Who Keeps Us Safe?

May 04 2023 43 mins 8
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Who Keeps Us Safe? is a podcast by Asian Americans living in Seattle that explores safety, policing, and abolition in our communities and beyond. Join us monthly as we speak with organizers in the Seattle area, and reflect on their work and learnings. We hope that our listeners will use this podcast to begin or supplement their own conversations about safety and policing in their own communities. This is a project of PARISOL: Pacific Rim Solidarity Network, a grassroots anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, Hong Konger, Taiwanese, and Chinese* diaspora group based in Seattle. PARISOL is dedicated to local & international solidarity, community building, cultural & politicized learning, abolition, and anti-racist work.

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The Eggrolls, Part 2

May 04 2023 40 mins  
We followed up with "The Eggrolls," who you might remember from our conversation with them last summer. They are a mutual aid group based out of ChuMinh Tofu in Little Saigon, located in the eastern side of the CID. The Eggrolls and ChuMinh Tofu restaurant have continued to serve 150-200 free meals outside of the restaurant every Sunday to homeless and elder members of th

Sound Transit

Sep 23 2022 31 mins  
This summer, we revisited the CID Coalition as they address a new challenge that threatens the CID. The regional transit service (Sound Transit) is working on an expansion of the light rail system in the Seattle region. Although this might seem like a great opportunity for the city, Sound Transit has selected the CID as the transit hub location for all of this new expansion. This p

The Eggrolls

Jul 11 2022 23 mins  
Join us for a brief conversation with "The Eggrolls," a mutual aid group based out of ChuMinh Tofu in Little Saigon, located in the eastern side of the CID.  For the past 3 years, the Eggrolls and ChuMinh have been serving 150-200 free meals outside of the restaurant every Sunday to homeless and elder members of the Little Saigon community. We hope that this episode can give y

Revisiting March 16th

Apr 02 2022 10 mins  
A couple weeks ago, MPOP (Massage Parlor Outreach Project) held a vigil in Seattle's CID to mark the anniversary of the tragedy in Atlanta, GA. We chatted briefly with some MPOP members to hear more about the event and what community safety means for us now, one year later. Content Warning: We briefly mention the physical violence and murder that occurred on March 16, 2021. If you

From Chinatown to Chinatown

Feb 11 2022 77 mins  
Our past episodes have focused on organizers in the greater Seattle area, but this month we follow the conversations we had with various organizers on the north eastern coast of the continent. We learn from other organizations as they share their stories around the similar work & struggles that they face concerning issues of safety, particularly in their own Chinatowns. Join us

MPOP

Dec 01 2021 56 mins  
In this episode, we wanted to connect our learnings about incarceration & immigration with the local work being done around supporting and organizing Asian migrant massage workers. The massage parlor industry has been highly targeted by systems of policing and punishment, so it's another vital piece to the discussion around community safety. We are so grateful to be sharing wit

Safety, Inside and Out

Oct 22 2021 53 mins  
As we continued exploring the topics of safety and policing, we knew that this conversation was incomplete without addressing incarceration. This month, we had the opportunity to have candid conversations with our friends Tien and Eric, who are formerly and currently incarcerated folks (respectively). They are connected with groups like FreeThemAll, FIGHT (Formerly Incarcerated Gro

CID Not For Sale

Sep 08 2021 50 mins  
In late June 2021, we caught word of a demonstration sponsored by the CID Coalition where they were protesting the opening of a building which houses high-value, luxury condominiums in the Chinatown-International District.  We then got the chance to sit down with some members of the CID Coalition to talk more about gentrification and how this connects with the ideas of safety.

What Does Safety Mean to You?

Jul 20 2021 50 mins  
In our first episode, our crew explores the idea of safety by interviewing participants at a Chinatown / International District (CID) cleanup event, hosted by Seattle’s CID Coalition. We then head to the Rainier Beach neighborhood to talk with the Rainier Beach Action Coalition (RBAC) about the innovative projects community members have been organizing to create safety and commun