China News Service, September 24. According to the US "World Journal" report, recently, the American Asian American Alliance launched a new plan to help Asian Americans in New York to respond to anti-Asian incidents that have occurred since the epidemic.
The plan includes the production and distribution of leaflets and other data, and five Asian languages including English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean will be used.
The Asian-American Alliance stated that there has been a surge in prejudice and hate crimes against Asians in New York City in recent days.
According to statistics, since the outbreak of the epidemic, 21 related incidents have been filed by the New York City Police, and the New York City Human Rights Bureau has received 105 reports of such incidents.
The alliance also collected about 100 reports of prejudice and hatred incidents.
It is understood that the new plan of the Asian-American Alliance will guide Asians to protect themselves in the event of related incidents.
The multilingual flyers provide some strategies based on the training provided by the Anti-Violence Education Center, calling on the public to intervene under the premise of ensuring safety when they see someone being victimized.
(Zhu Lei)