A brand new state fee on hate crimes is in search of community-based options and assets in response to a pointy rise in hate crimes. The newest developments on the women-led protests in Iran. An replace on Sacramento’s African American Experience Project.Â
California’s hate crime fee
We have seen movies from the streets of San Francisco the place an older Asian lady or man is crushed and attacked for no motive. Mass shootings focusing on a sure group, race, and ethnicity. In our space, antisemitic symbols are left on each Sac State and UC Davis campuses or held on freeway overpasses for all to see. If you assume you have been listening to extra about hate crimes over the previous couple of years, particularly because the begin of the pandemic, you would be proper. According to a just lately revealed report, the California Attorney General’s workplace says hate crimes are at their highest reported degree in 20 years, up 32% when simply evaluating 2020 to 2021. That consists of crimes in opposition to Hispanics, the LGBTQ+ group, and African-Americans. But the very best rise in hate crimes focused Asian Americans, up 177%. Now, California is making it simpler for residents to report all these crimes. CapRadio’s Race and Equity Reporter Sarah Mizes-Tan joined Insight to share extra particulars on the brand new Commission on the State of Hate and the resources available for reporting cases. You also can report instances by telephone at 1-833-8NO-HATE.Â
Iran protests
Nearly three months in the past, the demise of a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian lady within the custody of Iran’s morality police ignited large protests throughout the Islamic Republic. Since Mahsa Amini’s demise, the protests, led by girls and the nation’s youth, have plunged the nation into political turmoil. The Iranian authorities confirms a minimum of 300 Iranians have been killed within the nationwide protests thus far, however human rights teams consider the quantity is way larger. And the United Nations believes a minimum of 14,000 have been detained, together with kids. The authorities took an much more drastic step to quell the protests, its parliament voting to approve the demise penalty for these discovered responsible of taking part within the unrest. The turmoil additionally spilled onto the worldwide stage on the FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Although the nation has seen a number of massive protests because the Iranian Revolution greater than 4 many years in the past, the demise of Mahsa Amini has known as into query the energy and legitimacy of Iran’s clerical rule. Dr. Sahar Razavi, Director of the Iranian and Middle East Studies Center at Sacramento State, first joined Insight virtually two weeks after Amini’s demise to assist present extra context behind the protests. She rejoined us to debate the most recent developments within the protests and the way the Iranian group in California is reacting. Â
African American Experience Project
This 12 months town of Sacramento launched an formidable historic evaluation of African American historical past to spotlight the numerous contributions of Black Sacramentans from town’s earliest years by means of the twentieth century. Before the African American Experience Project started, town lacked a historic framework to protect the bodily embodiments or intangible reminiscences of Sacramento’s black expertise for future generations. Recently, the challenge achieved an enormous milestone on this effort, releasing its first public draft of its Historic Context Statement. The almost 150-page doc is an preliminary define that can ultimately assist town protect buildings and different landmarks of Black cultural and historic significance in Sacramento. Carson Anderson, Co-Director of the challenge, Joined Insight to inform us extra about this doc and supply an replace on the challenge.