Advocates turn to public health approach to combat anti-Asian hate
ABC News
Stop AAPI Hate's No Place for Hate policy initiative uses a public health approach to ending hate crimes and bias incidents.
Stop AAPI Hate has become a leading force in tracking and addressing the rise in anti-Asian attacks in communities across the country.
The leaders behind this group are taking to the California legislature to turn this community-driven effort into legislation with its No Place for Hate policy initiative.
Unlike other legislative proposals, the group and legislators they're working with are not focusing on new criminal laws, but rather public health and research initiatives. The idea is to work on community building and other initiatives rather than putting more people in jail.
"Anti-Asian racism exists -- it's systemic, and it's pervasive, and it's sinister," said Cynthia Choi, co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate. "Members of our communities don't feel free to walk on the sidewalks, to take public transit, to go grocery shopping."
