the undisputed poll leader; Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president; City Comptroller Scott Stringer; and Maya D. Wiley, a former counsel to Mayor Bill de Blasio and a former MSNBC analyst. In a survey released by Fontas Advisors and Core Decision Analytics in March, Yang was the top choice of 16% of respondents, followed by 10% for Eric

Adams. Everyone else was in the single digits. The Yang campaign’s private polling shows him with 25% of the vote and Adams with 15%. The Yang campaign’s polling also shows Yang winning 49% of the Asian vote, with the other candidates in the single digits. Yang, who campaigned unsuccessfully for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, is one of more than two dozen candidates who have filed papers to run to succeed the city’s term-limited Mayor de Blasio. see YANG on 3

THE INSIDE STORY COMMUNITY NEWS Andrew Lee will lead antiracism efforts 2

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ON THE SHELF ‘Sansei Rocker’ highlights Asian American subculture amidst civil rights movement  6

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